Thursday, October '4, 1906.
PEOGHESSIVE FAEMER AND COTTON PLANT.
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XL. NOW IS THE TIME TO DIP CATTLE AND SHEEP.
Messrs, Editors: Jack Frost has
already laid his hand upon some of
the Northern sections of our country,
and it behooves us to make ready on
the Southern stock farm for his com
ing. There are so many things to de
mand our attention at this time of
year that we are liable to neglect
matters that that must be attended
on time or our stock will suffer.
Dip the Cattle and Sheep.
One of the things that we make it
a point to" attend to, whatever else
remains undone, is the dipping (dur
ing October) of all our cattle and
sheep. And we make a thorough job
of it, doing the work twice, at inter
vals of ten days. Of all the things
.that are sent to worry the very life
out of the patient cow and cheep, the
miserable blood-sucking louse is the
worst. And we have declared war on
the whole fraternity. There is noth
ing that will so vex the soul of a
stockman -as to have a large herd of
cows become infested In the middle
of a cold winter with a million of
these little (fellows). The
dry cows that are quite fat will not
be injured so greatly as will the ones'
that are nursing calves. ,
How the Dipping Plant is Made.
We tried a number, of years to
clear the herd in the fall by washing
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dips, but a few lice would escape in
spite of the best work we could do by
this method, so - for the past three
years- we have been dipping the ani
mals all over under in the prepara
tion and it does the work.
The dipping plant is simply a cis
tern 8 feet deep, 3 feet 6 inches wide
by 7 feet long. Embedded in the
concrete at each corner is a post
6 by 8 feet and extending above the
Inside df these four posts is built a
cage large enough to hold a grown
animal. This cage works up and
down on the posts after the manner
of an elevator. ,
Handling the Animals.
An animal is led or driven into the
cage from one end, the doors closed,
and he goes down until the dip in the
cistern covers him all over; then he
is elevated to the level again, the
front door of the cage opened, and he
walks or generally jumps out and
gets away from that crowd as fast as
possible. We can handle about fif
teen grown animals per hour. After
the cattle have been dipped we next
take the sheep. In about ten day
the nits on the cattle will hatch and
then is the time to dip again. We
generally heat the dip to about 100
degrees by steam from an engine, as
we think it rather more effective
when quite warm. WThen we have fin
ished dipping the second time we use
the dip that remains in the cistern to
jspray the stables thoroughly, adding
to the dip enough lime to make a
white-wash about the consistency of
cream. We. do this work with the
common bucket spray pump, forcing
the wash into' every crack and crevice
in the stable.
Winter Spraying as a Substitute.
If a dipping plant is not available,
cattle can be kept in -a fairly good
condition by spraying thoroughly dur
ing any warm spells in the winter.
To do this work the dip should be
, made strong, at least one of dip to
fifty of water, and one to forty is bet
ter. We use about one to sixty when
dipping.
If any of the nursing cows are thin
now, a light feed of new corn daily
will be a splendid thing for them.
They will come through the winter in
enough better shape to. pay! well for
the corn and the trouble of feeding.
The "eye of the master" is a very
essential thing on the stock farm
when the fall days are come.
A. L. FRENCH.
R. F. D. 2, Byrdville, Va.
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SUGGESTIONS TO DAIRYMEN.
It is Total Yield of Milk and Butter
Fat and Not Richness in a Small
Quantity, That is Wanted.
Messrs. Editors: I was much in
terested in the article from Bruns
wick, County in the last issue of The
Progressive Farmer in regard to the
good record made by a dairy herd, I
wish we might have more of such re
ports and discussions.
This report brings out a point
which I notice as being characteristic
.of the milk in North Carolina, and
that is its high fat content. I doubt
if there are , many sections of the
country that can make a better show
ing in this respect.
But your correspondent went a' lit
tle too far, perhaps, in drawing his
conclusion from the data at hand.
When selecting a herd of cows that
would produce the most butter from
the smallest quantity of milk, differ
ent animals should be chosen than
would be selected to compete in a
herd test as was the case at Chicago,
where the total product was what
they were after and not the highest
fat yield per hundred pounds of
milk. The cows that were selected
to compete in this test were natural
ly in full flow of milk as their rec
ords show, consequently their milk
would be of the poorest quality given
during the lactation period. When a
cow is giving the largest yield of
milk it is of the poorest quality. As
the milking period advances the per
cent 'of fat in the milk increases.
There is often a per cent difference be
tween the fat in the milk of the first
part of the lactation period and the
last. With this understanding it
would hardly be just to compare the
fat content of the milk from a herd
under such conditions, with the milk
from a herd under average condi
tions. We have no information at hand
bearing on the subject, but I pre
sume this Brunswick County herd is
going about the same as the average
herds of the State, giving about a
gallon and a half of milk and mak
ing about an. average of three-fourths
of a pound of butter per cow, while
the animals in the test referred to
were giving between three and four
gallons and making about an average
of one and three-fourths pounds of
butter a day.
In regard to the feed, I doubt if
any section of the country can boast
of better or a greater variety of feed
ing material than we can feed our
cows. We do not always have it to
feed, to be sure, but we can have it
if we will. We are satisfied to let oth
er dairymen keep the timothy hay if
they will give us corn, cowpeas,
clover, alfalfa, and cottonseed meal.
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Cows need no better feed than pas
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While the yield of butter reported
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5 per cent fat will yield-a pound of
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This report is what we want. We
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The keeping of records of our
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