Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — THE DAIRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE DAIRY.

‘ A Dairy Well. For ordinary use, the well should be dug six feet by four square, with a gutter or groove down one side eighteen inches square. It should contain two or three feet of lasting water. It should be in easy reach of the kitchen, and attached to the house if possible. The curbing should be no larger than the well. A which fits inside of the well, slides up and down between two timbers, which rest on the" botlorn "of the vfell, and are long enough to reach up three feet above the curb. These two timbers should be planed. The framework'of the platform has a board nailed on each side of It, forming a groove which fits on the upright timbers at each end of the well. This makes it rigid and keeps it level. The circular black spots on the platform represent openings for vessels. The piece that holds the wheel, over which the rope passes to the windlass, is prolonged so that when the platform is just even with the top of the curve, an iron pin is inserted through it and the top bar of the platform frame, and holds it there. There is another rope and two wheels. The rope has a heavy

weight attached to assist in raising the platform from the bottom of the well with heavy loads. These weights go down into a box formed of four wide planks, which occupy the gutter, or grove. One lid opens up against the weight-box, and fastens with a thumb-button. The other is hinged so as to hang down by the side of the curb when open.—Gleanings in Bee Culture.

Dairy Notes. If you have no pigs, no poultry, no calves on the farm feed the skim milk badk to the cows. Don’t fail to get in some early corn near the feeding place. When the pasture fails you will find use for it. Upon the premises of the successful dairyman will be found thrifty cows, suitably bred and adapted for the work required of thein. A Canadian farmer, who lost a small pig, after long search found him drowned in the cream can. “So,” he said, “poor piggy’s creamated.” Hoard’s Dairyman says: Creamery butter is that made from the milk or cream of two or more herds of cows. Dairy butter is that made from the milk or cream of a single herd. The income from the cows furnishes the farmer' cash receipts steadily throughout the entire year, which cannot be said of any other branch of farming, excepting perhaps the poultry.