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week in July. This will depend on the amount 

 of moisture, but where dry, they ripen early. 

 Spring-sown small grains would not he available 

 unless carried over from the previous season. 

 Our winter feed grains, however, could be har- 

 vested in time to do the work. Winter wheat 

 might be used in small amounts, but it is diffi- 

 cult to feed wheat, especially in the summer. 

 The AVinter Emmer (Spelt) can be harvested 

 in time. This is a new grain, the seed of which 

 is being increased and developed in northern 

 Wyoming. 



PROTECT Flies worry cattle in the summer and it 



might be impossible to make stock fat in fly time 

 if we were unable to meet the difficulty. ^o 

 matter where we learned the trick, but we have 

 good authority, that a certain company in the 

 far south, where ordinarily the cattle are kept 

 skin poor, are turning fat cattle into market off 

 the same feed, and they keep the method a secret 

 from neighbors and would-be competitors. The 

 cattle are protected from flies and this protection 

 alone has brought success to the cattle-feeding 

 industry. The process is simple and cheap. It 

 consists of spraying or putting on with a white- 

 wash brush a solution of Chloro-Xaptholeum as 

 often as may be necessary. Zenoleum or other 

 coal tar products would probably serve the same 

 purpose. Flies don't like it. 



