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BABY BEEF. Profit In It If Quickly Matured and Proparly Finished. To Wise baby beef profitably it is absolutely necessary to have calves of the beef type. They must possess the ability to put on flesh In tbe right spots that is, tbey should be well de veloped where the most expensive cuts are to be found. Then, too, they must bave-the power to mature early. Tbe majority of animals cannot be got Into that condition at tbe desired age. Early maturity must be a character istic of the animals bred from, and particularly should the sire selected possess that special quality. Tbe growing time lu an animal's life Is the time at which to feed It. as it has been proved time and again that BUILDING THE SILO. HAD OF AS OHIO BAD! BEEF HKKD. a hundredweight can be added then at leas than half tbe cost of the same gain on the same animal at maturity, writes J. Huli McKinucy in Kami and Fireside. For the first two weeks each calf should have a quart of whole milk three times a il.'iy, care being taken (o feed it at blood temperature. During tbe next three weeks half a quart of akimmiik should be added to the whole milk at each meal. When the calf is five weeks old It should lie so developed that feeding twice a day will be sufficient, also ulupciiniug with the whole milk and giving about three quart of skiinmllk twice a day. To supplement the loss of butter fat In milk a small amount of flaxseed meal Is used. It may be prepared lu the proportion of a cupful of menl to one and one-half quarts of, water put Into a common stove kettle and kept at temperature Just below boiling for three or four hours, which reduces the meal to a kind of Jelly. This is mixed with the akimmiik at the rate of about a tablespoonful to a pouud of milk and may be gradually increased up to a cupful when the calf Is three months old. By this time the stoniuch will be strong enough to assimilate uud digest other food, and ho should lie taught to eat a little bran, ouls, clover or any other dainty that he can be persuuded to consume. The second summer lx perhaps the most critical period lu I In' life of un animal Intended for early beef. While eiperieuce has shown thai there Is very little difference In feeding inside or outxUlo. so fur as gain in live weight Is concerned, the hitter method will prove the less expensive. When fed luslde It Is absolutely mvesncry that tbe ration coiikIkI of u certain propor tion of green feed. To a certain extent ensilage will answer this piirpuse, but does not seem to have the same flesh producing effect as the green grass. Of all tbe grass mixtures w ith which the writer is familiar, ouls and vetches with a little clover or alfalfa hay are tbe most sultuble. All things consid ered, however, It Is preferable to turn thera out about the first of June, being careful to keep them on good pasture, supplementing It with a small quantity of meal. In September they should be grad ually accustomed to stable coudltioiis by taking them off tho gruss part o tlie time, esHclally with tho occur rence of frosty nights, and given a feed of silage and clover bay lu addition to the grass and meal, in October they should be put ou a rcgulur ration Hteers that nave been red properly up to eighteen or twenty months of age should be getting ulwut one-half pouui of meal er hundred pounds of weigh and gradually lucreased, so that when they are sold (hey will be getting near ly pound of meal to a hundred pounds live weight of tho animal. The building of a silo Is of a great deal of importance, and before It Is un ilertaken a man should investigate thoroughly tbe principles relating to the construction and storage of ullage. One of the early mistakes was to build silos too large lu diameter and too small in height. This resulted in get ting very little pressure on the silage, which permitted the air to get lu nud consequently caused the ruin of the feed. Wherever air can touch the silage numerous germs from the air j attach themselves to the moist surface of the silage, and the sugars in the silage become fool for the minute plants that cause putrefaction or mold In ir. If the silage is very green the putrefaction bacteria develop most, while if the ullage Is old that is. made from mature cornstalks III:' spores of mold develop mo t. in elth-i' c:i;:e the silage Is mini i. The lirst iU'r.itx. there fore, a farmer must ioo- out for Is to have sufficient height to hi.) rilo, so that the pressure on the underlying" Klhtge will lie very great. All things chopped up tine, ns Is all J properly cut silage, develop a great deal of lateral pressure. This forces he silage out against the fides of tbe silo and packs it so firmly against the walls that air cannot get In. The plan Is to build a si!o nut less than thirty feet in height and generally not less than sixteen feet in diameter. If (lie silos are built small in diameter, they become expensive, as a silo eight feet in diameter would cost a great deal more per ton of capacity than one six teen feet wide. These dimensions are being quite widely followed in the con struction of many silos. The diameter beyond sixteen feet must depend upon EARLY LAMB -PRODUCTION. o THE FEEDER. One of the most Interesting and profitable branches of the sheep busi ness is the growing of winter lambs for the early spring market. This re quires special care, constant vigilance nd properly arranged barn and yards. But most of the work comes at a time of year when outside farm ing operations do not claim attention. This is no small Item in its favor. Writing of his experience In this line in New England Homestead, F. G. Scott of New Hampshire says: As to breed of ram, the Downs are preferable. The ewes may be Downs or one of the heavier wool breeds. iach as linmbnuillet or Dorset. I nir. I ' "!) g 5 'A ?; M m Dilator Milking Machine. An Ohio Inventor has secured a pat ut for a new dilator milking machine, When tbe machine hns been adjusted to the cow's udder and the leat open ings or ducts have been dilated by means of the dilators to form artificial openings, tbe milk, it is said, flows freely snd automatically from die MiLiroa aucmsE is nica. iMnlng thus formed lu uiuch more natural manner than by the use of the ifttoa milking machine. la recent teat fourteen quarts of Milk, It la said, were drawn from tw by this machine, the same being applied. uratd and moored In six and ana-half minutes. Karh machine Is complete In Itarlf, requiring no air tubes or pnwrr plant, as In the esse of lite pneumatic nillkrfu. According to tbe description, but lit tle or bo attention la requlml ones the adjustment Is wade nntll tU row Is autlked dry. A CONCHIiTK SILO. the size of the herd. The larger the herd tbcjrreuter may bo the diameter of the silo. For myself, I iielleve that any one handling twelve head of cows or steers can well afford a silo, writes a dairy man In Itural New Yorker. I'erhnps to the small dairyman or stock raiser the dllllculties that stund lu (lie way of the silo are imaginary rather than real. First in order, per haps, Is t lie cost of the silo n ml. sec ond, the expense of tilling. Hut n good silo that will last for a number of years can I erected at a nominal cost. ICvery farmer should lie utile to do his own cementing and thus make his own silo foundation; also with a little help to erect It. This would mate rially lessen the Hint cost of silo. As regards the kind of silo to erect, I can recommend n good homemade elm hooped hemlock silo as lielng per haps as satisfactory us any other, tiood silos all ready to put up can be bought at n fair price. One of my nelghlHirs has nil elm hooped hemlock silo, which he built himself, that has done duly successfully for over fifteen years mid is still In a good state of preservation. The Inside lining of rough boards has to be removed every four or five years, but the rest of' the silo stands as it did when first con structed. This kind of silo Is giving good satisfaction and with a new lin ing once In awhile will last a nuuilier of years. Don'ti For Pig F.eders. Don't give the liquor lu which pota toes are hulled to the pigs. The tannin destroys the lining of the stomach. Don't keep pigs in confined places up to their bellies in mini. They are not dirty in their habits cxivpt you wake tlieni so. Don't feed pigs solely on corn, as pigs so fed do not command the prices that pea fill plp do. Don't send discolored grain away. It will pay yon lietter to give It to the pig and let lit itt do the marketing. I Hurt discard straw or any straw tuff that will do for bedding. It will give comfort to the pig and ultimately make rimnI manure for the farm. Kach Individual animal Is a separate ninehliie, and our work Is successful nly when this machine is one. -Jom-ph It. lA-rii-s. SCOTT OAT FOB SHEEP FENS. breeding liambouillct ewes to a Hamp shire ram. The result of this cross is 1 lamb well marked In face and legs, broad chest and heavy quarters and n splendid fleece at maturity. Mine are western ewes, and, owing to the condi tions under which they have been raised, they flock closely together in pasture and are not at all Inclined to he breathy. They are heavy milkers and make good mothers. The hours of feeding are 7 a. in. and 4:.'iU p. m. In the morning the flock is admitted to the waiting yard. Next the grain Is strewn in tho troughs iu the feed yard. For this purpose a two bushel bag is most convenient Mean while the flock has collected at the gate ready for admittance. The gate is then swung up and away from the sheep, aud the whole flock immediately rushes through under the gate to tbe feed troughs. The gate Is then lowered and the racks Inside the barn filled with hay. By the time the sheep have finished their grain the gate is swung up again, and they quickly pass back into the burn, eager for the hay ration. One man can easily hay and grain 100 sheep In ten minutes. But besfof all Is the fact that by use of this gute each uiemlier of the flock gets absolutely a square deal and a square meal. Suppose the gate to be sixteen feet long. When It Is opened the sheep en ter Hie feed yard sixteen abreast, those iu frout being compelled by the rush of those behind to pass ou to the fur ther troughs; Thus the entire flock begins eating at practically the same instant. .The gate's simplicity and worth at once commend It to practical beep meu. In constructing the gate the mnln enter piece A. iu which the lever E Is placed, Is prefernbly n dry pine pole of 4 by 4 inch mid should be two feet longer than length o gale desired. It rests and turns ut either end upon a hort piece of Ixwrd nailed crosswise on two posts set lu the ground, with proper space between for the pole. The lever has u small hole near the eud ill which an Iron rod is placed with hoolc on end to engage a spike or bolt driven Into one of the posts near the ground. so that the gate can when desired be fastened open. The troughs In feed yard are V shaped, iiinde of a six tnch and u seven Inch board nailed together and aland on legs of 'i by 4. Spikes are driven through bottom of legs Into the ground to prevent shifting of troughs. Hayracks are twenty-four Inches wide, thirty inches high and fourteen feet long, with no bottom. Legs are of 2 by 4, lower board twelve Inches wide, upper board nine Inches wide on ends of rack nud ten inches wide on sides. Tbe upper side Isiards are Set Cleanliness In the Dairy. To produce clean ami wholesome r res in we must have clean and whole some milk, and to do this If Is esiteu- isl that we have clean t sbles. clean lairv utensils, rlean yarda. clean and w holommie feed and that the cone lie milked by men who are clean. To ob tain I lie lest mulls It Is Important fliat the cows le kept comfortable at II 1 1 lure. SCOIT FEKP HACK FOR SHEEP. at an angle. This prevents waste of hay and also stiffens lack lu ceuter. Space lietweon upier and lower boards Is seveu Inches. Material for one of these racks consists of two side boards 10 Inches by 14 feet, two end boards 9 Inches by 2 feet, two euds boards 12 by 2(1 Inches, two side boards 12 Inches by 14 feet, four pieces 2 by 4 rut thirty Inches on long side and twenty-one Inches on short side, as shown In figure; two pieces 2 bv 4 cut ' twentv-eli?llt hielwa nn l,.n,r .1,1. en.l profitable, ,,," ... . ..." . .. ler are placed In middle of rack, one on each side. At two months old the lambs should weigh forty to forty-five pounds. Some markets like them at this weight; oth ers prerer inetn heavier. They are either shipped alive, two In a crate, or neatly dressed aud sewed up In mus lin aud burlap. If properly marketed such land should return a food profit to the grower. Professor Henry of Wisconsin places the following values on skiiuuiiik when fed with corn: Wheu corn Is worth 28 cents a bushel, ekimuilik fed at the rate of one to three pounds to one pound of corn is worth 13 cents per 100 pounds, but when fed in the pro portiou of seven to nine pounds to one of corn it Is worth but 0 cents per 100 pounds. When corn is cents a bushel the mlik fed In the first propor tions Is worth 31 cents, hut in the lat ter proportions only 8 cents per 100 pounds. Soy Beans For Hogs. As n grain crop to use iu connection with corn for crowding the spring crop of pigs to market the soy bean Is a very valuable crop. It is essen tially a grain plant, very rich iu pro tein, and while the hogs are running oh soy beans they should have access to corn to balance, the ration. While the corn does not contain enough pro tein for best results, soy beans con tain more than is profitable to feed, and the combination of the two grains is therefore much better. Feed For Work Horses. The work horse should be supplied with about two pounds of provender for each 100 pounds of weight. Of this from ten to eighteen pounds, according to the severity of the labor performed. should be grain hi some form. The heavy feediiig should come at night. after the long day's work Is over and when the animal has time for masticat ing and digesting his food. Feeding the Calves. .V Fennsylvauia dairyman reports that he kept a record of eighty calves, which consumed 12,000 quarts of jnlik, for which lie received $481, or over 4 cents a quart, and the calves did the milking. He estimates that it takes 110 quarts of milk to make a calf four weeks old, which will weigh 1G0 pounds if they have Holstein blood. Experiments With Steer. In some experiments to test the amount of feed needed to keep a thousand pouud steer in condition with out making him grow It was found that there was required fifteen pounds of timothy hay, twelve pounds of clover heay nud seven pounds of corn- meal. In other words, unless more than this amount of feed was con sumed the steer would not make a growth wortli considering. Fattening Hogs After Steers. Where cattle feeders keep hogs in faille feed lots some protein feed should be given the hogs so their growth need not. all be made from corn not used by the steers. Striking results have been secured in recent Ohio tests showing that when tankage was fed to tho hogs in the form of a thin slop once u day much better gains were secured. The gains made by hogs fed tankage In addition to the corn they got were much cheaper than where no additional feed wns used. The tankage used was ordinary di gester tankage and cost about $38 per ton. only about 80 cents' worth of this was fed to each hog, and the gains were over 50 per cent more than where no tankage was ui s0. KILL the COUGH AND CURE THE LUNGS W TH Qf, "jig's Mm Discovery WOLDS Trial Bonis Free AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES. GUARANTEED SATISFACXOBY OB. MONEY EEFUNDED. COFFEE - There is a time for good tea, and a time for good coffee; there is no time for poor either. Your grocer returns your money if you doo't lite Schilling's Best; we pay him. MADE FOP SERVICE IN THE ROUGHEST WEATHER AND GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY VATERPR00F POMMEL SLICKERS Tills trade mark and the word Tower on the buttons distin guish this hmli grade slicker from thejusras cood . brands VV,' MY IT) Care cf Cream. Aside from the scouiiug of cream. there are other things which enter Into Its care mid which should lie observed to insult cream of first quality. Cream ipidly takes up odors and for this reason should be kept In a pure ut- niospueie. Do not set cream in the kitchen, for it will absorb kitchen dors. A ureal deal of cream, other wise first grade, tasles of fried onions nd of fried ham nud of tobacco, ail f which things may have been used In le kitchen. Likewise do not place the cream can In the cellar where there re potatoes and cabbage and other vegetables. Keep the cream nway from the barn, fo:- the bain and cowy Mors are the most objectionable odors It Is possible for cream to have. Ths Secret of a . Beautiful Face t lies in keeping the skia pro tx'rtcdatiweilasclcanscd. Just washing U not enough that only leaves tliedelicate surface more exposed to the irritation of dust and gcrmsj to merci less attacks of sun and w::at!iiT. After washing, ap ply Kol'criinc and experience its delightful refreshment. Von will admire the line-less softness it imparts to face, neck ai.d anus. It not only si 'miniates a radiant glow, but proiccts ihe skin from becom ing coarse. Prevents burn ing, tan ami freckles. A'k tur Oruft'frf fir 4 frtt M.v;,c, jfi. rsy Wa 8,5. .ojXtXiL JiiU Ei GET THE BEST WHY WOMEN SUFFER fell gg m&& Little Sound Advice Will Help Alapy a Suffeier in Dallas. Women have eo much to eo through ii me uih it m n ihiv mere is so mud leedlesa suffering from backache, head. achea, dizziness, languor and other com mon suncs and illsol kidney complaint. I'ohu'b Kidney I'ills have brought new i f4itf Caw. Cows of dwidnl dairy lyp will re turn tlx rreateat profit tie frj to their full capacity.--Xebrailta Cipert. sent Btatio. Health th Hard. The dairy herd should Include no ! ak k animal, and especially none show- I lug aiarua of tiil-rvulwis. routagioua I al.nl..o or other truubht anoclatcd I Ith parturition or with mammilla, mammary alaw-raa or other odder dl eae. actinouiycoata. few or any fa hrtUr disease. Cm! th Mdk Quickly. A handy arraucrateut for ajuhlly rooting Billk la bath Inter and auw mtrr roewteta of a lara tub with a cake of ho placed In the rratrr. Kr th raoa of milk amend It a ad rover with flrM Ikl The le-o f K aboctd bo pliJ apao three loch atrtfa of wood to allow for dralnaa Too Atlanta a Croat Mala Paint. fi y Itoroiuet Id a summary of to in trade aaya: Atlanta at coming ta ha one of tbe grrat male d:tritxitin( wltt of the aouth and la near the im-atet one la the aoatheast. No dooht "Kith larutlna farmers grt many of their souk from Atlanta, ohlrh arara Ira aol oa aurketa two or thrae tliors Engliah haae Fattening. Borne Kiigllsli farmers fatten their sheep on grass alone, but the largo ma jority feed eonie concentrate in addi tion, cottonseed or linseed rake brine generally aard. Pome roud feeders one small amount of bran In connection a Ith It. while others feed eiual parte of ruttonared and tlrwerd rake. The amount varies from three fourths to mie and a fourth pound per br4 per day. will tw aorprtaKd how qalr-kly sallk 111 i as far froea Atlanta aa Colombia. rooJ in tfala sort of simple arrance- noot la the summer time it la s r Ibtuf to hare thla tuh aa placed that roid water from arriuf raa be raa through It at plea aura. un tbe oerrtopovrfit of Atlanta aa a fcaie BMrtrt a aoijee croortanltT ft. Essentials In Coed Butter. I rotiAftler the eawnlialtt tit prJ i Woe dairy butter la be nire watet. r niperatare of 43 Orurers. a re- Irl'a I rl ee arator and enip'i.iTii-slty iu! i form pains la every da tall, a d il. ! eiiaa. 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