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EASY VENTILATING SYSTEM
How Fresh Air May Be Supplied to
the Stock Without Cre
* ating Draft.
To provide for the fresh air inlet,
the floor of the feeding alley is ele
vated 12 inches above the level of the
stalls. The inlet may be ten-inch tile,
or a wooden box, a, about ten inches
square, running under floor entire
length of feeding alley. This will
admit enough fresh air for 15 cattle.
If more are to be supplied, a conduit
placed on each side of the feeding al
ley will be generally sufficient, says
Farm and Home.
The main inlet is tapped opposite
vtach pair of cattle by the distributing
pipes, b. These lead into the man
PLAN OF VKNTILATINO SYSTKM.
4fers, c, and are placed close against
the parting blocks, their open ends be
ing prevented from plugging with dirt
by a leather flap, or other device. The
foul air is carried off by means of ven
tilating shafts, d, leading from ceiling
of stable through roof. Run purline
post straight from the floor to pur
line. Beside these posts is a very con
venient place for the ventilating flues,
as they are out of the way, and they
are not so readily chilled as when
placed against the side of the barn.
Kxcessive chilling of these foul air
outle'3 not only reduces the convec
■flon current, but condenses moisture,
causing If to drip.
These foul air outlets should be of
Wool size, and extend well up be
yond ridge of barn. If not carried
far enough above roof, the wind cur
rent will often he in the wrong direc
tion, and, instead of acting as out
lets, the wind will sometimes force
a. strong draft of cold air down onto
the backs of the cattle.
BLOATING ON MILK FOAM.
Farmer Loses Onlves in This Way—
Gets Good Results from Sep
arated Milk.
*‘I have had some evperience in calf
feeding that might be interesting to
some of your readers, and if some one
else has had the same trouble I would
like to hear from him. When I first
Kot my hand separator, 1 fed the milk
to the calves without taking the foam
.off; it would be two or three inches
deep in each pail. I had three calves
die from bloat. They would commence
to bloat as s<x>n as they drank the
milk, and died in from two to three
hours. As soon as I made up my mind
that it was the foam that killed them, 1
skimmed the foam off. Then I had no
more calves die for about three
months, when one of the boys got
careless and went out one evening and
fed one calf without taking off the
foam; fiext morning it lay dead where
he had fed it, all bloated. Since that
we a’c very careful to take the foam
off. as I feel certain that it is the
foam that kills them. 1 have ten fine
calves a year old last fall, raised on
separator milk, and ten more three
to four months old, that are doing
fine A year ago last fall, I let one
calf suck the cow all winter to see
how it would compare with the ones
that had the separated milk, but I
could see no difference.”—Samuel Fry
er, in Wallace's Farmer.
Starting Celery.
Th<* farmer who wishes to grow a
little celery for his own use will not
have the large facilities for start- i
ing it possessed by the commercial
growers. He will find it necessary,
however, to start his celery in the
house if he expects to have any for
summer use. as celery when small is
a very slow grower, and even the
seed is slow' In germinating. He can
mow his seed in a box in the house
mnd put the box in a window, provided
he covers the box with a glass to pre
vent the drying out of the top soil.
The piants may be transferred to
larger boxes in the course of a month
or six weeks from the time the seed
1s sown, if they grow thickly enough
•to become crowded. They cannot,
however, be transferred to the open
ground until spring is well advanced.
Worm That Eats Canada Thistle.
It is said that in some sections of
-the country there has appeared a
worm which lives on the leaves of the
Canada thistle, and thus threatens
te exterminate this great weed pest,
anys Farmers Guide. This new para- ,
site is of the caterpillar type, about !
one and a half Inches long, and will
no doubt be made welcome, as far as
the farmer is concerned. Surely, if
even a worm enemy will help to de
stroy this typeof thistle, what a blessing
to agriculture it would be. We may
be suit that the farmer who is at all
acquainted with the Canada thistle
will do all in his power to encourage
the working of this new species of
worm.
The farmer’s cow should 1m the
beet cow in the country.
FEEDING FOR MILK.
Joints to Be Observed in Getting the
Best Results During the
Winter.
Taking it tor grunted that the
dairyman has warm and comfortable
winter quarters for his milch cows, a
good How of milk is readily produced
with proper feed and management. If
the farmer has corn silage, he is able
to put up the best and cheapest dairy
ration obtainable. We feed cows on
full How of milk from 20 to 25 pounds
of silage twice a day, morning and
night. At noon, bright, clean clover or
millet hay is given, in such quantities
as will be eaten up clean. About
three pounds of bran Is given with
silage to those on full How of milk,
while others receive proportionately
less. The feeder must constantly
watch his animals, as to how they re
spond to liberal feeding, and vary his
methods with different animals, says
the Farmers’ Review. With silage
that has an abundance of corn in it
there is no need of feeding ground
corn.
Salt the cows about every other
day, giving a small handful of feed.
This will keep their bowels open and
prevent disorders of the digestive
organs, which occur quite frequent
ly with animals highly fed. Where no
silage is obtainable, a good flow can
be maintained by feeding good clover
or millet hay in the morning and
brighf shredded corn fodder at night.
For the grain ration, feed about four
pounds of bran and two pounds of
corn-meal, or four pounds of corn and
cob-meal, twice a day. Although not
as good as the silage ration, still, in
the absence of a silo, it will prove
very satisfactory. Feed, water and
milk the cows regularly; see to their
every comfort, treat them kindly at
milking time, and rest assured that
you will receive your reward in a
good flow of milk.
A CATTLE FEED RACK
Rough Device for the Feed Lot
Which Will Economize the
Roughage.
There are various plans for building
cattle feeding racks for roughage.
Here is one that is used by State Sen
ator A. B. Cook, of Shiawassee coun
ty, M chigan, with considerable suc
cess. Senator Cook says that all that
he expects of this rack is something
j fur the feeding of roughage to cattle.
When stalks, hay or straw are thrown
into the rack there is no danger of
their being trampled on. When the
CHEAP, Dl'HAKUK ROl'OHAGE RACK,
waste material Decomes considerable
it is forked out into the yard and im
worked Into the manure.
This rack is six feet wide and is
built en posts of the same length. It
can be built as long as need he. As
will be noted, a considerable roughage
stuff has been used in making the rack.
This is a good point, inasmuch as
many farmers have plenty of material
about that is good for little else ex
cept for purposes of his kind. Such
a rack as this is very simply made,
and is worth several times its cost
on account of the saving in roughage.
PATRIOT
DORR MERC. CO.
Magness, - - Arkansas j
STORING POTATOES.
Conditions to Be Observed If the
Most Satisfactory Results
Are Obtained.
I have found in my experience on the
farm that it is necessary to use consider
able care in the storing of potatoes in
the cellar if they are to be made to keep
well and not sprout or rot. The storing
in open bins used to be followed by my
father when I was a boy, and the pota
toes got a good deal of sunlight and
warmth. The result was that several
times throughout the winter we boys
had jobs sprouting the potatoes. The
work is all right, but the potatoes are j
reduced in condition each time they are j
permitted to sprout. The moisture that
goes out in the sprouts leaves the tubers !
soft and wrinkled. In that condition j
they are of little value for eating and j
of less value for seed.
There are two things that need to be
looked after in the storing of potatoes.
One is to keep the potatoes boxed or
barreled tight, so as not to permit the
air to pass through the storage places
and draw moisture from the tubers
The other is to keep the cellar cool. Un
der modern conditions this is more
diflic lit than it was underthe old condi
tions: for the reason that many of our
farmhouses are now heated by means of
furnaces which greatly increase the
w armth in the cellar. In a case of this
kind it is absolutely necessary to have
a second cellar beyond the first or have
the first cellar divided into two parts by
a double wall that will not permit the
heat from the furnace to warm the ai
in the other portion. The window's from
1 he cellar to the open air must be fixed to
open, so that now and then throughout
the winter the storage cellar may be
fille 1 with cool air. Potatoes must be
kept from sprouting and must also be
kept from losing moisture. They
should be as sound and hard late in
the winter as when first put in the
cellar.
FERTILIZER FOR CELERY
What This Table Delicacy Needs for
Its Most Successful
Growth.
Celery feeds largely on nitrogen and
does best in a soil well stocked with
vegetable matter. In other words, it
reveis in a black loam, or muck soil.
The l>est fertilizer is well decayed
farmyard manure strewn in the bot
tom of ihe furrow made to receive the
plants and stirred in the same as to
mix it with earth by running a one
horse cultivator along the furrow with
the teeth set close. Compost made ol
decayed sods and leaves will answer
the same purpose. If commercial fer
tilizers are used, the Ingredient most
needed is nitrogen applied at the rat*
of, say, 100 pounds per acre. Fifty
pounds per acre could be sown along
the rows at the time of planting, just
after the plants have been set, and
the balance some weeks later.
Usually each state requires the fer
tilizer to be analyzed before It Is put
on the market, and a statement of the
analysis to be furnished with the
goods. In some instances, suggests the
Farm and Home, such materials may
he chemically analyzed by applying
to the state cnemist or to the chemist
of the agricultural college. As is gen
erally known, nitrogen may oe pur
chased in the form of nitrate of soda,
sulphate of ammonia and slag.
DAIRY HINTS.
Never tell anyone that your butter
is not “quite so good ms usual this
time.” Don’t make any such but
ter. Let every churning be the best
yet.
Keep the cream where no bad
smells can get at it. A good stone
jar, with a close-fitting cover, is about
as good as anything for this pur
pose.
Cream partly ripened and partly
fresh will not churn well together.
Have it all alike. When new cream
Is put. Into the jar, stir the whole,
clear to the bottom, to mix it well.
Don’t “guess” at things when you
are at work at your butter. Don’t
malte a thermometer of your finger.
It looks bad. Don’t think you washed
your churn out well enough last
week to last all winter. You can’t I
do it. No matter If you washed It
when you last used it, thoroughly
scald it out again this time.—Farm
Journal.
Handy Water for the Cow.
Water should be handy so the cow
does not have to suffer unduly from j
the weather when getting It. When
a herd of cows are forced to go a long
distance to drink from a hole cut in
the ice of a pond or stream, many j
cows will not drink enough water dur
ing the coldest weather to allow them j
to produce the milk they should. In ;
this way, says the Orange Judd Farm
er, even when they are given a chance
to drink they may not, and as a re- j
suit tall off in milk production as it
the feed supply was shorty
neans for freed.
The damaged or cull beans that ac
cumulate at bean houses form a val
uable stock food, says Orange Judd
Farmer. Bean straw is a splendid j
forage, and is especially adapted M
feeding bo sheep and dairy oowb.
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