The Lamar register., 1908-11-04
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That low, wet ground will do well in
Herds grass.
XIII sheep this fall and corn the
meat. 1t is delicious.
Never feed more to the animals than
they will eat up clean.
Often the pessimist needs a change
of diet as much as anything else.
Keep down the weeds in the fall.
1t will tighten the work in the spring.
Pig raising is most successful where
skim milk is large part of the feed
ration.
Machinery all housed? You cannot
| of your pocketbook.
Irregular feeding is one contribu-
tory cause TO horses acquiring the
habit of boiling their feed.
Put a mulch of strawy manure
around the berry bushes and the grape
vines, but don't put on too early.
Your first mistake is excusable, your
second. never; for no man has any
business making the same mistake
twice.
The dairyman's profits come in dur
ing all the year. That is one reason
why that type of farming is better
than any other.
A good herd of cows of one breed
and in thrifty condition is the best
kind of an index to the character OF
the farmer who owns them.
Colts will not raise themselves. Hit
and-miss methods never yet produced
the best horses Remember that rails.
ing colts pays if you give them intel
| .igent care.
Careful feeding can keep up the
milk flow. 1t does not pay to let II
run down, for once a smaller yield is
established it cannot be increased un
til after another calving.
The cold rains of the fall prove q
great drain upon the vitality of the
live stock The farmer that does no,
provide shelter for the animals Is
working against his own interests.
Not only place the farm machinery
under cover, but oil it up so that
atmospheric dampness will not rust
the exposed bright parts. A little
time now will save days OF trouble
next spring.
A tidbit in the way of piece oil
sugar or an apple will prove ideal in
winning the confidence of the colt
Always have something for him. and
YOU will be proud and delighted at the
attention he will shower upon you.
Grade up your dairy COWS by using
a pure bred bull. 1t may take a few
years to do it, but each year saving
the best of the heifer calves will give
you in time a herd of sows that viii
prove far more profitable than youi
present herd.
Raise the best crops you can and
sell them at the best price you can
but don't speculate. The farmer that
begins to deal on the grain market has
taken his first step to ruin, for moth
ing but failure and loss ever came to
the farmer who tried his hand at tho
game.
An old swindle that is being tried
on the farmers again is that of selling
them new and wonderful kind OF
wheat and binding them by a contract
to return to the man (who thus places
them in a way to get rich), certain
number of bushels of the grain next
wear. Look out for it.
Sheep that have been n long time
without salt are apt to make them
selves sick eating too much of II
when the opportunity comes. Be
regular in feeding it to them, or. bet
ter still, provide box TO which the
flock can Lave access at all times
They will help themselves. and will
eat only such as is good for them.
Never let the soil remain bare.
Sun, rain and wind will do it harm
1t loses a greater amount of its finer
particles by the teaching of rain water
than does soil that is covered with
some crop. 1t is well for a soil to be
covered most of the time, even if the
crop grown has to be turned under
For this reason some agriculturists
SOW a crop in the early fall when II
can make only enough growth to part
Iy cover the ground during the win
ter. They pillow this under in the
spring.
Some fowls are weak because born
that way. They inherited their weak
ress from the lack of materials or OF
vitality in the egg. Such birds will
reuuire a good deal of doctoring If
they are to be kept alive and are the
ones on which the most attention has
to be bestowed. In any flock there is
A certain per cent. of this kind OF
birds, and it does not pay to bother
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