Show r I 1 BREEDING AGE FOR HEIFERS time depends largely on an develop ment and season of year cool coal season Is favored tho the ago at which heifers should fri shai tl pt ads largely upon their iki and the season u ahn ban it au desired to have hane most of tho ali cons although the larger breeds breedi do to not mature ut at so tar arl nn an ace age ns ai the smaller ones la in most casts it Is pos bible by finding to obtain built splendid dairy heifer dent clent growth so bo that li heifers elfers may aty be bred tired to freshen at two to stars of KRO it Is seldom desirable for a to fresl itu at ut an earlier am in deciding upon the time to breed 11 ho the size and should ti bd arten eli en greater consideration than tho the age cg since it Is important that tho the helf ar r have good growth groth by tito time aho she freshens No however Never if allodi allowed ed to become too mature bufore brieding ea es specially pec lally ally in the ease of animals that tiro are heavily fid fill there la Is dit in fit getting tho th helair in talf off it Is in undesirable to hinc hano fresh en on luring during tho the latter part the eum suin mer because their milk production will III bo seriously hindered by hot weather neather lies flies and dried ill pasture pastures rather than hae hane helfers freshen dur ing 1 tle the summer months it Is advisable to postpone their I 1 greuling so that they will freshen during tho the coolid reason I 1 ADDING VARIETY TO RATION feeding alfalfa hay before cuttle cattle run on an pasture la is especially good in avoiding bloat dy ny n 11 II WILLIAMS animal man inan ai at cona cons I 1 station have bae proved to ti their own satisfaction that it paye pays to have boine bottle alfalfa hay tiny before cattle run on alfalfa pasture this tills Is in avoiding bloat and adaina variety to tile bailon ration the animals BOOM to get tired of succulent fied ft ed und and with wish a variety on thie this account it 1 atmon 1 wise inise to have a teed feed rack either in the tile lone inne or in tho field where the animal anini aln nitty may receive the dry feed dairy cows will relish it fow few bitof of on liny lay night and morning it ti Is a n simple matica to keep this tills liny buy in the dry lot adjacent to i he 00 barn barq aicra the cowa cova nifty indy cat before nna nil niter milking nill king aletter paint gains will viii bo biando in the young block stock and also cowe will yield more milk and do boothr it allowed alfalfa hay tiny vialle on pasture CAUSE OF DISEASED UDDER Q bitter taste and ran id smell in milk traced t ta one co in herd cases of gore core throat dairymen have e occasionally been puzzled by a bitter taste and rancid smell in milk produced under stint 1 airy u conditions it has beta found stat such conditions cart can arise from me rne cow cov in the herd with a diseased adder and a bacterium has tins been isolated as tho the immediate cause in 1 I io milk the bacterium credited al ni the tile disturbing factor Is bald said to belong to tho ilse group labtis t on a 4 farm form it N neon kin they found three cow at of feted with ith mastitis to aich which waa vav the lie cause of 0 cosea of 0 lore vote throat among the persons duplag nilla from tho herd MUST RAISE DAIRY CALVES to increase number of cows it la Is ad that farmei farmes i s begin raising their own if tf we ive are to increase tile bombet of cone covis as twins advisable ooma farmers must raise calves of the datry it Is 1 hoped that many fanner ill decide to begin raising cow cows anil producing dairy products po p ducts the first arst will be food for or the family then a to bill stil then eoll soil fr allty which will be Ilos sible chero cows are kept WOID FILTH IN CALF PEN important that young animal have clean stall and dry bedding gedding dirt breeds disease abony of the trou brou lea les that the calves or of this tills CIOL ry axe heir to can be traced directly to unclean surround ings tugs the calf should hays a titan iry etall stall lean clean pall palls diwi which to at en tin I 1 clean dry try bedding ell all the filth breeds disease more quickly lr ir uie the calf cult pen than anywhere else |