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The Nebraska Independent
JULY 5, 1906
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Millet as a Late Crop
There is still time to fill up any
vacant places on the farm with a crop
of millet Such varieties as German,
common and Hungarian millets are
good' forage producers. They head
out; in from 45 to 60 days after seed
ing, hence there is plenty of time to
secure a good hay crop. When seed
ed for hay, drill in broadcast, at the
rate of one bushel per acre. Remem
ber that millet should be cut in the
dough stage. If it is cut much later
than this the stalks become coarse
and rough, the beards on the heads
stiff,- and, in fact, the hay becomes
generally unpalatable. If it i3 to be
cut for seed, this should be done when
the seeds are in the stiff dough stage.
If it is allowed to become fully ripe it
shells badly and much of the grain
will be lost.
As a grain crop millet is meeting
with considerable favor both in South
and North Dakota. It has been fed
with much success, at the stations in
these two states, to cattle, sheep and
swine. In a recent feeding experi
ment at the South Dakota station it
was found that it required only .37
of a pound more of ground millet to
produce a pound of grain in a steer
than it did of ground corn; hence
where a crop of from 30 to 35 bushels
per acre be produced, as it can in
many sections of both the states men
tioned in average years, millet be
comes a very profitable crop. If mil
let is fed as hay to cattle it ought
not to be fed as exclusive roughage.
From 10 to 12 pounds per day is prob
ably the largest amount that should
be fed per head to mature cattle. Mil
let is not a good feed for horses and
the less there is fed of it to the equine
race the better.
an immune hog, after that immune
has been treated similarly with the
serum from hogs afflicted with the dis
ease. Heretofore the treatment for
hog cholera has been the injection of
the cholera virus , directly. About 20
per cent of the treated animals have
died. Farmers throughout the country
are eager for a sure cure, on account
of the great loss when an epidemic of
cholera strikes their swine herds. It
is estimated that the money value of
hogs that die annually from this d's
eas'e is about $15,000,000, the figures
for the last five years being $77,000,
000. The invention- of : Dr. Dorset
may be used by any of the employes
of the United States government or by
any other person in the United States
without the payment of royalty.
and another a horse consumes an
amount of dry heating food which calls
for special regimen to neutralize the
excessive proteid consumption that has
taken place. Thus, in autumn, a ra
tion of oats is good, and so in spring,
at the fall of the winter coat, a little
green meat in. beneficial, mixed with
hay and oats, for the evening meal.
Another maxim much disregarded in
practice is that the horse should be
watered long before being put to work,
and then sparingly."
SORGHUM FOR ROUGHNESS
An abundance of forage in the win
ter time is one of the necessities on
any farm where cattle and horses are
raised. This material, whether it be
prairie hay, wheat straw, corn or Kafir
fodder, alfalfa hay, cowpca hay, mil
let or sorghum hay is classed as
"roughness." In some other places
and in books on feeding, they call it
"roughage."
The big thing about sorghum is the
certainty of its producing a crop and
the palatability and keeping qualities
of the hay, There are many methods
of growing this crop. The most gen
eral method is to broadcast it in May,
June or early July and cut it when
heading out.. After, wilting, and par
tially curing in the swath, it is placed
in large piles and hauled in as fed qr
eise siacKea aner muruuguiy cme
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A lew place l.ue sui euum-iu yuisa wimo
still green and report good results,
but it seems likely that there would be
trouble in some seasons if this plan
were followed. .
Early planted sorghum is often put
in rows two to three feet apart. The
first crop, is cut and shocked and the
second growth is plowed under or cut
Spraying Potatoes
The season for spraying potatoes,
is here. The bordeaux mixture has
been found very effective where used
for blight, rot and the flea beetle; with
paris green added for the Colorado
beetle, it is also destroyed.
The mixture is made by using six
pounds of copper sulphate along with
50 gallons of water. To this is added
four pounds good stone lime, which
neutralizes the acid of the sulphate.
The mixture with paris green added
has given better results than any other
used. The number of the sprayings
of course varies, but usually not fewer
than three are made and generally a
considerably larger number. With a
suitable equipment, 15 acres may be
sprayed in. a day.
,The New York state experiment sta
tion has studied this question with
much care. Many co-operatiove ex
periments have also been conducted.
In fourteen of these it is stated that
the average increase in yield due to
spraying was 62 1-4 bushels per acre.
These experiments embraced 180
acres. The net profit per acre wa3
estimated at $24.86. This of course
is the profit after the cost of spraying
practically $5 per acre, was deducted.
In addition to increasing the yield, it
is claimed that the quality of the po
tatoes is also improved in the sense
that they are more mealy and contain
a higher per cent of starch. These
claims are doubtless true, for whaever
tends to Increase and perfect natural
growth also improves the quality of
potatoes.
NEW CURE FOR HOG CHOLERA
Dr. M. Dorset, of the bureau of ani
mal industry, department of agricul
ture, has obtained a patent for a pro
cess of protecting swine . from hog
cholera, which patent he has given to
the United States without one cent
of compensation. His method is the
injection of serum from the blood of
LAYING ASIDE THE INCUBATOR
When the last hatch is out of the
machine do not fail to cleanse the
machine thoroughly. Wash the inside
with strong soda water, wash and air
the trays, sun every part that can be
sunned, remove the lamp, empty and
dry the bowl, and remove the wick.
Place all parts that belong to the In
cubator inside of it, and take off the
parts of the regulator that are apt to
i be damaged. This may seem unnec
essary advice, but we have seen in
cubators that have had the filth of
chicks hatched the year before still
over them when the machines were
started the following year. We have
seen incubators left under the trees
through the summer exposed to sun
and rain, and we have seen them with
books and papers piled high about and
over the regulator. An incubator cared
for in this manner can not give good
results. Treat your incubator as a
fine piece of machinery. If it has an
asbestos jacket do not leave a full
lamp inside to soak the jacket with
kerosene which will cause a smoke
the next time the incubator is started.
If you want to use it as a table remove
the regulator parts. , For good results
with an incubator you must care for
it. A poor, cheaply built machine will
warp in one season, and be unfitted
for use, but it is possible to make the
best machine unfit for use in one sea
son, and this is what you want to
guard against.
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GOOD AUTHORITY IN FEEDING
. HORSES
No people in the world are more
skilled in horse feeding than the
French. For hundreds of years they
have tested methods of all kinds of
feeding, and the following comes from
that country on this subject: -
"Three meals are necessary and suf
ficient with an interval of four or five
hours between, to keep a horse in good
condition. Oats take at least two hours
to digest, hay takes three hours, and
because it takes so long to digest it
should be given when the day's work
is over. The evening meal should be
a full meal, the animal being then at
rest, and able to digest Its food at leis
ure. There should be an interval of
half an hour between the return of the
horse to the stable and his getting his
evening feed. Too much food at a
meal or too long abstinence between
meals followed by. voracious feeding
is conducive to colic and indi
gestion. Irregularly fed, he is given
to showing his impatience by letting
his hoofs play about the woodwork
of his stall. Giving 'refreshers' at odd
times is also bad. Remember that-both
stomach and bladder shniuld never
be loaded in work time, whether light
or heavy work is done. A horse, there
fore, should. not be ridden or driven
immediately after a meal, on the same
principle that it ought not to be fed
sooner than half an hour after work
is over. Between one end of the year
if
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