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RIGHT RULES FOR DAIRYMEN
Wisconsin Agricultural College Gives
Out Some Good Advice That Ev
ery Farmer Should Follow.
The dairy department of the Wis
consin college of agriculture is urg
ing that the following be pasted up
in every dairy barn in the state:
Practice the following advice and
you will make more dollars in dairy
ing. Others have done it. Why can’t
you?
Use purebred dairy sires from cows
having large and profitable produc
tions of milk and butterfat.
Raise well the heifer calves from
cows which for one or more genera
Purebred Holstein Calf.
tions have made large and profitable
productions of milk and butterfat.
Breed heifers at the age of sixteen
to twenty months.
Feed heifers liberally and milk regu
larly.
Do not try to save feed by turning
to pasture too early.
Provide plenty of pure, fresh water,
shade and protection against flies dur
ing hot weather.
Supplement poor pastures with corn
silage or green soiling crops like rye,
peas, oats, green corn fodder, cabbage
and other available feed.
Feed cows daily one pound of grain
in winter for every throe pounds of
milk produced, 25 to 40 pounds of
corn silage, and what clover or alfalfa
hay they will eat.
Do not turn cows out to remain and
suffer in cold, stormy weather.
Allow them to have water which is
not colder than that from a deep well
twice or three times daily.
Brush cows daily if you can possibly
find the time, for it pays better than
does grooming of horses, which as a
rule is not neglected.
Keep cows in clean, well-lighted,
properly-ventilated stables.
Treat cows gently and avoid excite
ment.
Weieh the milk of each cow at milk
ing time.
Get your neighbors to share with
you in owning a Babcock milk tester
and test the milk of each cow.
Discard the cow which has failed
at the end of the year to pay market
price for all the feed she has con
sumed.
BABCOCK TEST AND SCALES
Instruments for Ascertaining Correct
Value of Dairy Cow—Outlay Is
Not at All Large.
The Babcock test and scales are in
struments for ascertaining the correct
value of the dairy cow with reference
to her milk and butterfat production.
The test is simple, accurate and easily
! mastered by anyone who will give the
j matter careful study and attention,
taking the necessary time for the
work. Those who prefer not to de
vote the time should join a cow-test
ing association, for it does not pay to
keep unprofitable cows.
I A small four-bottle tester with glass
ware and full directions can be se
| cured for about $5 of any creamery
supply company.
ESTABLISH THE MILK FLOW
Best Time Is When Cow Is Fresh and
Should Take From Three to Four
Weeks—Feed Liberally.
The time to establish the milk flow
of the cow is when she is fresh. It
should take three to four weeks to
bring her to a full flow of milk and to
eating a full ration. There is no other
time in the period of lactation when
care and judicious feeding have a more
important bearing upon her year's rec
ord.
The dairy cow should be fed liber
ally, but care should be taken not to
overfeed her and carry her beyond her
capacity. This works injury not
only to her milk function, but to her
breeding powers.
Stabbed by Umbrella.
Perhars the strangest weapon ever
used for killing w»as an umbrella. Tn
October. IPOS, a man named Ernest
Smith wss found dead in Chiswick
High street. England. He had a punc
tured wound in the eye which had
reached his brain and which the doc
tors agreed had undoubtedly been
caused by the steel ferrule of an um
brella.
Answer of a Soldier.
When Xapo’eon was a student at
Brienne he happened to he asked by
one of the examiners the following
question: “Supposing you were in an
invested town threatened with starva
tion. how would you supply yourself
with provisions?" "From the enemy.”
replied the sub-lieutenant of artillery;
and this answer so p'eased the exam
iners that they passed him without
further questioning.
• Good Excuse.
Ethel has taken a great dislike t:
rice, and lately her mother has-not
offered it to her. The other meniing
she asked what Ethel would like fo:
breakfast. “Oh. give me s me rice,
so as I can fuss about It,” was her re
ply.
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uJ=^EEEE] Nebraska’s Fiftieth Anniversary <=■ . ■
The committe of 100 appointed by
the State Historical society and its
executive committees of 25, have in a
broad way outlined the plans for the
celebration of the semi-centnnial of
Nebraska as a state. This general
committee will meet on Wednesday
of the coming week in Omaha at
which time the committee in its en
tirety will pass upon the report of
the executive committee and the
plans will be adopted that will be fol
lowed in working out a state-wide
recognition of what Nebraska is at
the close of fifty years of statehood.
The plans contemplate an initial
celebration in the city of Omaha that
will be held in the fall of 1916 and
that will be practically fifty years
from the time that the first election
to elect state and congressional of
ficials was held in the state. On the
anniversary date when a half cen
tury ago, President Johnson signed
the proclamation admitting Nebras
ka to the Union, the public schools
in the state will celebrate through
appropriate exercises that will be in a
large way uniform and yet that will
invite the best from the school talent
in every line. There will he many
special prizes offered for literary and
historical papers and special features
will be developed by the general com
mittee that will have the school work
in charge. During commencement
week. 1917, the culminating celebra
tion of the admission of the state fif
ty vears ago will be held in Lincoln
and the university pageant of that
year will be devoted to a presenta
tion of what Nebraska has accom
plished in its first half century of
statehood. In addition to the pageant
there will be reunions of pioneers of
all legislative and state officials and
there will be public exercises of a
high character to make up a perma
nent record of the entire celebration.
In the celebrations both in Omaha
and Lincoln, free reign will be large
ly given to the cities themselves for
demonstrations commemorative of the
event. All this work will call for
working committees made up of ener
getic and enthusiastic citizens and it
will require the general co-operation
of every man and woman in the state
who is proud of the achievement of
fifty years to make the celebration
all that it should be.
While the State Historical society
very wisely and properly took the
initiative in the formation of plans
for an observance of the anniversary,
the celebrations in all their features
will be developed and carried out by
i the best talent that can be secured
from the citizenship of the state
without regard to any one organiza
tion. The celebration of the 50th an
niversary of the admission of Nebras
ka to the union, can be and undoubt
edly will be made a feature of the
largest worth to the state.
HAVE YOU BEEN?
To-day a corps of earnest and ener- j
?etie instructors are laboring to im
plant in the minds of the children of
lie community that knowledge which!
A'ill enable them to cope with the in
lumerable obstacles which beset the !
■ocky road of life.
What have you done to encourage;
the teachers?
Have you been to the school to
lend them the inspiration of your
presence, to let them know and
understand that your heart is with
them in their work of educating your
children?
Your visit may not mean much to
you, but it has its effect upon both pu
pil and instructor. To the pupil it is
an evidence that while they are in the
hands of others they are yet upper
most in your thoughts and that you
are keeping a watchful parental eye
to their welfare. To the instructors
it signifies your moral support, your
confidence in their efficiency and your
undiminished interest in the welfare
of both.
IMPROVE ROADS BY DRAINAGE
One of the Most Important Matters to
Be Considered in Construction
of Public Highways.
(By E. L. GATES, Illinois.)
When it comes to building roads
there are a good many problems to
solve and not easy ones at that. Rid
ing along in an auto it is easy enough
to say when you strike a smooth
stretch, "this is fine,” and turn on a
little more gas. but when you hit a
mudhole and ruts you may get your
foot on the wrong pedal and the road
commission catches it.
It takes labor, time, good material
and money to have good roads. Every
one wants the roads, so we will all
have to work and spend some of our
time and money and boost for better
roads.
One of the things most needed is
better drainage for the roads as well
as for the farms and at this time we
will coniine this article to the subject
of drainage.
Drainage is the most important
matter to be considered in the con
struction of roads. Drainage alone
will often change a bad road into a
good one while the best stone road
may be destroyed from a lack of prop
er drainage.
There are three systems of drainage
that we can use to advantage, and
these are underdrainage, side ditches
and surface drainage.
Where wa{er stands on a road un
derdrainage without any grading is
better than grading without under
drainage. Underdrainage is not to re
move simply the surface water but its
greatest help is to lower the water lev
el in the soil.
The action of the sun and wind will
finally dry the surface of the road but
if the foundation is wet and soft the
wheels will wear ruts and these get
filled with water during the first rains
and the road becomes a sticky mass.
An undrained soil is a poor founda
tion upon which to build roads as well
as anything else. When frost is leav
ing the ground the thawing is quite
as much from the bottom as from the
top. If underdrainage is provided the
water is immediately removed.
The best and cheapest method to
secure underdrainaga is to lay a line
of farm drain tile on one or both sides
of the road. The new road law gives
the highway commissioners power to
contract with adjoining property own
ers to lay larger tile than is necessary
to drain the road and to permit the
contracting parties to drain their
lands. This helps the roads and at
the same time is a great benefit to
the adjoining land.
Side ditches are necessary to all
roads but no road can be maintained
with the ditch holding the water un
til it evaporates. In most cases it is
cheaper to get the water away from
the road than to try to lift the road
out of it.
sometimes roads on the hillside*
are left without side ditches. This is
a mistake, for if any road needs a
ditch it is the one on a hillside, for
where there are no ditches the water
runs along the middle of the road ami
wears gullies and as we all knot
makes a bad road.
The roads should be so crowned
that water can reach the tile c
ditches. If all ruts and mudholes at
filled, the water will have a belt
chance to run off. There are several
machines made to keep the roads
shape and these need to be used oft
and at the right time. It is not n
sary to spend half a day in trying
get hold of a road commissioner
help open a culvert or let the wa
out of a hole in the road. !:• -
spend the time in doing it yoursel; a
you will feel better and your nei^a
bor will thank you.
Well-Drained Road In Illinois.
Some Old Christmas >
Superstitions
If you will go to the crossroads be
tween 11 and 12 on Christmas nij
you will hear what most concerns j
in the coming year.
If on Christmas eve you make a lit!
heap of salt on the table, and it mt
overnight you will die the next ye
If in the morning it remains undim
ished you will live.
If a shirt be spun, woven and sen
by a pure, chaste maiden on Christm
day it will be proof against lead
steel.
If you are bom at sermon time
Christmas morning you can see spin
If you burn elder on Christmas < ■
you will have revealed to you all t'.
witches and the sorcerers of the ueig
borhood.
It is unlucky to carry anything for' i
from the bouse on Christmas moral nr
until something has been brought
into It
Weighing Happiness.
Before sending away a Christm.!
parcel you weigh It and then affix tin
proper amount of stamps. How would
you like to weigh it upon scales that
would indicate the amount of happi
ness that it will give to its recipient?
We have no scales for that but we can
fudge fairly well if we kiiow how
much loving thought we have put int<
the choice of the gift and the sending
of it—Amos R. Wells.
THE LOUP CITY
CASH STORE
Buyers of Christmas gifts that are of use to the incipient will
not overlook this store. We have in our stock many articles
that make suitable gfts for both ladies and gentlemen, as well
as many thing for the little ones. It is not necessary at this
store to spend a large amount of money to purchase a gift that
will both please and be of value to the person who receives it.
The gift buying season is getting shorter and shorter and you
will do better to come in and make your selections early than
to wait until the last hour, when the stock will be practically
exhausted. Any of the following articles will make gifts that
will be appreciated for their usefulness.
HANDKERCHIEFS, GLOVES, NAPKINS,
TABLE CLOTHS, EMBROIDERED NOV
ELTIES, LINEN AND LACE ARTICLES
AND MANY OTHER ARTICLES WHICH
WE CANNOT ENUMERATE HERE.
An Exceptionally Fine Line of Christmas
Candies and Assorted Nuts
The little ones always want plenty of candy and nuts for Christ
mas, and we have the largest and best assortment this year that
we have ever carried at this season. We are making a special
price on all our candies and nuts and you will certainly save
money by buying at this store. All strictly fresh.
WM LEWANDOWSKI, Prop.
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