| Show DATRY ty interesting FOR OUR RUTIAL READERS II 11 diw W bucce ful 11 ciprut till this 1 lf I ali lit t f allx I 1 ir inn lew td u to tl 11 u ur tro ut of I 1 Ilef lie ht tul k lt buil 1 ii ulle lilt t til in it I 1 I 1 11 S B J johnsoa 0 hit so i 1 11 in i mer berkan L an poultry journal ches the lolloping hints on turkey raising I 1 nener evar let the young turkeys ret get wet ret the slightest dampness la to fatal fat 0 2 feed nothing the first it 14 hours after the are hatched 3 before putting them in the coop see that it Is perfectly clean and tree free from lice and dust them three times a ek with ith persian lum intact ct powder ponder I 1 he ile suro sure the hen Is free from lice dust her too 5 look out for mites and the large lice on the heads necks and vinta grease heids he ids necks and vents with lard but avoid kero kerosene ene 6 nine tenths of the oung turkeys die from rom lice Ite remember member that 7 1 bilth will goon soon make scort work mork of them feel I acl on clean clein surfaces give water ater la in a manner PO so the aan only wet et their beal S 8 the aint ali ht neek n eek teed feed a mixture ot of one erg beaten an I 1 bitted sifted ground oats or rolled oats mixed A with ith salt to tite and cooked cooled as a bread then crumbled for them with milk or curds eo so they can drink all they want aut beca every two hours early and late 9 give gile a little raw meat every day also allo finely chopped onions or other tender green food 10 after the first week keep wheat and ground bone in boxes before thorn them all the time but teed feed three times a day on a mixture ot of corneal corn mal wheat ground oats all cooked and to which chopped green food Is added 11 lashed potatoes cooked turnips cold rice and such va will ill always be in 0 order 12 too much hard boiled eggs will cause bowel boel disease lo 10 remove coop to fresh ground often la in order to avoid filth 11 ground bone fine gravel ground shells and a dust bath must be provided 15 give live them liberty on dry warm days 16 they must be carefully attended to until u well oil feathered 17 finely cut fresh bones from the butcher a with the adhering meat Is ex cellona cell nt IS 13 A high roost in an open dished which faces fates the south is better than a house for grown turkeys IP 19 A single union of a male and female tamale fertilizes all the eggs the hen ben a ill lay for the season hence gobal gobble will suffice for twenty or more bena hens J 20 two year old gobblers with pullets OP or a yearling gobbler with two year old hens ts Is good mating 21 turkeys can be hatched in an incubator and raised to the age of three month mouth in a brooder but only in lota lots of twenty five as they require constant care U 22 2 2 capone capons make excellent nurses tot 01 turkeys and chicks 23 it Is not advisable to mate a forty pound gobbler with common hei bet s as the result will be injury A medium size alze gobbler Is bett better r 24 young gobblers may be distinguished from the females by being heavier more mas masculine cullie in appearance more on th the e head and a development of the tassels on the breast A little experience may be required at first 25 5 adult turkeys cannot be kept in confinement as they will pine ala aw a by feeding them in the barnyard a little night and morning they will not stray oft ver veo far but they cannot be entirely prevented from roaming aad and the hen prefers to make her own nest neet 28 6 gobblers and bens hens of the ame fame a age ge may be mated but it la Is bettar bet it r to have a difference in the age 27 pullets may lay small eggs at tret fret but the eggs will gradually la in crease to the normal size 28 keep these rules and rud thorn them over two tuo or three times milk te ting ap milk testing bas has within a few y ars are greatly changed the conditions of dairying among progress progressive lie dairymen and progressive farmers the men that have par purchased chased babcock testers and emulated gu their business as far as possible by them have been the gainers bat but the great mass of farmers ore re still ca reached doubtless there are many that have become interested in this matter but because of obstacles have haie not yet made a move mode in the direction of purchasing a machine or ot of finding out the real merits of their cows to mr J II 11 monrad belongs the credit of beginning the agitation in this country in denmark there are associations in active operation for the testing of the milk of the herds herd 11 As we understand it a considerable number of farmers combine and lorm a testing association each member of the a ocl atlon generally has a fairly good business in dairying dalry ln enough at least to permit him to keep a good sized her ber I 1 of cows the association employs a man mail to do the testing he ile provide provides hie his own machine and goes from farm to farm tarm staying not more than one addy in one place bat repeating his hie vie via its as often as necessary ne essary lie fie ie is usually a student from some dairy school or sigri agricultural cultural college and can cout therefore afford to do this work at a nominal I 1 alary salary the work of the tester on each farm fam la Is to thoroughly test the milk of each cow tow As this ie Is repeated from time ume to time ume the farmer tamer comes to certainly know the exact value of his animals and gives him the information to enable him to intelligent ly y sell ell of hi his poor P r animals and replace i them with ith better ones such assoil irions NN ft III certainly spring up in this coi comiry for or their value alue Is obvious lous though any farmer can le learn 1111 bo bov tu to test his cow vet et the vork nork requires caro care and find some experience nce to do it successfully the hand handling ling of 0 act acala Is also la is a thing that requires a careful hand and can be much done by nn an experienced student accustomed td to handle chemicals than li i t no novice lee who ho knoss corn com nothing about them rhe testing 0 of milk is really a science by itself and is becoming more so every year there are new factors being dis die bovere coterel I 1 all tho the time and these need to be taken into consideration hy by the experimenter peri menter IN hile it Is true that any intelligent miu inin can teat test milk it U ie is also true that an inexperienced man can not nut test milk as accurately as the man that his had a long line of ex perlene pe e be pleased plea seil to bavo have son of the rea dealers lers of the I 1 banners arm bleyle take up the matter and discuss it in our columns aint ali 4 ago milk tr arille a le at the annual meeting of the milk shippers union held in last week eek charges mere made that retail dealers are tampering with the city milk sul suly y on a wholesale scale 1 the rhe report of berf tary hill stated that more than civil ani aril criminal sulta suits had been started by the organization and nearly in overdue 0 ardue kills bills had been balet me I 1 to the members on the subject of careless milk dealers the report elated stated e would call the attention of the city authorities to the filthy places plates in which hie some milk Is stored by ear careless eless dealers milk takes takei in odors a as readily as a sponge absorbs water and barns barris there where horses are kept ore are not proper places tor for keeping cows cona soap and hot vater mater are total strangers to man cans bottles anil and other utensils for handling milk there Is ill no DO law tor for finding out the methods of producing milk in tho the country lia I 1 ut it the union guarantee pule clean milk it would ba be doing a noble and humane work several shippers bald said that it thero there was no other way any ot of compelling dealers to ait act honestly the union would take up matter ot of establishing large whole wholesale tale depots in different parts of the city for the distribution ot of pure milk secretary hill bald sald that bis his in had led him to believe go 80 per cent ot of the dealers made a practice ot of skimming their milk before delivering it to customers the milk dealers through the true trustees ot of their association protest prot at against tho the statements made mad b ly Y the t milk shippers union I 1 they ile den deny they are tampering with the milk and declare that it has been determined by the tests made by the city authorities ot of samples taken nl at depot platforms that frequently the shippers themselves were the ones at fault the samples being found below grade before they reached the dealers the dealers further say bay that thre th to should be a more careful and thorough inspection of 0 the dairies ot of the farmers who ship milk to chicago kohlrabi one of the vegetables which every farmer should grow la a kohlrabi which in groth grow th and flavor Is intermediate between the turnip or rutabaga and a cabbage it Is hard ilka like the turnip but like the babbage tab Lab bage all its ito valuable part la Is above ground it ie is a vegetables that comes to us from germany where it Is grown to large size and Is mainly used for cattle feeding dut but to be fit for table use ue it should be sown late la in the spring when the ground Is warm and the young growth will be very nery rapid ther it will be sweet and tender and wholly different from the coarse kohlrabi sown early and which has taken the whole season to grow in all roots tor for table ue u are best beat gathered while oung and after grobins rapidly most blost of the roots grow either tough or dry or both late in spring ex dust in summer we provide tor for the hens in the winter in the way ay of dust baths and let us not neglect to do the same in the cummer summer it ii U true that thu hen hens can often find some piece of dirt that they can dig up and make a dust bath of but this Is not eo so effective in destroying destroy fag the lice as a regular box 0 of f dust that the hens do not riot get enough dust in the summer Is proved by the fact that so many of them are afflicted with ith lice during that period of 0 the year could they have free access to road dust in large quantities they would be freer from vermin the dust may at that time of year be secured with suca case that it Is a pity it the hens cannot have all they can make use of profits from the cow there are I 1 hur systems of getting money from cowe cows in vogue in colorado bays says the I 1 held beld al i arm one Is to let the calf suck and forfeit 30 worth of milk to produce a 10 calf another Is the lazy mans way which brings 12 worth of gathered cream and a 10 calf the third Is I 1 the private dairy which produces 8 worth of store butter in trade and a 10 calf and the fourth that of hauling the milk to a separator station getting the heated selm re ellk ilk back in good condition raising a 10 calt calf and roce receiving iving a 30 check I 1 the butter tat fat every fanner farmer knows what it Is to have to repair pasture fences in the tpring spring when those fences pro made in the old fashioned way and of old fashioned material mater lil this Is in a good time to suggest that the sooner the farmer puts on his farm ome some kind of a wire the better bow sow some leatice for the hens IIII 1111 lee less they ban ito ho ht run of the tana fam penro oil iowa 1 drafs Is one of 0 the crokat est bounces of atalah oft a tho the farm farna and t nd one also hit thit it is macch ed aa as yet corn oom exir little attention in the best adopted to grilling grazing g grass r ass la Is leoet appreciated As 10 an adjunct of 0 ft it must receive a R full share ot of it we aro arc to expect results ot of i immanent nature anone AH one that mitt his iris ridden on the train through any largo strip ot of country in the nt beet will aill be plin fully Impress til with the little attention hut that Is given flento to this most important crop it suh su h a journey be taken just before time for or mowing the grigs the object lesson ft be complete com last summer in a trip through awu estern rn states the attention of the writer was oas drawn draun to there facts the crops ol 01 grass glass as they existed just at mowing time were ere exceedingly auneen line en here would be a field of timoth standing erect and thick though iho the visited bad had been injure 1 bj a deficient rainfall the next held field would be one of the name ime kind of grass but the grass in it would bo be hardly one halt as a high as a tha that t lu in tho the first ikid and moreover very thin on the around lien the stalks ot of grass were small and wiry mry instead ot of being lare larbe and juice there were few fen of the first kind of nelda fielda and many of thi latter kind it la is sate safe to say that the gi glass ass on these latter fields would be far lesa less valuable than the aiss gi isa on the first field for the acason of b bini ini lei lej digestible IN hen this loss Is 1 adde added d to the loss lobs due to lessene lees enel I 1 quantity we can but fie that whre the first kind of grass crops might be raised at a good profit the latter would be at a positive loss the remedies tor for thee conditions are not riot far fir to seek beek laud land that has re caled proper treatment in the rotation can generally be relied on to give a fair crop of grass when ahen the time cornea comes to put it I 1 into nto grass even een though little or no manure be applied the culture i of the boll alone will nave have accomplished much and it the roots of a clover crop have baie been turned under the sue cawing crops of grosa grass tor for general Bevera 1 years will be tar far better than it the ground had bean left untouched IN a believe that the idea of permanent raea meadows dows Is a mistake unless the said continue to bear large crops we have known knon meadows that within our memory had never nener been turned up although every the grass crop on said meadows waa very light the implants plants acro ere wiry and tar far apart each I 1 grass root requiring a considerable extent of feeding ground this too waa was on good soil it la Is evident that wo e cannot profitably grow grass after grass for or long vears ears there Is too much money in the grass crop to permit of our ignoring it it properly t eadd most of our meadows might babou abou double their yields the grass mss crop Is one that require little labor it has many advantages that do not obtain with other crop crops I 1 here Is no danger of winter killing for grass Is a most hardy perennial ae As a general thing there Is no danger from insects occasionally we have a raid by grasshoppers but this Is 1 too seldom to make it a cause of complaint drouth doca does not affect the grass crop as much as many other crops tor for the reason that it gete gets mut h ot of its growth in 1 the spring when we ue L i ally illy get I 1 rain its growth la Is completed ted before the mid summer drouth when in moat most sections it has long since been gathered into the barn agriculture I science will yet have a great deal to say about the grass crop 1 1 warmth of drained boll it used at waya ways to be thought that sandy soil waa was best tor for gardens because it warmed up 0 o e early irly in the ihring dut but this Is mainly due to the fact fie that the land Is naturally as water ea easily 1 and quickly binka through it but this very jery fact insures that the sandy soil shall never be very retentive of vegetable matter so dmn as it Is either wita stable manure or green vegetable matter the air with which sandy soli soil Is to filled from curly early epping until tall fall burna burns out all the carbon and leaves pure sand A naturally retentive soil which means some clay in ltd its composition retains vegetable mould much better and makes a really better garden ground than does the sand dut but it if it 13 1 3 wet et in spring it must be under drained then such loll 1011 freezes deeply which expands it causing it to hold more air and |
