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%xpzxUv_ce gejmvttncttl RUNNING THE FARM DAIRY. A Source of Much Profit. 1st Premium.—Our experience iu farm dairying proves to our satisfaction tbat it is a profitable occupation; especially if you are so situated as to get a good market for the dairy product and market it yourself. We find it profitable to keep as many good dairy cows as we can feed trow tbe farm. Get a good strain of Jerseys for butter, as butter is what pays best if you are situated so far from town as not to be able to sell the sweet milk every day. Give them plenty of nutri- tiius feed. Alfalfa, clover and ensilage rank first for winter feed, but tliey do very well on fodder, oat hay, red top, etc., wilh a mixture of ground oats, corn and shipstuff for grain feed. Give a little salt in feed every day, unless you have compressed salt where they have free access to it. Cotton seed or oil meal is a great advantage to tbe dairy cow. It i. not needed if alfalfa or clover hay is fed, but should be fed where fodder or other rough feed that is not very nutritious is used. Give plenty of good water al all times. In summer the cows should liave free access to it. Arrange the pastures so as to have plenty of, green feed from the 15th of April, or 1st of May, till frost kills the grass. Rye is a great help for this. Sow early, not later than August, and it will be ready to posture when the grass is dead or too short to furnish green feed, and will be ready to turn iu on early in the spring before the grass is high enough. It is best to have a good .lluegrass sod to turn on a half day, when the cows are on rye, as rye alone gives the butter a peculiar taste that some folks object to. Orchard grass, timothy, clover, red top and blue grass should be sown in the pasture fields. This will afford pasture most of the season. Plant sugar com from early spring till in July, so as to have the green fodder to feed the cows when the hot weather is drying the grass. It makes a splendid feed that the cows relish. Milk regularly, and milk the cows dry. 'live clean feed that is not mildewed. Keep the stables clean and a good bed under the cows. Treat the cows with kindness, as any excitement or cruel treatment makes them nervous and they will not give as good a flow of milk as if treated kindly. I'se a good hand separator to separate the cream from milk. Keep the cream in a cool place till enough has accumulated io make a churning. Pour all together and warm to about 68 or 70 degrees, and let it ripen. Stir occasionally and churn when it is "blinky." Do not let it stand long enough to go to whey, as yon are losing butter by doing so. Work all the milk out of th» butter. Use a fine grade of salt. Print iu one pound rolls, as soon as the salt is worked in good. Keep in a clean, cool place, and when ready to market wrap in clean butter papers and dtliver in a neat box or basket, and you will have no trouble to sell it at 25c a pound or more, the year around, according to the size of the town you sell in. Sell all the sweet skim milk aud buttcr- iDilk you can take, and make smearcase i torn the sour skim milk, and you will be surprised to see what a nice lot of pin inoney you can make from what is sometimes wasted. Keep hogs enough on the farm to eat the rest of the milk and whey that you have no sale for, save all 'he manure and put it luick on the flarm, •"»1 you are on a fair road to prosperity. Parmer's Wife. Money in Butter. l-nl Premium.—Having had considerable experience in the dairy business, and having kept a careful account of income aud expenses, I can truly say that, in our locality, making butter pays. The market is a town of two thousand people, two miles from the farm, aud we sell about one hundred and twenty pounds of butter every week, nt 25 cents a pound, wiuter and summer. From eighteen to twenty-one cows ure milked, two-thirds of them being Herefords (the breed used on the farm) and Ihe rest of some good milk breed. They are kept in a comfortable stable in winter, and their drinking water is slightly warmed. The feeil is clover and timothy hay, coin fodder, bran, ground oats and corn, ond some oil meal. An account is kept of the cost of the kinds of feed used and the quality and quantity of milk produced. Each cow is fed all that she will digest, and her milk tested frequently. If, with good care, she does uot come up to the standard, she is sold for beef. We find it necessary to buy a good cow occasionally, in order to produce the same amount of butter every week. We have fresh cows every month in the year, and raise tine calves iu the winter. The mill; is laken from the stable throngh a covered passage to the milk room, which is built ofi concrete and furnished with a water tank, refrigerator and drain pipe. It is warmed iu winter, so the butter maker can work in comfort. The cream is separated from the milk (which is fed warm to the calves) and cooled to about 52 degrees and set away to ripen. It is churned when slightly sour, and tlie butter is packed iu stone jars holding the amount each customer needs. Great care must be taken, if first class butter is made, and that is the kind people want. The milk room must be kept sweet and clean, also everything that is used. The butter must be made firm, as soon as churned, by the use of ice, and kept so till delivered. Half-melted butter is spoiled. The cows must not be allowed to eat anything that will taint the milk. If there is the least bad taste iu the .butter, some nice old lady will find it out, and you'll hear from it. We use a gasoline engine to run tlie separator, churn, and butter-worker. The cost of milk room aud engine was about §300. By making a fine grade of butter we have no trouble iu competing with the creamery product, seldom lose a customer, and in fact could sell more butter if we had it. The labor is lighter than that generally done by men on the farm, and the returns greater. If he knows his business, aud is intelligent and careful a man can make money running a farm dairy. M. W. Points of a Dairy Cow. 3d Premium.—Do we ever stop to think of what we owe to the dairy cow? She is the animal that furnishes the golden butter that covers both sides of our bread, and the whipped cream for our coffee, and the heaping dishes of ice cream. This behooves us to furnish her plenty of nutritious food and a warm stable well littered with straw. The productions of many farmers is lessoned by continuous grain farming, and by not -feeding the crops grown on the farm while the farms need tlie manure. We have interurban lines over which to ship the cream aud milk to the factory dealer, and ihis dnn>s away with a Mrfa amount of work iu retailing it, saves time and brings a better profit. Under these condition! the farmer can keep from 15 to 20 cows, and by shipping tlie milk only once a day the ordinary farm force can handle the milk without interfering with tlit. .arming Interests. By experience I have learned that it pays to ship only the cream, and feed the skim milk to the calves and pins on the farm. I find that calves fed_on skim milk, in connection with corn meal and flax seed meal, in a year's time will equal those fled on whole milk, while the cost of production is about .'_*/o cents per pound less. In selecting a dairy cow I look for dairy points. She should be of any good dairy breed, must have a deep body, large prominent eyes, thin on neck and shoulder, but widening down; fV.re legs wide apart, fnll chest, sharp back with ribs well sprung. This is a fair indication of a good milker. One can do much to increase the quality and flow of milk in feeding. I feed 5 to 8 pounds of mixed grain to each cow per day, and all the clover hay and silage she will clean up good. Clean milk is produced by liaving well cleaned stables, groomed cows, and well scalded utensils. Sometimes while running on pasture the milk becomes tainted with ragweed. I then turn them to a fresh pasture, which never fails to remedy it. Produce clean and pure milk, and you will always command a good trade. A Reader. Jackson Co. Topics for future numbers: No. 533, May 2G.—Tell how and when to fill the silo. What is the value of ensilage? No. 684, June 2.—Tell how to use Port- laud cement in making walks, floors, etc. No. 535, June 9.—What do you believe to be the best way to put up timothy hay for greatest value? Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 50 cents are given for the best, second and third best articles for the Experience Department each week. Manuscript should be sent direct to the Indiana Farmer Company, and should reach us one week before date of publication. California all Right—Only San Francisco and Vicinity Affected by Earthquake and That Recovering Rapidly. Fresno, California, May 12, 1906. l_illtors Indiana Farmer: As I am hearing and seeing daily, accounts which are being printed throughout your country by sensational newspapers of disasters which they intimate occurred throughout the State of Califlornia, I think it may be well to inform you that the City of Fresno, in common with by far the greater portion of the State, is absolutely unaffected by the disaster which befell San Francisco and, to a limited ex- tint, the smaller cities near the Bay. There has been absolutely no damage done here by the earthquake, in fact, the damage done in San Francisco by the earthquake was small compared with the result of tlie terrible conflagration, which was of course directly traceable to the earthquakes breaking the water mains and the electric light wires. The writer had the pleasure of being in San Francisco, in charge of the first relief train to reach that city, and found a marvelous condition of affairs existing; great order prevailed and suffering and destitution were relieved in an iucredibly short time. In Oolden (fate Park, where 125,000 rcAigees were camped the night after the fire, relief conditions were so well in hand that one week after the calamity, only ti.OOO remained in the emergency camps, 119,000 having been shipped tn) marhy towns or distant homes. A similar condition existed in other refugee camps. The future of California was never brighter than at present. While business was practically suspended for a week because __t the necessity of sending immediate relief aud assistance to Sau Francisco, the normal peace and health of the City was more than maintained. In the majority ofl cases the modern structures were undamaged by the earthquake, and San Francisco has already begun to restore to their origixtnl condition nearly all of the steel frame buildings which were burned ■ •Ut. San Francisco, aside from the loss of life, which is much smaller than the papers have stated, being less than 300, will be greatly benefited, and not only that city, but the entire State. Plana are practically matured for reconstruction of San Francisco on a broader and more artistic scale and the old wooden buildings of pioneer days will be replaced by new and modern structures, which will make San Francisco the greatest city of our country. The sturdy manhood of California, de- scendent from those pioneers who crossed llie plains in 1850, is asserting itself in a manner to command the admiration of the world, by battling with this greatest disaster of modern times and taking hold of the reconstruction of the city in such a manner as to insure prosperity for all. The action of the banks and insurance companies is making available large amounts of money for the reconstruction of San Francisco. There will be over two hundred millions of dollars spent in reconstruction work. This money will go to the artisans and skilled mechanics, who iu turn will want food, clothing, garden truck and hay for their teams. This will cause a great demand upon the farmers, and therefore all farm products will find a ready cash market. The future of California is brighter tban ever before. No national calamity or stringency of tlie money market can affect it as it will take at least ten years to it build San Francisco, nnd during that time the farmer will be one of the first to benefit by the condition. This universal condition, combined with the sunny skies and mild climate of California, causes me to invite you and your friends to come to California at once. We want men here—men of brains and courage, who will profit by the greatest opportunity the State has ever known. There is room for you all. Most of the ct wards have run away. The drone is not wanted, but the young man with good, rich blood iu his veins and courage in his heart will find in California today a greater opportunity than existed even in the "days of '49" in the "days of gold." A. A. M. An eagle swooped down and seized and carried away a 10 pound carp that a fisherman had just landed on the bank of the Kankakee river, near Glenwood, 111., one day last week. Lightning is beginning its destructive .York already. A barn near Bluffton was struck on the 4th and burned with con- tints, except five horses, these were got out safely. Was the barn rodded?
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1906, v. 61, no. 20 (May 19) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6120 |
Date of Original | 1906 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | %xpzxUv_ce gejmvttncttl RUNNING THE FARM DAIRY. A Source of Much Profit. 1st Premium.—Our experience iu farm dairying proves to our satisfaction tbat it is a profitable occupation; especially if you are so situated as to get a good market for the dairy product and market it yourself. We find it profitable to keep as many good dairy cows as we can feed trow tbe farm. Get a good strain of Jerseys for butter, as butter is what pays best if you are situated so far from town as not to be able to sell the sweet milk every day. Give them plenty of nutri- tiius feed. Alfalfa, clover and ensilage rank first for winter feed, but tliey do very well on fodder, oat hay, red top, etc., wilh a mixture of ground oats, corn and shipstuff for grain feed. Give a little salt in feed every day, unless you have compressed salt where they have free access to it. Cotton seed or oil meal is a great advantage to tbe dairy cow. It i. not needed if alfalfa or clover hay is fed, but should be fed where fodder or other rough feed that is not very nutritious is used. Give plenty of good water al all times. In summer the cows should liave free access to it. Arrange the pastures so as to have plenty of, green feed from the 15th of April, or 1st of May, till frost kills the grass. Rye is a great help for this. Sow early, not later than August, and it will be ready to posture when the grass is dead or too short to furnish green feed, and will be ready to turn iu on early in the spring before the grass is high enough. It is best to have a good .lluegrass sod to turn on a half day, when the cows are on rye, as rye alone gives the butter a peculiar taste that some folks object to. Orchard grass, timothy, clover, red top and blue grass should be sown in the pasture fields. This will afford pasture most of the season. Plant sugar com from early spring till in July, so as to have the green fodder to feed the cows when the hot weather is drying the grass. It makes a splendid feed that the cows relish. Milk regularly, and milk the cows dry. 'live clean feed that is not mildewed. Keep the stables clean and a good bed under the cows. Treat the cows with kindness, as any excitement or cruel treatment makes them nervous and they will not give as good a flow of milk as if treated kindly. I'se a good hand separator to separate the cream from milk. Keep the cream in a cool place till enough has accumulated io make a churning. Pour all together and warm to about 68 or 70 degrees, and let it ripen. Stir occasionally and churn when it is "blinky." Do not let it stand long enough to go to whey, as yon are losing butter by doing so. Work all the milk out of th» butter. Use a fine grade of salt. Print iu one pound rolls, as soon as the salt is worked in good. Keep in a clean, cool place, and when ready to market wrap in clean butter papers and dtliver in a neat box or basket, and you will have no trouble to sell it at 25c a pound or more, the year around, according to the size of the town you sell in. Sell all the sweet skim milk aud buttcr- iDilk you can take, and make smearcase i torn the sour skim milk, and you will be surprised to see what a nice lot of pin inoney you can make from what is sometimes wasted. Keep hogs enough on the farm to eat the rest of the milk and whey that you have no sale for, save all 'he manure and put it luick on the flarm, •"»1 you are on a fair road to prosperity. Parmer's Wife. Money in Butter. l-nl Premium.—Having had considerable experience in the dairy business, and having kept a careful account of income aud expenses, I can truly say that, in our locality, making butter pays. The market is a town of two thousand people, two miles from the farm, aud we sell about one hundred and twenty pounds of butter every week, nt 25 cents a pound, wiuter and summer. From eighteen to twenty-one cows ure milked, two-thirds of them being Herefords (the breed used on the farm) and Ihe rest of some good milk breed. They are kept in a comfortable stable in winter, and their drinking water is slightly warmed. The feeil is clover and timothy hay, coin fodder, bran, ground oats and corn, ond some oil meal. An account is kept of the cost of the kinds of feed used and the quality and quantity of milk produced. Each cow is fed all that she will digest, and her milk tested frequently. If, with good care, she does uot come up to the standard, she is sold for beef. We find it necessary to buy a good cow occasionally, in order to produce the same amount of butter every week. We have fresh cows every month in the year, and raise tine calves iu the winter. The mill; is laken from the stable throngh a covered passage to the milk room, which is built ofi concrete and furnished with a water tank, refrigerator and drain pipe. It is warmed iu winter, so the butter maker can work in comfort. The cream is separated from the milk (which is fed warm to the calves) and cooled to about 52 degrees and set away to ripen. It is churned when slightly sour, and tlie butter is packed iu stone jars holding the amount each customer needs. Great care must be taken, if first class butter is made, and that is the kind people want. The milk room must be kept sweet and clean, also everything that is used. The butter must be made firm, as soon as churned, by the use of ice, and kept so till delivered. Half-melted butter is spoiled. The cows must not be allowed to eat anything that will taint the milk. If there is the least bad taste iu the .butter, some nice old lady will find it out, and you'll hear from it. We use a gasoline engine to run tlie separator, churn, and butter-worker. The cost of milk room aud engine was about §300. By making a fine grade of butter we have no trouble iu competing with the creamery product, seldom lose a customer, and in fact could sell more butter if we had it. The labor is lighter than that generally done by men on the farm, and the returns greater. If he knows his business, aud is intelligent and careful a man can make money running a farm dairy. M. W. Points of a Dairy Cow. 3d Premium.—Do we ever stop to think of what we owe to the dairy cow? She is the animal that furnishes the golden butter that covers both sides of our bread, and the whipped cream for our coffee, and the heaping dishes of ice cream. This behooves us to furnish her plenty of nutritious food and a warm stable well littered with straw. The productions of many farmers is lessoned by continuous grain farming, and by not -feeding the crops grown on the farm while the farms need tlie manure. We have interurban lines over which to ship the cream aud milk to the factory dealer, and ihis dnn>s away with a Mrfa amount of work iu retailing it, saves time and brings a better profit. Under these condition! the farmer can keep from 15 to 20 cows, and by shipping tlie milk only once a day the ordinary farm force can handle the milk without interfering with tlit. .arming Interests. By experience I have learned that it pays to ship only the cream, and feed the skim milk to the calves and pins on the farm. I find that calves fed_on skim milk, in connection with corn meal and flax seed meal, in a year's time will equal those fled on whole milk, while the cost of production is about .'_*/o cents per pound less. In selecting a dairy cow I look for dairy points. She should be of any good dairy breed, must have a deep body, large prominent eyes, thin on neck and shoulder, but widening down; fV.re legs wide apart, fnll chest, sharp back with ribs well sprung. This is a fair indication of a good milker. One can do much to increase the quality and flow of milk in feeding. I feed 5 to 8 pounds of mixed grain to each cow per day, and all the clover hay and silage she will clean up good. Clean milk is produced by liaving well cleaned stables, groomed cows, and well scalded utensils. Sometimes while running on pasture the milk becomes tainted with ragweed. I then turn them to a fresh pasture, which never fails to remedy it. Produce clean and pure milk, and you will always command a good trade. A Reader. Jackson Co. Topics for future numbers: No. 533, May 2G.—Tell how and when to fill the silo. What is the value of ensilage? No. 684, June 2.—Tell how to use Port- laud cement in making walks, floors, etc. No. 535, June 9.—What do you believe to be the best way to put up timothy hay for greatest value? Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 50 cents are given for the best, second and third best articles for the Experience Department each week. Manuscript should be sent direct to the Indiana Farmer Company, and should reach us one week before date of publication. California all Right—Only San Francisco and Vicinity Affected by Earthquake and That Recovering Rapidly. Fresno, California, May 12, 1906. l_illtors Indiana Farmer: As I am hearing and seeing daily, accounts which are being printed throughout your country by sensational newspapers of disasters which they intimate occurred throughout the State of Califlornia, I think it may be well to inform you that the City of Fresno, in common with by far the greater portion of the State, is absolutely unaffected by the disaster which befell San Francisco and, to a limited ex- tint, the smaller cities near the Bay. There has been absolutely no damage done here by the earthquake, in fact, the damage done in San Francisco by the earthquake was small compared with the result of tlie terrible conflagration, which was of course directly traceable to the earthquakes breaking the water mains and the electric light wires. The writer had the pleasure of being in San Francisco, in charge of the first relief train to reach that city, and found a marvelous condition of affairs existing; great order prevailed and suffering and destitution were relieved in an iucredibly short time. In Oolden (fate Park, where 125,000 rcAigees were camped the night after the fire, relief conditions were so well in hand that one week after the calamity, only ti.OOO remained in the emergency camps, 119,000 having been shipped tn) marhy towns or distant homes. A similar condition existed in other refugee camps. The future of California was never brighter than at present. While business was practically suspended for a week because __t the necessity of sending immediate relief aud assistance to Sau Francisco, the normal peace and health of the City was more than maintained. In the majority ofl cases the modern structures were undamaged by the earthquake, and San Francisco has already begun to restore to their origixtnl condition nearly all of the steel frame buildings which were burned ■ •Ut. San Francisco, aside from the loss of life, which is much smaller than the papers have stated, being less than 300, will be greatly benefited, and not only that city, but the entire State. Plana are practically matured for reconstruction of San Francisco on a broader and more artistic scale and the old wooden buildings of pioneer days will be replaced by new and modern structures, which will make San Francisco the greatest city of our country. The sturdy manhood of California, de- scendent from those pioneers who crossed llie plains in 1850, is asserting itself in a manner to command the admiration of the world, by battling with this greatest disaster of modern times and taking hold of the reconstruction of the city in such a manner as to insure prosperity for all. The action of the banks and insurance companies is making available large amounts of money for the reconstruction of San Francisco. There will be over two hundred millions of dollars spent in reconstruction work. This money will go to the artisans and skilled mechanics, who iu turn will want food, clothing, garden truck and hay for their teams. This will cause a great demand upon the farmers, and therefore all farm products will find a ready cash market. The future of California is brighter tban ever before. No national calamity or stringency of tlie money market can affect it as it will take at least ten years to it build San Francisco, nnd during that time the farmer will be one of the first to benefit by the condition. This universal condition, combined with the sunny skies and mild climate of California, causes me to invite you and your friends to come to California at once. We want men here—men of brains and courage, who will profit by the greatest opportunity the State has ever known. There is room for you all. Most of the ct wards have run away. The drone is not wanted, but the young man with good, rich blood iu his veins and courage in his heart will find in California today a greater opportunity than existed even in the "days of '49" in the "days of gold." A. A. M. An eagle swooped down and seized and carried away a 10 pound carp that a fisherman had just landed on the bank of the Kankakee river, near Glenwood, 111., one day last week. Lightning is beginning its destructive .York already. A barn near Bluffton was struck on the 4th and burned with con- tints, except five horses, these were got out safely. Was the barn rodded? |
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