The Lamar register., 1908-10-07
vi FARM
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1t is impossible to keep the milk
utensils too clean.
Corn for the silo rad rather be too
ripe than too green.
The dairy without the Babcock test
er is like the engine without the gov
ernor.
Cream that is ripe for churning pre-
sents a smooth. satiny appearance
when stirred.
The well-worn hoe is good test-
monial for the farmer. The rusty hoe
tells another tale.
Little things done in season will
tighten the big tasks and make farm
ing more pleasant and profitable.
One farmer recommends quarter
pound doses OF baking soda for collie
in animals.
The fruit tree that shows a tenden-
cy to split at the crotch can be saved
by boring a hole at the point of the
split and putting bolt through with
a washer at either end.
A twoinch hole bored a foot deep
into the stump and filled with salt
peter to which water is added and left
to stand couple of months will
hoc ho hnr of OF
The Intestinal nodules in nodular
disease of sheep have been regarded
as tuberculous in character. but are
now known to be due to the irrita-
ton caused by the immature form of
an intestinal worm.
After harvesting the root crops turn
the sheep in on the fields. They will
pick up many of the small roots left
behind. Surprising how much good
feed Is lost IL the animals do not help
to pick 1t up.
Carrots are good feed for dairy cows
as well as other stock. When not fed
in too large quantities they provide
the best winter food for the milk cows.
The carrot is always greedily eaten
by stock, as 1t has in 1t n consider
able quantity of sugar and no element
of bitterness. Carrots are also sup
posed to help color the milk in the
direction desired. but 1t would take
a good many carrots to accomplish
much in this regard. The effect OF
feeding carrots is very good on the
digestive system.
Hogs need clear water and plenty of
1t. The amount of water they natur-
ally use is very great. 1t has been
found that a pig fed corn meal as
principal diet used about 900 pounds
of water to 100 pounds OF gain. A
pig fed barley meal used 1900 pounds
of water in making 100 pounds of gain
on that diet. Many pigs get little
moisture outside of what they get in
the slop. They should have separate
drinking tank or trough filled with
water where they can drink whenever
they SO desire. Even IL they get an
abundance Of slop they will drink
much water.
The appointment OF a commission
by the president to study farm con-
ditions with view to suggesting re-
forms that will make farm life more
pleasant and wholesome has AFFORD
ed the humorists of the country
new subject for their witticisms.
Here is how 1t strikes the rhymster
on the Washington Post:
We've been Investigated down to Pohick
IL rtcF
An j reckon that reform will strike US
farmers purity quick.
We want the chickens taught to lay an
egg just as they should.
! 'Thout settin' up cackle thatll wake
the neighborhood;
We want the pigs to break away from
customs of the past
An learn to use finger bowl and not
to eat SO fast.
And cows should be persuaded not to
ovcrturn the pals
When milkin' time comes round. an not
be switchin' of their tails.
We ought to make arrangements with
the weather bureau. too.
For havin' rain turned on or or. accord
in it's due:
It's a mighty glorious feelin' to be look
in toward the day
When well give up all the bothers of our
plain old-fashioned way.
when well sit up on fence rail in
some cool an snady nook
An help the corn an 'taters grow ty
Teadin from n book.
We've rolled our shirt sleeves down; no.
body wants to do n lick
Until this farm reform has lit at PohiclS
the Crick.
NO" said farmer with whom
talked the other day. ~ never break
my horses until they are four years
of age. They always do better work
than the horses of my neishbors that
are broken earlier" What did he
mean? His idea of breaking a colt
was putting it to hard work, and when
! suggested that the training of colt
should begin early in the first year he
looked at me in amazement. / asked
him If it was not pretty tough job
breaking the four-year-olds, and he
admitted it was. The training of a
colt does not mean that he must be
worked. 1t simply means the edu-
eating of the animal to obey words of
\ command to submission to touch of