The Lamar register., 1908-11-25

Ground troubled with wh1te gruDa
should be fall plowed.
Corn and oats ground together make
fine ration for the stock.
It's the slovenly farmer who allows
the chickens to roost in the barn.
Cleanliness is an essential factor in
successful sheep farming. Provide
clean drinking water, and clean yards
Wheat can't be beat as a poultry
feed, but corn should be fed with 1t
to supply the starchy food needed.
Go through the orchard and destroy
all cocoons and egg clusters on trunks.
branches, etc. Clean up the ground,
also, and burn the litter.
Clean milk cannot be produced from
cows kept in filthy surroundings.
There is nothing which is SO easily
contaminated as milk.
Corn is not Objectionable as a ra-
ton for the brood SOW If too much
is not fed and If oats or other grain
rich in protein is provided.
Twenty parts common lime, five
parts salt and Is parts of water when
mixed well and then bottled make
good fire extinguishing grenades.
Let us raise more sheep and supply
the constantly increasing demand for
wool. Altogether too much wool has
to be imported The farms would be
better and the farmers richer II they
raised more sheep.
Put the farm tools and machines up
for the winter. but before doing so
be sure they are cleaned and oiled.
The time spent now will not only pro.
long the life of the tools but will
save you valuable time In the spring.
Care for the cows right now and
they will keep up the milk flow all
winter 1t is in the fall when the
change from summer to winter condi-
lions is made that most cows suffer.
Let the change be as gradual as pos
sible.
You are burning up good money
when you burn up the leaves. Save
them for bedding or rake in pile
and cover over with branches to pre-
vent blowing away. 1t will make fine
compost for the garden and for pot
ting plants.
Scatter wood ashes around the poul-
try yard. They will purify the ground
and the chickens will pick up the
small bits of charcoal This is good
for them. And this reminds us to urge
you not to forget to provide suitable
grits for them.
To mark your tools effectively do
It with nitric acid Place beeswax or
tallow on place where metal is to be
eaten out and scratch the letters
through the wax. Pour the acid In the
groove thus formed and after few
minutes clean off and you will find
your name in the steel to stay.
The Texas experiment station has
by test shown that in feeding ton of
cotton seed meal having a fertilizer
valuation of $3.50 to fattening ami
mails, that portion of its fertility
which passes into the solid excrement
has valuation of about $12.4O, and
that which passes into the urine OF
about SIS. Here is proof of the i'm
portance of saving the liquid manure.
One of the indications that there is
growing interest in agriculture Is
the increasing space which the maya
zines of the country are giving to sub
iects of this kind Not a month goes
by now but that one or more of the
big magazines have articles on agri
cultural tonics. THE Awakening OF
the Farmer, in October Atlantic,
should be specially helpful and sug.
gestive to the farmer.
More gasoline engines are finding
their way on to the farm every year.
A good indication of the Improvement
in this direction Is found in the IN
creasing exhibits each year of gaso-
line engines at the state and county
fairs and the interest shown by farm
ers in these exhibits. Even on the
small farm where the call for power
is small. the use of the gasoline en-
CINE is proving itself of economic
value.
II would be interesting, nay. rather
appalling, II accurate figures were OBJ
tainable as to the losses sustained by
farmers every year through neglect
of farm machinery. How much of the
machinery of your farm has been
properly housed and cared for for the
winter? Remember it is not enough to
push the machine into the shed after
bringing it from the field. 1t should
be cleaned and oiled thoroughly so
that rust cannot get in its destructive
work.
Why not course of study in sales
manship in our agricultural colleges?
II there is one point in which the av-
erage farmer is weak it is knowing
how to dispose of his produce to the
best advantage. Such course could