Here, There and Everywhere 



Now is the time to com- 

 KEEPING UP THE nience feeding the milk cows, 

 MILK YIELD. says P. M. Brandt, ofthe Mis- 



souri Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. It is true the grass is still green, but it has not 

 much feeding value. A cattle feeder does not think for a 

 moment of finishing off a bunch of steers on this fall grass. 

 Why should a dairyman expect the cows to maintain their 

 milk yield on it? Butter fat is scarce. The price is high 

 and is going higher. It will pay to produce more butter 

 fat, but it cannot be done by feeding cows fall grass, corn 

 stalks and timothy hay. It is also a mistake to neglect 

 the cows for a few weeks, intending to make amends by 

 liberal feeding when winter comes. It is important that 

 the milk yield never be allowed to decline. It is almost 

 impossible to bring a cow back to her normal flow after 

 it has been permitted to decline. It is important that fall 

 feeding be commenced now before the milk flow is cut 

 down by short grass and scant feed. Those who are for- 

 tunate enough to own a silo should give each cow about 

 25 pounds of silage a day. Every cow should have all the 

 clover, alfalfa, or cowpea hay she will clean up. This will 

 amount to about 10 pounds a day if the silage is fed. If 

 silage is not fed, more hay should be given. It is well to 

 remember that cowpea hay is one of the cheapest of dairy 

 feeds. Cows giving over a gallon of milk a day should 

 be fed grain. A good grain mixture is corn chop mixed 

 with bran or cottonseed meal. Corn and cob meal may be 

 sut^tituted for the chop. A pound of this mixture should 

 be given each day for every three pounds of milk pro- 

 duced. The best cows will not produce milk unless fed 

 liberally on the right kind of feed. 



FOREST Secretary Wilson, of the 



EXPERIMENT United States Department 



<?TATTON °^ Agriculture, has decided 



to establish an experiment 

 station on the Manti National Forest, near Ephraim, 

 Utah, for the study of grazing and water protection 

 problems. In fact, bids for the construction of the 

 necessary buildings have been received and it is ex- 

 pected to have the station in working order before 

 winter. Already the gathering of observations on the 

 relations of erosion and run-off to the forest cover 

 have begun. 



The Manti National Forest was chosen as the site 

 for this experiment station because it offers exception- 

 ally good opportunities for investigating problems of 

 practical value in connection with regulated grazing. 

 Ephraim and other towns in its neighborhood have 

 suffered severely from floods following violent rain- 

 storms in the mountains, and it has already been 

 proved conclusively that tiie overgrazed condition of 

 areas on which the natural vegetative cover has been 

 seriously altered is responsible for the formation of 

 torrents and the rapid discharge of debris-laden flood- 

 waters. In a recent destructive storm the water ran 

 clear from a part of the watershed which was within 

 the National Forest, and in good condition as a result 

 of well regulated grazing, while from other areas it 

 swept down sand and hmildcrs. One of the objects 

 of the study will be to learn how the maximum of 

 grazing use of Natural Forest land can be obtained 

 without injury to forest reproduction and stream flow. 



The National Forests provide range during a part or 

 all of the year for a considerable part of the stock {iro- 



duced in the western States. Approximately one and 

 one-half million head of cattle and horses and seven 

 and one-half million head of sheep and goats occupy 

 the Forest lands each year. These figures do not in- 

 clude nearly three hundred thousand calves and over 

 four million Iambs and kids for which permits are not 

 required. 



The experts of the department believe that when the 

 ranges which were denuded by many years of im- 

 proper use are restored to a normal condition of prod- 

 uctivity it will be possible to provide feed for a much 

 larger number of stock without injury to forest 

 growth or watersheds, and both the stockgrower and 

 the consumer of meat products will thus be benefited. 

 Consequently eveiy effort is being made to determine 

 practicable means of regenerating depleted ranges. 

 All of the studies which are about to be initiated have 

 this point in view. 



SOME APPLE 

 PIES. 



Apple pies baked at the rate 

 of 2,250 per hour in an oven 

 75 feet long and served by 

 500 well-known Spokane resi- 

 dents were served free on the opening day of the National 

 Apple Show, November 11 to 17. This was the opening 

 event of the Enakops Jubilee, the amusement feature of 

 the apple exhibition. The apples were first made into 

 sauce in a huge kettle weighing 1,890 pounds. Gas was 

 used to cook the sauce. Five hundred bushels of apples 

 were cooked at a time. When enclosed in the crust, the 

 pies were placed on an endless chain in the bake oven. 

 Eduardo Rampan, chef at Davenport's, and A. N. Can- 

 tril directed the cooking, while the populace was served 

 by leading men of Spokane as waiters. 



FIGHTING THE 

 CHINCH BUG. 



The chinch bug cost the 

 State of Missouri, approxi- 

 mately $5,000,000 this year. 

 Unless immediate steps are 

 taken to destroy the swarms which are living over during 

 the winter this loss will be greatly increased next year, 

 says L. Haseman, of the Missouri Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. Between now and December 1, all mead- 

 ows, pastures, roads waste lands and other fields, which 

 are heavily overgrown, should be carefully examined for 

 the hibernating chinch bugs. Those fields near wheat and 

 corn fields which were infested last summer should be 

 examined with special care. The insects hide deep down 

 in clumps of grass, under leaves and rubbish, and in many 

 cases their presence can be detected from the disagreeable 

 odor of the crushed bugs, even before one finds them in 

 their hiding places. Wherever they are found, the fields 

 should be burned over immediately and carefully, so that 

 every possible shelter will be destroyed. The wind should 

 not be too strong so that the heat will penetrate down into 

 the clumps of grass and make a clean job. Farmers should 

 co-operate in burning over all public highways and rail- 

 road right-of-ways in the infested regions. With careful, 

 systematic burning of all harboring places in the fall, a 

 large per cent, of the millions of hibernating bugs will be 

 killed by the heat directly and many more left exposed 

 to the winter. After each and every farmer has done all 

 he can to destroy the pest during the winter, the fight will 

 be well enough started so that, of taken up in time next 

 summer, the injury from the pests may be greatly reduced. 



