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By W. A. RADFORD Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all problems pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on the subject. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 407 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111., and only inclose ‘.wo-cent stamp for reply. During the next two or three months ice in the northern section of the United States will be about the least valuable of nature’s products. It will be so plentiful that most people will wish there was less of it. However, when the scorching days come next summer ice will be welcome, not only for cooling drinks, but for the preservation of food. Where mechanical refrigeration is not available ice is the medium by which food may be protected from the ravages of hot weather. Nowhere is ice more tiseful than on the farm, especially where there is a dairy herd, for modern methods of handling milk arid cream require that it be cooled immediately after drawing. The method of doing this in the summer time requires ice. To have a supply of ice next summer an ice house is required. This

Insulating Lumber Is Cheap and Efficient Thousands of American homes already built with insulating lumber show extraordinary results in comfort and economy. Where synthetic lumber is used for sheathing in place of ordinary lumber it serves two purposes: rigid, strong construction and insulation against heat and cold. On inside walls it replaces lath and makes a beautiful smooth wall with plaster applied directly to the surface. On the room under the slate, shingles or prepared roofing, it protects the entire house against outside heat in summer and prevents leakage of heat in winter. / In the light of these developments, Insulation can no longer be called a luxury. It is ready to take its place beside the staple, everyday necessities such as brick, stone, wood, concrete and steel. The future/modern home builder will no more sacrifice the blessings of insulation than he would give up the health and comfort of ,of modern plumbing, lighting or heating. The scheme of progress we call civilization consists merely of the gradual adoption of improvements that create better living conditions. Better living means better people. The better citizens of the future will owe no small part of this higher standard to the men who in the present day are making better homes possible for all. Contrast Color Effect From Walls to Ceiling Avoid sharp contrasts between walls and ceilings. If you observe nature, you will see how wonderful the law of subtle gradation is handled. Immediate foregrounds are darker and stronger in tone, middle distance Is Picturesque Termed Elusive When Sought An architect hears so much aboyt the picturesque from clients who ask him to give them picturesque designs that he is tempted to say that if you want the picturesque do not seek it. The last centuries having to complete the great edifices of the past did not believe themselves riveted to a -> *%tyle that had disappeared. The Palace of Justice In Paris was carried on without being made in the style of the Thirteenth century. Vet it is picturesque; In Notre Dame and in many churches you will find the successive styles from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth century, and Notre Dame is picturesque. Grain of Wood Is Not Fit for All Finishes Because the grain of the wood is not equally receptive to colored filler in all parts, certain portions retain more of it than others; it is in this way that the Interesting effects are obtained. Handsome and rich are color-

building may be Inexpensive. What Is required are double walls between which there is a material that will act as an insulation to protect the ice from the heat of the summer sun. Shown in the illustration is a small two-gable ice house of concrete and hollow tile. This house may be duplicated in frame. In either case there should be an inside wall with space between it and the outside "wall that could be packed with sawdust, shavings, hay or straw or some other ma. terial that provides dead air space which is the best type of insulation. This building is 12 feet by 18 feet and is 9 feet to the eaves. It has a concrete foundation witli a drain set in one corner of the concrete floor. Accompanying the exterior view is a floor plan and a cross-section of the building which shows the construction when hollow tile is used. To construct it of frame requires only that the 8-inch wall of hollow tile be replaced by a double wall of lumber. The ice cakes, of course, are packed in with a liberal amount of sawdust, hay or straw, between each cake. As has been said, an ice house of this size is not expensive and its contents will be appreciated when summer comes again.

more neutral and lighter, while the far distance is still lighter and grayer. The same principle is successfully applied to the color treatment of your rooms. Floors can be made darker. Walls somewhat lighter and the ceiling still lighter in color. You will then have a nice progression of tones that will help tie the floor, side walls and ceiling together in harmony. The fewer colors you use in your color scheme, the better the harmony. There should be a similarity between walls, floors and ceiling. Suppose you choose a gray-brown paper in light tones, gray-brown draperies and wood trim, a darker brown floor stain and a light buff ceiling. Your room will be monotonous in color. If green blue were used in the draperies and perhaps a repetition of darker blue in your floor covering, you would then have harmonious contrast. Colored Telephones The next dully utilitarian object to disappear from the American home beinvasion of color probably will ne the telephone. The American Architect notes in its current issue the introduction in Paris of conti-nental-type telephones finished in blue, green, red, brown and other decorative tones, and advocates their use in modern interior decoration. Planning New Roof? Planning to reroof your home this fall? Remember and choose your roof to harmonize with your house, for the correct sort of roof on a home is as vital as the correct hat on a pretty lady. Put a wrong hat on an attractive woman and the result is sad; put a wrong roof on a house and the result is tragic. stippled finishes for living-room woodwork. After the work has been brought up to a smooth surface of desiretj ground color (in case of new wood at least three coats are required) then a thin glaze coat of contrasting color is applied, which is stippled with a large stencil brush. The brush should be kept fairly clean and dry by frequent wiping. Good color combinations are light buff ground with olive-green glaze, Venetian red ground with mahogany glaze, white ground with orange glaze, silver ground with blue-black glaze, and an ivory ground with raw sienna glaze. On account of the extreme thinness of the glaze color the durability of these finishes will be greatly enhanced if one coat of varnish is applied as soon as the glaze is thoroughly dry. Short Stair Carpet Don’t start a stair carpet and stop it before the end of the stairs. In the dark one may feel for it on the last few treads and stumble for lack of It

DaIRY FACTS CHILLY WEATHER CUTS MILK FLOW Herd Should be Stabled and Protected From Rain. Cows may not be temperamental, but when exposed to cold and rain they give less milk, warns Prof. H. A. Hopper of Cornell university. The milking herd should be stabled at night and protected from rains. Fall pasture may be used as much as possible, but quick weather changes should find the animals protected. While it is hard to keep up the milk flow on cows near the end of their milking period, the demands for milk justify every reasonable effort. Bring the cows arnd heifers about to freshen, from pasture to the barn where they can be watched, fed legume hay, silage, and a low protein grain ration. The grain ration should be reduced before the cows freshen. The following grain mixtures are offered to make use of available farm grown grain: With mixed hay~-200 barley or corn, 200 oats, 300 wheat bran, 200 cottonseed meal, 100 linseed oil meal: with clover hay —300 barley or corn, 300 oats. 200 wheat bran, 200 cottonseed meal; with alfalfa- hay—--300 barley or corn, MOO oats. 300 wheat bran. 100 cottonseed meal. Continue to feed the good cows generously as the demand for milk is still acute. Where the ration includes 1 per cent each of bone meal and limestone, no other minerals are needed. The dairyman who has plenty of legume hay such as clover or alfalfa, needs to buy no minerals other than salt. Legume hay plus a good grain mixture liberally fed, will supply all the calcium and phosphorus needed. Dairy Herd Improvement Reflected in Milk Pail Wisconsin leads all other in the number of dairy herd improvement associations. It has 154 out of a total of nearly 1,100 in all the states, according to reports compiled by the bureau of dairy industry of the United States Department of Agriculture. These associations give dairymen information as to the profitableness of their cows. On the basis of such information. association members have been weeding out the less desirable animals and retaining heifers from the more productive cows. The value of this practice is reflected in the steady increase in the average production of the cows under test in these associations. In 1920 the average production per cow in these herds was 247 pounds of butterfat. In 1924 this had increased to an average of 279 pounds. According to the bureau’s records the production figures for the years from 1925 to 1928 were 284 pounds. 289 pounds, 293 pounds, and 295 pounds. Minerals Needed Most in Animal Nutrition Producing animals, pregnant animals, and growing animals need large amounts of minerals. A cow puts 14 pounds of mineral in every ton of milk, 5G pounds in a normal production year. A large amount of minerals is needed for repair within the body. A growing calf needs 40 to GO grams of mineral matter per day. Alfalfa hay contains the two minerals needed the most in animal nutrition ; calcium lime and phosphorus. These minerals are available and in such abundance in alfalfa' hay that there can be no deficiency when fed at the rate of one pound of hay for every 100 pounds live weight in a properly balanced ration. One ton of alfalfa hay contains 163 pounds of minerals. —J. C. Nisbet, Extension Dairyman, Kansas State Agriculture College. Latest Suggestions on Right Feeding of Cows Latest kinks on the better feeding of cows, one of the easiest ways to make dairying more profitable, are included in a revised edition of the circular entitled: “Feeding the Dairy Herd.” just issued by the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, for the benefit of dairymen and other interested persons. Covering 50 pages, the circular is a complete handbook on the feeding of all animals in the dairy herd. Special stress is laid on feeding for milk production. Since first issued in 1923, the circular has gained wide popularity as a textbook among farm advisers and high school agriculture teachers and as a handy reference volume for farmers and dairymen themselves. Copies of the revised publication may be secured upon request to the college. Work of Bacteria Most bacteria of milk change the milk sugar into lactic acid which sours and curdles it. Other bacteria produce an intensely bitter substance which causes the milk to become bitter. One type secrets a rennin-like enzyme which curdles the milk even though it remains sweet. Another type produces considerable gas. Still another type causes milk to thicken and become ropy or stringy. A long list of bacteria which affect the flavor of milk could be prepared. Ringworm Is Common Ringworm is a common disease among young cattle during winter and spring. It is contagious, being communicated from one animal to another. The germs of this disease are also harbored in the barn, which must be cleaned, disinfected and whitewashed to prevent spreading. In treating this disease the crust must be removed by washing with soap and water, then painted with iodine once a day until the disease is cured.

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r uSttkl LIGHTS PROMOTE EGGS IN WINTER Scratch Feed Is Scattered in Litter Previous Night. Egg production can be profitably Increased during winter months through the use of artificial lighting, suggests O. C. Ufford, extension poultryman for the Colorado Agricultural college. “Hens normally lay the most eggs in the spring and early summer when there is the greatest amount of daylight,” Mr. Ufford declares. “It has been found that by prolonging the period of light during winter days a higher average egg production will be obtained than when artificial light Is not used.” There are three methods of artificially lighting the henhouse by the use of an automatic clock. Probably the most popular method is that of turning on the lights between 4 and 5 a. m. and keeping them on until daylight. The morning scratch feed is scattered in the litter the night before. Sometimes a combination of morning and evening lights is used, the evening lights being turned on about 4 p. m. and kept on until 6:30 or 7 p. in., when the birds are sent to roost by automatically dimming the lights before they are entirely turned off. The lights are turned on again by the clock early in the morning. The evening lunch method permits the birds to go to roost at the regular time, but arouses them when the lights are turned on about 8 p. m., when a feed of grain is scattered in the litter. This brings the birds off the roosts for about an hour for grain, mash and water, and then they are sent back to roost by the use of dimmers. This lunch prevents them from becoming hungry during the winter nights and enables them to better resist cold weather. Mash for Winter Eggs Favored by Specialist With a 50 per cent production for young stock as a practical economical limit for their production, J. B. Hayes, poultry specialist at the University of Wisconsin, advises that careful feedng should attend their introduction into the class of producers. “Forcing,” he declares, “should not je attempted on young stock, nor should it be expected of them that proSuction on top of early maturity gained from forcing will be the best ’or flock production.” For poultry stock which is in conSition to be forced, such as pullets ■hat are well along to maturity, and nens that have fully recovered from their molt and are again in good conJition, increased feeding during the winter months is a good way to bring ap production of the flock. One of the best of rations for the flLock to bring them to better production is this one: Scratch Feed -MixtureJ (’racked jorn, 2 pounds; wheat, 2 pounds; oats, I pound. Mash: Bran, 100 pounds; wheat middlings, 100 pounds; buckwheat middlings, 100 pounds; ground oats, 100 pounds; oil meal, 50 pounds; salt, { pounds. Practices in feeding that have been found to be the best, according to Hayes, include the feeding of grain ; n two or three portions during the lay. The mash is the true “forcer” of the feed for the flock. Rotting of Eggs Blamed on Carbon Dioxide Gas According to a Cornell chemist, one >f the chief reasons for the rotting sf eggs is the escape of carbon lioxide gas through the shell. He distovered that newly laid eggs contain i this gas in a limited quantity, but ' :he porousness of the shell permits it io pass off within a short time. He proved, however, that the egg would reabsorb the gas, and by exposing the shells to a minute quantity of ;arbon dioxide succeeded in keeping ihem fresh indefinitely. The cost of the treatment was said to be a few hundredths of a cent per dozen. Fowls for Breeding It is time to make the breeding pens. Select your best hens and confine them n small flocks of from 12 to 20, according to the breed, and place a good male in each pen. Have the hens in sach pen as near alike as possible. If i number of males are allowed to run with a large flock you can never tell what the chicks will be when you seect the eggs for hatching. Promiscuous breeding, even for utility stock, is lever satisfactory for a profitable lock. Management of Pullets With regard to the management of the pullets, it will be advisable gradually to introduce the rations likely to be used during the laying period. Any change in the diet should be made oefore eggs are forthcoming in any large number. All poultry keepers have difficulty in preventing the partial moult. While admitting that various factors may be responsible for this trouble, there is no doubt that management aas much to do with it. Tuberculosis of Fowls Tuberculosis in poultry flocks has oeen found much more prevalent than was suspected, and in many counties, especially in some of the north central states, the disease is present to a greater or less extent in about 70 per cent of the flocks. Tuberculous birds i show loss of vigor and flesh, lameness, swollen joints, drooping, and general unthriftiness. Tuberculosis in poul- ! try can be definitely diagnosed by a i post mortem or by the tuberculin test | given by a veterinarian.

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