Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1894 — DAIRY AND STOCK NOTES. [ARTICLE]

DAIRY AND STOCK NOTES.

ANew Yortrdairymarrstates that for those who sometimes find difficulty in having the butter come when churning his discovery may be valuable. He tried heating the milk, before creaming, to 130, degrees, which gave him butter in less time than ever before, both in summer and winter, and he also secured 10 per cent, more butter, which was of superior qualitv. He advises all interested to try the experiment. If a field is covered with weeds turn on the sheep. It is better to convert the weeds into mutton than to have them go to seed and stock the land with weeds next season. Sheep eat the weeds down .close to the ground, and they will come back again for the newer growth if it appears. Ragweed, purslane, crab grass, pigweed and all young weeds that are just starting will be consumed by them. Cattle and sheep should have a lump of rock salt to go to when they please. They should also be able to get all the pure water they want, and just when they want it. Sheep may take but little when they feed in the morning, while the-grass is wet with dew, and this had led some to think that there is no need of having water in their pasture, but they should have the opportunity to sret it when they want it, and they will want it more or less. The farmer who is fattening cattle can usually make the most money by feeding only such crops as he grows on the farm. That is. supposing he grows a good variety. Good hay, corn ensilage, corn, oats, wheat; bran, and oil meal make up such a variety; but if he can not grow all, or nearly all, of these he may find it | more profitable to purchase such as are lacking from the list rather than to restrict them In variety. No kind of stock will ever do its best on a single item of teed.