The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-05-13
Plan your work and then work your

The waste places on the farm Snoulu
be put to work.
Trust the bull by putting ring in
mis- nose and keeping in safe place.
A few cows on the farm is full
warrant for the purchase of separat-
or.
Keep the lambs growing from the
start.
The dairy COW which is fat and at
the same time good is the exception
to the rule.
Rolled oats, stale bread. corn-bread,
cheese curd. wheat and table scraps
make good feed for little chicks.
Five points to remember II you
would have a productive orchard:
Fertilize, cultivate, spray. thin, prune.
The hair of the horse that has been
well fed from birth Is as rule finer
and softer than that of the horse not
SO fed.
After the breeding season is over
separate the ROSTERS from the hens.
will keep better.
A better living can be made by care
full, thorough cultivation of 20 acres
than from five times that amount OF
land poorly managed.
The best way to market your crops
in on the hoof Feed to your stock,
keep the fertility on the farm and
drive your stock to market.
Grow enough fruit for your own use.
Not a bad idea to have some to sell.
These little extras from the farm can
be made to aggregate quite sum.
After all the pig has more wisdom
than some people. He is content to
stay in the pig class while many
human wastes life in trying to seem
what he is not.
NJ WpDutl TIC pohi'is -
growing each year. There are more
than 5000 poultry shows held annual
ly in the United States and Canada
Surely the hen is the American bird.
Here is the method of one dairy
man who believes in the economy of
arrangements. He has small pas
ture handy to the dairy barn In which
the cows may be kept at night, where
they may feed and where they are
ready for milking in the morning.
The four points are made in favor
| Of the portable hog house as follows:
1t is easily and economically construct
ed; 1t can be easily moved and To-
Gated wherever desired; It is useful
both to the general farmer and TO
| the breeder of pure bred stock, and of
all systems for housing swine 1t is
the most natural and sanitary.
The rule observed by n successful
hog raiser in selecting the brood sows
is to pick the long-bodied ones that are
rather coarse and long legged. They
make the best breeders and have bet
ter constitutions than the small ones
BY selecting male that has good
quality you can get larger hams and
shoulders from the pigs of large
SOW than from a small one.
Not now but soon the farmer will
find 1t practicable to make his own
alcohol. Secretary Wilson has taken
up the study of the problem In
practical way and will set up a small
plant in one of the buildings of the
department of agriculture and expert
ment on making alcohol out of de.
cayed fruit. corn, potatoes. etc. After
the departing has worked this out
satisfactorily it would be a good plan
for the experiment stations in the diff
ferent states to install similar plants
II will also be an excellent plan II the
department or some of the members
of the agricultural college faculties
would have such a plant in practical
operation during the different short
courses held at the agricultural col
leges and at different points through
out the states and at the various state
fairs.
As the result of experiments, the
Massachusetts station has demon
strated that for some crops sulphate
of potash is the best sort. while fol-
others muriate of potash is superior
The yield of asparagus where the mu
riate was used was more than so pei
cent. greater than on the sulphate
but with rhubarb the yield of sulphate
was so per cent greater the past yeaI
than on muriate. For raspberries and
blackberries the sulphate has invaria
bly, given better results than the muir
ate. Particularly noticeable has been
the difference in the degree of winter
killing. The canes from the plot or
which muriate of potash was applied
seem to have been less hardy thar
those where sulphate was used. Sui
phate of potash also gave best results
with potatoes and with soy beans
With hay, however, there was little
difference between the two forms, al
though sulphate seems to give the
best results where clover is used.