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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
I Use 'Surplus Cream
for Butter Supply
May Be Stored in Jars or in
One-Pound Prints.
By JOHN A. AREY, North Carolina State
College.—WNU Service.
Farm butter, made from sweet
cream, may be packed in salt brine
and kept in the cold room for use
fater when the supply may be low. By
reason of the low price of butterfat, a
number of housewives with a surplus
of cream have been making inquiry as
to the possibilities of making up the
cream into butter and storing it for
use later. This plan has been prac-
ticed by some North Carolina families
for a number of years. The first con-
sideration is that the butter be made
from sweet cream. Given this condi-
tion, the resulting products may be
stored in jars, packed solidly or in
one-pound prints. In either case the
container must be thoroughly and care-
fully scalded to kill all bacterial
spores.
If packed solidly in such jars, the
packed butter needs to be covered
with a clean and sterile white cloth
and salt placed over this at least 1-32
of an inch deep.
If prints are used, a salt brine suffi-
ciently strong to float an egg is pre-
pared. This will take about one-
fourth as much salt as water. ..Boiled
water should be used. Then the one-
pound prints wrapped in clean white
cloth are placed in the jar with a
string around each print so that it
may be recovered easily. A stone
plate or follower of some kind should
be placed on the butter to keep it in
the brine and then the brine is poured
over the whole thing. From time to*
time it may be necessary to add addb
tional brine.
New Soil Test Shifting
Land Out of Grain Crop
Without the new test for available
phosphorus developed by the college
of agriculture. University of Illinois,
many Illinois farmers could not de-
crease their grain acreage and increase
their legume acreage to cope with
present low prices, it is pointed out
by C. M. Lindsley, soils extension spe-
cialist.
Many farmers are not financially
able, he explained, to make the rela-
tively heavy investments in limestone
and phosphate for land that is too acid
or too low in available phosphorus for
the growing of these legumes. It is
necessary that they locate land in their
fields already containing enough lime
and available phosphorus. A previous-
ly developed test of the college’s took
care of the limestone problem, and
now the more recently perfected
phosphorus test gives farmers a prac-
tical means of overcoming the other
important barrier in adjusting their
crop acreage.
Thousands of farms throughout
central and northern Illinois have
areas of soil varying from a few acres
to entire fields which naturally con-
tain enough limestone and available
phosphorus so that they can be taken
out of grain and put into alfalfa, sweet
clover or red clover.
Farmers seldom recognize these
areas. What is more serious Is that
without applying the two tests, they
often attempt to grow legumes on land
that is too low in available phos-
phorus and lime. The result is a waste
of seed and time.
Bee-Keeping
It has lately been discovered that
bees have preferences among the
honey plants. Whether this is due to
the fact that they like some nectars
better than others, or whether they
simply go where nectar is most abun-
dant or most easily obtained, is a ques-
tion which none can yet answer. The
fact that they will not touch honey-
dew, even though it may be in great
abundance, as long as nectar is avail-
able in quantities from flowers, indi-
cates clearly their preference for floral
nectar. In the case of clovers, bees ap-
parently prefer to work on white
clover rather than alsike if both are
yielding abundantly. When white
clover is abundant and yields heavily,
alsike clover is often poorly pollinated,
even if near a large apiary. On the
other hand if white clover is scarce
or is yielding poorly, alsike clover is
well pollinated.
Clean the Seed Wheat
The treatment of seed wheat with
copper carbonate or with formalde-
hyde is a common practice in all grain
districts. Frequently, however, seed
treatment is reported to be ineffective
in the control of-smut. Experiments
which have been conducted by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture indicate that the removal of
smut balls in the seed wheat is abso-
lutely essential to satisfactory results.
The smut balls are composed of mil-
lions of spores which are not entirely
destroyed by the common method of
seed treatment. These smut balls
should be removed either by fanning
or other cleaning machines.
Babies in Japan Must
Not Cry; Have No Fear
Few persons have ever seen a lik
tie Japanese in tears, because in Ja-
pan the children are taught from ear-
liest infancy not to cry.
They are schooled to bear pain, dis-
appointment and all the other little
troubles that sometimes reduce west-
ern children to tears, with courage
and fortitude.
One often sees little Japanese boys
standing before their elders with
straddled legs and unblinking eyelids,
while swords are sent whistling past
their noses.
Again and again the sword comes
rushing down, but the little boy nev-
er moves—always there is a faint
smile on his lips, a smile that says:
“This is the way to face danger!”
Again, all Japanese children are
poets. This is no idle statement, but
a recognized fact, and travelers re-
port that, although they have visited
villages in Japan where the inhabi-
tants are too poor to offer the visitor
a cup of tea, they are all able to write
poems to their gods and their shrines.
The children of Japan are always
happy, not because they are rich, well-
fed, or live in nice houses,' but be-
cause they are taught from the very
beginning to look on the sunny side
of life and to fear neither man no/
beast.—Detroit News.
Gladstone Knew Homer;
He Had Memorized Poems
It has been stated that Gladstone
Iras not a great Homeric scholar. This
depends on what scholarship means
(asserts a correspondent). If to know
the poems nearly by heart makes a
Homeric scholar—you could give him
a line anywhere and he could go on
without the book to the bottom of
the page—he certainly did deserve the
title. On the other hand, and as al-
ready indicated in the earlier para-
graph, his surmises and deductions
were scoffed at by professional schol-
ars. Dean Liddell, of the lexicon, in
a letter to his son, poured scorn on
Gladstone’s Homeric lecture at the Ox-
ford union in 1890, and a great schol-
ar and wit of the time crystalized the
orthodox point of view in the epi-
gram, “He has deserted a field in
which he has no rival for one in which
he has few inferiors.”—Montreal Her*
aid.
The Castles of Normandy
Less than half a century after the
battle of Hastings, Normandy was the
center of a vast Anglo-Angevin king-
dom which stretched from Scotland to
the Pyrenees. Those were the days
when men felt more secure inside cas-
tle walls than around conference
peace tables,, and great forts were
built everywhere, to which the mod-
ern tourist makes trails today. Wil-
liam the Conqueror built and forti-
fied the Chateau at Caen, another was
the fortress at Dieppe, while close by
can be seen the crumbling remains of
the romantic castle of Arques. Oth^r
castles are to be found, as those of
Gisons, Gaillard, built by Richard the
Lion Hearted, till finally the massive
Abbey Fort of Mount Saint Michael
on the sea coast completes the picture;
Thunderstorm Rays
Two South African scientists claim
to have discovered evidence that thun-
derstorms give off rays of great pene-
trative force. They caught these rays
in a Geiger-Muller counter, the same
instrument now widely used to count
or register cosmic rays. While they
do not know definitely what kind of
rays they caught, they believe them to
have been generated by lightning.
They suggest that the rays may be mi-
gratory electrons or particles of elec-
tricity shot upward from storms. Such
rays were registered only 20 to 30
miles from the storm. Directly under
the storm there were no rays.—Path
finder.
The Old Album
' During recent years, since we have
become so sophisticated, a lot of
smart cracks have been made about
the hours we used to spend looking at
the old family album. In its time it
was not an unpleasant entertainment,
and I never heard of anyone going to
jail because of looking into the photo-
graphic records one of them con-
tained. Because a custom is old is no
reason to believe that it is not a good
one; that honesty is the best policy is
an old saying, but no one has ever
been able to beat it.—Don Wright in
Crane Chronicle.
Poor Plumber Died Wealthy
Immigrant Scot named George Mc-
Uaul, who went to New Zealand as a
poor apprentice plumber, died at the
age of ninety-six, in Auckland, with a
fortune of $1,250,000. He took part in
a New Zealand gold rush, but after
failing at that, for 46 years worked
in modest quarters at his trade of
plumbing, almost until his death. He
lived austerely with a niece. He gave
$250,000 to war relief funds, half the
rest was absorbed by taxes and the
remainder has been shared by two
nieces..
Barnyard Manure
Helps Pay Taxes
Huch Can Be Saved by Us-
ing Lots of the Smallest
Possible Size.
t -
Prepared by Ohio State University.
WNU Service.
Manure saved by a sound manage-
Inent program at the barn will yield
enough more crops to pay the first in-
stallment on Ohio’s farm taxes, and
leave money in the bank, according to
J. A, Slipher, specialist in soils for
the agricultural extension service at
the Ohio State university.
Ohio farmers, he says, are keenly in-
terested in building the soil at little
or no cost in cash outlay. There is
no place or no device by which they
can do this better than by thoughtful
management of the farm’s supply of
manure.
Much manure can be saved in lot
feeding by using a lot of the smallest
possible size. In this way it is possi-
ble to eliminate hundreds of tons of
rain water which otherwise would find
its way through the thin blanket of
manure and remove its soluble load of
valuable nutrients. Most lots can be
reduced to one-half or one-fourth, and
oftentimes one-fifth, their original size,
with gain for the value of manure.
The area, Slipher believes, should be
€0 small that the depth of manure ac-
cumulated for the season will be 2 to
3 feet. This can be done by allow-
ing each head of cattle not more
than 60 square feet of area.
By shifting livestock to inside quar-
ters it is possible to preserve the ma-
nure through the addition of ordinary
superphosphate, which is the fer-
tilizer commonly applied in the field
for crops. It can be applied in the
stable at the rate of three-fourths
pound per day, or 5 pounds per week,
for each 1,000 pounds of live weight
of animal.
Manure so treated is the best bal-
anced fertilizer the farmer can use. An
application of six to ten loads of this
manure per acre means the addition
of about 200 pounds of superphos-
phate per acre for land going to corn,
which is the crop that is most re-
sponsible for its use.
Oil From Soybean Seed
Valuable Part of Crop
Brought here from the Orient, the
soybean has proved a valuable addi-
tion to American crop plants. How-
ever, the problem of developing it to
its full possibilities is complicated and
will take long and patient study.
The oil that is pressed from the seed
is one of the most valuable products
of the soybean crop and naturally has
received part of the major attention
of investigators. Studies have estab-
lished that in breeding for quantity
and quality of oil in the soybean, the
best procedure seems to be to analyze
adapted varieties and then isolate the
best line from the best variety. After
the best line has been isolated, further
selection is ineffective. Differences
in oil content are believed to be inher-
ited, but attempts to obtain types with
increased’oil content by .crossing lines
from the same variety were unsuc-
cessful.
Hog Ration
At the Illinois experiment station
Aome years ago, two lots of 70-pound
pigs were fed in dry lot till they
reached a weight of 237 pounds per
head. Lot 1 was fed shelled corn, al-
falfa meal and tankage, while Lot 2
was fed corn, soybean oil meal, alfalfa
ineal and a mineral mixture composed
-of equal quantities by weight of ground
limestone, steamed bone meal and salt.
These two lots both consumed ex-
actly the same amound of feed per
hundred pounds of gain. Lot 1 ate
590 pounds corn, 24 pounds of tank-
age and 8 pounds alfalfa meal per
hundredweight of gain, while Lot 2
ate 352 pounds corn, 56 pounds soy-
bean oil meal, 13 pounds alfalfa meal
and one pound of mineral. Soybean
-oil meal contains about 40 per cent
of protein while tankage contains 60
per cent. Thus while tankage has
heretofore been considered superior as
a protein supplement for hogs, this
test shows soybean oil meal, cost con-
sidered, more valuable when it is fed
with a mineral mixture.—Exchange.
Intercepting Ditches
Where high land discharges consid-
erable flood water onto lowland, it is
often possible to cut off this flow with
an open ditch at or near the foot of
the hill and carry it away to some
nearby outlet stream, thus preventing
the flooding of the lowland. These
ditches are usually made wide and
shallow. The excavated material is all
thrown to the lower side, thereby in-
creasing the capacity of the ditch.
The bank and sides of the ditch are
then smoothed off and sown to grass:
As the capacity of such a ditch is re-
■quired only occasionally and for short
periods, no crops will be killed and no
land is wasted by the ditch.
Value of Mixed Farming
The great lesson,of the crisis is the
litter condemnation of one-crop culti-
vation. If the objection is made that
beasts, poultry and dairy products are
not fetching a better price than wheat,
they do at least contribute in great
measure to balance the farm budget
by reducing the expense account. Our
farming population must learn to be
*elf-8ufferlng. The progress achieved
in this direction will be profitable and
may avert other crises.—La Liberte,
Canada.
Agricultural Briefs
Uncle Ab says he foresees a new era
of art in every field.
* * *
Sheep were sold recently in Aberga-
venny, Scotland, for 4 cents each.
* + .*
A yam yield at the rate of 420 bush-
els per acre was grown at Hickory,
N. C., by J. F. Allen.
* * *
Two agricultural experts supplied by
the League of Nations will study thf
agricultural reconstruction of China.
Brown Trout Larger Than Others
Brown trout were introduced to the
United States from Europe in 1883.
Brown trout reach maturity at ap-
proximately 34 months, and attain a
much larger size than brook' trout.
Brown trout eggs hatch in exactly the
same period of time as do brook trout
eggs under the same conditions, and
their fry subsist on the umbilical sac
for the same period as do brook trout
fry.
BMW
FOOLS FARM HENS
INTO LAYING MORE
Egg Production Increased
by Artificial Lights.
By R. E. Gray, Poultry Specialist, Agricul-
tural Extension Service, Ohio State
University.—WNU Service.
Fooling the farm flock into work-
ing overtime by the use of artificial
lights is a sound, profitable practice.
Experiments with the use of arti-
ficial lights indicate that they do not
materially increase the total yearly
production, but ha\ e a tendency to pro-
duce a more even production through-
out the year. The winter egg produc-
tion is increased at the expense of
spring production. The principal val-
ue of this change in the distribution of
production is that it induces an in-
creased egg yield during the winter
months when eggs are high in price.
In this way the use of artificial lights
will result in a greater labor income
for the year, even though there is .no
rise in annual production.
Lights help the poultryman in sev-
eraLways. With early hatched pullets
the use of artificial lights aids in main-
taining pullets in production through-
out the winter without loss of weight
and the subsequent molt. Today, it is
not an uncommon thing to find a flock
of January hatched pullets going into
production about July 1 and continuing
with an egg yield at about 50 per cent
or better during fall and. winter.
In brief, the use of artificial lights
increases winter egg production, boosts
the labor income, stimulates produc-
tion during periods of high prices, is
not detrimental to the health of the
flock, and does not reduce the hatch-
ability of eggs produced by the flock,
“Pressure Necrosis” Is
Name of Chick Disease
Not long ago a correspondent in-
quired relative to a peculiar “disease”
among four-weeks-old baby chicks.
The mouth of the chick showed ac-
cumulations in the roof and also un-
der the , tongue. Severe inflammation
had set in and swelling of the affected
parts occurred. Apparently the trou:
ble had progressed so that losses were
occurring. -
This peculiar trouble is known fts
“Pressure Necrosis.” It is not a dis-
ease but follows the feeding of rations
which are too pasty and which are
ground too fine. Due to the pulver-
ized condition of the feed some of it
becomes impacted in the roof of fhe
mouth. Additional feed accumulates
and the impaction of food shuts off
the circulation so that the poorly
nourished organs degenerate.
Obviously the prevention of such
trouble is to avoid feeding rations
which are too finely pulverized or
which contain too much pasty food-
stuffs.—Missouri Farmer.
Feed Values Compared
Four lots of cockerels with eight in
each lot were used at the Dominion
Experimental station, at Scott, SasR.,
to compare the following mixtures and
systems of fattening: 1—Equal parts
of wheat, oats, barley and potatoes.
2—Wheat alone. 3—Wheat,' oats and
barley in equal part. 4—Same mixture
as lot three. Lots 1, 2 and 3 were
fed in standard fattening crates but
lot 4 was fed in a pen 8 by 14 feet.
The test continued for 20 days and
the total gains per lot of eight birds
were as follows: 1—Wheat, oats, barr
ley, potatoes, grain, 13.3 pounds. 2—
Wheat alone, 12.3 pounds. 3—Wheat,
oats, barley (crate fed), 12.8 pounds.
4—Wheat, oats, barley (pen fed), 13.1
pounds. The total cost of feed was
63, 53, 48, and 46 cents, respectively.
The pen fed lot made slightly greater
gains than the crate fed lot getting
Hie same feed.
Affects Size of Egg
One thing that affects the size of
the egg laid by a pullet is the age at
which she begins to lay. In breeds
that have a tendency to mature at an
early age it is not advisable to select
exceptionally early maturing individu-
als as breeders since they are likely
to be undersized and the females will
usually lay a small egg throughout
life.
Poultry Notes
Sour skimmilk or buttermilk is a
very desirable food to give turkeys,
and the feeding of dry mashes with
greens is also> desirable.
* * *
Feed, which is approximately 50 per
cent of the brooding cost, should be
bought in large quantities at cash
prjces to take advantage of all sav-
ings. Store the feed carefully, away
from rats and mice. Eliminate waste
by using efficient feed hoppers.
* * *
Poultrymen producing eggs for set-
ting purposes with the help of arti-
ficial lamplight should provide a ra-
tion containing green feed, cod-liver oil
and milk in some form. The green
feed may be alfalfa-leaf meal, alfalfa
hay, or soybeans.
* * *
Thirty-seven and one-half pounds of
eggs were laid by the winning pullet
in the western New York egg-laying
contest. That is equivalent to 310
eggs, weighing 24 ounces to the dozen,
or more than eight times the weight
of the hen that laid them.
{ Evidently No Set Rule
for Pursuers of Fame
Fame is not controlled, apparently,
by any fixed laws. She cannot be
wooed successfully and she distrib-
utes her favors to the most unlikely.
Lewis Dodgson was a learned, middle
class Englishman with a turn for
mathematics, a subject on which he
lectured at Christ Church college, Ox-
ford, from 1855 to 1881. Notice the
titles of some of his publications which
he doubtless considered of importance,
compared with his casual “Alice” writ-
ten for the entertainment of his small
friend, Alice Lydell, and bringing to
her and to her favorite author some-
thing very like immortality. They are:
“Euclid and His Modern Rivals,”
“Syllabus of Plano Algebraical Ge-
ometry and An Elementary Treatise
on Determinants.” Few readers are
kept from their mighty repose to
peruse these formidable treatises.
But “Alice's Adventures in Wonder-
land.” 1865. and “Through the Look-
ing Glass,” 1871, have become classics.
Many of their strange words have
found a sure place in the language.
Fame must, indeed, chortle as she
considers this strange paradox.
No one was more astonished at the
remarkable results of the thing he
bad casually done than Dodgson him-
self. Doubtless he regarded the mat-
ter quizzically, until fame and for-
tune began knocking at his door. It
is all a confirmatibn of that ancient
saying, “You never can tell!”
Island Group Has Long
Been Diplomatic “Nut”
The word Dodecanese means “12
Islands.” They are in the Agean sea
near the coast of Asia Minor, and al-
though long an obstacle to Graeco-
Italian friendship, have been con-
firmed by the treaties of Sevres and
Lausanne in Italian sovereignty.
They are Rhodes, where the Colossus
of Rhodes, one of the wonders of the
ancient world, stood; Gos, Kalymnos,
Leros. Nisyros, Telos, Syme, Khalke,
Astypalai. Karpatbos, Gasos, Patmog
and Pipsos. They figure in classic
Greek history and also in Greek my-
thology. The islands were under rule
of the Turkish firmans from 1652 to
1835. paying annual tribute. In the
war between Italy and Turkey in 1909
Italy occupied the islands, obtaining
the aid of the islanders through a
promise to make t-hem autonomous.
An assembly on Patinos actually pro-
claimed the State of the Agean and
adopted a flag, but Italy would not
release her hold. Greece has made
several attempts to have the islands
ceded to her. The population, aliont
100.090. is almost wholly of Greek
race. The islands are unimportant
economically, sponge fishing being the
only industry, but they are regarded
as strategically important from a
naval viewpoint. Italy has fortified
Leros.
Schools in History
Schools may be said to date from
the Macedonian period of Greek his-
tory. There were professional teach-
ers of three kinds who taught reading,
writing and. arithmetic, music and
gymnastics. According to Suetonius
literary teaching began in Rome with
Living Andronicus, a Greek brought to
Rome as a slave, in 272 B. C. The
Roman school was very much like the
modern school. Education was car-
ried on to a certain extent among the
ancient Jews. The synagogues were
the chief seats of learning. Elemen-
tary schools were common among the
Hebrews from about 64 A. D.
Coin Merely Curiosity
The so-called '“peace” dollar was
placed in circulation in January, 1922.
The coin was made in commemoration
of the arms conference at Washington.
It has a new and very youthful head
of Liberty on one side, and on the re-
verse a dove upon a mountain top,
clutching an olive branch, struck by
the rays of the sun, with the word
“peace” beneath. This coin was not
a regular issue and has been gathered
in by collectors and by persons who
wanted it as a keepsake.
Important Small Thing*
Little failures and little successes,
little faults and little virtues, a few
kind words here, a few sharp words
there, helping or hindering more than
we know—life made up of these small
tilings. We can live only day bv day.
The truly great events are few and
the trifles many, and it is out of the
seemingly unimportant that we must
build our character, our human
existence and our eternal record.—
Exchange.
Buffalo Tongue a Delicacy
“A few days since we received as a
present, from the North American Fur
company, a few buffalo tongues with
directions for cooking them,” acknowl-
edged the editor of a New York paper
100 years ago. “On trial they have
proved a most delicate article and far
preferable to the common tongue. The
mode of curing them a'dds much to
their fineness . of flavor.”—Detroit
News.
Neanderthal Man
About 50 Neanderthal skeletons have
been found, scattered over central Eu-
rope and Asia Minor. The' first re-
mains of a child of this race, however,
was found at La Quina, in France,
during the World war, and the second
at Gibraltar in 1926. The race be-
came extinct approximately 50,000
years ago, probably with the advent
Into Europe of homo sapiens, the an
cestor of the present human race.
TEN “EXCUSES” FOR
HOLDING UP SCRUB
Costly Boarders Arouse Ire
of Economist.
By C. R. ARNOLD, Rural Economist, Agri-
cultural Extension Service, Ohio State
University.—WNU Service.
Moratoriums may'iome and go, yet
there never can be a moratorium on
the feed consumed by inefficient, un-
profitable cows. Such animals, how-
ever, have certain excuses for exist-
ing; at the expense of the farmer. Al-
though I believe the scrub cow rung
up costly board bills without making
adequate returns, I think the lazy
farmer’s reason for keeping her
might be listed something as.follows:
1. She consumes a lot of cheap feed
so that I need not haul it to market.
2. She reduces my taxes, as her
value is low.
3. If she dies I do not lose very
much.
4. It takes very little time to milk
her.
5. She is dry a large part of the
year and doesn’t require any care.
6. She never yields much milk and
does just about as well on corn and
fodder as she does on balanced ra-
tions.
7. It makes little difference whether
or not I milk her on Sunday.
8. I am never pestered by neighbors
who want to buy her.
9. She keeps down the surplus of
dairy products and in this way is no
small economic force in the agricul-
ture of the nation.
10. I never have to sit up nights
worrying what to do with all the
money I get from my cream check.
How Low Butter Prices
Lead to Better Herds
How present low butterfat prices
force dairymen to keep better cows,
Is clearly demonstrated In Special
Bulletin 152, by E. A. Hanson, ex-
tension division at Minnesota Univer-
sity farm. Calculations based on a
large number of records kept in Min-
nesota Dairy Herd Improvement as- -
sociations show the relation between
high butterfat production and the prof-
it which a cow can make for her
owner.
When butterfat sold for 50 cents a
pound and feed was valued at the
prices prevailing from 1924 to 1929,
a cow producing 100 pounds of but-
terfat a year returned $10 over feed
cost. A 200-pound cow returned $52
a year over feed cost, and a 300-
pound cow $92. However, with but-
terfat at 25 cents a pound and feed
costs as of March 1932, the 100-pound
cow loses her owner $11 per year; a
200-pound cow returns $9 over feed
cost; and a 300-pound cow $27. These
figures make it very clear that the
lower butterfat prices are, the more
careful dairymen must be to keep
only high-producing cows.
Why Are Cows Culled?
In studying the answers of the cow
testers to the questionnaire sent out
by the Oklahoma agricultural college,
we find that out of 147 cows removed
from the herds in 1931 the following
numbers and causes were given: Con-
tagious abortion infection, 5; reactors
to tuberculin test, 2; unprofitable pro-
ducers, 45; sterility in cows, 4; old
age of cows, 5; accident (automobile)
16; udder trouble, 3; sold for dairy
purposes, 52; died, 13; slaughtered for
meat, 2. This proves that tested cows
can be easily converted into money,
since 52 were sold for dairy purposes.
The next highest disposal of cows
comes in line with the boarder cow
which cannot remain in the cow test-
ing association herd. The accident
loss shows too high in Relation to the
others. Fifteen of these were killed
and maimed in one herd. Soon the to-
tal state summary of this study will
be published.—Hoard's Dairyman.
Care of the Daily Cow
A good dairy cow is one of the
hardest working animals on the farm,
for her system is severely taxed in
converting hay, grass and grains into
milk and butterfat. How great the
strain of producing milk is seen in
high producers getting thin and in an
unthrifty condition just before the
close of the lactation period. When
these high producers are fed carefully,
this condition is less noticeable, but
thin cows should then be allowed to go
dry for the time necessary to build up
body reserve. Tests aTong these lines
have demonstrated that a good cow
will produce enough more milk follow-
ing a six to ten weeks dry period to
pay for the feed and care given while
the animal is uot being milked.—Da-
kota Farmer.
Silage in the Ration
How much silage a cow should be
fed each day during the winter de-
pends on the weight of the animal. A
cow will consume about three pounds
of silage to each 100 pounds live
weight. In addition to this feed, each
animal should have all the legume baNv
she will consume with a grain ration
based on the amount of milk produced.
Equal parts of ground limestone and
steamed hone meal should also he fed
at the mte of two pounds to each 100
pounds of the concentrate ratioa
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