Show DAIJIV AND IOnWY NfHnnSTINO CHAPTERS FAR OUR RURAL READERS IIoa aeeeefut IATae Ope10 Thl tic1ertlunt DI lea tat A Fte iliai a to tit Cu nr 11 Clock ant foolery Y imiilh > ejperl Mice rover about right years I have I kept the Ingle I comb llrawn Ip horn and I Hurt I LeRhnrna My IIOUM It I Junt in ordinary or-dinary ant with window on the toutb side 1 In the morning I usually feed soft feed uf some kind and feed It hot rhea I feed 1 oat wheat or some ilmllar grain hoed In the nnd 10 they will have lu dig for It Corn If l fed at light and meat serao once or In Ire a 1 week Ve have never grown fowls tor mnrkn till lat year when 1 wan able 10 dlipoMt uf our lam of hunt hatch at IG t cent per I utiml Vo tunic had Rood uecrwi In railing chirks 1Ve feed wiled eggs onro a day till the little ones are ITO week old with breadcrumb bread-crumb at the other meals with corn and oatmeal We havo had lltllo Iou i kt w r Gt Zt Tr 7 f l I 1w a 6 1 a u E y1C1 + 14 A FLKMISII MILKMAID = = from disease Wo keep our l eoops clean with plenty of lime around them I Wo hnto found the Huff Leghorns very i good Iera and last year wo had cockerel that dressed two pounds at eleven week old Hating icon the experience of many In their aucccia and failure In crossing wo tried two crosse tail year The lint was a Mutt leghorn cock on loldcn Wjnn lotto hem Tho chicks nuturcd early and the pullets are excellent layers lay-ers Tho second was a Hurt Leghorn cock nnd Light Ilrahnm hens The result suit wu not i > o fatorable u In the first cane The chicks matured very slowly and while the full bloods nod the chick of the first trots had plump nnd very meaty breast these latter were all skin and bone 1 am Inclined to think that It pa > a best lo breed 1 from i standard breed of some kind nnd for mo nsno aro no satisfactory as tho hull Leghorn n W rcllons IHIUIIII lea 0e Condensed fioni the rnrmcra lie view Btciiogruphle report of the Michigan Michi-gan italrymiu meeting Irofcssor C II Smith opened l tho dls cues ou on the cow lit spoVe ton tho selection ot the cow Whele wo used to select n cow on tho total amount of milk she would ilte te now pay more attention tu the relative amount of butter she will make She Is I n good cow If her percentage of butter tut Is I large provided slut Kites n fair amount of milk Iho chief attention of Iho cxpt rlmcnt nation during bleu past two years hua been toward this point Is It true that the cows thut hiito the tplcal dairy form make butter most profitably Is It true that blue Internal capacity of n low U I made manifest by exterior signs I am ready to assert as-sert that such Is I the ease Our best cow at the station conform most closely close-ly I to the best dairy type llowour few ol us liuto time to become cool judge ot external signs ot Internal quality eo that most of us mutt buy our caw judging them hl tho weight ot milk and by the test for butter fat QCon wo Judge by the young mil mal what kind of a cow nho will maKo In blue future AWhrll I picked out my wife 1 did I not do It when the was a little girl but when she had grown up And the lams theory holds good In picking out a cow you must wait till she Is I mature before you can tell definitely what kind of n row sho will be Wo rannot predict with any certainty what n heifer will make Theta are reitnln signs ot course signs that tell whether she tau the beef typo or the dairy type but you con not depeu t on tho details that maj develop Tho nnl point was the stabling nod feeding of the cow A member said It 1 seems to me that with land at 110 per ncre wo cannot afford to pasture row at the rate ol one con for every four acre of land We had better ron partly r-on the colling plan air Ourler Now I bite In the corn belt In Illinois and there we hate had 1 murk trouble with the corn root worm lie tutee on corn roots exclusively It therefore become nec sry for III to I route tOrn keeping It jtl uf certain fields for a few years that this worn i may be Marred out This I having le i forego the use of corn fully and freely would militate ag lnst the solllnn eya tom with us Mr Monmrt poke on how to milk I the caw let a good dairy I maid U would I j be a nletiltig for Michigan It the girls did the milking for the men would then have to fix up the stables and keep I them clean I line wen a great many fUhlCT where one bad to put on long boot oW 10 Into them Why do I be I llete that girl snould milk HITUUIO they ore gentler M I > experience of six yean taught mo that to milk a coW properly on hate got to be on good i term with the con 1 once bad A white heifer that was a leant hut iho wan wild I kept my temper for n little over I two wick and r she was kicking 1 I nil tho time Then I lost my temper and uteil the stool I did not milk that cow any rare t sent her back to my brother who had n good many COW and did not need l to milk them all In fact he only milked ten cows to rl enough milk for family Hut men may learn how to milk If when ou fo home you will Induce the young men to weigh the I milk rlRlit along you will find that It will make I n great difference In the Interest they take In the milking Duy good milk 1 ers make friends with lour cow and test them Mr aloraeI hate nn old l German woman In my employ who does this Slue has made frit mis with tho cows and llury like her and field a good supply sup-ply of milk when she milks them Recently Re-cently she look n vacation and I tried doing the milking I treated them right but the amount of milk they gate shrank at once and did not greatly Increase In-crease Hut when she came back they at once yielded their accustomed amount of milk I think that women nro hclter nround con stables than men It the stable are kept clean as nil table should br < IWh 1 will coma cow keep clean while other con standing bsldo them and under like conditions will get dirty Mr UIIIINfRrl every cow stable In this state Is I fixed not to keep the cows elian but to keep them dirty I ut least that Is I the natural Inference of blue conditions under which they are kept 1 ho grtat difficulty Is I that tin manger are too low and the cow hOI to back oil lo lie down that compels her lo Ila down In tho filth I build mint 10 that tho cow can lilt her head under It when she He 1 own and she ran thus lie down hero she elands I nail a 2x1 In front of her two forefeet fore-feet and another Jxl In front of her two hind ftet nnd fill the miaou between thin two joists with brdtllne When sho lie down she will lie on this bedding bed-ding und kell clean Wllh calico we do not mil donn the Ixli but merely lay them down ugalnit cleats which ran bn removed to Incnuio the length of the Led as the calf grouts QAto not those Jx < s In tho nay when you milk AThe Inllk pall alto on them so they rather help than hinder the milk lug lurnl 1 4l otter In an mdress before tho Ar hlr < IlrevdcraMotlutlon bruit II W Coven call Natural startcrn These art I coolly made by 0113 butter maker The method of preparing one In simply tc procure a fen quarts of good sncel cream from n source which Is the mom reliable for being clean and pure nnt allow this cream to stand In n warm place until It sours The cream thui soured will contain many bacteria and commonly or at least In many races IIi I the cream Is from a reliable tourcc tin species of bacteria which develop Ic It will be the species that produce pro-duce pleasant favors Such sournl cream may then be poured molt the large tat of cream for n startci und Ibo result will bo that It the starlet doe have the proper kind of species tin tr wan will ripen more rapid and produce pro-duce a better quality of butter than when It 1 Is I nlloned Itself to ripen nal orally Thus the natural starter Impl allows to grow In the cream the speclei which are already present but If the cream Is I from a good source the resulti are found In practice to be very faior able |