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Show cold sour milk at any time. Your property Is too valuable lo run tho risk. Feed Just what milk the calf can digest properly. Bo sure and scrape up all tho manure In tho yard and about the stable and apply It to tho land. Sanitation about tho dairy barn can bo much improved throughout tho summer sum-mer months by isuch painstaking work. Some farmers prefer to allow tho bull to run withvjho herd In the pasture. There Is nothing moro discouraging to the avcrago dairyman than to lose a few valuable valua-ble calves. Much trouble In . the herd Is caused through germ Infestation. Use plenty , of disinfectants about tho stable. ' Tho avcrago dairy bull docs not receive the care he deserves. Remember that iic Is half the herd and without him you can conduct con-duct your business only at half full capacity. Givo him the bc&t the farm has and he will pay you back in dollars. Don't bo guilty of feeding a largo swarm of files all fcummer. Make some arrangement' arrange-ment' before the llmo comes to protect the herd from this Irritating pesL Make false frames and cover them with dark muslin and place ln tho windows to darken the stable It will help wonderfully. Tho fllFoaso commonly termed scours ' among calves Is due partially to Indigestion caused from feeding too much milk, too rich milk, too l:mg time bvtween feeding, unclean rtables and improperly wa.shed palls. This disease' Is no doubt caused by a germ and ! cleanliness at all times Is the watchword. Dairy Notes T ' IS Inexcusable for any dairyman to keep poor cows ln this day and age. The Bab-cock Bab-cock tester, a cct of scales and a 'Ittlc time will rernovo all unproductive animals. A cood bull at tho head of your herd will largely Increaso tho milk flow and tho butter fat and glvo you a lino of cows which when marketed will bring good money. Modern dairy methods are both a moey maker and a labor saver. It la inadvisable as well as Impracticable to do as your father fjid. Employ tho best help and modern devices de-vices and dairying will bo found a pleasure. If tho glgantio watito of the American dairy farms could bo turned into money there would be agreat many moro millionaires. Tho waste of many an Industry has made Ecme men famous. There Is scarcely a limit to tho capacity of tho dairy buslnet. If you aro keeping twenty cows on 100 acres thero is plenty . "t room for twenty more. f Study carefully tho succesn of other dairymen. A polnt or two on how the work 1 t doncnay bring tho famo'to you. There Is Komothlng In learning a business from tho foundation. Cows that produce yearly lSCS pounds of milk testing 7C2 pounds of butter are not very close together, ond yet authenticated records demonstrate that such Individuals eiist. J-ct us all strive to Increase tho number. num-ber. Don't give a lualy, promising hclftr calf i |