The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-06-02
The use OF wild tires helps to keep
a road in good condition.

No better way of maintaining the
fertility of the soil than by stock rails
ing.
Why not try and get a stand of al
falfa this year. 1t will prove one of
your best investments, If you do.
Sow rape for the hogs and when 1t
has had sufficient growth turn the
hogs on it.
Don't let the drinking vessels in the
poultry yard become foul. Clean
every day.
Salt. charcoal and ashes should be
kept where the hogs can help them
selves
1t is an easy thing to push the
horses SO hard with the early work as
to put them out of condition. Such
methods do not pay.
When the horses come In all tired
| out and covered with sweat don't let
them stand in the raw winds. They
| will be sure to catch cold II you do.
Did 1t ever occur to you that dirty.
| foul-smelling troughs are the source
of many disorders among the animals
using them?
Mark the SOW which proves good
mother and treat her with special re-
| gard. She will prove spendid part
ner in the farming business.
Be ready for the dry spell when 1t
comes this summer and have green
food for your COWS by planting spe-
cial patch for them now.
There is this to say in encourage
ment of spraying for San Jose scale.
1t not only keeps the pest in check,
but destroys many other insects.
The only way to accurately Judge a
cow is by weighing and testing her
milk. Guess methods will prove most
unsatisfactory.
| Plan to build silo this year and
plant the field with corn against the
i time 1t will be ready to go into the silo
for winter use.
Something from nothing never
works out in the dairy. You must put
the feed into the COWS II you are going
to get the milk out of them.
| The successful farmer Is he who Is
quick to observe, slow to run after in
novations, and patient in following out
the practical lines of work on his
| farm.
In speaking of the difference be-
tween the feeding value of fresh skim
milk, warm from the separator. and
the same milk cooled and then re-
heated to the same temperature when
1t was desired to feed 1t, ID. Fl. Otis
declares that there is practically no
difference. He says: In test have
fed two lots of calves in comparison.
giving one fresh hand-separator skim
milk still containing the animal heat,
and feeding the other lot sterillzed
creamery SKINNED cooled to about
IS degrees F., to keep 1t sweet from
~ to II hours. AS good results were
obtained with one as with the other.
Under ordinary farm conditions 1t is
difficult and often inconvenient to
keep skim milk sweet. and for this
reason better results are usually OBJ
tanned with hand separator skim milk.
Sufficient heating will. however. pre-
vent the transmission of tuberculosis.
| which is quite frequently spread
through skim milk.
Sows that have been fed an almost
exclusive diet of corn during preg-
nancy. reach the narrowing period in
highly feverish state. are irritable and
nervous and crave some flesh-forming
food They very likely kill one OF the
pigs and eat it and having once tasted
flesh the chances are they will de.
your the entire litter II left to them
selves. Other troubles at narrowing
are also frequent where sows have
been fed too much fattening food and
have had little exercise. The pregnant
sow is a pig factory and the feed she
demands is that which will make
bone. muscle and gristle, for that Is
what the pig consists Of. Feed her
whole oats, barley. shorts, a little OIL
meal, ETC., and only enough corn to
keen her in good condition. See that
she takes ample exercise. Feed her
some distance from her pen and scat
ter whole grain thinly on the ground
making it necessary for her to spend
considerable time in gathering enough
to satisfy her. Sows fed in this way
will seldom have any trouble at far
rowing or evince any desire to eat
their young.
There are several cardinal reasons
why the separator is needed on every
farm where COWS are kept lit
saves lots of time over the old method
of raising the cream. 2.-It saves
work, as there are no jars or pans to
fuss with and wash. 3.-It is easier
to carry the cream to the creamery
two or three times a week than it Is
to send a wagon load of milk cans