FARM & GARDEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3536, 17 June 1905, Page 4

FARM & GARDEN.

I WINDMILL GRINDER.

if How to Arrarnttf * ail Pnt D ® °’* Will Saw Wood and Gtlaa Corn for frad!**I One of the be*t plans, is to secnre, in U the first place, a .|?ood windnull, and -.'second, a good thort'Uffhly-autom.aac feed grinder, which regulate the amount of feed strictly l )ro P°.f" n to the speed at which th# ml ing driven, and which will sto*’ 1 emp > whenever the mill stops'. With n- uc 1 a feed grinder as this, arranged prefe, bly directly upon the driving shaft the geared mill, a large amount of fefi'b may be ground wherever there is a fly - considerable amount of steady wind above a velocity of 12 to 15 mile* per

A WINDMILL GRINDER, hour. In order to get the maximum amount oi work out of the mill in the way of feed grinding, it is necessary to provide a large bin above the grinder, in which the grain to be ground can be placed, and then have this arranged in such a way that the grain feeds directly into the mill whenever the mill is running. With this arrangement must also of course be provided a bin into which the ground meal can fall out of the way of the grinder. Such an arrangement is shown by the cut, taken from the Wisconi*in agricultural experiment station bulletin No. 02. The grinder there shown is arranged directly on driving shaft of a 12-foot geared v . ..ill, and upon the same shaft is rirown a driving pulley, to which " t may be- for the purpose of sawing wood or driving - any other piece of machinery which the mill has the capacity of handling. This driving pulley can be used to drive a machine set anywhere on the circumference of a circle surrounding the shaft and without disturbing the feed grinder; it only being necessary to throw the grinder out of use when the driving shaft is desired for some other purpose. —F. H. King, in Eural New Yorker.

BOGUS FOOD PRODUCTS.

Vh*y Can Live Only So houg a* Thai* Kent Character I* Hidden hr Lying Label*. ■After all, something is to be hoped for from national and state laws. While it is true that many laws on our . statute books are dead as to enforcement, or only partially enforced, yet it ia also true that some of the laws list we supposed would be of little effect have been enforced to the letter and have accomplished all that could be desired. We will instance the national law against “filled cheese.” It was not many years ago that one could 'hardly buy a piece of cheese and be sure it waswhwt it claimed lobe. Filled cheese has demoralized the home market and destroyed most of the foreign demand for cheese made in the United States'. The filled chceee law vu passed, and the result has been the-almost complete obliteration of the Industry of making filled cheese. It can still be made and sold, but it cannot be sold for anything besides what it is. What is the result? It i* found that no Ameriesn wants ■ to buy the stuff, and so none is sold in _ this country. Two factories in Illinois still make filled cheese and sell it to English firms. But even there the demand is growing less. English merchants last year imported 636,944 pounds, made in the United States and Holland. It is made in no other country. The amount used in England last year was not half of the amount, used two years before. Recently there have been some prosecutions in the English court on account of tradesmen having sold filled cheese for the pure article. It is probably true that all of this cheese now'leaving the United State# is going out fully branded under it# own name, but it is altogether probable that the consumer on, the other side of the water buys it for full cream cheese. Its decadence proves that it and all things like it can live only so long as their real character is hidden by a mask. W’e need therefore only tear off the mask to destroy most of the imitation food products.—Farmers’ Review. Woo Popular Year# Ag». The great reputation now being given the cow pea is not new. Many years ago the praises of the cow pea were heard everywhere, and the cow ; pea is also pne of the oldest and ■ best known plants in this country. The fact is that the cow pea will not make much headway where clover is a leading cr>> ' 'move serviceable where cioici ia vastly growp, but as it is expensive to save the seed of the cow pea, much difficulty is in its way. It is a valuable plant, however, and should be grown on every farm.

i/ FATTENING OLD COWS.

•They Should Be Given «• Mneh Food a* They Will Hat. There is a widespread popular prejudice against cow beef, and we suspect that the doctors are very largely responsible iior it. Yet vve have i eaten tender and sweet cow Lee; maour experience long ago taught us that its quality was much more depend •:< ' on the way it had been ffttten-.nl i ; : i! \v'u nn the age of the cow. I’yi iirviTiiieiess true, says American Cultivator, that it is more diilleuii. u, U.‘ten an old cow, or an old animal of any kind, than it is to fatten young animals. As the teeth begin to in.il, tV r - d v* not so well masticated aand as a consequence di : larded. The presence of* a,. . food in the stomach creates fever, ami in this diseased condition not only does the animal fatten less rapidly, but what ties'll it puts on is less tender and sweei than it should be. The com’ ■ .. ,i. ;ig tn-.ra so 10.,* ■■■ t;:;;,. d. h< ’ns to make w mhiw . , , •int. ... that . £o a i U tnV* ‘r it as good erly fattened .shot -hi bo J as .she win > ■ a suee, ■ n or mea] rather fust *-• le v 1 thin in th;--'. sparingly. If she l*n. lhf botu her b: -f may be made* provirh-d this condition do, ‘ ‘ the m . •■•.r-ent of her d-,qv ~ gans. o. cow is fnftcv • when you begin feeding her V ‘ _ more tlian skin and bones, with eft K flesh to hold them together, it stand* ™ reason that most of the flesh and fft’you can put on her by three or tosi months good feeding will be new ilesia and fat, and just as good as if put cm a two-year-old heifer. The bodily system is bein'- constantly changed by the small v.'bi.'f ’’ flesh, •* - waste n.;u. ana »»• new. The old saying used to be tua • the living body is wholly renewed ever; aeven years. Dut pcicnt’.s* •’ ■' 7 agreed that most parts ol it ».it i l, ‘ much quicker than this, as auyo; may see by the rapid healing of a cu. or bruise when air and the germs w contains are excluded from it.

the dairy industry.

It’s the Beat Bn«ln«i» In Which • Fanner Caw Engage. Dairying as a distinct industry is one which contributes as much of real benefit to a community ns s:nv that: ran ..«» named. It- is n b individual, d.d. , ■. ■ ;; gage, or a number t ..n jO.u 1.1 a eocpci - tire enterprise. The poor man v -!> ucm few acre:-;, the renkr nod rim wiouv. with a famiiy of sn::d port, can with one or more cows tr.av. advantageous disposition on the farm of the ordinary crops of the small farm or garden patch, receiving in return from the cows a perfect food sov the family, and from the carpi;":, prwhuv ? food articles of commercial '. a'. - , i nripwhile it is a business in which capita, can be invested on a comparatively large scale, using costly machinery and employing highly skilled labor and great executive ability, it can also be, and to a very great extent is, one of small individual investment, but aggregating an enormous sum. And. differing from almost any other line of labor, the small dairy man or woman can, with intelligence and inexpensive, rude appliances, produce an article which will equal in quality that produced from the herds of 100 or more cows, or in cooperative creameries.—Western Plowman.

DEVICE FOR MILKING.

It Applied to the Pall# It Will Secure Good Result#. Slovenly milking is often to be accounted for by the small size of the pail’s top. A good deal of the milk will persist in running down the outside. To make easier milking, have a top

TOP FOR MILK CAN. made a# shown in the cut. The flaring sides will catch the stream of milk and conduct it into the pail. It will be well to tie a piece of muslin over the bottom of this top piece, thus straining the milk as it goes into the pail. Let this flaring piece just fit into the top of the pail.-~American Agriculturist. Keep Cow# at Their Beet, When a cow falls off in the flow of her milk she may, by judicious management, be brought back to her average quantity, but the time lost can never be recovered, and there will always, in such cases, be an additional cost for food that will not give a return for the outlay. The time to make the cow inis when she is at her best, and it shou’d be the aim to keep her there as long 1 as it is possible to do so.—Dakota Field and Farm. A Creditable Sbovlag. A Chautauqua county (X. Y.) man has 13 cows which he claims produced 82,745 pounds of milk between April 12 and December 12, 1897. That is equal to 6,365 pounds of milk per cow during the eight months. This is probably about’ five times the weight of the cows. At the low price of 60 cents a hundred "onnds for the milk the product of ear!, cow was worth $38.19, showing a vcr. fair profit on the cost of keeping the | t■> ' i