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The Nebraska Independent
OCTOBER 25, 1906
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ing, the experiment is regarded as
Successful as far as it has gone.
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Don't forget that the best way to
get early spring onions is to set out
the small sets in the fall. Lat of
this month is the proper time. Get
the ground in nice shane, same as
you would in the spring, and put in
the sets in the ordinary manner. In
any common winter they will live
through with no protection, but it
would do no harm to put on a l'.ght
coat of mulching. You can use either
the winter top sets or the regular bot
tom sets. The latter will bottom down
and make big onions early in the
summer, if you do not pull them for
bunching early. The winter sets can
be bought for about $1.75 per bushel,
a dnthe bottom sets for about $2.00
Discovers a Cotton Tree
A tree which produces cotton re
ported to be superior to American cot
ton has been discovered in India. The
cotton gathered from the trees is
claimed to be better both in classifi
cation and staple, and surprise is ex
pressed by J. R. Spence, who for twen
ty years was a member of the Liver
pool Cotton Brokers' association and
who discovered the tree, that the val
ue of its product has not attracted the
attention of any one in the cotton
trade.
He has submitted samples to ex
perts who have graded it as fine and
superfine, with a staple from one and
a quartes to one and a half inches in
length. The tree is indegenous to the
.Bombay and Madras presidencies,
India.
Mr. Spence reports that he has un
der cultivation a plantation of over
100,000 trees from four to five and a
half feet in height, which are full of
buds and bolls, bearing cotton daily
arter being planted only six months
The quality and quantity of the crop,
ne says, increase as -the trees erow
He claims the 'trees after the third
year yield from five to ten pounds of
clean cotton per tree annually durin
a known life of twenty years and
over.
About Cream Separators
It is just as easy to handle the sep
arator right as it is the plow, or any
other implement. Prof. Erf of the
Kansas station lays down these four
important points:
1. The speed of the bowl has an in
fluence on the cream. A change in
speed from one separation to another
cnanges tne per cent of fat of the
cream.
2. The temperature of the milk af
fects the cream. If the milk is warm
the cream will be thicker than if it
is cold.
3. The amount separated per hour
is another factor. This is especially
important. For, if the milk is un
evenly fed into the bowl, the thickness
of the cream is vastly influenced.
1. The amount of water or skimmed
milk used to flush out the bowl will
affect the quality of the cream.
All these things tend to show that
the separator must be handled with
care and good judgment. It is difficult
to observe all the points mentioned,
but they are so simple and apparent
that it would be very easy for the
heedless operator to pass over them.
Why the Danes Succeed
Investigations in the results of Dan
ish dairying show that their cows
produce three times as much butter
a cow as do the cows of Minnesota.
How do they do it? First, very large
ly by breeding only to the best dairy
bulls they can get. Second, by be
ing liberal feeders. What's to hin
der the American farmer from doing
just as well? Nothing save his lack
of the same degree of dairy intelli
gence. When the American farmers
get over their foolish notion of preju
dice against learning from books and
papers and learn that this great dairy
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to the character of clothes a store
keeps, will avail, unless the goods
are there and stand the test of in
vestigation and comparison.
A purchaser wants to know,
when he buys a suit or overcoat,
that they are of the sort he has
read about. The only way to be
sure is to patronize
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question is first of all a matter of
mental intelligence brains first and
hands next they will then be pre
pared to do what the Danish farmers
are doing and do it just as well. But
so long as a farmer does not believe
that reading, study in short, intelli
gence are necessary to success in
dairying, he will not do as the most
successful people are doing in his line,
and, as a consequence, neither will he
make as large a profit. Hoard's
Dairyman.
Alfalfa and Corn
Whereas a fair test has been made
in feeding alfalfa to balance the corn
ration, only the best results have been
reported. Prof. Graham of the Na
tional Department of Agriculture,
makes reference to the growth of this
plant specially in Nebraska and Kan
sas, and says:
"Nebraska and Kansas are now
known as two of the best hog breed
ing states and this reputation has
been gained by reason of their large
acreage of alfalfa. Nowhere has
pork been produced of such quality
and such low cost as in these two
states where alfalfa thrives, and oue
might almost venture to predict that
in the near future the cheapest and
best pork will come from the alfalfa
fields of the southwest.
"Baby beef, which has become so
popular and profitable in the west, has
been made possible by alfalfa. Cattle
prepared for fattening by being fed
according to certain rules are in best
possible condition and when ripened
with corn command a high price on
the markets. Every farmer who
wishes to save all the valuable food
substances that exist in corn and al
falfa will feed the two together, so
that what one lacks will be supplied
in the other. In this way beef and
pork can be grown for the farmer rap
idly and at the lowest possible cost.
"That alfalfa is a valuable feed con
stituent for horses is evidenced in the
fact that the World's Fair prize win
ners were grown from colthood to ma
turity on alfalfa.
"It has happened in Nebraska and
Kansas within the last ten years that
there have been at least two seasons
when a large part of the territory
of these two states were deficient in
corn of a quality satisfactory to feed
ers. The result was that' many herds
of hogs were carried through the win
ter almost entirely on alfalfa hay.
When soring came it was found that
the animals themselves were in good
condition and that the litters of pigs
were unusually large and strong.
"Practically all that has been said
about the value of alfalfa for cattle
will apply when sheep are considered,
except that sheep are much more sus
ceptible to bloat when eating green
alfalfa than are cattle. Hence it is
that alfalfa as a sheep feed is used
almost entirely in the form of hay.
Sheep fed on alfalfa with proper grain
rations and other roughness make the
same rapidity in growth as do other
animals and have a larger yield of
fleece. They also develop much
younger so that the sheep raiser who
grows them for mutton can place them
on the market much earlier than he
can with any other combination of
food.
"Alfalfa in its green state, or when
used as a hay or ensilage is a first
class poultry food. Poultry will pas
ture on it during the summer and
thrive. Cornmeal and ground alfalfa,
steeped in hot water or stewed to soft
en it, makes an ideal balance ration
for winter poultry feed. The real
value of the alfalfa plant for poultry
is not yet appreciated."
Be careful in Ftn'-insr bor-ts for win
tec not to cut or bruise them.
Ripe asparagus seed may be sown
in October, but the spring is preferable.