| Show DAL11Y AND POUITJIY I INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS I llew 11 Co Hares UpI Thl < Itepttreel or the rmA lir stints s 10 515 Ca of lit Hint It nud iaitey T AKi a building 1 that will hold 59 COM ray 2S feet ft while by 103 feet i thflft long and 11 feet ii I high The tint I story ihould bo 10 i feet for Ibo cow with a 4 foot loft formealnnd cut litter i lit-ter A building of I thin width and size Ion bo built of light tlm ben nay 5 by 4 Inch ituddlng balloon frame As thn roof la I narrow the rafter can bo light and need no purlin Hoard with neet tiding and line It or platter ladle With well arranged ar-ranged window and Mr duet you have light and entltatlon as thoroughly under un-der your control so In the living room of your houte Such n building 11 this ran be put up for onethird the cost of n U by 60 foot bank barn nnd be Infinitely Infinite-ly I better aa n place to IIOUM cow Two objection wilt probably bo urged tilnil lids tingle purpose bArnnlll toil you will need a large burn anyhow for the itorago of hay and grain and secondly that It will bo inconvenient to let Ibo coarto provender from the itor 1118 barn lo tho cow barn In nnnwcr to the first objection I cnn ay It new building ore to bo put up build them I long and narrow at In the cues of the cow barn before described for the same oaring In tho coot of the nmMler tlsed lumber can bo made Lumber of what we call yard alum 1 rate I2 10UG per 1 tbomuiDd Sawed sloes 1 colt 118 to 20 sod quite larg sticks which have to hoof ho-of good pin may coat 10 Such a building ns above Indicated cnn bo built of yard sisal and would not COAl over half at much 00 a iwiuaro bank barn of Ilbo I Chester county pattern of the same I j 1 capacity If your old burn It I good take Tour jour basement liable drop jour Uri and no increase tho storage ca 1 paclty At to the second objection every I firmer with land enough to put on 40 or 110 cows to 100 acre will surely hno a silo and cut lilt fodder and hula hill and with well arranged hanging track can take hit cut feed acme his barnyard barn-yard Into hit cow barn with more until fullon than In the old way of taking forkful of Imy and nhravcs of fodder tbrouth Ibo dark and narrow cntrle I An extentlon of this Idea of tingle parpOM barns would suggest n hone I barn else which In many ways would ke preferable lo stabling them In the jtatementt I of bank barn Wo used to Imagine that great straw shads were II needed for the Korngo of Utter the t he Ittr of Ibo stock and tho protection of the manure Now wo haul our manure directly lo tho fields our cow nro not let out when they require ahellcr and the straw thould bo cut loin Inch lengths at Iho limo of throttling In which cato It cnn be housed In onethird tho uiual apace and actunlty coat let than to store It away uncut Philadelphia Phila-delphia Ledger I ovrten tnlneea Ono of the foremott contlderatlans with tho dalrjman la 1 the matter cf I cheap and effective food In Ibo Vc there t-here oven At this comparatively early day Ibo cry li I for more pasture room Ai a matter of fact Ito abtenco of Rood patturago for the cow at about this limo of the year as n rule It I complained com-plained about a Rood deal moro In Ihli section than It U further Cast where they havo learned to depend upon something better It li I now conceded by dairymen who have studied all jibes of the question that tho corn field will furnish more of Ibo right kind of food for the dairy cow than will the patturc That li to say turn Iho patturc Into corn field and clover nnd alfalfa meadows then prepare the food for tho cowl for every month thin year around and It will bo dltcovcred that milk and butter aro produced nt a lessened coat I This manner of feeding necenarlly I bring Into rcquttltlon Ibo silo Hy I this loran tecral udxantnrci are had 1 It 1s I possible to feed through a long I drouth Jutt tho lImo ai though the pasture were green and without any increase of rOil It Ic I alto pottlbla to I feed through the long winter on a milk producing ration that li I grown on the farm nnd li I as cheap nt grass Itself With Ibo right kind of ration for winter win-ter feeding It encourage moro of winter win-ter dairying and consequent greater profits to tho butter maker Thlt branch of conducting the dairy It I but ono branch of what It I known ai In tcntho farming It It I found to bo In keeping with tho Idea of cutting down Ibo acreage of the farm and of putting moro of both brain nnd brawn labor Into those acre Thla system Is workIng work-Ing well In practice further Mil and It li I but a matter of time when It will ho found moro thoroughly engrafted Into our Western WIINebruku Farmer Amateur Twit Wo onco knew of a man that bought n good many cows every year for hla city dairy It was before thin advent of the Ilabcock tett and for that reason ho was very ex ruble In using n more primitive mode Ho would get lie milk of the cow offered for sale and set It or night In a goblet If It showed a good thick iream In the morning he bought the cow prolded her milking capacity wu fairly Rood This might do for con to be 1 used In n milk dairy but It I would ire very unreliable far cowa to bo utfltl I In a creamery or for the private pri-vate dairy This for two reason First torn cream It I much more compact com-pact than ottun and n cow whose Ureim wai lle tlvtecnihn of an Inch a thick might really contain lee 1 butterfat butter-fat than ono tour alnleentbu inches thick Second the cream In some milk rite very much slower than In other lots due largely tbe ilit of the butter but-ter globule InrrUlnlv or sceer A writer In Ohio Poultry Journal says There is I no doubt but that the A P A can recommend certain persons per-sons as Judges and require them bc taro that Is I done to bo examined ai to their qualification for such position but In that event will all societies and iMoelatlon employ them It they did notwould < 1 It not lead to another rebellion rebel-lion In compirlton to whlrh the moro card affair would be a plumy Would I It not furnltli n pabulum for poultry writers to entllate their literary nt lalnmcnt pro and con for n long time The Judge to lull all mutt be enpc dally endowed h with certain qunllllei among which might Ixi mentioned well verted In the butlnn which nicmt tact and experience he mint be quirk agreeable abtoltilely accurate unvarj Ing In Judgment have a retentive memory mem-ory posuwMiI I of patience nnd to bo able to measure up defeated exhibitor bo mutt be n phrenologist n pb > tlog nomltt and n psychologist or I hypnotlier In fact such n man cannot bo found and therefore retort I tort mutt be hid to thorn potMttlng fewer virtue It a Judge to I required i lite n score card ho will have between j twenty and twcnlynvn ubdlvlnloni of I a fowl to examine each of which may I bo defective In from one to fix or moro place and nil ouch defects will nry In from onefourth I to lite l or more palms I In valuation unit ol In n class of twenty I fowl hi mind or attention It II I pose bee will ho or may be brought Into direct di-rect operation our 7000 time not what la expected It that ho shall go over I and over the same peclmeni limo nnd limo again and hnie the result exactly nllke or If after n week 1111 elapsed a few of the specimen Included In tho I twenty named meet him elsewhere hoI la ho-I expected to place them In the canto I notches again a A test of ilia expert iklll ability and honesty no matter what changes may have been made In I Iho circumstance and condition surrounding sur-rounding themn thing Impottlble and Us like or analogy li not found In all nature n thing which cannot be done whatever system of scoring fir uei or whatever committee or ntto elation recommend him and It It I life to say that It U I Impossible for n Judge to score owls In any considerable number I num-ber or nt different times and placer nail make iho scores exactly alike when done twine or more but with n few extra ex-tra or flno fowls ho may score turn clently clime lo bare the result approximately ap-proximately alike II rester rimllrjr frnliu I Years ago says IX II Davit In Tho Poultry Monthly the poultry builncm was not at lucrative ni It ti at the I prctcnt time During the winter I months although our poultry nni well iheltertd and fed and creat care used to keep the buildings < clean giving plenty of fresh water etc we found at I Iho opening of tho sprint no had I no nn I remuneration for our labor at cent of grain icrapi potatoe etc far ex j I cceded the Income of egg I Wo hao now a better way of feeding and mOil excellent remits have followed I lowed Wo feed cut green bones In fair quantity every other day and tonio I of tho limo cm day They are horn j trailer and with n good bone cutter they make when cut fresh every day 10 nlco n food that wo cnn only liken It to n nice rare steal to a hungry man Tho fowls love It They thrive and tho chickens grow rapidly when fed on It Tho mineral part of this food given chickens material for their growing bone and for the laying hem the hens while Ibo meal gristle and Juice lu these green bone gho material ma-terial for the flesh to the growing chicken and Interior of the egg In abundance So now our fowls Instead of being omfat In winter are ghlnn in ccct Instead of beIng n curry looking dejected de-jected unprofitable lot during the molting molt-ing period they ore wl ldo < awake and strong and many of them go to far nt to give ut CKRI regulnrly nt this time Tho grain bill being largely reduced re-duced tho egg yield being Incriitod nnd no lOll from ilcknetn all aid In making our winter and spring recorder record-er encouraging and no ono could induce In-duce ui to neglect the feeding of green bone fmhly cut at all tcasani of Ibo year HlkL Manly Miles lui this to say of the above named breed This breed tome1 I times I called Silky or Negro fault love n very peculiar appearance their plumage being to unlike that of other toxin I as to bo scarcely l recoinlzed 11ft feathers whllo Ibo akin of the fowl Is I n deep lolet color almost black the surface hones being of the tamo line also which gives It n rather unln i lllng loolc when prepared for the table The lleth however is l very delicate I deli-cate and white and superior to tint at many breed Tho plumago has n colt I flossy appearance the tllamenti being separate I or single and has been repre tented by ancient I naturalUti I at resembling I re-sembling wool In describing this IKS I collar breed of fowl some sa > They were covered with wool Instead of feathers other say they were covered cov-ered with lialr like iat I These fowls are lupposed to bo native na-tive of India though tome say they originated In China They are bail lu England to some extent Tho corks weigh about four pounds and tic hen about two and onehalf pounds Scavenger 8hip = The too common opinion In regard to sheep It that they nro but icavengeri and fitted wily to consume the weed and other wastes on tlip farm but out of nothing cornea nothing If there U I no propr food care and shelter provided we mutt expect our cheep to Iliac aa > tad per I labIx |
