The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-08-05
Let the beginner be content with a

1t is a poor plan to try and keep
eggs too long in hot weather.
There is still room at the top for
the intelligent. progressive farmer.
Managed right the hog will do more
for the farmer than most any other
animal.
The first two years of a cows life al
most inevitably determine her future
usefulness.
Even flow of milk can be secured
from most cows by proper manage
ment and feed.
Commercial apple growing is pay
ing increasing dividends to those en-
gagged in the business.
Plenty of shade for the hens these
days. And they must have cool
house to roost in at night.
Some farmers are so scientific as to
lose sight of the practical ends TO be
obtained by their scientific notions.
The game of checkers in the corner
store may sharpen your wits. but 1t
will not drive out the weeds from the
| corn field.
If the cats are fed extra we'll during
the period when the young chicks are
running free you will find they will
not be SO prone to an occasional
| chicken dinner.
When you put the incubator away
were you careful to see that the water
tank was empty? The ground makes
a good place to set the late broody
| hen. Protect from sun and rain.
The horse that is hard to catch in
the pasture can be coaxed to your side
IL when you go to get him you take him
a little sugar. A few times trying and
he will learn to come trotting up to
you for the expected treat.
1t does seem sometimes that the fire.
quent housing of the different ma
chimes used during the season is
waste of time, but you will not think
so when you find that the well-cared-
for machine will outlast two of your
! careless neishbor.
Don't let your brain go to sleep
while you are doing the farm work.
Keep eyes and ears open for new
sights and sounds that will place YOU
IN closer touch with your crops and
stock and enable you to more intelli
gently provide the conditions which
will mean success for you.
Is the milking machine safe to use?
A New Jersey dairyman who used one
of the patent milking devices states
that under his own personal operation
the machines actually increased the
milk flow, but that when the duty was
laid on an overworked superintendent
some of the cows were injured. Il
would seem. therefore. that the opera
| ton of a milking machine calls for
carefulness and intelligence.
The little girl who said that the
| best way to keep milk from souring
| was to leave 1t in the cow paid de-
served compliment to the COW without
knowing 1t and unconsciously con
demned her elders for uncleanly
methods. The milk stays sweet in the
bag because kept away from contain
mating germs. The cleaner the meth
DDS in the dairy while the milk is be-
| ing drawn and while II is Bang
handled the longer will 1t keep sweet
and wholesome.
Experiments by the Nebraska exper-
iment station has demonstrated that
the rolling of the winter wheat in the
spring gives increased yield. the aver
age increased yield obtained during
four years amounted to 81 bushels per
acre. The rolling was given soon afte.
frost went out In the spring. and the
beenfit derived from rolling is believed
| to be due to the fact that the roller
i settles the earth firmly about the
young wheat roots, causing them to
stool and root much better.
| One farmer who has been troubled
with rats and successfully got rid OF
them did 1t in the following way: He
| put out corn meal for several nights,
and when the suspicious of the shrewd
old rats are allayed. put out the same
kind of bait in the same place with
any good rat poison well mixed. After
one dose, those remaining will not
touch poisoned bait of any kind for
some time, and probably never the
same kind. In a week or SO put out
some other kind of bait ike cheese
or meat. and repeat the operation
Traps will catch few. but the best
plan is to make buildings and gran
aries as nearly vermin-prcof as pos. +
BILE.
Corn is King" and rightfull "
should reign at the National Corn ex-
position to be held at Omaha next I.e-
cember, but that is no reason why
alfalfa should not be accorded the d IS
t;uction of having a palace. in f.
why should not this wonderful for;. ge