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Show INTEREST IN DAIRY FEEDING Bulletin of Pennsylvania Experiment Station Discusses Matter in Most. Thorough Manner. To those of our readers who make a careful study of dairy feeding, bulletin bulle-tin 114 of the Pennsylvania experiment experi-ment station will be very "interesting. The principles in dairy feeding are gone into both in a theoretical and practical manner. In a rough way the following rules are laid down as good: 1. Peed grain in proportion to milk yields; that is, give her, for example, one pound of grain mixture per day for each three or four pounds of milk produced. 2. Feed all the roughage which the cow will eat up clean, up to the point where she gains too much weight. 3. Whenever she becomes too fat reduce re-duce the amount of roughage, leaving the amount of grain to be determined by the milk yield. Food requirements for cows of different dif-ferent weights and cows producing different amounts of milk are given in tables. Most of our readers will find the methods as described in the bulletin extremely unscientific, hut after af-ter they have studied it a little they will find it quite simple and, we believe, be-lieve, quite practical. Of all the experiment ex-periment stations the Pennsylvania has done the most scientific work with feeding stock. Pennsylvania Experiment Station. LATCH FOR A SWINGING GATE Illustration Given, Together With Directions Di-rections for Making Convenient Little Farm Device. A good latch for farm gates may be made as shown in the accompanying accompany-ing sketch. The slide A is suspended suspend-ed by the hangers BB, which are placed on each side of the gate. The back end of the latch works between the guides C and the front end between be-tween the end pieces of the gate. The slide engages with a slot in the gate I post when the gate is shut. The hangers BB are made in any ' convenient length. The holes are one-fourth inch in diameter and tire bolts are used as fasteners. The holes for the hangers should be , drilled cne-third of the width of the ! latch from its top to make the largest I I Latch for Swinging Gate. part of the weight fall below the fastenings of - the supports, writes Willard H. Elder in Popular Mechanics. Mechan-ics. The slide being in a horizontal position, it works better between the guides. When the slide is in the gatepost slot, the hangers should be at the angle shown, so that the weight of the slide helps to hold it in place. |