The Lamar register., 1909-05-26
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Cleanliness Is dDSOlutely eSSeQIlal
for successful poultry raising.
Now is the time to begin the fight
on lice and mites in the henhouse.
Make up your mind you will take
better care of the tools and machinery
this year than last
1t is easy to use one of the various
types of road drags, all modelled on
the King idea.
Oats require a well-prepared seed
bed. II is time well spent in pulver-
izing the soil. Use the harrow freely.
Animal for animal, mules bring a
higher price than horses. Why not
raise few?
Have you kept the road drag busy
alongside of your place? Not much
work, but it improves the road a
heap.
Test your seed corn. You will then
know whether you are planting corn
that will grow or not.
Begin the grain ration with the lit
tie chicks early. Many do not be-
lieve in feeding soft mashes to little
chicks at all.
If your seed corn is not what 1t
ought to be. don't plant it. 1t will pay
you to buy of some one who has good
seed corn to SELL
Seed corn in the ear brings high
err price than that which is shelled,
but it is worth more. Pay the differ
. ence and get the best.
Make 1t the rule to constantly i'm
prove the stock on your farm. If you
start with scrub stock don't be con-
tent to continue with that grade, but
use pure bred sires and breed up. In
a few years you will be in possession
of a fine grade of animals.
In the opinion of some who have
tried it, the best crop to precede the
sowing of alfalfa is cowpeas. After
the vines are removed or plowed I'M
der, the ground should be well broken
and kept clean of weeds and grass by
surface cultivation until it is seeded
in alfalfa the following fall.
II you made proper selections OF
seed corn last fall and have kept 1t
well you are among those to be con-
graduated and undoubtedly are the
envy of improvident farmers who by
hit and miss methods are now forced
to use most anything that is left for
planting.
1t is foolhardy policy to sell the
good COWS when wishing to reduce the
size of the herd, just because you can
get little better price for the good
ones than the poor ones. Sell the
poorest every time. even though they
do not bring nearly so much. Such
policy will help build up. not tear
down, your herd.
II your neighbor seems to get along
better than you do; If his farm. which
is right alongside yours and ought to
be no better soil than yours. raises
better crops than yours does; If he
do, watch him. study his methods.
There is a reason for 1t, and you can
learn from him II you will.
A tired horse just in from the hard
work of the field is in no condition to
fill up on grain. Water. and rub down.
and let stand for a while before feed
ing. In this way the digestive organs
will be ready to begin their work with
vigor, and the rest and the feed dur
ing the nSht will put him in vigorous
condition for the work of the next
day.
One of the coolest, rawest days this
spring when l went out to look over
my acres and was grumbling at the
unpromising conditions the notes of a
bird from the southland reused me
and said: IF they can sing while
the north wind blows and snow is in
the air, and are not worried over the
weather, SO can I. for He who careth
for the birds careth for me-" And that
ended my crouch for that day, at least.
With a separator on the farm, you
can feed the sweet warm skim milk
to the hogs and calves when it has its
highest feed value. 1t saves handling
it two or three times, as under the old
method: saves the innuAerable cans
and pans in which you used to set
your milk to raise the cream, and 1t
gives you the cream to either take at
once to the creamery or save for max
ing into butter on the farm. The sep
arator is a timesaver and q money
Try and be a better dairy farmer
than your neighbor. Give thought to
your business. II you have been keep
ing cows Just because you happened
to have them on your hands, change
your tactics. Remember that the
herd is an exceptionally poor one II
there are not a few cows in 1t that
will make pretty good returns II you
give them a chance. These are the
cows to which you should direct your
attention. You should serve them
with n 0ood dairy sire and keep the