. Boone County Recorder . n. W. D. NICHOLLS, Kentucky College of Agriculture. The value of acow can only be known by weighing each milking andkeeping a daily record of the weighing of the feed and theweighing of the milk is now followedby expert dairymen. Sometimes a good cow is not ap-preciated because the yield comesfrom her months of milking ratherthan from the big yield soon aftercalving. A dairyman at a farmersmeeting a few weeks ago said: I haveintroduced the system of weighingthe grain and forage fed to the herdand weighing the milk of each cow. Ittakes very little time to do t
. Boone County Recorder . n. W. D. NICHOLLS, Kentucky College of Agriculture. The value of acow can only be known by weighing each milking andkeeping a daily record of the weighing of the feed and theweighing of the milk is now followedby expert dairymen. Sometimes a good cow is not ap-preciated because the yield comesfrom her months of milking ratherthan from the big yield soon aftercalving. A dairyman at a farmersmeeting a few weeks ago said: I haveintroduced the system of weighingthe grain and forage fed to the herdand weighing the milk of each cow. Ittakes very little time to do this? andyou can then know after a few monthswhat cows are the most profitable. A persistent milker will In mostevery instance prove the most profit-able cow to keep. The Danish dairymen raise whatcows they need. Tho most profitablecows can only be had by careful breed-ing,- wise -selection, practical feedingand thorough milking. In some dairiesthe young cows are milked three timesa day to develop their milking LIVERY, BGARDING and FEES) STABIS. Flrst-alaHs Carriages for hire withcarefoi-Drivers fur FanriHesrt^r- Trf^^toTiTJgsTKToT Lexington Pike, Have a Nice White Funeral Carand Ambulance, ERLANGER. KY Leave Orders with J. C. REVliiL, Burlington, Ky. $ Valuable Winter peas, may be made avaluable winter feed for hogs by leav-ing the crop in the field until the vinesare well eured, when they are gath-ered without being cut with the com-mon bull rake used in haying. Thtreare a few vines left where the rakestarts, but as soon as a quantity hasgathered upon the teeth they are takenup clean with but little may be fed from the stack dur-ing the winter without threshing. Small currants trad gooseberriesthrive in soils, provided theclimate is act too warm. Both of thesesmall fruits are cool-weather crops anddemand fertile soils. There is an in-creasing demand among canneries forthese lrulte. f. W. Kassebaum & Son, GRANIT
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