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coal for the hogs. Money that has been invested in stock and 

 feed may be nearly doubled in six months. 



THE DAIRYING INTEREST. 



This interest is quite largely represented in this county. 

 We have three cheese factories — two in Centralia and one in 

 Oneida, botli working on the co-operative plan, and producing 

 in the aggregate about 350,000 pounds of cheese annually. 

 Butter in large quantities is shipped to the Eastern markets at 

 all points, on both of our railroads. Here let me say to you, 

 brother farmers, who have not the best facilities for making 

 butter, that you may improve the quality of that product very 

 much, by skimming off the cream as soon as the milk changes. 

 Keep the cream in a tin cooler made about eight inches in 

 diameter, and deep enough to hold a sufficient quantity for one 

 churning. Hang the cooler in the well until the cream is 

 wanted for churning, and on this plan, taking the greatest possible 

 care to be cleanly in every operation, your butter may be brought 

 .fully up to the first grade. It has been proven that the 

 native grasses of the prairies will make cheese and butter 

 equal in quality to any of the tame grasses. 



SHEEP RAISING BECOMING POPULAR. 



Sheep husbandry is rapidly growing in favor here, and 

 is a sure and safe-paying business. The climate and herbage 

 are particularly well adapted to the health of sheep. A neigh- 

 bor of mine who keeps a few hundred, is well satisfied that the 

 investment is quite profitable, and the old adage has proved 

 very true in his case " that sheep's feet make golden tracks." 

 The Cotswold is the breed preferred, and I think their various 

 good qualities are hard to beat. 



A SHEEP BARN. 



The following plan is a good one for sheep barns or sheds: 

 The rack is on the inside of tlie wall of the building with the 

 bottom cioMC to the wall while the top slants in, and is four feet 

 from the wall. It is supplied with hay through a long door 

 which opens on the outside, even with the top of the rack. 



