Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 204, 8 July 1914 — Page 10

niB K1CHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1914

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Agricultural Service Department

COBB TELLS POIHTS OF GOOD DAIRY COW FOR VVAYME FARMERS Describes Essentials of Typical Animal Best Adapted to Yield Profit to Man on Small Lots. Every farmer. caa huya cow, but Dot 1 every farmer knows whether or not he i is getting a good cow when he makes the purchase. This is largely due Jo a failure toappreciate the fact that a dairy cow is nothing more than a highly developed machine for the production of milk and butter fat. The several breeds of dairy cattle have been bred for a century and more with this sole purpose in view, and the milk producing traits have been developed to the exclusion of other characteristics. The body conformation, and the nervous development of or the animals all conform to the peculiar requirements of the Junctions of milk production. The demands upon the system of a dairy cow producing twenty pounds of milk a day are equally as great as those of a horse at work. A certain amount of food is required to furnish the heat and energy for the bodily needs of the animal, and in addition to that the cow must have capacity for consuming enough food to produce the daily flow of milk. Cow Produces Milk. To meet these requirements for enormous food consumption the body of the typical dairy cow has been so constructed that this food can be properly consumed, and so appropriated that milk will be produced instead of body fat. Hence we speak of the typical weflae-shaped body of the dairy cow, which provides for the greatest width ana uepth of body in the re gion of the digestive organs. Many of the characteristics of the animal apparently have no direct connection with the function of milk production, but experience has shown that they always go hand in hand. The typical dairy cow, no matter what her breed may be, should have a large, wide muzzle, prominently dished face and large protruding eyes. The neck should be long and thin, and the threat clean. She should be sharp nd thin over the wither with a promient, sloping shoulder. It is Important that the heart girth should be large and full, and the floor of the chest wide, for this is the region of the vital organs, the heart and lungs, and there must be no construction that would hinder the normal functions of these important organs. Points on Back. The back should be long and level, with the spines prominent, and not covered with, a layer of flesh and fat as in the case of the beef animal. The good dairy cow puts her food in the pail and not on her back. The ribs should be well sprung, and the abdomen wide and deep to provide capacity for the consumption of food. The tail head should be long and level and the hind quarters thin and incurving. Dairy temperament is indicated by fine quality, thin, loose skin, fine, smooth hair, small horns and ears, and a nervous, alert disposition. Naturally the mammary development is the most important part of the cow's makeup. The secret of the actual process of milk production has never been unfolded. The mammary glands are specialized tissues iiu which wonderful and extensive 'Chsmical changes appear.The udder of each individual cow is a law unto itself in the characteristics of the milk it produces, and is not subject in any large degree to control through feeding or other treatment that is not actual abuse. Other Important Points. The udder should be large, extend well up behind, level bottom and carry far forward; the teats should be evenly placed. The milk veins, one on rarh side, and running forward along the under part of the body from the fere ydder, perform the important functicn of carrying the impure blood away ircr.i the udder after it has done its part in the process of milk secretion. These veins should be long and tortuous. They enter the body wall through openings known as the milk wells, which should also be large. The quantity of milk produced is regulated , to a certain extent by the amount of blood which flows through the udder, and the size and capacity of these veins are therefore indications of the quantity of milk which the cow can produce. These indications are all characteristic of the typical good dairy cow. Experience has shown that the exceptions noted from time to time only go to prove the general rule. DEMAND FOR VEAL DECREASES SUPPLY WASHINGTON, D. C, July 8 "The demand for veal has increased rapidly, and not only are the surplus dairy calves slaughtered but thousands of beef calves as well, until a calf will now sell for from $8 to $12 when only two to three months old." This quotation from Farmer's Bul letin 588 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture means that unless the farmer has unlimited cheap feeds, it is usually more profitable to market the dairy or dual-purpose calves than to attempt to raise them, even though some of them might make good steers, -while many deplore this heavy slaughter of calves, and legislation against it has been urged, the consumer's demand must be met. The cattle-feeding business has changed greatly during recent years. Formerly steers from four to six years of age were fed in large numbers on commercial feed at yards near granaries or mills, or upon large farms where only the roughage was grown, and the cattle were kept on full feed for six months or longer. This m thod became too expensive, so feeding - is now conducted upon farms as a means of marketing farm products - by converting them into beef, while the manure produced is utilised as a byproduct for maintaining fertility.

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This page is conducted for the benefit of farmers in Wayne and adjoining counties by A. D. Cobb, agricultural expert and formerly county agent. Its purpose is to. assist the farmer In raising better crops, thereby promoting the welfare of the whole county and community. Farmers have the services of Mr. Cobb free. If there is a perplexing problem regarding soil matter, .crop raising, dairying, fruit and berry raising, Mr. Cohb is at the farmer's service. Questions that are asked him will be answered by mail and through, the Question Box on this page. - Mr. Cobb,- should the question demand it, will go to the farm and study the, problem about which the farmer wants information. , Address all communications for Mr. Cobb, care The Palladium, Richmond, Ind. ; ALFALFA IN CORN MEANS JUAMBLE Some Farmers Sow Alfalfa Among Corn After Last Cultivation Is Finished. A number of inquiries have been received by the agricultural editor from farmers who wish to know if it is possible to obtain a stand of alfalfa by sowing the seed in corn after the last cultivation. This method of sowing the seed has been tried by a number of farmers in the state and when the weather conditions are favorable, good results frequently have been obtained, in very dry weather this plan of sowing is not very likely to succeed. Two fields that had been sown in this manner were inspected by the farmers attending the alfalfa tour through Wayne county last month. Prof. Beavers, the expert from Pur due, stated at the time that they were the best fields, sown in corn, that he had seen so far in Indiana. The feed can be sown any time after the last cultivation of the corn, but it is desirable to wait until after a good rain so that there will be plenty of available moisture in, the ground to germinate the seed quickly. The previous cultivation of the corn should be as level as possible in order that the field will not be ridged up too much the following season. To loosen the ground and make a shallow seed bed for the alfalfa, an old mower wheel, or a light drag should be run through the corn. This will also serve to kill out any late weeds or grass, missed by previous cultivations. . At the best this method of sowing is a gamble, and should only be practised, when there is every reason to believe that the ground is especially adapted to alfalfa. KILL THE LICE. Do not let the lice get started. Punch holes in the top of baking powder cans, fill with sulphur, and when out among your poultry, young or old, and they are gathered together eating, dust them freely. Place it in dusting box and in their bran for it is a good blood purifier as well as lice exterminator. Three members of the senior class in the Humboldt(Kan. high school this year are triplets. They are Floyd, Lloyd and Lillian Johnson, and they have gone through the schools together, finishing at the same time. CONTAGIOUS '4 GranuoUS-ArC COMPOUND V i Kt-ANC ANL mtdicne 1 1 r r 1 WAWKw never tl.s g&Wy CCTSSFUL appoints tor J Lai run condition, or a suslet it torel ' once Jress SIMPSONCOj ICHMOND SATISFACTORY, Believing That the Farmers Of Wayne and adjacent counties are wide-awake and always looking for good farms on which to make money, either with modern, scientific methods, or as our grandfathers farmed, we have contracted for this space to list from week to week our GENUINE FARM BARGAINS We have a large list to choose from and two motor cars for service. Our motto has always been a "Square Deal to Both Buyer and Seller? We have a 73 acre farm 5 miles northwest of Richmond that is all level and tillable with good improvements that can be bought for $119 per acre on good terms. 106 acres of fine land 6 miles northwest of Richmond, well drained with good improvements, all tillable but 14 acres In woodland. $113 per acre. 74 acres at Bethel with good house and barn. Not all tillable but a good general purpose farm. $90 per acre on very best of terms, only $500 down. FUNK & MILLER 205 Second National Bank Bldjj. Phone 2766.

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DRIVE DOWN PRICES BY ARGENTINE CORN Fakers Use Cry of Importation to Beat Down Prices for Farmers.

Chicago is in the heart of the corn belt. It is a great grain market. It is the world's greatest corn market. ! The price of corn is' fixed on the Chi-! cago market. This means that the! price of corn is fixed on the Chicago i Board of Trade. ' . ' Corn is exported from the republic of Argentina. But there are five coun-1 ties in Illinois each of which produces more corn than Argentina has sold in this country within the past three years. And yet, on the face of the situation, Argentine corn, which if all sent to the United States would not make up such a corn shortage as we had last year, has seemed to be a factor on the Chicago market. The word has gone forth that huge shipments of Argentine corn were on their way to Chicago, and the news was used to beat down the price to the American corn grower. Congressman Rainey heard of one of these "shipments" amounting to half a million bushels. It never reached Chicago. The secretary of the Chicago Board of Trade in reply to Mr. Rainey's queries stated that the shipment was diverted to another point Montreal or some New England port. In view of the fact that Canada's total importation of Argentine corn only amounted to half a million bushels, it may be taken as probable that this "deflected shipment" never reached Canada. As for the real competition of Argentine corn at Chicago, it is confined to sixty thousand pounds imported for experimental purposes about one carload! This covers the entire period since corn went on the free list. The facts seem to be that the Chicago grain-ring operators seem to have been faking Argentine competition for the sake of looting the farmers. Such tactics amount to robbery differing from highway robbery only in the methods and the lack of personal courage. They may work once or twice, but the men using them are more fools than ' naves even. For they will ultimately result in the mending or the ending of the Board of Trade. Poultry Yards DRY MASH FOR HENS. Cornmeal, wheat bran, wheat middlings and finely ground oats are suitable ingredients for a dry mash for laying hens. Any one of thes ingredients may be omitted without seriously effecting either the health or the egg yield, though it is an excellent plan to retain the wheat bran on account of its laxative qualities. These ground grains may be mixed in equal proportions by weight. Add also, unless fed separately, finely ground alfalfa or clover, a level teaspoonful of salt to each dry quart

Question Box i The editor of the agricultural page will answer questions of farmers, truck gardeners and persons having gardens, through this column. Address Agricultural Editor, The "Palladium.

RED SORREL. Farm Editor Palladium, Dear Sir: I am sending you a sample of some grain or grass or weeds or something. I would like you to tell me what it is, and where it comes from and what to do with it. I 'found it in my meadows. Please let me know what you think of the goods anyway. F. b. Fountain City. . The weed which you sent In is Red Sorrel, and is sometimes an Indication of acid soil. It is a hardy weed, hard to kill out by cultivation, and spreading rapidly by means of the numerous seed It usually appears in. small patches at first and spreads rapidly if allowed to seed. These small patches should be covered with straw and burned before the seed is ripe. Where the plants have become generally scattered through the field, a regular rotation of crops that allows for frequent plowing and cultivation should be followed. Oats followed . by wheat will often help to remove such pests. The weed most often gets its start by sowing clover or grass seed that has the Red Sorrel mixed with it. I cannot emphasize too strongly the necessity for buying only high grade Beed tested for purity and germination. ADVISES FARMER'S SON. Farm Editor Palladium, Dear Sir: My son wishes to make farming his profession, and wishes to take some work at the State Agricultural school. Which would you advise him to take, the regular four year course, or some of the winter short course work? E. C. By attending the short courses of eight weeks for several winters your boy will be able to acquire much information that will help him greatly in his farming operations. However, the four year course offers a much broader field, and will be time well invested. At the end of the time thus spent he will, with his farm experience, be fitted to make a grand success on his own farm, or he can take up numerous other lines for which he will be especially trained. The field for college trained men is rapidly broadened, and there is an ever increasing demand for teachers, man agers, and specialists in the many brancnes of agricultural extension. of mash, and for the best egg yield 20 to 25 per cent of beef scraps and bone meal in the proportion of five per cent. Feed your mash in a hopper that does not waste it. If you do not happen to have a suitable hopper, use a shallow box about eighteen or twenty inches square and no more than six inches high. Cover this with one-half inch mesh wire over the top and place where the hens can have free access to it. Montreal in 1913 exported 2,747,192 sacks of flour.

The Miller-Kemper Co. GOOD SIGNS WHEN farmers bring their teams to town, and then drive home again, their heavy wagons loaded down with boards and joists, why, then, it is a sign that things are well, the goose is hanging high; and you may safely dance and yell, for better times are nigh. All farmers who are safe arid sane like handsome cribs and barns, and for old shacks that let in rain they do not give three darns; but when the hogs are dying off, of cholera or mumps, the farmer, with affliction filled, looks on the old shacks near, and says, "I can't afford to build until some other year." But when the hogs are feeling gay, and everything serene, and all the oats and corn and hay present a healthy green, he hitches up old Kate and Dick and journeys off to town, and then comes homeward pretty quick, with lumber loaded down. And when I see the wagons drill along the country road, each one a-creaking, loud and shrill, beneath its lumber load, I know the country's on the boom, ; and things will hum once more; and any man who talks of gloom is just a misfit bore. Some people read the Wall Street news to see which way we head, and some keep tab on Henry Clews, to see if we are dead; some follow up what congress does, and think therein they'll find the signs that business will buzz, or maybe fall behind. And some are making frequent notes upon the tariff law, to see if it will get our goats, and dislocate our jaw. But when I want to know the truth, about our future fate, I pass up all such things, forsooth, and sit on my front gate, and watch the farmers going by, upon their way from town, and if with lumber piled up high, their carts are loaded down, I know prosperity's on top, good times are here, you bet; and I go forth and whip a cop and chase a suffragette. Oh, when the farmers spend their hoards for lumber, we enthuse ; the granger's wagonload of boards tells more than Henry Clews. Walt Mason. By permission Curtis Sash and Door Co. THE MILLER-KEMPER COMPANY Sell the Best Lumber and Building Material at Lowest Prices. We specialize in good Barn Siding, Shingles, Posts, Cement and all Farmers' Needs. N. W 2nd and Center Sts. 3 Phones 3247, 4447, 4347

SUPPLY DEFICIENCY BY TESTING SOILS Farmers advised to Buy Fer- ; tilizer on Basis of Plant Food Needed. -' In his bulletin on commercial fertilizers, issued by the Purdue experiment station, W. J. Jones, Jr., state chemist, gives, among other valuable information, some good advice about the buying of fertilizers. Briefly, he says that the controlling factors in reaching a decision as to what fertilizer will prove the most profitable are as follows: Determine by experiment and ad vice from the experiment station what plant food or foods are deficient in the soil and the needs of the crop to be grown. Consult the fertilizer bulletin in ascertaining the manufacturers having brands that meet the requirements, and what manufacturers have a good record of inspection. Purchase on the basis of the price per unit of plant food desired and not on the price per ton or name under which the fertilizer is sold. Examine care fully the guarantee in the registra tion table and on the state chemist's labels. Insist on having the minimum guarantee in terms of nitrogen, pot ash and phosphoric acid and do not accept equivalents in ammonia, pot assium, potassium sulphate, potas sium muriate, bone phosphate and similar terms. Use Best Grade. Do not consider guarantees giving a maximum and minimum per cent, as nitrogen 1.5 to 2 per cent, only the minimum guarantee should receive consideration. Purchase high grade fertilizers as the price per unit of DOCTORS USING AMOLOX WITH GREAT SUCCESS Endorsed by Leading Druggists. Amolox, the new remedy for eczema and all diseases of the skin, is curing thousands of eczema sufferers that have been unable to find relief after trying everything else. A well-known physician, who had a patient with a bad case of eczema of the scalp head almost entirely covered with scaly sores rapidly becoming bald, reported after one week's treatment with the Amolox prescription, that the hair stopped falling out, scalp was rapidly healing and a new growth of healthy hair just starting. Quoting the exact words of the doctor, "That Amolox, is great stuff." Amolox is a clean, harmless liquid that is applied to the skin and stops all itch and burning instantly. Will cure eczema and all skin troubles and will clear up a muddy complexion, or pimples on face' in 24 hours. All sufferers from eczema, salt rheum, tetter, acne, barber's itch and pimples on the face should go to their druggists at once and get a bottle of Amolox. If you are not satisfied, it will not cost you a cent. A. G. Luken will refund your money if not satisfactory.

plant food they contain Is lower than In low grade goods. If It Is desired to

use a lower grade fertilizer add your own filler In the form of dry sand or dirt or reduce the amount of - high grade fertiliser used per acre. For borne mixing -urchase high grade materials except where low grade are desired for some Indirect result. Do not purchase fertilizer on the basis of filler and bear In mind that materials containing nitrogen, potash and phosporic acid are not fillers but sources of plant food. Remember that in purchasing lower grade fertilizers containing fillers or low grade makeweights you not only pay for mixing in these materials but also pay the freight on them. Do not put too much confidence in the statements of rival agents as to sources from which plant food in the fertilizers they offer for sale are de-

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You want the best. We have it and furnish the innoculation "Nodogen" free. Best seed $9.00 per bu. CflDw P Sow them now and get a crop of hay or good fall pasture, and in addition enrich your soil. Clays Mixed, per bushel $2.25 Whiporwills, per bushel $2.90 All kinds of field seeds. The reliable place to buy seeds. Phone 219S 911 Main

Mid-Summer Rug Bargains Will Continue for a Short Time Also special prices on Carpets, Linoleums and Draperies. We sell the best Window Shades and furnish estimates. Especially prepared Linoleum Varnish. Imported English Wood Pattern Linoleum for Rug borders at, per yard 50c. ; . Summer Dress Goods, Richelieu Underwear and McCallum Silk Hose. W. . irawffopdl 528 MAIN STREET

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rived, and keep always In view that the Important consideration in tha purchase of fertiliser Is not filler but the available plant foods desired at the least cost per unit. When the fertilizer is delivered examine the state chemist's label to Insure that It bean the. same guarantee aa the fertilizer purchased. -This la good advice and farmers would do well to give It heed 'when they are laying in their supply of fertilizers for use this fall. We cannot recommend too strongly that all oar readers send to Purdue station and secure -the state chemist's fertilizer bulletin. It gives the results of the inspection and analysis of the fertilisers sold in the state and many helpful suggesUons designed to aid the practical farmer to a better understanding of the purchase and use of commercial plant foods.

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