The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-06-17
Break your colts early.


Get the mower in good repair. You
will need 1t soon.
Brush fences look untidy and are
breeding places for pests of all kinds.
Declare war on the Canadian thistle.
inaugurate a vigorous campaign and
grant no quarter.
The milking machine seems about
as near being on a practical basis as
the flying machine.
Try and be more sympathetic than
the fence board which separates your
land from your neighbors'.
1t is generally the man who has no
silo who discovers that silage Injuries
the cows teeth or works other i'll to
the stock.
The fair season is coming Plan
now to get something ready for the
show, and do what you can to make
your local fair a success.
Don't waste much time with the sick
fowl. Separate at once from the rest
of the flock, and if it does not respond
quickly to treatment use the AK and
Shovel
We never will know how many farm
ers owe their success to the manage
ment and good judgment of their
wives. and what is worse, many farm
ers do not realize it themselves.
Colorado farmers have the organic
Ing fever and are forming unions
with view to lettering their condi-
lions They expect to make money
by buying in CARROTS and selling for
cash T. o. b.
Not too late to SOW silage corn. Get
the corn in and then plan for the
building of silo in which to put it
next fall. Your stock will respond
to the feed next winter and repay you
several times over for your trouble.
Machine grease can be readily
cleaned from the hands by little
kerosene and sawdust. The oil will
cut the grease and the sawdust will abb
sorb both oil and grease together, so
that soap and water will have a
chance to do its work
Where the cream of cows of I'M
equal milking periods is mixed togeth-
err see that the whole is thoroughly
i've ~,
done a considerable portion of the
slower cream is washed into the but
termilk as soon as the quicker cream
comes to butter.
An Iowan reports the birth of a
shorthorn calf without a tail. the end
of the backbone coming but an inch
or two beyond the hip joint. The calf
is healthy and doing well. This is not
common occurrence. but great
many similar cases are on record.
The writer had a similar case when
he was on the farm 20 years ago.
Under the head of fool farming may
be enumerated such fads as raising
frogs. squads, skunks. and even rails
with those who thoroughly understand
the business. but the average farmer
will find that the potato patch will
stand him in better stead than any of
these schemes which seem on paper
at least to offer big inducements.
The average dairy COW costs $50
per year to feed. 1t is easy to figure
out that II the income from the sale
of her milk does not exceed this
amount. the COW is clearly not paying
her way. The only satisfactory meth
cd of determining this question is by
weighing the milk and testing the per
cent. of butter fat IL contains by the
Babcock test. COW that does not
pay takes up Just as much room as a
profitable one. Sell her for beef.
This is the ration which n Pennsyl
vanian feeds his turkey poults with
good success. The poults require no
food until day old. as nature has pro-
vided for them, but water and sand
should be placed within reach. The
food should not be of sloppy kind as
that leads to bowel trouble Curds or
Dutch cheese is liked by them and
they thrive on it. Stale bread mois-
tened and squeezed dry is good
Onion tops and dandelion leaves
minced fine should be fed each day
while in confinement. Corn bread is
the best food when two weeks old,
and later cracked corn or wheat
should be provided
If You are raising any calves this
year with a view of adding them to
your herd of mixers, remember that
present handling has much to do with
future usefulness. Feed to develop
the paunch, and when the heifer comes
fresh give special care to handling and
milking SO that the udder may be de-
veloped as much as possible. 1t is
well to keep heifer milking for over
a year before going dry for anataer
calf. as this establishes the COW as a
persistent mixer. heifer that is
allowed to go dry too soon after hav-
ing first calf can never be made the
COW she would have been II she had
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