American Agriculturist, December 27, 1924 
Dairy Savers 
We Pay a Dollar Each for Experience Letters 
O JR greatest saving was the year we 
froze our potatoes. We had expected to 
sell about ioo bushels of potatoes and buy 
dairy feed, but they froze in the cellar. 
We had been reading in the American 
Agriculturist about the Canadian who 
liked hot tea on cold mornings himself, 
and didn’t see why his cows wouldn’t ap¬ 
preciate a warm drink also. 
That gave us the idea, and twice a day 
while they lasted we cooked a boiler full 
of the frozen potatoes. We mashed them 
up, skins and all, in the water in which 
they were cooked, added enough feed 
(bran, ground barley and a mixed feed) 
to make a thick mush. The hot potatoes 
partly cooked the feed. We put a good 
shovel full of this in each pail and filled it 
up with water, stirring it well; each pail 
full should be about milk warm. The cows 
had had two pailfuls apiece and the best 
milkers had two more apiece. How they 
did enjoy it! They could hardly wait until 
it was ready after they first smelled the 
steaming boiler being carried into the barn. 
They gained in milk, too, more than on 
any feed we have used since. Maybe we 
only imagined it, but it seemed as if the 
milk was Better. The children drank a lot 
more of it and said it was so much sweeter 
than usual. 
Of course all this was a lot of hard 
work, a regular feed cooker would have 
made it easier, but with only an old wash 
boiler and the kitchen stove we turned the 
dead loss of our frozen potatoes into quite 
a saving.— Mrs. J. V., Lewis County, N. Y. 
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Skim Milk Is Very Valuable 
ATURALLY the surplus from a big 
dairy would be a problem, but it is rare 
indeed that we have any skim milk to 
spare. With the big dairy should come 
also the big poultry plant, and the hens 
would soon turn the'surplus curd into eggs. 
We can use a surprising amount of milk • 
in cottage cheese, and during the summer 
my table is never without a big salad bowl 
of luscious, crumbly cheese for both dinner 
and supper—we do not care for it for 
breakfast, because we always have either 
muffins or griddle cakes, but we never seem 
to tire of it with potatoes. Of course we 
do not always have a surplus of milk, but 
when we do, there is no question -about 
what to do with it. 
Every woman knows how very valuable 
skim milk is for cooking, in pancakes, 
johnny cakes, brown bread, steamed pud¬ 
dings and dozeps of other delicious foods 
practically impossible without it. An ex¬ 
cellent cook in this town also makes all 
kinds of cream soups with sweet skim 
milk and a little butter, and they are fine. 
We hardly think we can raise pigs at all 
v/ithout milk, and we know it is indispen¬ 
sable for calves. Indeed, wherever a large 
dairy is kept there should certainly be 
enough pigs, hens and calves to' use up 
•every bit of the milk not needed for table 
use—and by “table use’’ I mean all the 
culinary purposes to which it is adapted. 
My neighbor, who raises, many young 
turkeys and chickens, thinks it cannot be 
done without plenty of scalded curd, and 
its uses are too many ever to waste a bit. 
—Mrs. E. M. A., Chautauque County, N. 
Y. 
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Winter Handling of Manure 
F POSSIBLE, I find it is always the 
best plan to haul out and scatter all kinds 
of manure as fast as it accumulates. A 
good idea (especially in winter) is to have 
a particular day set in each week for doing 
this work. A good many farmers haul it 
cut to the field and pile it, then scatter it 
some time during the spring, which is only 
a waste of time and labor. This also means 
the loss of a large per cent of its strength¬ 
ening qualities; as left in this condition 
any great length of time it will generally 
be washed to death, therefore, most of the 
strength will be in one spot, just where the 
pile was. 
When manure is applied during winter, 
it gives the rains a chance to soak the 
strengthening contents into the soil, instead 
of washing and leaching it away around 
the barnyard, which is the case when al¬ 
lowed to remain outside not sheltered. I 
also have found that the fresher manure 
is applied, the more valuable it is. When 
it is piled out in a large heap to rot, a 
large portion of it will be almost worth¬ 
less by leaching and washing, and the cen¬ 
ter being “burnt,” therefore, having very 
little strengthening qualities. 
•Now, I am not speaking against the old- 
fashioned compost heap when made proper¬ 
ly, for I think this is one of the best ways 
to make and secure manure. What I am 
speaking against is throwing it outside in 
a large heap or mound without any shelter 
whatever, and left in this condition until 
spring. It is best to put coarse manure on 
stiff and clay soils, as this helps to keep it 
loose and mellow, as well as to enrich it. 
It is a good idea to apply a light dressing 
of manure on wheat and oat fields hot so 
fertile, during early winter. If it is a little 
coarse, this doesn’t matter, just so it is put 
on thin. It will be a great benefit in sev¬ 
eral ways.—W. H. H., Prince George 
County, Va. 
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Feeding Turnip Tops 
HERE turnips are grown in any 
quantity the tops are rather difficult 
to handle, so as to get the most out of them. 
The besf method I have found so far is to 
spread a thin layer of dry tops in an empty 
mow, then a layer of clean oat straw, next 
another layer of tops, then straw, and so 
on until the whole is about two feet deep. 
The straw prevents heating to any great 
extent, absorbs moisture, takes the flavor 
of the tops, and makes a very palatable 
feed from what is often wasted. The tops 
should be hauled when dry and before be¬ 
ing frozen. When tops are fed in any 
quantity alone, they have a very loosening 
effect and are apt to taint the milk when 
frozen.—T. T., Kings County, N. B., Can¬ 
ada. 
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REUBEN, REUBEN 
Reuben, Reuben, I’ve been thinking 
Our old scrub stock is no good. 
Why not get some pure bred bossies, 
As our neighbors say we should? 
Rachel, Rachel, you’ve said some¬ 
thing; 
Our darned cows don’t pay their 
' keep; 
Eat up all our surplus money, 
All the crops that I can reap. 
Reuben, Reuben, there’s our neighbor 
Got a brand new Henry Ford; 
Used to ride to town as we do 
Settin’ on a hard, old board. 
Rachel, Rachel, he was telling- 
How he raked the money in 
Sellin’ pure bred bulls and heifers; 
Says it almost is a sin. 
Reuben, Reuben, take the check book, 
Buy the best that you can find, 
When it comes to pure bred bossies 
They will find we’re not behind. 
Rachel, Rachel, let me hug you; 
I will buy some cows today; 
Sell the darned old good for nothings. 
Get some sto 9 k that’s sure to pay. 
(Words by R. H. Hewitt,. 
Chemung County Farm Bureau Manager.) 
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Kill a Kow! 
I will be glad to cooperate, providing 
at least one thousand other dairymen 
will do the same, in selling or killing 
FOR BEEF PURPOSES at least one 
of the poorest producers in my herd be¬ 
tween now and March 1, 1925. 
Name... 
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