The Lamar register., 1908-08-26
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Stone jars make the ideal package
for packing butter.
Cut out and burn branches on pear
tree infested with blight
Remember an extra cultivation or
two in a dry time is most as good as
a rain.
Look over the stock you budded
this year and be sure the ties are not
restricting circulation.
Time to drag the roads is right af-
ter the rain. Little is accomplished to
do the work when the road is dry.
When sheep are found on their
knees feeding it is high time to ex-
anime their feed to see what is the
matter.
Put something into the home life
which will make you appreciate it and
make the other members of the family
feel that there is mo place like home"
Better crops. better stock, better
machinery, better land, better times
for the wife and family. better every
thing, should be the ambition of every
farmer.
Pasturing the meadows after NOW
ing is a doubtful proceeding. as the
vaule of the feed which the stock get
is more than apt TO be Offset by the
lessening of the hay crop next year.
The yearly keep of brood sow is
estimated to cost $40. If she is good
animal she ought TO give you two lit
easily would net profit Of $40. Pigs
do pay
Nothing will pull stock down in
flesh SO quickly as the fly plague. Do
all you can to make the horses and
other stock as comfortable as possible.
1t may seem like a good deal of trou-
BILE. but it will put dollars in your
pocket In the end.
To pen hogs so that there is no
escape from the hot sun is the most
short-sighted of management. Not
only will they not thrive, but disease
is apt to breed among them. And yet
there are farmers who will shiftless-
ly subject their hogs to such treat
ment.
Ten hours a day on the farm will
count for more where the work is
well planned, than Is hours where the
hit and miss method is followed. II
is the farmer who never plans any
thing who is out after nightfall with
the lantern finishing up the tail end of
the chores.
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carefully select and pack the fruit
and vegetables sent to market when
the flush of the season is on. for while
poor stun will hardly sell at any price
that which is fine in appearance
that is, carefully selected and packed
will command good price. Keep
the small imperfect stuff at home for
the stock and poultry.
In the early stages of the disease.
heaves may be cured by turning the
afflicted animal upon pasture or keep
ing on cornstalks or other dustless lax
alive food. Hay should not be allowed
except at night, and then in small
amount and shaken free from dust.
The bowels must never be constipat-
ed, the stable must be kept well aired,
and the use of water for drink, into
which a few drops of oil of pine tar
have been put, is recommended. Do
not use too much of the tar, as it will
nauseate.
1t is announced from the Kentucky
experiment station that positive cure
has been found for a disease among
sheep known as scab. and that this
fatal malady had assumed such large
proportions among the sheep of Ken.
lucky that the state veterinary has
threatened to quarantine the state
against the shipping of any Of the ami
mails out of its borders. The disease
attacks the sheep in the nature of a
large scab which in short period OF
time covers it's entire body, not only
rendering the wool utterly worthless
but in most cases killing the sheep
within a short time. The disease is
contagious and has been spreading
during the past few months. SO seri-
ously 1t is said nearly every flock is in
fected.
The best work can be obtained from
horses. and men too, for that matter.
when they are generously fed. The
old story of the farmer who stingily
fed buttermilk and whey to his hired
men and found them dragging through
the work to the refrain. I'VE won't
get through to-day" is worth re-tell-
ing. He did his best to drive the
men to faster work. but without avail.
and at last left the field in disgust.
But before he reached the house he
had taken a second sober thought and
wisely concluded that more gener-
Gus diet might affect the spirits OF
his men and enable them to put more
vim into their tasks. So he had wife
fix up the best kind of ham and egg
dinner. Nor was he disappointed with