The Lamar register., 1908-12-16

Better to sell some of the COWS than
to stint them on feed.
Set standard for the farm work
and then strive to maintain it.
Not question as to keeping live
stock but rather what kind of live
stock
Salt should be kept where the
horses and other stock can help them
selves.
Never allow any dust-raising opera
tiions in the barn just before milk
ing time.
Corn-fed cattle are likely to be
scarce the coming season, owing to
the high price Of corn.
The pig pen has given place to the
pig pasture on farms where pig-rais-
ing is conducted for profit.
To get the best out of any soil .
leguminous crop should be grown at
least once in four or five years.
Keeping up the milk flow is the
problem which now faces the farmer.
You can't do it except you feed for It
The curtain front to the poultry
house provides fresh air without per.
hitting a draft upon the chickens.
Try 1t.
Keep close eye on your flock of
chickens and mark the ones that are
the best layers for breeding purposes
next spring.
Lots of dirt is fiirted into the milk
pail from the tail. Be sure and do not
neglect to brush and clean 1t with the
rest of the animal.
Care must be taken in breaking the
colt that proper bit is used. Many a
horses mouth has been ruined by the
use of the wrong Bit
Think of the folly of trying to build
up a good dairy herd with a scrub
bull. And yet that is what many a
farmer is trying to do.
Thing not only draws of the sur
plus water from the land but 1t helps
to aerate and warm the soil. Crops
need air and warmth.
Winter the calves well. You will
see the wisdom of It next spring when
IN than pY.t IN mn OF md
the rapid gains they make.
It were almost better to turn the
stock out into the open air as to
make them stand in the draughty
stable. Close up the chinks.
The successful farmer is the farmer
who knows what his land will pro-
duce, who raises what he can most
readily market and who follows up
his work SO that 1t is always well in
hand.
When buying a separator never buy
the size that is only barely large
enough to handle your milk. There
is no economy in this. 1t always pays
to get machine which has consider
able reserve capacity.
Feed green cut bone when you can.
There is nothing better to induce the
hens to lay. Skim milk is also fine.
But IL you haven't either of these two
get some beef scrap or beef meal and
feed a little each day.
Don't let your horses drop suddenly
from hard work into days of idleness.
The radical change will work to his
hurt. Bring into the slack season OF
winter gradually and let down on the
full grain ration gradually also.
Cows that are trained to milk from
either side is Kansas idea. A farmer
from that state reports that his cows
are broken thus and that when one of
his young folks gets through milking
| and there are no more whole COWS
| to be MIXED, they take 1t two to
| COW, one on each side. Kansas al
ways was a strenuous state.
Farmers above all others are inter
| ested in the work of the conservation
commission, and scarcely a single
farmers organization meets but that
it adopts resolutions indorsing the
commission and urging cooperation In
the work. It's good thing. What are
you doing to carry out the idea OF con
servation upon your own farm?
| It is a mistake to think that any old
| place is good enough for the hog. His
layer of fat may make 1t possible tc
stand a deal of cold but it will moi
help him to make good return for the
feed you are putting into him. Re
member that the animal that is tc
give a good account of itself must be
provided not only with good food and
plenty of 1t but with comfortable
quarters.
Cats in the orchard in the summer
time will tend to lessen the mice
there in the winter time. One farmer
who has a large orchard keeps