The Lamar register., 1908-09-30

the ground Is wet.
Careful cultivation brings the farm
er crops, coin and resultant content
ment.
Don't hang up the brush scythe I'M
til you have made a circuit of the
fence corners.
Whitewash the stable, and II the
horse gnaws the stalls paint the wood
with tar.
Sore shoulders on horses are as
often caused by rough and dirty col
lars as by those which are ill-fitting.
Bad neighbors arc often the prod
uct of bad fences. NJ. nd up and quit
your fussing.
Cement floors in the hog pen are
good If covered with plenty of good
bedding.
The horse is made or marred by his
| first year. Start him right, and keep
him going right If you would make
morse raising pay.
One acre of turnips will provide
feed for rs to 30 sheep for three
months. Did you grow any? A mis-
take If you did not.
The hired man has rights. Try to
give him square deal and he will
appreciate it and generally do the
square thing by you.
Don't worry over the thing you
can't help and don't kill yourself try
ing to do what you have not time and
strength to accomplish.
The reason a woman makes sue
| cess of poultry raising as a rule is
because she is careful. watchful and
mindful of all the small details.
Clean up the garden plot and burn
up all the rubbish. This will make
| the place look more tidy and will
| destroy a host of insect pests and
weed seeds.
Pluck off the smut balls from the
| corn and burn them. Corn smut
| spreads rapidly If the smutballs are
| thrown on the manure pile and the
| manure spread on corn-fields. Never
| throw a smut ball on the manure pile!
Dairy note from Life: "In the hot
days of fy-time there are the usual
kicks over the milk" and by way of
| te, Lfrk
ing over the pail and incidentally the
mixer himself.
Experiment seems to prove that
chicks grow faster upon soft mashes
than upon dry grains. There seems
to be least danger from bowel loose
ness when the dry grains only are
fed, and 1t is very essential that the
mash be dry enough to crumble in
order to avoid that difficulty. Young
chicks like the moist mash better than
though it was not moistened and will
eat more OF 1t. There is no danger
| from the free use of the properly
made mash twice a day. and being al
| ready ground the young birds can eat
and digest more of 1t than when the
| food is all coarse.
Do you know how much 1t costs you
to raise your calves? 1t would prove
interesting and profitable for you to
keep a record. Prof. Shaw of Michi-
gan did so. and found that the Hol-
stein calf used in the experiment the
first year of its life 3S1 pounds of
whole milk, 2.568 pounds Of skim
milk, 1862 pounds Of silage. 219
pounds of beet pulp. 1884 pounds of
hay. 1.247 pounds of grain. 147 pounds
of roots, IA pounds OF alfalfa meal
and SO pounds of green corn. The
grain ration consisted of three parts
each of corn and oats and one part of
bran and oil meal. At the end of the
year the calf weighed 500 pounds at
"A cost of $28.55 for feed.
BY the old pan process of raising
cream in the summer time much of
the butter fat is lost, as 1t fails to rise.
The milk is soured by the time little
more than half the cream contained in
the milk has risen to the surface, and
that which has already risen Is soured
beyond the point where it makes good
butter. In the summer a hand sep
arator is needed to get all the cream.
In the winter one is needed to get the
cream separated from the milk as
quickly as possible that the milk may
go to the calves or pigs with the ami
NAL heat still there. There is no sea-
son of the year when the hand sep
arator is not just the machine to have
on the dairy farm.
Bloody milk may be caused by a
variety of conditions. DR.. Schroeder
declares that some claim that the COW
fighting flies, kicking and throwing
the body to and fro, will tend to rup-
ture the small blood vessels and thus
cause the trouble. Others hold that
the steady diet of green, succulent
food and perhaps the arrangement of
the blood caused by certain weeds.
bring on this trouble. The latter opin-
ion the doctor is inclined to believe,
for 1t has been his observation that
many cases can be cured by changing
the pasture or changing the feed. I'VE
have cured cases of bloody milk" he