The Lamar register., 1908-06-24

ILL.,
Work planned is work quicker done.
| Have you real COWS or only scrubs?
Fest your herd and see.
Rye makes an ideal fail pasture il
sown about the middle OF July or the
first Of August.
Millet intended for hay should be
cut when the heads are all filled out
and some are getting ripe.
Unless a big COW is an extra milk
err she is less profitable than a small
err one that is a fair mixer.
Kindness and perfect self-control
are prime requisites in the mixer
who breaks in the heifer calf to first
milking.
Posts treated with creosote last
fully twice as long as the untreated
post. A government bulletin No. 800
tells all about it.
The too rapid mixer is apt to make
the fretful COW. The milking should
never be done so fast as to cause real
discomfort to the COW.
Give the boy an occasional half
day off. A fishing or hunting trip or
attendance at ball game In town will
do much to relieve the tedium of the
farm work.
Weeds plowed under before they
have gone to seed will return to the
soil the plant food which they have
stolen and will supply needed humus.
Rapid milking which verges on the
nervous and which causes the COW
pain or makes her uneasy is a mistake.
Oftentimes the future value of the
COW is sacrificed to the feverish haste
of the present.
AS you plant and cultivate your corn
remember that the second national
crop exposition will be held in Omaha
during the first half of December
next Keep lookout for the ear
which would make creditable show
ing and might win you prize.
Milk rich in cream means butter.
rich in casein means much protein
good for calf and hog feeding and
for cheese making. 1t is not often
that a milk is found which is rich
in both these elements. Pick the
breed of COW which will most nearly
meet your needs.
A witty agricultural expert who
does not believe in the dual purpose
COW suggests that when Burbank can
grow an apple that is sweet on one
side and sour on the other. there will
be real encouragement for the dual
purpose breeder who is trying to pro-
duce a COW that will give milk on one
side and make beef on the other.
| II is the business of the bees to
gather honey. and they will suck the
juices Of fruits and flowers wherever
found. but careful observation has
proved that they do not puncture fruit
for the purpose Of getting at the Juice
Such injury to fruit is caused by other
insects and birds, the bees only TAX
ing what has been made easily acces-
sible to them.
i It is a good plan to train the colts
to stay in the barn or pasture while
the mares are at work. 1t is simply a
matter of education. Shut them in a
roomy box stall at first until they be-
come accustomed to having the mare
go out without them. 1t will not take
the colt long to become reconciled to
a separation of a half day at a time,
and 1t will be good deal better for
the mare and the colt. as well as for
the temper of the farmer.
Here is the report of a single days
receipts of the Union stock yards, Chi
cago: Thirty-three thousand five hun
dred and one cattle, 1903 calves. ST.
ZIG hogs. $3.50 sheep. and 1888 horses
or a total of 150,357 animals in 1888
cars, thus breaking the previous rec
ord of hog receipts and total number
of animals received. A fourth of this
product was sold ond shipped east,
and the entire receipts were sold on
the day of arrival. Apparently all
iCdu " SHlCdGO.
Here is the formula for making the
Bordeau-arsenical mixture: Four
pounds of sulphate of copper. four
pounds of quicklime. SO gallons of
water. First, dissolve the copper sui
phate. The easiest, quickest way to
4 do this is to put the copper sulphate
in cheese-cloth bag, and suspend the
bag in a barrel partly filled with
water. Next, Stake the lime in anoth-
err receptacle. and strain the milk of
lime thus obtained into the copper
sulphate solution. Lastly. add suffl-
cient water to make so gallons.
President Roosevelt has under con-
sideration the appointment of COM
mission to make thorough study of
rural social ecoonmy, the probable
members of the commission to be
Prof. A. A. Noyes, acting president of
the Massachusetts, Institute of Technol-