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NORMAN TRANSCRIPT
MORMAN,
O. T.
Ob I.A iJO.ll A AJiUINOIAt TI llKITOHf
Sevsnten dogs were I tiled at Geary
in one day.
A rich vein of coal his beeu struck
near Tanlequah.
The Tonawa Indians vote this fail
for the first time.
Emigrat ion to Oklahoma is on the
increase every day.
The opera house at Guthrie is being
substantially improved.
The other day Judge Tarsney fined
a juror ten dollars for being late at
court.
It is said that Greer county may
have a voting strength this year of
J,500.
Many extensive improvements are
being made throughout the two terri-
tories.
About 8125 has been raised up to the
present time for -the Roy Cashion
monument.
The railroad surveyors have com-
pleted their work between Blackburn
and Pawnee.
In Indian territory an attempt is be-
ing made to errect a mouiiineut to the
Bough Riders.
Secretary Bliss has cancelled dates
for his trip in Indian territory and the
Indians are glad of it.
Now that Dora Cox. the female horse
thief, has broken loose, she should be
run entirely out of Oklahoma terri-
tory.
A special from A I'd in ore says: "The
poles of the. Conway Telephone com-
pany have been set from Tishomingo
to Emery, ten miles, and poles have
been placed as far south of Emet as
Nida, five miles on this side. Holes
have been dug as far as Silo. The tel-
ephone line is being rapidly pushed
and by midwinter it is expected that
it will be completed into Denison and
we will have telephone connections
with all the interior towns in the
the Chickasaw nation."
A special from El Reno in relation
to the alleged action of Agent Wood-
son of the Kiowa and Comanche Indian
agency in starving the Indians to com.
pel them to send their children to
school, says that only one band, that
of Red Moon, has given any trouble in
that direction, and that a threat to
withhold rations proved effective in
bringing them to terms. It is emphat-
ically donicd that the Indians are
stealing cattte or that any troops wiH
needed for any purpose.
At Okmulgee last week, Deputy
Marshal Little and posse attempted to
capture the celebrated Creek criminal
John Watko, and his gang, and the re-
sult was a hot fight in which Watko
was killed and two of the five of the
remaining outlaws were captured.
The possee located the outlaws in a
log cabin and advanced expecting the
men to surrender. Instead they met
a shower of Winchester bullets, which
failed to kill on account of the long
range. The posse then opened upon
the cabin with 38-calibre steel bullets,
which passed through the thick logs,
killing Watko.
The full bloods, who have beeu hold-
ing conventions at Bug Tucker Springs
in the Indian territory have adjourned.
They have appointed a committee of
three, consisting of Dave Muskrat,
David Gritts and Robin Tann, to call
on Indian Inspector Wright, of Mus-
kogee, for the purpose of ascertaining
the true policy of the United States
government in enforcing the provis-
ions of the Curtis law. After hearing
the full details of the inspector, the
committee will return to the Cherokee
nation and report before the council
convenes, so that the members can act
wisely in the measures that will come
up, especially in the matter of treating
with the Dawes commission.
inspector Wright, of the interior , Heavy frosts for this senaon of the
department, is in the Indian terri- year are reported in Oklahoma.
tory. An Oklahoma man has been anenscd
The cotton continues to pou - in upon of suppressing the news of the birth of
the market. Mve himself cigars. Thank
mm i thi heaven, there is only oi>e in the terri-
There urc seven old soldiers on tne j
republican county ticket in Custer
county.
The Oklahoma horse thief associa-
tion now has over twelve hundred
members.
Quail hunters will soon be numerous
in this territory. The game law ex-
pires Nov. 1.
The new Frisco depot at Oklahoma
Citv, which is a dandy, will be heated
by lire-places.
tory of his kind.
A1 and Frank Jennings will remain
in the Fnited States jail at Ardmore
until March aud then stand trial for
the robbery of a Rock Island train at
Siding No. 1, a year ago. They claim
to be innocent, aud that they will
have no trouble in establishing that
fact.
Not Every farmer can restock his
farm by buying a new herd of dairy
cows, even if he is convinced that they
The Omaha Oklahoma exhibit will win pay a larger profit, but almost
be returned to Guthrie the first of anv one (.an buy grade cows, heifers or
November. calves of dairy tjfpe and blood, or can
The outlaws ore gradually but sure- procure the services of a good bull to
ly being killed of in Oklahoma and the mate with his best oows aud raise a
Indian territory. few calves. The change can be made
Young stock is bringing a good gradually easier than it could be made
price throughout Oklahoma and the a" in one >'eur-
Indian territory. A special from Cloud Chief, dated
A good many of the papers in Okla- ' °ot- 24th, says: Washita county will
homa continue to advise the farmers 100 citizens added to her popula-
te hold their wheat. tion next week. Judge Tarsney and
. court crowd will hold a two day®1
A big lot of cotton has been raised . . .
* , . term of court, beginning October 25,
in Custer county, in the western part .. . iaa
J for the purpose of naturalizing 100
of Oklahoma this year. .. .. rr, . t m
Mennonites. I lie judge will then re-
Thc Hutchinson Southern lias added ^urn Kingfisher county where the
two new coaches, to the supreme joy fall term of district court w|]i bc re-
of the travelers on that line. sumcd.
Recently a herd of cattle passed The other dny the dispatches told of
through Heaver county which had a young mun who lost his miud a!i tho
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS
OUR RURAL READERS.
como all the way from Idaho
The Tenth infantry which was at
result of overstudy. lie was working
hard to prepare himself for the battle
Fort Reno before the war is now sta- of life, and over-estimated his powers
tioned at Huntsville, Alabama. of endurance. The same week a young
What ever became of the first baby 'nan, an Oklahoman, who had never
born in Oklahoma? He must be in done anything in his life to amount to
the fourth reader by this time. anything, except to raise hair, got a
., . . ,,, good job with u big circus on account
while gathering nuts near tecum- ■>
the other day, Walter Otto fell
seh,
out of a tree and was fatally hurt.
The Oklahoma company now nt Lex-
ington, Kentucky, will probably be
moved to Albany. Georgia, soon.
No doubt a good many of the Rough
Riders will get pensions, but they will i
not get them until congress meets.
The grand jury of Payne county has
found fifteen indictments, many of
of his peculiar and abundant hirsute
adordment.
Oklahoira is preparing to experi-
ment in Killing fever ticks and is
building large dipping vats at Noble
of which the Kansas City Star says:
The Oklahoma live stock sanitary
board have undertaken a series of ex-
periments to determine whether the
cattle tick, the cause of Texas fever,
can be destroyed by dipping the in-
them indictments formerly quashed. fected cattle in petroleum. The suc-
Oklahoma will soon be a great rail- cess of these experiments will bc of
road country. The Frisco is the latest great benefit, not only to Oklahoma,
to come our way, with more to fol- but to all those states south of the
low. j federal quarantine line.
A large swarm of grasshoppers pass- 11. J. Edwards, secretary of the live
ed over South McAlester the other day. stock commission, has issued the fol-
Tliey are said to be of the Wichita lowing notice: To cattlemen and otli-
speoies. ers: You are hereby notified that the
A vast amount of Kaffir corn has quarantine heretofore existing on Cus-
been raised in Oklahoma this year. II lcl' Washita and Roger Mills counties,
hard to beat for is this 0ct- 25th< removed. ^ ou
flow gufce.nful Farmers Operate Tills
Department of the Farm—A Fes.
Iilrit* a. to tbe Care of Use Stock
and Poultry.
is said to be mighty
all-round feed.
Bill Walker says there is no danger
of an outbreak in the Fort Mill coun-
try. The eastern papers insist there is
danger.
It is said of Grant county that the
taxes there are as high as they ever
were, when there is double the amount
of property in the county to assess.
are warned, however, that any person
moving cattle that are infested with
cattle ticks will be prosecuted and
that no cattle will be permitted to be
landed that are infested with said
ticks. Inspectors will be at shipping
points to prevent any violation of this
rule and all cattle so infested discov-
ered at any shipping pens or on the
trails en route thereto will be quar-
antined. Quarantine on Greer county
The thousands of head of cattle that
have beon feeding in the different In- , is still effective.
dian reservations during the past sum- Speaking of the arrival of the Frisco
mer are said to be in prime condition ro:H(t the Oklahoma Times-Journal
for the coming winter. . liys. The ttr!-iV!,i 0f the Frisco is the
TheFriscotrcack laying force was paid 'successful termination of one of the
off the other day and moved on Okla- j hardest fights for supremacy ever car'
homa City, carrying it by storm. And ried on. Our manufacturing and job-
All of the Indian children in Okla-
homa are being starved into an educa-
tion, literally speaking. This unique
plan was started by Major A. E. Wood-
soon, agent for the Cheyennes and Ara-
pahoe Indian. Several weeks ago he
instructed the sub-agencies to cut off
rations to all Indians who failed to
lend their children to school. This
order created consternation among all
of his wards, and Chief Moon's band
of Cheyennes at the Red Moon agency
especially. The Indians were stub-
born, and for the first few days they
starved that their children might be 1
kept away from the "white man's
school," but hunger finally urged that
they should attend. This lias given
cause for the report sent out that the
Indian's rations had been cut off.
The Dawes commission is in session
at Chickasha.
The Chelsa Reporter is authority for
the statement that the Indians are go-
ing to sell out and leave the territory
entirely.
The dead body of W. A. Finn of Sal-
isbury, Mo., was found near the rail-
road track at Catoosa. It is thought
he was murdered.
There arc tliir! -seven prisoners in
the federal jail at (iuthrio awaiting j
trial. One of them is an s-year-old j
boy, chawed with pn.toMce robbery j
the next day the section boss had no bing business has
one to work for him.
Burke Drake, living in Payne coun-
ty, who was twenty years of age. put
some arsenic in cooked tomatoes, ate
the tomatoes and died shortly in a
spasm.
The Okeene Fagle is four year old.
When H. C. Chapman started it his
friends predicted it would die. Chap-
man has fooled them.
The Indians talk a great deal about
moving to Mexico Hut they never go.
The Creeks are tho last tribe to take
up the scheme. It will fall through,
of course.
The young man in Pott county who
mandamused his sweetheart to marry
him, didn't make the mandamus work.
But later he tried another appeal with-
out the aid of a lawyer and she mar-
ried him.
It is said that more prairie hay lias
been put up in Oklahoma and the In-
dian territory this season than ever
before,
than doubled
since the signing of the construction
contract for the completion of the St.
Louis anil Oklahoma City railroad. All
the jobbing and manufacturing is now
centered here. The expansion has
only just begun, and more institu-
tions are now in prospect than have
already located here. The city has
increased 2.000 in population with a
prospect of 5,000 mero during the next
year. Before we arc aware of it, there
will be here a city of fifteen thousand
people.
The home o: George S. Steele, living
near Bear Creek school house, in Lo-
gan county, is p scene of sorrow.
Briefly the trouble is this: Tom Don-
ahue. a young farmer, courted and
loved Laura, the eighteen-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steele. Lau-
ra returned the love. The courtship
i lasted four months and t he dute of the
wedding was set for last Thursday
night. All preparations for the mar-
riage wero made and all that wai
It can also truthfully be said lackiUg was the groom to be. But ha
that there are more cattle in this ter- j eame not n developed that Dona-
ritory at present to feed it to than hue's love had cooled and he skipped
ever before. ou^ ^]1C before the wedding day
On Oklahoma day at Omaha a young Laura became despondent. She cared
Oklahoma editor checked his baby to no more for life and early Friday
a kindergarten and lost the cheek. It morning she swallowed rough on rats,
took the evidence of tho entire Okla- ]'or hours her life was despaired of,
homa crowd to convince the maton
of the identity of the youngster, and
the parents will never check their
darling again.
The depot agent at Red Fork was
held up recently by makeil men but burned at Marietta last week.
no money taken. The county commissioners and conn
Beaver is growing more like New ty clerU of Grant county art! in lildino
York every day. A man there
false returns on his property.
The Cherokee Indians are worth them to spread the tax raise on the
j about #210 each and w ill have 15S j rolls. The whereabouts or the cora-
acres of land per capita when their al- missioners arc unknown, but tho clerk
j lotment is made. is supposed to hi ir. hiding with the
j An Oklahoma boy writes his parents ' tax book- >m where in the north-
I that there are piles of gold in the west part of the county. The offieor'j
Klonrlike. The old folks are prepar- vre huntln;- for them to compel tacra
ing to join their son. , to obey the law'.
but mcdioal aid finally returned her to
this world. The girt is still very ill,
while Donahue has not been heard
from.
Eighty-four bales of cotton were
b
New
made ,(, p,.pVent being mandamused by tlia
officers in the matter of compelling
i-'lghtlnK Biiclwin.
R. A. Pearson, assistant chief of the
Dairy Division, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, says:
Just how a dairy originally becomes
Infected with objectionable bacteria
which color the milk or cause it to
be ropy, slimy, bitter, or soapy, or how
a creamery or cheese factory which
has had no previous trouble with bac-
teria is infected with troublesome
forms, is not always known. Occa-
sionally outbreaks occur which are
as unexpected and inexplicable as are
some outbreaks of infectious diseases
in healthy communities. Cut It should
be remembered that bacteria are ex-
tremely minute bodies and that many
ways of moving about, even long dis-
tances, are possible to them. They can
often successfully withstand what
would seem to be very unfavorable
conditions aud thus for a long time
hold their life as they are carried from
place to place, or as conditions about
them change, until they find them-
selves in a favorable location for
growth, and then immediately com-
mence to multiply at a marvelous rate.
They may first be introduced in to a
factory by Impure water, milk from an
Infected dairy, cans which have been
used for other than dairy purposes, and
especially by dust or anything which
carries dirt.
Preventive Measures.—After objec-
tionable germs have once entered the
factory three things are required for
their growth or increase, namely,
warmth, moisture, and food. It is
impossible to keep the temperature
from being favorable to them in the
summer time, but by keeping the fac-
tory as dry as possible, the food sup-
ply scarce, and subjecting the germs
to conditions which are fatal to them,
such as high heat anil disinfectants, It
is possible to rid the factory of them.
Soon after a factory Is Infected with
troublesome bacterid, colonies will be-
come established in many places; they
are hidden in cracks in the floors and
walls and any place which remains
continually moist will contain large
numbers of them. The entire build-
ing and all its contents must be scru-
pulously cleaned and the work must
extend to the whey tank and drain
leading to it. Every utensil should be
thoroughly sterilized by exposure to
live steam during at least ten minutes,
and everything not so treated should
be disinfected. The Inside walls of
the building and the outsides of the
larger apparatus may be disinfected
with boiling water or steam, but if this
is not practicable a dilute solution of
carbolic acid may be used, at the
strength of 1 pound to 25 to 50 of
water. This Is an excellent disinfect-
ant but should not bo applied to any
surface which comes in contact with
the milk. Sulphate of iron (copperas)
is au efficient disinfectant for drains;
they should be flushed daily with boil-
ing water and have steam passed
through them if possible, then have
lumps of copperas placed in them.
At the same time or preceding the
work of cleansing the factory its sur-
rcmdlngs should be improved. Pools
should be drained and the hollows
filled with clean earth. If at any
point the soil is saturated with milk or
whey, the top part should be replaced
with fresh earth, if practicable, and
copperas sprinkled about. Treatment
of this kind frequently repeated and
accompanied by the replacement of
decayed boards in the floor or else-
where, and the repair of drains, waste
pipes, etc., and followed by a good
coat of whitewash, will usually remove
all trouble. If, however, the condi-
tions are not improved after these
operations, it is probable the source
of infection is external to the factory,
and every effort should he made to
quicKl;- locate it. An affection once
started readily travels from dairy to
dairy, and unless It is promptly
stamped out an entire district may
suffer great lossas a result. It is found
by handling the milk from the differ-
ent dairies separately, or by tho use
of a fermentation or curd test, that
the trouble belongs to a certain one,
that dairy should be thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected. If the water
is found to be to blame, a new supply
should be obtained, or an arrangement
provided to boil all the water used.
Sore Mouth Among Cattle.
Newspaper bulletin 07, Indiana Ex-
periment Station: A few weeks ago a
disease commonly called sore eyes
among cattle assumed an epidemic
form in many parts of the state. Now
several localities are reporting another
disease called sore mouth or sore foot
and mouth. This disease made its ap-
pearance in the state in the fall of
1891 and in 1892. Since that time very
few cases have been seen. It is a dis-
ease that attacks cattle of any age and
In a few Instances attacks horses. It
occurs among animals on pasture and
is supposed to he duo to some condi-
tion of the grass. It is not known to
be contagious, but it is a good policy
to separale the diseased and affected
as a safe precaution.
The symptoms are as follows: The
animal ceases eating, stands and fre-
quently champs the jaws, and saliva
drips from the corners of the mouth.
The muzzle has a peculiar brownish
hue which extends to the nostrils and
to the inside of the lips. The inside
of the lips, gums, pads and sides of
the tongue become reddish. The tongue
swells, sometimes to such an extent as
to keep the mouth open. There Is a
very disagreeable odor about the
mouth. After a few days the mem-
brane peels off the gums, lips and
tongue In patches, leaving them raw.
There is often lameness and sorenees
of the teats. The disease runs its
course In from six to ten days, during
which time the animal will be unable
to eat anything hard. The bowels are
usually constipated.
The treatment is to apply an astrln-
gen wash. Tannic acid, one-half ounce;
borax, powdered, one ounce; glycerine,
eight ounces, and water sufficient to
make a quart, has been recommended.
A saturated solution of boraeic acid
is good. Cresoline— one-half ounce to
the quart of water is also good. Make
gruels and sloppy feed for diet. In a
few cases this disease has been re-
ported as black tongue. This is a
mistake, as black tongue Is one form
of anthrax.—A. W. Bitting, D. V. M.,
Veterinarian.
Hktm-Milk anil Horh.
In tests conducted by the Utah ex-
periment station, skim-milk was fed
extensively to hogs, and the following
conclusions were arrived at:
(1) Skim-milk, when fed in combi-
nation with grain, makes a very val-
uable food for hogs at all periods of
their growth, but particularly so dur-
ing the earlier periods.
(2) Sltlm-milk and grain In combi-
nauon make a much more economic
ration for hogs than either milk alone
or grain alone. The milk and grain
fed lot3 required 2.58 pounds of diges-
tible matter, the milk fed lots 2.85
pounds and tho grain fed lots 3.19
pounds to make one pound of gain in
live weight.
(3) When fed in combination with
grain, skim-milk has 63 per cent great-
er feeding value than it has when fed
alone, 100 pounds of skim-milk tak-
ing the place of 23.2 pounds of grain
in the former case and 14.2 pounds in
the latter.
(4) The hogs fed on the milk and
grain ration made much more rapid
gains than either those fed on milk
alone or grain alone. The time requir-
ed to make 100 pounds of gain was 79
days for the hog fed on milk and
grain, 116 days for those fed on grain
alone and 147 days when the food was
milk alone.
(5) When the skim-milk and grain
were fed in the proportion of 3 pounds
or less of skim milk to one pound of
grain, the return for the skim-milk
was greater than when a larger pro-
portion was fed. When fed in the
proportion of 2 pounds of skim-milk
to one pound of grain, 100 pounds of
milk took the place of 31 pounds of
grain, but when fed in the proportion
of 4 pounds of skim-milk to 1 pound of
grain, only 24 pounds were displaced.
(6) Hogs fed on milk alone gained
very slowly and did not keep in good
health; in some cases they were off
their feed so frequently that a change
of feed had to be made. The milk and
grain fed hogs, however, without ex-
ception, kept in good health.
Mixing the Hroeds.
There has been an upward and a
downward process in American breed-
ing of cattle. Half a century ago there
\ :-.s little pedigreed blood in American
cattle. Then came the introduction
of the Durhams, or Shorthorns. The
building up process began and contin-
ued with vigor for a few decades. Soon
the pure-bred and grade Shorthorns
were found In all parts of the land,
and the beef-producing power of our
farms was immensely increased. The
introduction of the Durhams and their
success led to the introduction of the
other established breeds, and the work
of grading up was continued. But the
result has not been altogether what
was desired, for the farmers, instead
of breeding along pure lines, began to
cross breed to an alarming extent.
This was bad enough when it included
only beef breeds, but when beef ani-
mals were crossed with dairy animal3
the results could be nothing but re-
grettable from the standpoint of the
scientific breeder. To further compli-
cate matters these mongrels were
bred hit or miss to any animal as con-
venience dictated. We may call this
a downward movement in breeding,
for the general mix-up has resulted in
a numerous class of animals that will
not bring good prices at the stock-
yards and that will not give a good
account of themselves at tho milk pail.
The sooner this kind of breeding is
stopped the better for American cattle
raisers.
Meat m un Rscr RnMon.
Is meat the best egg. ration? This
question is asked by Mr. C. 8. Valen-|
tine in the Country Gentleman of July
28. He cites the opinion of one of the"
most practical poultry writers and
editors (who averred that meat feeding
produced more trouble and disease
among his fowls than any other prac-
tice) and says that his own expe-
rience coincides with that of the ed-
itor. He says: "It is not a question
whether or not meat brings egg; one
can run up the egg record at will by
the use or disuse of meat. The ques-
tion is, is the gain great enough to pay
a profit after deducting the loss cauiasd
by over stimulation;" By "meat" Mr,
Valentine wished to be understood to
mean meat meal or dried straps. In the
first place, 1 think lie makes a mistake
confining himself to meat meal
and dried scraps, if meat is to be fed
at all, it is of the utmost importance
that it should be fresh and untainted.
Everybody knows that diseased or
tainted meat is dangerous as a diet, Al-
most invariably producing disorder
and disease among the flock. I find
that the cheapest form of meat fc<
my fowls is green cut bone. 1 can al-
ways obtain a plentiful supply from
my butcher, and at a very low cost,
seldom over one-half cent per pound.
With my bone cutter I can quickly pre-
pare it. I always examine the Wine
(which by the way has more or less
meat attached to it) very carefully,
and reject any that is in the least
tainted. After years of experience, I
have yet to find the first case of dis-
order caused by Its use. Nor do I con-
sider it in any sense a stimulating
food, as asserted by Mr. V. I may he
wrong; if so, I am willing to be shown
my error. I base my opinion on the
fact that allowed free range, bugs, bee-
tles and worms (all meat foods) form
a considerable part of the diet of a
fowl, on which it always thrives. I
agree that green cut hone is almost
Identical, in its various elements, with
bugs and worms; that they both con-
tain the flesh, blood and bone existing
in all organic Life; and that one is no
more injurious than the other. But I
cannot admit for a moment that scraps
and meat meal ppcupy the same class,
and it is right here, I believe, that Mr.
V. failed. I believe tho scraps were
responsible for tho disorders mention-
ed. and not his system of feeding.
What are scraps, and how obtained?
The majority of scraps are the prod-
ucts of soap factories or rendering es-
tablishments. At such places immense
quantities of bone, meat, dead animals
and offal are gathered together and
deposited in a pile, until a sufficient
quantity is obtained to fill an im-
mense vat. If the weather is hot, this
reeking mass is often in all stages ol
decomposition, but as the extraction
of fats is the chief object of the Ten-
derer, it does not Injure their value.
Once in the vat, the steam is turned
on, and they are kept there until the
grease is entire'.* extracted. The gr-nr.t
is skimmed off the top, the water
drawn off at the bottom. The bones
are separated and saved for fertilizer,
and the residue, composed of shrunken
muscles, skin and various fibers, is
pressed into cakes called "scraps."
Now, I ask. Is this a fit food for fowls?
Cooking diseased meat will not m;rt<e
it fresh. A man would not knowingly
buy a sick chicken or a steak cut from
a fever-stricken cow, and offer it (after
being cooked) to his family. He would
fear disease and sickness, and rightly,
too. But this is just what those who
feed scraps to their fowls do.
I want to say, also, that even if the
scraps wero perfectly free from dis-
ease, they would not be in the same
class with green cut bone, bugs and
worms—the one rich with life-giving
nutrients, salts, phosphates, limo and
nitrogenous matter, the other a fibrous
mass with all the nutrients extracted;
one containing every element found In
egg, white, yelk and shell, in rich
abundance, the other a limited amount
of lime and other nutrients in vet$
scant quantities. If green cut bone
Is substituted for scraps and fed judi-
ciously, no breeder need fear over-
stimulation or any disorder of disease
resulting.—John I. Draper in Country
Gentleman.
Storing Silage,
I have never seen a silo built so per-
fectly that some of the ensilage would
not spoil, writes L. A. Clinton in Rural
New Yorker. It is very difficult to pre-
vent the air from getting to the sur-
face of the ensilage, no matter how
well it is packed and covered. It must
be expected that some will spoil on
top, as that is nature's way of sealing
the contents of the silo underneath.
This covering of moldy ensilage on the
top should not be removed until the
ensilage is to be fed regularly to stock.
When feeding commences a layer must
be removed from the entire surface
each day. If this layer removed is
not more than two inches deep. It will
be sufficient to keep the surface from
spoiling. If the amount of stock to be
fed is not sufficient to use this amount
each day, then with a sharp hay knife
a section should be cut down through
the middle. The vertical wall of en-
silage which is left exposed will not
spoil to any extent. There la no pos-
sibility of 'lacking the ensilage Loo
tightly; unless there is need of hurry-
ing the operation of filling the silo,
the ensilage can be left to settle, and
it will pack itself sufficiently. One or
two men should be kept in the silo to
distribute the ears of corn as they fall,
and occasionally to pack around the
silo walls.
Kindness to Cows.—Gentle treatment
is conducive to good milking power;
rough treatment will only make the
animal hold up her milk and refuse to
let it down, thus lessening not only
the quantity, but also the percentage
of butter fat in the same.
A Good Food for Chicks.
We have had splendid success on the
editor's poultry farm this spring feed-
ing a new chick food in the form of
what might be called Johnny cake,
says Reliable Poultry Journal. The
man in charge of the young chicks
takes cracked corn as it comes from
the commission man, sifts it through
a sieve made of ordinary wire screen,
such as is used for windows and doors,
and uses the coarse aud fine corn meal
that passes through this sieve, mixing
it into a stiff dough with sour milk,
enough baking soda being added to
counteract the sour milk, and the
whole mass being salted to taste and
then baked as brown as Johnny cake
in an ordinary oven. The chicks are
very partial to it, and have done bet
ter on it than during any previou*
year, despite the fact that the weather
with us has been changeable, with an
unusual amount of rain accompanied
by chilly winds. We have little or no
bowel complaint among the chicks, and
from the first they have been plump,
active and good eaters. Last year and
the year before we fed quite a good
deal of oat meal and millet seed, but
our chicks did not do as well as they
are doing this year.
Selling Butter to Customers.—It I*
a good thing for butter makers to mar-
ket their product at retail to privat#
customers. They get better prices for
it and the customer is generally better
pleased. If butter is sold on commis-
sion, it is liable to be spoiled through
bad handling. This Is especially true
where the sale is made through gro-
ceries. There are vast numbers of
abominable smells in most groceries i
hot weather. These will spoil a tub of
butter, in a few hours, so that no after-
care can save it.—Ex.
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