The Lamar register., 1908-11-18


you to feed generously and to get the
eggs in return.
Provide plenty of litter for the
chickens to scratch in this winter
Leaves are excellent.
Don't forget to pick some OF the best
of the hickory sticks for AK handles.
You will need them
Be regular in feeding the poultry
This is a good rule with regard 10
livestock of all kinds.
u A good way TO feed molasses to
Dhorses is TO put it on the hay. This
ration will keep them thrifty.
Alfalfa pays If you get a good stand,
but remember that good stand
comes only with faithful preparation
of soil
About the only treatment which the
sheep-killing dog deserves is bullet
where it will put him out of business
for good and all.
Give the hens good dust bath. Put
the box in a sunshiny place in the hen
house. 1t will do your heart good to
watch them wallow in 1t.
Never get the conception that 1t is
clever scheming that brings success.
It's hard work that brings enduring
success. The genius of hard work is
the best asset in life.
The farmer who begrudges the time
necessary to feed and care for the
hogs is generally the farmer who on
market day is disappointed with the
return from the sales.
Before worrying over the fact that
your neighbor has more land than you
have, Just study over the question
whether you are getting as much as
is possible out of the land you already
have.
The manure from dairy cow will
amount to over ten tons a year with
- value of upwards of $50. But the
way the average farmer handles this
by-product, much of the value is lost.
Why not stop this leak by putting
in cement cutters. make free use Of
bedding and get the manure out on
the land every day?
Get the boy camera and get him
interested in taking pictures of the
buildings and the stock. 1t will be
one more link to bind him to the farm
and will be a step toward improve
ment in the appearance of the farm
and better farm animals. Pictures tell
stories, and where the camera is on
the farm to bring their tell-tale mes
sages of neglect and disorder and
poor stock, you are apt to spruce up
a bit and to want stock that will look
well in a picture.
The weather man by study and OBJ
servation may be able to pretty accu-
rately predict what the weather is 60
ing to be, but it is God who maketh
the sun to shine and the rain to fall,
the winds to blow and the crops to
grow And 1t is well 1t is so, for he
knoweth best. Let us never be i'm
patient with what he sends. Always
make the best of the weather condi-
lions; order the farm work in har-
mony with the conditions God pro-
lvides. and when it comes to taking
stock after the harvest is over you
will, as you do this year, have to ad-
init that things turned out better than
you had thought they would.
= Remember that of all the manure
Produced on the farm that from the
poultry has the greatest value, and
yet with but few exceptions it is not
taken care of as it should be. The
New Hampshire experiment station
recommends that the weekly drop
pings of a flock of 25 hens should be
mixed with about eight pounds of
kainit or acid phosphate and hall
peck of sawdust. II one desires a
balanced fertilizer for corn and other
7 hoed crops, a mixture of equal parts
of kainit and acid phosphate could be
/ used instead of either alone. Good
dry meadow muck or peat would be
. equally as good as sawdust, If not
+ better, to use as an absorbent. In the
4 experiment mentioned, more than half
s of the ammonia was lost in hen
r manure without chemicals when COM
pared with that which had been mixed
with them.
In speaking of the prosperity and
the conservatism of the American
farmer the National Mazazine has this
to say: mo other class of people
have kept their feet so firmly since
last October Q907 as the farmers
have done. and they have kept their
heads, too They look out over the
country and behold the symptoms
here and there of financial demorali-
cation and depression. in the light
railroad traffic, partly suspended man
iufacturing, commercial hesitancy, in.
activity, and speculative paralysis.
They realize that, in so far as these
1things, portend low wages or lack Of
Employment for labor, they must ul-
fimately affect the farmer by limiting
fhe demand for his product; but they
are sagacious enough to know that