Improving Cream and Milk Supply Scoring Contests Serve to Create Interest in Bet- ter Quality. { (Prepared by the United St of Agriculture villuges, and counties are improving eream supply through scoring contests says the United States of Agriculture, While the contests are of various kinds, all of create an interest in better quality milk, two general are empha- sized by the department worthy of consideration, in which are submitt contests in ites Department Cities, even whole their milk and Department which serve to classes us the contests These are and cream and surprise milk rily samples of ed volunta which the samples are col- | lected from the distributer or without warning. The bureau of dairy- ing has drawn up plans for I producer I such use {n i interest to | milk- | contests which should be of any community Improvement program. Samples Specially Prepared. Where the | pared by the voluntarily for scoring, the results may | or may not indicate the quality of the product regularly sold. And yet, the department, when contests are first held in a community or large they do e educational value because high quality can be serving certain simyj samples are perhaps a to use In the ment work. Surprise Gontests. Surprise c¢« are a age quality of distributor is ger l several conten plating a samples are specially pre- exhibitor and submitted | SAYS territory, have considerabl they show that milk of produced b} le rules. Voluntary better method of lmprove- first stages mtests, on the other hand, means of determi aver a perio is there output. Well partments d of f re reports of ead collected, there is i fore anotl reason fered the ir tional work publi produce a superior pro to obtain marl i quality of nities been spection excellent opportu recogniti where Stock Keepers Wi Sthout silos Are Handicapped not stock them be enios consur I should un derstand many years means of roducts has pros Brod. ing st XL and tock I fact, and prac. old-fash- of the of feeding, are largel: the present distress ners of the corn belt. | of the toward sett ppd ral ho gricultural problem our ent a } certainly worthy of careful slderation. Forage Is and while have Zrass and are very the Missouri tion any experimental data available showing the value of Sudan grass it is belleved that they will vary little from those obtalned with sorghum. The general recom- mendations for feeding hogs on Sudan grass would the same as those given for feeding on sorghum. Sudan grass may be pastured with little or no risk. The Kansas station makes the fol- lowing report regarding Sudan grass: “Sudan grass Is the best annual forage crop for hogs In the warmer sections of the country, and it com- pares favorably with alfalfa as a mid- summer hog pasture because it Is very hardy and stands the hot, dry summer very well. Results secured at the Kansas experimental station showed that Sudan grass compared very favorably with alfalfa as a pas- ture crop for fattening hogs and for brood sows.” Chicks Need Sunlight Chicks, as well as older fowls, need sunlight. In some way It helps the Httle fellows to make better use of the lime In their feed, and =o alds in preventing leg weakness, This is due largely to the ultra violet rays in sun- light, and these do not seem to pass through ordinary window glass. They apparently go through “glass cloth” ofl right, and of course direct sunlight ean be used on warm days. sta does not be I August Seedings of Alfalfa Not Favored Winter Poorly and Produce Small Crop. August seedings of alfalfa are poor security for the farmer, L. F. Graber, alfalfa specialist at the Wisconsin Col- lege of Agriculture, warns against August for experl- ments at the college that they winter poorly and quite a small crop the following season, “If we have plenty of rain and weather to promote late fall growth, may get a good start before winter sets in but dry weather and un- favorable fall growing conditions likely, seedings, show good alfalfa are He t seedings which Graber declares, August three or four inches of top growth do not yleld profitably the fol lowing season. August far more only seedings sometimes succeed, big serts, Since the farmer at the of the weather summer-sown alfalfa, he waiting until spring to make but are always a risk, Graber as Is completely mercy with late recommends A SUCCeSsS fall cut- maintains that no danger of alfal fa smothering Mself even though a fall of two or three feet rem : the winter. At the college farm, t tfalfa has been allowed to g In warning against the late ting of alfalfa, Graber there is absolutely growth ins row » An cutting. The fol- year this field was among t! of stand and entire year without lowing in thickness vigor of A heavy for is good Insurance, win Gra fall growth Marketing Discussed rlons usually referred to by cunt Difficult ¢ to Eradicate When cont aglous abortion tr entrar 1 has gained not aborting with the intention of ice into herd, is advis animy replacing then Even tl! were ough the mals RO herd, as abort may i Mnain the infected ar Conse quently, new ar als introduced Inte By easures t herd the disease ary m a herd can be ffspring from used to reg sanit the most resistant en herd The di ish the sense Is infected unsuspecting such often spread by the members of a herd. breeder may pur animals and place them in 4 healthy herd, thus establishing a center of infection. Control measures are essential to prevent animals from Infected herds being shown at lve stock exhibits, or offered for sale where Infection Is known to exist. Unless the most rigid, thorough and intelligent precautions are observed In the prevention and control of this disease, hope cannot be entertalned for the ultimate suppres sion of this malady, ————————————————, sale of An chase new Garden slogan: Weed "em and reap. . * * No one has more poor relatives than the scrub bull, * * - The campaign for better business methods on the farm Is Just beginning » . * The most Important cause of a drop in the milk flow during summer is In- sufficient feed, . . -. As small graln matures look out for chineh bugs and use barriers If needed to prevent migration. * - . 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