The Lamar register., 1908-07-15

Charcoal is appreciated by the flock.
Provide it for them.
Better to plant little in the gar
den and plant well than to half plant
great quantity of stuff.
A little fertilizer well placed will
bring better returns than an unlimited
quantity carelessly applied.
The community where the good
dairy COW is in the majority is the
community which is marked by con-
tentment and prosperity.
Well-grown fruit or vegetables. we'll
careless producer never realizes. 1t
pays to do things right
The draft horse is the one for the
farmer to raise, because 1t can be
done in harmony with the other in
terests of the farm and with the great
est profit.
tuberculosis in cattle and scab In
sheep is spread from the stock yards
OF the large cities by the feeders who
purchase animals from the pens with
out proper investigation.
Never let the dead wood yemain on
the fruit trees. 1t not only provides
hiding places for insect pests, but 1t
opens the way to extending the de-
cay into the heart of the tree.
An attachment for the corn cultiva-
tor which will replant the missing
hills is said to be the invention Of a
handy Missourian. 1t fastens on the
tongue of the cultivator and is worked
from the seat by string.
The farmer who leaves the machines
standing in the fields where they were
last used is following an expensive
practice. 1t pays to have tool house
and after a machine is through with
to clean, oil and house it.
Good pasturage and plenty of water
is all that breeding stock need. but
pigs which are to be marketed at six
months must have plenty of grain to
bring them up to the best marketable
weight, about 200 pounds.
Generally speaking, the cow which
has had her milk-producing capacity
encouraged and developed will be very
likely to transmit these traits to her
progeny. Raise the heifers of your
best cows and you will be on the road
| to improving your herd.
Don't dope yourself indiscriminately
when you feel unwell. More people
recover without the use of medicine
than with its supposed aid. Give ma
ture a chance and she will do more
for you than all the self-prescribed
medicine you can pour down your
| throat.
| However fancy the breed Of fowls
may be. the front yard is no place for
| their yarding. Reserve the front of the
house for green sward and foliage and
flowers and relegate the chickens to
the rear. However. keep the chicken
| yard and house as clean as though
they were on display.
A morning feeding about eight
O'Clock will act as an inducement to
keep the fowls around the poultry
house until after the egg-laying duty
has been discharged for the day. Many
an egg is lost by turning the hens
out early in the morning and giving
| them the range of the farm.
A neat sign bearing the name Of the
farm placed near the road so that II
can be read by passersby gives char.
acter to your place. People think as
they pass that the place that has an
Individual name must amount to some
thing. In picking a name let some
characteristic of the place receive
recognition.
No one would think for a minute
that he had right to invade bit OF
woodland upon farm and carry on
firewood, and why should 1t be thought
that the wild fruit growing in such a
place is any the more public property?
Anything growing upon mans land
is his property. and should not be dis
turbed or taken without his express
permission.
How often does the henhouse need
cleaning? AS often as 1t gets dirty
And by dirty we do not mean simply
reeking with Accommodations of drop
pings and filthy scratchings. No. we
never saw a henhouse yet which could
be kept clean short OF two cleanings
a week. Be faithful during the warm
weather or the lice and mites will get
the upper hand.
Intensive farming and extensive
farming sound a good deal alike, but
they are vastly different. Intensive
farming means that the farmer is
making the small tract pay, while ex-
tensive farming too often means that
the farmer is spreading himself over
so much land that none of his work
is well done and his margin of profit is
smaller If not wholly eliminated. Farm
little and well rather than much and
poorly.
Cases of founder in horses can be