The Lamar register., 1908-11-04

Rape makes good pasture for
hogs.
Pillow the land only when it crum-
bles away from the pillow.
Nst. Shall build silo?' but
How large shall l build it?"
Get things in shape for the win
ter Make the poultry snug.
Try feeding wheat to the heLs and
see If it will increase the egg yield.
Kind words is the oil that makes
the machinery of life run smoothly.
Get after the tent caterpillars in the
them.
Why not good dairy If dairy
herd at all? You can have such by
care in breeding.
Currant bushes should be propagat-
ed only from bushes that bear the
most and best fruit.
Attend to the tile draining this fall.
Perhaps all that ails that young or
chard is the need of thing.
Poison vines growing in the fence
corners are poor testimonials to
farmers character. Dig 'em out
| Good winter quarters must be pro-
vided for the sheep if they do well.
They need sunlight, fresh air and dry
floor.
Neglected to mark the turkeys and
now there comes the dispute with the
neighbors as to who's who, and what's
what.
Pound for pound. sheep manure is
three times as valuable as COW ma
nure. One argument in favor OF Keep
ing sheep on the farm.
The manure spreader is a drudge
saver Many a farmer thinks he can
not afford one who would find that a
few seasons work would more than
pay for it.
The overhead rack is a poor place
from which to feed the horse. Be
sides being an unnatural way for the
animal to feed, 1t causes great deal
of dust, which is a bad thing.
Have a hospital pen where the
sheep that give evidence of being
sick can be isolated and treated. Many
a contagious disease can in this way
be kept from spreading in flock.
Pull a few of the tomato plants on
which green tomatoes still hang and
put in the cellar. They will ripen and
you will continue to have ripe. fresh
tomatoes until after Thanksgiving, II
you manage right.
The chief trouble with the party
line is that some folks make hogs
of themselves and monopoiize the
telephone in visiting to the prevention
of the transaction of urgent business
by other parties on the same line.
Watch the chickens when the farm
err is going through the barnyard,
and you can often learn heap as to
what kind of a man he is. III the
hens run as though in fear of their
lives be sure that that farmer has
brutal strain in him which even the
chicks have discovered.
Don't let the fences get in bad re
pair. 1t is not only an invitation to
the stock to get breechy. but It makes
the work of fixing them up much more
difficult than would have been the case
had they been fixed in season. Re
member the old adage. "A stitch in
time saves nine
road which has successfully stood
the test of two years at Mankato.
Mimi. and cost only so cents a lin
cal foot, was made by OVERLAPPING the
ordinary road with crushed stone and
gravel upon which dressing OF ce'
ment was spread followed by a cont
ing of sand and then well rolled.
In our opinion the best time for a
cow TO come fresh is in the fall. for
the stimulus which then comes to
the tactical glands will with proper
feeding and care continue good milk
flow through the winter; then. with
fresh grass in the spring, n still fur
Their stimulus is received. On the
other hand, the COW that is fresh in
the spring receives all the stimulus at
once, then as fly time comes she be-
gins to shrink and when she goes
on winter feed she falls off rapidly.
A farm paper suggests use for
old tin cans by melting off the tops
and bottoms and Strengthening out the
tin and lining the inside of the chick
en- house. 1t certainly would make
the walls and corners mice and rat
proof. but how about the lice and
mites? The small overlapping pieces
CT tin would prove ideal hiding places
for the pests. This difficulty might
be overcome, however, by whitewash-