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BIG AREA IN WEST
SEVEN NATIONAL FORESTS DAM
AGED TO GREAT EXTENT
KANIKSÜ SUFFERS THE MOST
Coeur d'Alene Closed to Tourists—
OiacUr Bark Hotel In Path_
of Conflagration
Flrea bqrnUig on sevèn national tor
esta of district No. 1. during the past
week or so, have covered an estimated
territory of 64,000 acres, approximate
ly 24,000 acres more than was esti
mated to have been burned for the en
tire 1925 season on the Same forests,
according to figures compiled by for
estry officials. Five thousand acrA
are estimated to have Iteen burned up
until July 10 of thl »year, making a
total estimate, so far this year of ap
proximately 70.000 acres.
Splendid stands of virgin timber
have fallen before the flumes In the
Kanlkut, Pend Oreille, Coeur d'Alene
and Black feet forests.
A rough es t imate o f the acreage
burned on seven national forests be
tween July 10th to 20th is ns follows:
Knnlksu, 22,000 acres; Pend Oreille,
13,000 Blackfeet, 10,000; Coeur
d'Alene, «,000 ; Kootenai,
Joe, 3,000 anil Clearwater, 3.000.
On the Coeur d'Alene forest 4,000,
000 feet of white pine logs, scattered
over 1,500 acres of timber hind be
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5.000; 8f.
inet forest were burned.
The entire Coeur d'Alene forest has
been closed to camping without permit
and the Irnberg to all entry.
In Glacier national park fire In the
vicinity of the Many Glacier bote
threatened to destroy that an adjacent
A hastily recruited force
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structures,
of 75 volunteers snrrps»fully fought
the blaze with the aid of three power
pumps ami saved the hotel.
As an aid to the forest service at
outlying points, KUOM, the university
radio Station at Missoula, has reopened
broadcasting fire and weather condi
tions from the station on the campus.
The dally fire report, as furnished by
the. district No. 1 headquarter*, I» be
ing read from the station every even
ing. This will he the second year that
the station has furnished the service to
the fire fighters.
Decide Against Claimant*
After (me hour of deliberation a
Jury In the district court at Butte
brought to an end The three weeks
legal battle for a share In the $47.
900,000 estate of the late Senator W. A.
Hark by Effle Clark McWilliams, and
A|tna B* Clark Hines, of Clark »dale,
Mo„ and Addle L. Clark Miller of Den
ver, by deciding against the claimants.
The Jury found that there was no
marriage between Senator Clark and
Tahltha C. Kate Brooks, mother of the
three claimants, thus they were not
entitled to share In thp estate. The
three women claim that Senator Chirk
married their mother In Missouri In
April 25, 1869 and that he Is their
father. They decalred that he desert
ed them and their mother In 1879 and
came to Montana.
State'* Oil Share Big
■Montana's oil production provided
$3,430.510.33 for taxation purposes
during 1925. This amount, determined
by the state board of equalization,
from reports of producing companies,
as v the net proceeds In operations of
several oil fields of the state, Is tax
able In the enmities where the wells
are located to the full extent of the
county levy. The state's share at
three and one-half mills, Included In
the county's levy against the net pro
ceeds of Its oil wells, will amount to
$12,038. The board's records show
that the total production for 1025 was
4,020,023.84 barrels, which was valued
at $6,480,561.71, which deductible op
erating costs reduced to almost $3,
500,000 for taxation purposes.
Leases Are Cancelled
Twenty-six hundred unit holders In
the Go rd on Campb ell Kevin syndicate
are restored to ownership of 10,000
acres of leasehold Interests In the
northern Montana oil field by a decis
ion of the Montana supreme court, af
firming Judgment of the district court
for Toole connty. The action was
brought by trustees of the syndicate
against Campbell, the Campbell Oil
company, the Gordon Campbell Petrol
eum company, and the Royal Canad
ian Oil company.
Forty to 50 carloads of onion sets
is the predicted yield from 140 acres of
land In the Orchard Homes district
and Bitter Root valley this
A snrvey which has Just been made
of the district I* used for the basis
and It Is said from 1,750.000 to 2,000,
000 pounds of the onion sets will be
produced on the acreage.
season.
When farmers In the Chapel district
began threshing their wheat they ex
pected to get from eight to 10 bushels
an acre, but the yield Is showing from
15 to 28 bushels to the acre.
Fire at the Dlamond-Leuthold No. 2
well of the Record Petroleum company,
Big Lake oil field neat; Billings, de
stroyed the derrick and rig being used
to carry the bole down 8,800 feet So
intense were the flames fed by the
great Jet of burning gas that the 84
foot derrick was burned within 10
atoutes after the start of the fins.
Mile ns of
STATE BOOT
Dedicating Service* at Stanford Mark
Termination of Bltteme**
Among Half Dozen Citie*
;
At the dedication of the new $100,
000 Judith Basin county court .house
at Stanford six former hostile cities,
Hobson, Moccasin, Windham, Stan
ford. Geyser and Lewlsfown, pledged
their friendship each for the other
and united their forces for community
building. Eaclj city formally burled
its war hatchet before the largest
crowd that ever assembled In the Jud
ith Basin county capital.
The event climaxed a county divis
ion and county seat fight that will re
main historic in Montana. In 1612
the western jtortlon of Fergus county
sought to create a new political unit
by drawing away from Fergus and In
cluding several townships from Cas
cade. Bitter opposition among Lewls
torçn men met the overtures of the
division!*!* and for seven years the
struggle continued before the area
now In Judith Basin county succeeded
In forcing the Fergus county commis
sioners to call an election at which
the question of division could be de
cided by popular vole. ,
The victory was finally won on an
order of the Montana supreme court
and when the people In the affected I
territory cast their ballots there were I
only a scattering few who voted to re- I
main In the old county. If was claimed I
to be the largest majority ever given I
n measure referred to the people In a I
Montana election.
Normal Committee at Work
The committee appointed by the
state hoard of education to select the
site for the new stale normal com
posed of George H. Black, of Ellen
burg, Wash., President Fisher of the
Bellingham normal, Bellingham, Wash.,
and President Baker, of the State
Normal school of Wisconsin, has al
ready started to Investigate locations.
Eight towns, Glendive. Miles City,
Billings, Forsyth, llonndnp, Lewi*
to wn, Glasgow and Wolf Point, will
be visited by tWe committee.
Again Division Point
Glasgow Is again a division point on
the Great Northern. Fourteen train
crews of five men oaCh, with about 13
extra men, several clerks, oil tank
tenders, yard men and others were af
fected by the change, many of whom
will make their homes In Glasgow.
Passenger crews will work from Havre
to Wllllston as at present, with the ex
ception of engine crews, which will
change at Glasgow Instead of Wolf
Point. Freight crews will change at
Glasgow.
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MONTANA BRIEFS
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Work Is progressing on the new
zonollte plant at !.lbl»y,
Nearly a quarter million dollars
worth of new buildings are being con
structed at Billings.
According to the state department of
publicity at Helena 600 new families
have come Into Montana this year.
Bids for the completion of Gibson
dam at Beaver creek, on Sun river will
be opened at Fairfield on August *31.
Bozeman Is planning to entertain
20,000 visitors «luring the Montana
Shrine ceremonial there Aug. 6 and 7.
(Mtlzens «>f Glendive will soon be
provlde«! with natural gas from the
Cabin Creek field, 40 miles east of the
etty .--—-
„ Work of reconstructing the village
of Elllston, near Helena, which was
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nearly wiped, out .by Are, I«. progress 1 |
Montana's Labor Review, n 42-page I
bulletin, Is now ready for distribution
by the publicity department of the |
Oil on the streets of Libby has prov- I
en so satisfactory that the city coun
ell has decided to purchase another |
Fire completely destroyed the news- [
paper plant of the Sweetgrass Sun
hurst Sun and a residence adjoining |
the printing office at Sweetgraaa. -1
The establishing of Glasgow as a
Ing rapidly.
state government at Helena.
carload of oil for the purpose.
division point on the Great Northern
will result In the removal of about 25
families from Wolf Point, It Is said.
C. II. Coleman, manager of the Jud
ith Gap cream station, reports that a
large amount of cream Is being mar
keted by fanners In Judith Gap terri
tory at present.
Work has started on the Hill «'onnty
end of the Havre-Medlcine Hat high
way. The highway will lead from
Havre to Medicine- Hat, connecting
with the Important Canadian east and
west highway there.
Utilization hf Montana petroleum ns
locomotive fuel has "Indefinitely de
layed" plans for the electrification of
the Great Northern railroad through
the Rocky mountains, Ralph Bndd,
president of the road declared at Great
Falls.
Preparations to ask the Untied
State* supreme court to review the de
cision of the supreme court holding
the 1624 gasoline tax law Invalid are
being made by the attorney general's
office at Helena.
Wolf Point cltlaens, acting through
the city council threw Wolf Point's
hst in the ring ss a candidate for the
eastern Montana normal school, A
certified check for $2,500 has been
mailed to the state board of education
•t Helena with the formal application
for the school.
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Ranch News
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PLANTINGS IN MONTANA THIS
YEAR FAR IN LEAD OF 1928
According: to a summary Issued by
the federal and state crop bureau at
Helena preliminary estimate of acre
age devoted tp 10 principal crop* In
Montana this season I« placed at 6,
372,000 compared with 6.104,000 acre*
December estimate for 1925 crops and
6 , 021,000 ucres, average for the Iasi
five years. The report shows that all
principal grain crops register a larger
acreage compared with 1925.
Compared with other years, herbage
of all wheat placed this year at 3,537,
000 acres, approaching that of 1919.
the high mark of 3,621,000 acres. In
this total, winter wheat fall* well be
low Its five-year average, the Increase
coming In spring wheat.
Coni acreage while declining further
from the high mark reached In 1924,
would have registered some Increase
this year over Inst had weather con
ditions at planting time enabled farm
ers to carry om earlier intentions In
all sections of the state.
While there has probably been some
slight. Increase In number of farms
since 1924, the Increase In planting Is
due to expansion of the average acre
age of crops per farm.
Eleven and a fourth pounds of wool
from yearling ewes and 11 pounds
from other ewes was the average for
the Robinson & RIcder clip at Devon,
which has been consigned to Adams A
Lelnnd of Boston.
Water users on the Lower Yellow
stone Irrigation project paid $50,000
io the government as the first require
ment under the iiew 5 per cent con
tract entered into last spring as a re
sult of some dissatisfaction with the
old contract.
Intentions of making another Canada
inn tour the summer of 1927 were
expressed by nearly all of the 300
I northeastern Montana farmers and
I Legionnaires who took part In the
three days' Journey through southern
Saskatchewan.
iWI does to 3,000,000 bushels, putting
It In a neck-aml-neck race for first
It Is estimated that 164,000 acres of
wheat In Daniels' county this fall will
honors with Sheridan county, which
' ,f)s a considerably larger acreage,
The county average is expected to be
1^ bushels t<> the acre.
The Pondera County Poultry Grow
ers' association sold Its first carload
of live poultry of the present season
to flie Northern Creamery company of
Great Falls where the jsiultry will he
faf toned Then picked, packed, frozen
and shipped to the creamery com
pany's distributing houses on the Pa
ciflc coast.
During June Montana marketed al
most a million pounds of butter on the
San Francisco and Los Angeles mar
kets, according to reports of market
receipts compiled by the office of agri
cultural economics of the Montana ex
tension service af Bozeirtan.
month's shipments of butter from Mon
tana Included 422,000 pounds to Los
Angeles.
Old timers In northeastern Montana
—and that means farmers who have
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lived In the district 15 years—claim
there has'never been a total crop fail
ure, though there have been times
when the yields were low. Adoption
of proper summer tillage methods add
0( , to the gom j rainfall that the
area
receives, Is given ns the reason for the
satisfactory status of the wheat bnsl
ness.
Montons Is concerned again this
vonr w)th t j, e problem of low cost
harvesting and threshing. From a
survey throughout the state, It Is
shown that hundreds o*farmers are
adopting metliods outlined In the bul
letin "Low Co«t Wheat Harvesting",
which was Issued by the Extension
Service Inst year. This bulletin, by
M. L. Wilson, 1s a report of the meth
ods used by farmers throughout the
northwest In an attempt to materially
lower their harvesting and threshing
costs. The Hurt header barge, one of
the Implements described Ifl thts bul
letin, has been built In many localities
I of the state and Is reported as giving
most satisfactory, results?
As a control measure dn the prices
of wheat to the fanner, Thomas D.
Campbell, Hardin wheat king, has
worked out a practical Idea that adds
thousands of dollars to the price he
get* for his wheat. At each camp, he'
ha* set up a string of sheet steel bln*
Into which the day's threshing la
dumped as fast as It comes from the
combines by means of portable elevat
ors. It can then be hauled to the ship
ping station at night or held until the
market rises If the day's market does
not suit. The same Idea can be ap
plied to corn harvest In the corn belt,
the sheet steel crlha being ventilated
so that the new corn dries out while
being protected from rats, birds and
fire.
Rams from the best breeding flocks
in Montana will be consigned to- Miles
City for tbs ram sale that will taks
place on September 2. during the sec
ond day of the Eastern Montana fair,
according to reports. The listing will
include Rambouillet. Hampshire and
crossbred rams, all from Montana
flocks. For the convenience of ail
cl as ses of purchasers it Is announced
that the hlgh-clees stud rams will be
sold singly, sod that the regletered
and purebred range and flock rams
will be sold In pens of five. 1A RL ID
and 26 Usad.
FATTEN BROILERS
FOR MARKETING
For the most part, farmers and
poultry raiser* who keep Leghorn
chickens pay most attention to the
production of egga. They think of
eggs as the chief end of poultry keep
ing.* My experience has been that by
paying a little more attention to the
fatteniiig and marketing of Leghorns,
the Income from this source can be
considerably Increased, tfaya a writer
In the Successful Farming. Especially
Is this true when marketing broilers.
Leghorn broilers fatten easily when
confined and force fed for about two
weeks. They will consume about two
pounds of feed daring this time and
should show a gain In weight of one
half to three-fourths of a pound.
There are two methods which I
have employed In fattening broilers.
These are pen and crate fattening.
The simplest and most logical method
for farm conditions I have found Is
pen fattening. -
Following this method, the birds are
confined In small pens when about one
and one-half pounds ',n weight and
are fed thb following mash : 25 pounds
cornmeal, 15 pounds middlings, 8
|M>unds meat scraps, and one-half-ponnd
salt This I* fed as a wet mash by
adding sour milk, buttermilk, or skim
milk.
Three times a day and are permitted
The birds are fed this maSh
to eat for half an hour at a time,
when the uneaten portion la removed.
It Is Important that the Intervals
between the feedings should be as
nearly equal as possible.
The object of feeding this wet mash
Is to get the birds to eat large amounts
of food so they will make maximum
gains In the shortest time.
Corn me a l and milk In any form
should be the foundation of any good
fattening mash. It should also be re
membered that when milk Is used In
fattening fowls, not a too large amount
of meat scraps should be used.
One reason for the wide spread
In prices paid for Leghorn broilers
and those of the heavier breeds Is
b ecause the Leghorn, being more ac
tive, will not take on flesh as readily
ns the heavier breeds when on free
range.
Roosters Can Be Sold
Now, Says J. H. McAdams
Now that the Incubation period Is
over there Is no further need for roost
ers In the flock and all but one or two
of the best male birds can be sold,
advises J. H. McAdams, extension
poultryman at the Kansas State Agri
cultural college. Every flock owner
knows, according to McAdams, that
the male bird Is unnecessary so far
as the production of market eggs is
concerned. Male birds now represent
Just so ninny extra mouths to feed, he
says.
comes largely from the price consid
eration, according to McAdams, who
says that when these birds were pur
chased last fall or early winter they
were valued from $2 up to possibly
$10 each. Today with old roosters
commanding 10 cents a pound an ex
ceptionally high price prevails, but as
soon as the old roostetrs start moving
to market the price will drop probably
to about 10 cents a pound.
"Even though old roosters were such
a drug on the market that he could not
sell them at all.no fanner could afford
to keep them In his flock." McAdams
warns. "To live, a rooster must eat
and the feed bill on each individual
one will be at least 10 cents a month,
making a total cost of at least 80 cents
to hold the old birds over until Feb
ruary.''
Poultry Hints
The results of chickens eating car
rion or spoiled feed are Umberneck or
indigestion.
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Sgt eating is a vicious habit and
the best method to combat It Is the
slaughter of the offending
Convenience for both hens and care
taker should be considered—conveni
ence
ness means health.
means cleanliness and cleanli
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A laying hen Is about the only ex
ample of a going concern that can alt
still and yet produce dividends
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The first quality that makes for
success and profit In the poultry flocjk
4s vigor, vitality or constitution.
Choose your own name for this
quality.
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A chicken that Is liberally fed does
not. as a rule, exercise enough to run
off flesh but only enough to keep in
good general health and to have a
good appetite.
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Eggs will remain fertile up to ten
days after the male has been re
moved from the breeding pen.
Given a chance, poultry will return
good profit* on the Investment Clean
liness is one of the best guarantees
Poultry diseases spread principally
in four ways; By the bird*
dead diseased birds by contamln.ted
air through drinking water, amt
through the dropping» of diseased
Wrds
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YOUTHS IN TEENS
FACE DEATH FOR
• KILLING OFFICER
Young Bandit » Stay Police
man Who Caught Them
With Stolen Car.
Boston.—Death may be the price
three boys not yet oûl of tbelr teens
may have to pay for an amazing
career of crime. The youths have
been captured after a thrilling chase
which finally uncovered their hiding
place—a rooming bouse next door to
a district police station. The boys
are charged with murder. One of
them has confessed that be killed g
policeman who caught them with a
stolen automobile. ,
The youths are Albert Deshon, Rob
ert Sambrusky, and Stanley Tooth
iker, all about seventeen years old.
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Killed a Policeman.
Deshon, apparently the leader of the
gang, admitted killing the policeman
and showed the authorities heaps of
buried money and valuables the boys
had hoarded.
Wanted Easy Money.
The lads admitted that they de
sired easy money and wished to show
their girl friends a good time with
their booty and In stolen automobiles.
Scores *f holdups and house burgla
ries are credited to .them.
All the boys are from families too
poor to hire attorneys to defend
them. So the city has appointed a
special attorney to represent them
when they are tried. The lads take
their predicament lightly and boast
that they will be able to escape exe
cution. They say they had luck In
their robberies and are sure It will
hold now.
Junked Motor Corn Help
* to Tame Missouri River
Pierre, S. D.—Junked motor cars
are being put to a new use here—
that of helping "tame" the Missouri
river.
The "Big Muddy" has a coy habit
of tearing away large chunks of South
Dakota farm land abutting the
stream during the spring rises and
carrying them downstream sometimes
In 20-acre chunks. Piling logs, brush
and debris along the bank has not
availed to stop the channel's depre
dations.
But It has been discovered that the
frames of Junked cars, piled one upon
another wherever the channel is cut
ting away the bank, settle so firmly
and are so Impervious to the channel
stream that they stop the cutting
away of the bank. Several score of
abandoned motor cars are serving
more effectively than expensive piling.
Girl, 14, Starts Oat
to Convert New York
New York,—A fourteen-year-old
girl with an ambition to convert all
New York to what she terms "old
fashioned religion," has begun her
campaign from the pulpit of Calvary
Baptist church.
Uldlne Mabelle Utley, born In Ok
lahoma In 1912, who until two years
ago occupied herself with dreams of
motion picture stardom, recently de
livered a two-hour plea for converts
to Christianity from the pulpit usual
ly filled by Dr. John Roach Straton,
one of the most famous divines of the
country.
At the end of her sermon, she called
upon the large congregation to pledge
Itself anew to Christ, and virtually
the entire crowd arose. Men and
women prayed In the aisles of the
ihurch, and the few who failed to
irise at th'e young woman's plea were
ixhorted again and again until only
about six remained seated. -
Burned to Death
Chicago.—Mrs. Christina Snyder,
seventy-seven years old, was burned
to death In bed in her home when a
kerosene lamp which she had left
lighted upset and set fire to the bed
ding.
Out Again, In Again
Picken*. R G —Am Patterson, par
doped from a life prison term that he
might go boose to die, la aenrtng a
chain-gang senteur« 9*r a
violation.
GRASS NOT ALWAYS
SUFFICIENT FEED
Good pasture is always considered
to be the most desirable ration for
the dairy cow. Yet, in some cases,
a heavy-producing cow may not be
able to get enough food from grass
alone. Pastures vary fit capacity.
One man's pasture may be kuee deep
to ric h And luxuriant forage, while
another's may be little better than
a dry lot It will depend greatly on
the productive power of the pasture
as to how much supplementary feed.
If any, Is needed. According to the
department of farm management at
Washington, a cow producing three
gallons of milk a day on pasture
should get approximately three pounds
of grain additional or its equivalent In
good hay or green feed. A cow pro
ducing four gallons of average milk
should get about five pounds of grain,
and for five gallons of milk of average
quality, about eight pounds of grain.
This Is Just a business proposition.
If a pound of grain fed to a certain
cow will produce an extra pound or
two of milk and the milk pr oduced I»
worth more than the grain. It will pay
to feed that much grain. If the cow
will not produce enough more milk
to pay for the grain she either docs
npt need It or is not capable of In
creasing her production, obviously.
It will pay better to feed extra grain
when milk aud butter Is at a good
price than when It brings a low" price.
It must also be remembered that while
extra feed may not Increase the milk
flow of the cow Immediately, It may
prevent her going down In milk later
and may pay for Itself that way.—
Chas. I. Bray, Associate Professor of
Animal Husbandry, Colorado Agricul
tural College.
Sure Way of Obtaining
a High Yield of Milk
The sorest way of obtaining a high
yield of milk from a cow is to have
her In good flesh at calving time. If
a plentiful supply of good feed I»
given the cow, before calving, the ani
mal will be in good condition, vigor
ous and healthy. The material that
builds up the calf must come from
some source, and If It Is not supplied
by liberal feeding, the cow will deny
herself and use her own tissues and
strength for producing her offspring.
As a result when the calf Is dropped
the Cow Is weak and the calf Is not
as strong as It would have been If the
mother had been on feed. The feed
fed Is used for building up the partly
destroyed tissues and supplying milk
for the calf.
Thus by supplying a liberal ration
to the cow while carrying the unborn
calf, a reserve of fats and other build
ing materials Is ready for the purpose
of unliking the calf, and the mother
In not forced to use her own flesh and
blood for this purpose. As a result,
she will be more likely to drop a
strong, vigorous calf, give her maxl
mllk production and she and
mum
the calf will be better off with no
more feed used In the long run.
Practical Plan to Wean
Young Calf Is Outlined
When a calf Is to be weaned, after
running with the cow for three or
four months, shut the^ow up at night
for a week or ten days, milk her
every morning and let her run with
Then, at
the calf through the day.
the end of ten days, after the calf has
with the cow In the morning, say
hour, and the cow eats a little
run
«me
and gets a drink, shut her up and milk
her in the evening. Then turn calf
with cow for half an hour or so and
shut up for the night,
for a week or ten days,
time the calf will conclude the cow Is
about dry and will care little for her.
Put the calf weaner on the calf and
let the cow and calf run together as
first. This doe* away with the
cow and calf fretting for each other
an d it » nmdi mom a greea b le
Job for the one doing the work.
Repeat this
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Dairy Facts
Use no dry, dusty food Just pre
vious to milking.
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The younger the scrub bull Is the
better beef he makes.
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The scrub sire Is a money loser
from every standpoint.
Oeara should be cooled In cold
water Immediately after separating
winter as well as In summer.
In
Success In the dairy business dc- •
pends upon the cow and the man. If
you are sure of yourself, then test
the cows. ..... -
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Raise calve* only from the- very best
cows. Milking ability is Inherited and
Inferior cow* can produce only tbelr
kind.
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Dairy cattle ahouid be kept to •
stable, preferably without cellar or
storage loft, and where no other ant
Do not allow any strong flavored
food, like garlic, cabbage, or turnips,
to be eaten, except immediately after
milking. Changes to toed should he
crsdoallr.