Show w A sanitary milk pall we one of the Ran itar niilo pails in aae in some parts of the he country As will be observed the top tot of if it ie in almost entire covered the place into which the nilla in 1 thrown ie in the strainer eo so that the milk ie is ae an it enter enters the pall the top being covered prevent prevents the lie falling of tair anil and other dirt into the milk ny tinman can a lure ture one of thise those thi se pall polls a as it la Is 0 to o aini alin pie that there in no patent upon it 11 two general principle principles need to be kept in mind one is to cover tover a as minli muli of the top of the pall a ae possible and anti the other in to havn have a rini around the orifice through which he the milk enters the pall it seems to us that the al li in of little value in a tall pall DO so protected tor for if the tile ulder ie is clean the ie Is not likely to be he contaminated with dirt there art man forms of these palls in lisp u some of them lit fering acry inu in 1 from rora flits one that 71 0 0 ra 4 1 iq ar T we te e beaw in uso use on the farm of it D gurler simply had a largo large part of tho the top corned covered while the was vias covered only by absorbent cotton placed between two laera of gauze As la to known tho the gurler milk Is very clean and therefore ther eforo has long keeping properties some of this milk bot tied reached paris parts trance k rance in a sweet condition it had only been I 1 ept in a refrigerator had not been and had I 1 it no preservative it did not begin a turn sour until the day after beier drawn on the day it as used in paris it was compiled comp ired with somo some of the milk produced that day in paris parts which mcgah to sour when heft only haelle hours old this shows the difference between lean inick and aillo that has been con laminated the use vise of at the big open mouthed milk pall Is the source of much of tho the pouring souring of milk hairs from the cow ant an I 1 minute particle particles of at dus dust drop unseen unsen into the pall these contain spores of tho the lactic acid ter ments which aro are always present in the air during slimmer we believe he the universal use of sanitary baill palls pails would very greatly improve the quality of our milk and consequently improve the quality of at our butter and cheese farmers review pumpkins as cow feed in all of tho the eastern i where lipkins ari arc krown gron the aro orn used for cow teed in ili the late fall tall and early winter inter months anil ns as long as they can bo be kept without deter fora forn lion possibly they could be I 1 opt ept all winter under cioper condU conditions lons of cold storage but they aro are such a bulky food that a very large place Is 18 required to store enough ut of them to last ft a larre herd through the winter months the are not only hollow in ride bide but their round shape makes hem them in storage I 1 regert I 1 ha the pumpkin as equivalent to slip silage go for feed hut but when hen we havo have the problem of feeding many cows it it is much easier to build a silo 11 that will hold several tons ot at bilue than to bull built I 1 a receptacle for overal tons of pumpkins moreover the pumpkins must bo cold enough to prevent them from decaying for tho tile nir air will get in to any receptacle in which thoy can bo be place I 1 nith ith silage the tempera cure makes little difference if it does not reach the point where it freezes I 1 have found in the feeding ot at pumpkins fast we can feed about 40 0 pounds per day per cow to advantage and with noth some name cows the milk production will bo be greatly increased I 1 have how bow ever hat occasional cows where the effect of feeding pumpkins waa to the cows to lay on fat and do crease their milk production there aro are very few experiments to which aich we can point relative to the value of feeding pumpkins in one experiment that I 1 hove in mind therb was a gain of 6 per cent worn milk when pump kina kine were fed than bjoro tb th jr were admitted into the ration this was the result too when the dr matter was eo ao decreased deer eased in the ration that the increase of at milk based on the unit units of dry matter in to tha feed iced amounted amount edl to 10 per cent tho the milk did not IA a any way deteriorate in quality in another teat test with which I 1 am familiar the cows cow fed on pumpkin pumpkins pr produs about 5 per cent more milk than cow cows led ted on silage and when compared with dry hay the increase of at milk ws was very great the health of the cows was not impaired hy by thia this lare pumpkin ration nor 01 iho the but ler ter made show any bad effect the great advantage about feeding amp kins Is I 1 that tho the men that have no alloi cau call feed them and nearly all till men that keep cows have no silos are nume numerous rotis only in re regions gioni demoted very generally to the making of but ter goc occure ire b |