Show DAIRY AND CHAPTERS FOR OUA OU 01 A RURAL READERS oaf ufus 1 mainers rt TM 1 or at ita bariti A tow ev hint 1111 a to ti icare ot of 1 I 19 1 9 moch nock Y poultry experience covers about eight sears ears I 1 have kept the single comb bron L leg horni horn and duff leghorns my house Is juet just an ordinary one with windows on the south side in ili the morning I 1 usual feed soft feed fwd of some kind and feed it dot hot then I 1 feed oats wheat or gome some ballar grain hoed in the and so the will ill baye to dig for it corn if ted fed at light and meat scraps once or twice A ft week vve e have never grown jowh for gurki t till last bear ear anen I 1 nas as able te to dispose of our last of june hatch at IS 15 centa cents per pound we have had good access in ralS ILIg chicka we feed boiled eggs once a day till the little me ones are e two beka aleks old with bread crumbs at the other meals with corn gad td oatmeal we have had little loss I 1 IL at tt L 10 rd its elf aa ra I 1 L C kit law A FLEMISH MILKMAID 0 1 LN IB a ills deasea le ases asea wo we keep our loops S sin with alth plenty of lime around them I 1 have alte found the buff thorns leghorns I 1 ery Is layers and last year we had oct i kerele aels that dressed two pounds at JW i via a weeks old having seen the ef lences of many in their success pa d failure in crossing we tried two it N aw list ear the first was a ian I 1 leghorn cock on golden wyan A ill in to hens the chicks matured p IT lyonl mil the th pullets are excellent lay 11 ake second was a buff leghorn 1 1 37 it i and gad light brahma hens the re M HIN U not so favorable as in the first ivea ia the chicks matured very slowly aa taille 1 the full bloods and the is k of the first cross crosa had plump and meaty ty breasts these latter were L llo kl and bones I 1 am incI inclined liked to lk that it pays best beat to breed from a lard dard breeds of some kind add and tor for u are so satisfactory as the butt buff flora B W fellows a it Dis discussing the con cow wilned nil ned sed from the farmers re stenographic report ot of the michl s meeting C D smith opened the dis RIS 04 i on the con cove lie ile spoke first on ge lection alon of 0 the cow where we wo to i select a cow on the total amount jaco ilk 1 she would er give we now pay j mention attention to the relative amount ater she W in ill make she is a good WE if 1 her perc of butter fat Is 18 wo etc to 11 1 provided troyl ded shu she gives a fair mount amount a krelof 1111 it thu chief attention ol 01 the to ita a so station during the past two his a been toward this point Is tefol 2 that the co B that have tho ary form make butter most to e tily Is it true that tho the internal alty of u cow Is made manifest IT all V wat for agns gns I 1 am ready to as feel ut such ch ls Is best leap the case our IER lt it the station conform most cloe fr 0 00 k however lew ute bitne tte to become good judges at igns signs of 0 quality eo SO bet of us must buy our cowa cows t thea them by the weight of milk 0 dikil ul test tor for butter tat fat all vl ws judge by the young ml out kind of a cow ehe she will 1111 e ill haure ture 11 I 1 picked out my wife I 1 ift ao do it when eue slie was a little 4 P bhea he had brown up and a ia the 07 holds good in picking on you must wait till she Is 1 mature before what ahat ou an tell definitely kind c ut if i oft she nill all be N ve e enot predict t with A ith an certainty m bat hat i 1 helair ull ill nuit chere are certain of cui ut irie signs that tell whether alic has the but bt t pt pc or t the tie dairy t ape pe oil ian an not defend on the details that develop I 1 ahe lie next point was vas tho the stabling and feuling of the 10 cow A member eaid said II 11 status to me ine that wit with h land at 10 per acre ne e cannot afford to pasture lows at it tho the rate ot of one LOW for every four teres of land N e had better feed parti part on the soiling plan mr sir gurler now 1 I live in the corn belt in illinois and there we have had much trouble with the corn root toot he lie vorm orm lives on corn roots exclusively it therefore becomes bt bonnea necessary for us to rotate corn keeping it off of 0 certain fields for a few years tint thit this worm may be starved out ibis having to forego the use of 0 corn full fully and aud freeli freel would militate against th boiling system with us mr monrad spoke in n bow how to milk the cow get i t good dairy maid it would bo be a blessing for Michl gin it the girar did the milking tor for the men would then have to fix up the st ett sables bles and lep keel them clean I 1 have haie seen a great many stables where here one had to put on long boota boots to go into them NN b h do I 1 bellet that girls should milk because the are gentka my ly exper lem a ol 01 six years taught me that to milk a cow properly on oil have hae got to be on good terms with ith the co cow I 1 once bad had a it white ht ifer that waa was a beauty but she was as wild I 1 kept my temper for a little oer oner two weeks and she was kicking all the time then I 1 lost my temper and used the stool I 1 did not milk that cow any more I 1 sent her back to my brother who had a good many cows cons and did not need neld to milk them all in fact he only milked ten cows to get enough milk for family use but men m may ty learn how bow to milk it when you go home you will induce the young men to weigh the milk right along you will find that it will make mare a great difference in the lajeret la them the take in the milking buy accod make friends with your cows and them mr morse I 1 have an old german woman in my employ who does this she has made friends with the cows and they like br and yield a good supply of milk when she milks them recently she took a Na vacation catlon and I 1 tried doing the milking I 1 treated them right but the amount of milk they gave shrank at once and did not creati increase but when she came back they at once yi shded aided their accustomed amount of milk I 1 think that women omen are letter better around cow stables than men it the stables are kept clean as all stables should be Q IN by hy will some cows keep clean while other cows coss standing beside them and under like conditions will get dirty mr nir helm nearly every cow stable in this state Is fixed not to keep the cows clean but to keep them dirty at least that is the natural inference of the conditions under which they are fire kept the great difficult Is that the mangers are too low and the cow haa has to back off to lie ile down that compels her to lie down in the filth I 1 build mine so that the cow can put her bead under it when she lies down and she can thus he lie down where she stands I 1 nail a 24 in front of her two tore fare feet and another 24 in front of her two hind feet and fill the space between the two joists with bedding when she liea ties down she will lie on this bedding find and keep clean with calves we a do not nail down the but merely lay la them down against cleate cleats which can be removed to increase the length of the bed as the calf growa Q are not those 24 in the way when you milk A the milk pall bits still on th them so they rather help than binder the milking lan n ty 1 ter 1 disease in cattle sheep and swine Is a pretext that Is always at hand for national stock inferiors to use ahen ft hen it suits their interests or fancies when a nation wants to protect its home producers by keeping out cut foreign jerown animals anti nals all it lus has to do is to RO go 0 on an exploring expedition after so some ra e disease they are bare u to find it u ko on er or later and tt if the do not find fin d it the can scare up bome thinh enough like it to answer the purpose As abre re Is no part of the horld orld here the domestic stock does not suffer buffer some fro from disease therefore it befoul 8 an easy matter to exclude gher reier exclusion la Is desired if the united states wanted to hut shut out all foreign importations Import atins of 0 animals it could easily do so atwould it mould not make any difference it the disease would not liot reproduce itself in this country the ex cuse ought to be sufficient in the I 1 ea of oui out foreign friends rak rake for in stance the exclusion from a certain foreign country of our beeves betes under plea that texas feer fever exists in th the 0 united states though it haa bas been explained to them that that teer fener could not possibly hip in that coultry couii try and that the Is carried only b the th ticks and not by contact of animals yet the prohibition stands ne e do not suggett that the united states resort to such underhand treatment of tho the subjects of foreign nations in all probability the animals brought in are not moro subject to disease than our own on the other hand baud our animals that are exported to foreign countries are not more diseased than their own ne e realize that the above reason Is used in closing the port ports against american stock tor for the reason that ex cluelon without reason would expose them to adverse legislation by the american congress I 1 farmers armors review ilona too well rd fed it 14 1 four fourteen teea cars since I 1 began to keep poultry I 1 have handled a good many of tho the at standard breede breeds among them being the light and dark brah mas buff partridge black and white cochin asther wyandotte white NN bilte and black Min orcas white and barred plymouth rocks and Ham hamburg burgs I 1 now keep the barrel barred plymouth rocks lor for market fowls and single comb brown leghorns for eggs our house for winter Is built three feet into the ground with floor covered with one toot of leaves tor for scratching purposes the root and sides are doubled and it never freezes we have no ventilator I 1 have tried all ways of feed ing and am now feeding wheat and bucl buckwheat wheat as soon as they get off the roost lo 10 the morning by 9 a su I 1 give them boiled potatoes made thick with 17 1 7 ground buckwheat 17 1 7 corn 37 3 7 oats all ground aud 27 2 7 bran at A t 4 p m I 1 feed oata oats in tho leaves we ship eggs to new york but sell the fowls home we get eggs la in the winter when we do not get th thu thi i fowls too fat about the only losses I 1 have come from the depredations by hawks leghorns are the best layers and matuie early our greatest obstacle has bee been in feeding too often and getting the birds too tat fat during the last winter especially we fed some meat to them and thought they would do better if they got it twice a day the result was as too much tat fat C A waldron M D lenawee county mich observations on ties 11 J M welsh weigh before the missouri swine breeders said wd we are all aware of the influence of a thoroughly ard sire we upon the herd and nd et it la is a mistake to expect satisfactory results in breeding unless the sows of the herd are bred to a point where form color and potency become fixtures irea 11 tho bo absence ot of uniformity la in form and color in a herd may be set down as an indication of indiscriminate and faulty breeding there Is a tendency on the part of feeders breeders in ili some localities toward a hog og lacking in range and substance sufficient clent to produce the weight at i a given age this Is due perhaps to the he erroneous idia that a hog with much en size must be a rough animal also to the tact fact that the market dead mand is not tor for beav weights ilog og of rapid growth are usually of good id size at maturity and it properly bred d they are readily prepared for mar ket at any age the swine breeders of have aa as a rule main maintained tamed better ter growth and ze than Is found fourd in where hure extreme demand some ie states nails tor for reticular finish in externals regardless ardless to to some extent of real allty 1 bi |