Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 18, 1917, Page 3

NS, e B o FRIDAY. MAY 18. 1917 i 1 ] 3 | i i ] % THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER General Farm Topics GREAT BUTTER COW. Sophie’s Bertha Produces a Ton In Two Lactation Periods. “Like begets like or the likeness of some ancestor.” This great law of breeding is usually quoted at farmer gatherings and dairy meetings by ex- perts to drive home to Lreeders the fact that in order to have the best kind of dairy cows one must mate animals of the best dairy strains. A remark- able instance of the application of this law is the case of Sophie's Bertha. Sophie’s Bertha is now world’s cham. pion junior three-year-old Jersey, hav- ing produced 14,951.2 pounds of milk, 829.54 pounds fat on a year's test started at three years and five months of age. Her dam, Lass LXVI of Hood Farm, is the senior three-year- old champion, and her sire’s dam, Sophie XIX. of Hood Farm, is the breed’s highest produter—a champion out of a champion and by the son of a champion. Sophie’s Bertha's pedigree shows pro- dncufou in every line. Her sire, Pogis SUPHIE'S BERTHA. XCIX. of Hood farm, has twenty-four daughters in the Register of Merit, two of them champions (Sophie’s Ber- tha and Sophie’s Adora, junior four- year-old, 15,852.2 pounds of milk, 888 pounds of fat). Her dam, Lass LXVIL of Hood farm, after making a splen- did two-year-old record, broke the world’s record by producing 17,993.7 pounds of milk, 910.6 pounds of fat. Sophie’s Bertha is not unknown to the world's dairymen, for as a two- year-old she won a gold medal and sec- ond place in her class with a produc- tion of 13,2428 pounds milk, 771.1 pounds fat. Over 2,000 pounds of 80 per cent but- ter in the first two lactations is pro- duction extraordinary. MONEY IN SILOS. Farmers Should Plan For Next Winter Feeding. Build silos! Economy demands that all crops be taken care of this year that can be turned into high priced meat or milk, Indications point to high priced feeds. Every silo filled last fall in Kansas paid for itself in one season, and the chances are that similar results may be obtained by those who build silos this year, says A. S. Neale, specialist in dairying, division of extension, Kan- sas State Agricultural college. The wide awake farmer is planning right now for next winter's feeding, and these plans should include silage. Indications are that more silos will be built the coming summer than in any previous year. . Silo manufacturers are already receiving heavy orders. The farmer who intends to buy should or- der at once, while he who would build should be planning for labor or ma- terials. In addition to building a silo, an ef- fort should be made to secure some good, dry roughage to go along with the silage, says Mr. Neale. Those who have alfalfa or clover need look no further than taking good care of these crops at the proper time. Those who do not have these should make an effort to get some other leguminous forage. Deep Plowing Unprofitable. Because plowing to a depth of seven and one-half inches has returned about the same yields and is much cheaper the Ohio experiment station does mnot recommend the use of a deep tilling ora subsoil plow. The expensive operation of plowing fifteen inches deep with a deep tilling plow has returned less than a bushel of corn and subsoiling only two bushels more than ordinary plow- ing as an average for six years. Oats following corn has returned three and a quarter bushels more on land plowed to ordinary depth than to fifteen inches, and a bushel and a half more than on land where a subsoil plow was used. The ground for oats has been disked in edch case. Rape For Sheep and Hogs. Dwarf Essex rape is probably the premier forage crop for both sheep and swine. Successive crops can be planted and it will do well during any peri- od of the summer. Ior early June pasture a mixture of one bushel of oats and five pounds of rape per acre is recommended by the Pennsylvania State college. Two or three weeks later a field may be seeded to rape alone at the rate of five to eight pounds per acre. = KRDALLEY CO. GF NEW YORX INC BUFFALQ, N. Y. You Work Hard During the Day You need sound sleep and complete rest at night; otherwise you soon break down. You know you won’t be able to sleep in comfort if there is a swarm of flies in the house. And you know you can't keep windows open if they are not tightly screened. The question is, have yeu G 00D screens for every door and window ? If you have NOT, vou should make a trip to our office at once in person or by phone and get them. Why Not Sleep Out Doors This Summer? A sleeping porch can be built quickly and cheaply and will easily pay for itself in family health. Let us help you figure out a sleeping porch for your house. Smith-Robinson Lumber Co. (One Board Or a Carload) Bring us your clean cot- ton rags--no buttons, bands or woolen cloth acoepted. Pioneer Office TREES ALONG ALL HIGHWAYS Plan for Annual Appropriation Com- mands Recognitlon—Investment Would Give Satisfaction. The plan for an annual appropria: tion for the planticg of shade trees and shrubs along the great extent of state highways commands recognition. This looks to the decoration of regions in which from year to year there is & greater passage of our people for rec- reation and the enjoyment of th pleasures of nature. There is no in vestment from whose dividends great: er satisfaction can be drawn.—Boston Post. Protecting Newly Set Plants. Newly set plants should be protect: ed for a day or two from the sun, and the protection should be contlnued tili it is evident the plants are getting hold on the soil and securing a suppl, of soil water. If this is done, the new: ly set plants will generally live an thrive afterward. The only time whe! protection is not needed is when th setting-out is done just at the begin: ning of a wet spell, which, of course, is a desirable time for transplanting. One nurseryman says that he trans- plants at any time through the spring or summer, whenever he can be sure he is to be favored by three or four days of rain or mist. However, every spring in a great many plants are lost by not having protection from the sun or by not having the protection con- tinued till the plants can live without - I al QIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIIlIIIllIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIII@ For every signed order we get, we can have a car. We are getting several carloads of cars in now to fill orders that have been signed for. 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