Show 1 THE iff U L IK 4 PROVIDING SHADE FOR COWS F farmer armer will find it profitable to plant trees along pasture fence for retting resting place the cows must have bade shade in the summer time it if they give the beet best results the cow will fill herself up with green grass by noon or a little after it the pasture li in good then the she mill want to llo down and rest it the weather Is hot she he cannot rest in peace in da the hot eun sun she should have lave a deno dense shade made by largo large trees or a shed where ehe the may find refuge from the suns beaming rays it III pay the farmer to plant trees along his pasture fence rather than let hie his cows co as buffer suffer A wooded pasture Is an ideal place for the cows they will drink at the brook and recline beneath the shade and bo be corn fordable fort for ablo table all their surplus food writes W D neale in an exchange will ba be used for manufacturing milk and not in fighting lies flies A cow that must stand out in the hot sun all day and fight tiles will fall rip lolly in her milk she utilizes her food in strength for or lighting fighting flies that Is one reason cows often fall in tho the quality of their milk during the hot months A shed can be constricted ted cheaply in case there are no trees in the pas ture posts can bo be set in tho the ground A frame work vork made on top of them which may be covered with straw at 01 old hay the shadow 0 of ill vila will be quite a deture for the cows in the heat of the day with good shade plenty of clean water and an abundant pasture pap turo the he m itch cow will bea be a profitable prod table animal to tho the farmer she may lose him money without these REAR BEAR CALVES ON SKIM MILK some additional peed feed Is necessary Necea sary to replace fat Pat flax seed and 9 oil meal recommended 1 I 11 4 11 oy ya IC colorado agricultural college question what should be mixed into separator milk to be fed to calves I 1 had poor luck with my calves last summer they beamed to be hoary heavy but dian didn t grow very nuch mach I 1 always took the froth eft as quickly as an I 1 finished turning till thi separator but mis mix anything with the milk how ilow would ground corn and barley mixed or 01 either of them put into the milk bet t and when should calves be put on separator sor sera orator milk or at what ago age t answer calves need some feed in its j addition to skim milk in order to place the fat tat which has been taken off J ake milk cook whole flax flat need or 9 C ix x seed meal and feed about a double handful at a feed mixed in the milk if it you cannot secure tho the oil meal or flax seed use ground corn and oats preferably or ground corn and barley in raising skim m ik calves you should dilute the whole milk about a week after calving replacing whole milk with skim akim milk at the rate of an additional quart each week so that at six pix weeks they should be on skim milk without any whole WAY TO KEEP A trouble caused by warping and sag qing overcome by hanging slide affairs on an boards my slide gates garb me a great deal of 91 trouble by warping out of shapo shape until I 1 remedied it by hanging them on short boards a when closed and b when opened wide write writes 0 A id L keeps gate true joseph stuwart of missouri Bile in the in dependent farmer this keeps them always in the same position and they do not warp sty more wore as they did when one end rested on the ground feeding dairy cows at the oklahoma station on a ration of wheat bran corn crop alf alfalfa alfs hay bay and roughage the cost of milk per gallon was cents when on a ration similar to the above with the addition of cottonseed meal the cost of milk was 10 9 centa cents per por gallon but the quantity was lightly slightly decreased in another test the cost of milk pro on a ration of barn corn crop cottonseed roal meal and alfalfa hay tho the cost was per gallon on a elm bim liar ration with silage as an a supple meat ment tho coat cost was 0 04 4 per gallon and the yield was lightly slightly increased cause of dowel bowel troubles bowel troubles in calves are sometime I 1 aused caused r by milk that Is excessive ly rich milk that Is moderate or low in butter fat tat Is usually better or young calves indigestion in older cayea Is usually due to unclean eels close c in dark unsanitary stalls and irregular or ex desalve feeding in somo some cases it appears to be due mainly to sheer aad and inability to |