The Lamar register., 1909-12-22
Sheep ar. emcient weed killers.

Come thou up higher!"
A brooder will raise more chicks
than the average old hen.
1t is just as easy to grade your flock
up as it is to grade 1t down.
A brooder can easily be kept free
from vermin. Not SO the hen.
Good management of the poultry
plants allows no waste or leaks.
Wood ashes are good in their place.
but that place is not In the hen house.
Too constant sitting makes the hens
of bad disposition and difficult to man
age.
Molasses is highly recommended as
horses.
| Many farmers are finding the use OF
hameless collars a remedy for shout
der gals.
| Roots should not, generally speak
inS. be fed alone. as they carry too
much water.
| Some trees will bear planting quite
thick. while heavy foliaged trees must
be set far apart.
| h,n ~ he
washed and thoroughly dried immedi-
ately before milking.
| Sheep of the common mutton breeds
are not even fairly well developed un-
til fully eighteen months Of age.
| Buckwheat is fine food for young
turkeys and should be given them as
Soon as they are old enough to eat.
Swine need more room, more free
dom. more grass and succulent feed
than they get on the average farm.
II an orchard is on low ground It
be admitted TO the soil or the trees
will die.
Breeders should be in no hurry to
dispose OF rams In service. as some
times lambs Of little promise develop
into good sheep.
Clean the chicken coops thoroughly
before you put them away. Get them
under cover, too. IL you can. They
will last SO much longer.
Wyandottes, like other breeds that
are not listed to lay pure white eggs
do so in individual cases, or under
certain systems Of feeding.
A two-year-old tree can be started
more easily than three-year-old.
With some varieties a one-year-old
tree is even better than a two-year.
old.
One cannot afford to pay for gain
on an animal. then lose It. Making
stock live on scant pasture. when
there is plenty of feed in the Geld.
is poor economy.
The more than usual number OF
wormy apples this season is remind
er that we must spray the trees thor
oughly in the spring In order to have
clean fruit In the fall
Since the farm is the source OF oui
wealth II behooves us to learn more
of our property, and the methods &c
keep It at It's fullest producing capaci
ty without impoverishment-
II there is a patch OF late corn. cure
and store 1t away. When chopped
into sizeable pieces. II will be found
valuable feed, when all green forage
ia sealed up with snow and ice.
Were the turkeys good judges oil
human nature they would know that
the extra feed and kindness now be
ing bestowed upon them are but the
beginning Of a plot for their downfall
Do not have pullets and hens In the
same pen. for II you do 1t will be i'm
possible to SO feed that the puilets
will come to laying at the right time
The house should be kept open ant
the pullets allowed outdoor conditions
as nearly as possible.
When cabbage is to be stored oveI
winter. the heads should be examined
: critically and diseased ones rejected
and kept by themselves. Black ROT
may be detected by breaking on the
lower leaves and examining the stalk
II the fbers OF the leaf stalk are
bIackened the head should be de
, stroyed.
The farmer is not dependent on the
prosperity of his neighbor for success
The husbandman is close to nature
, and derives his wealth from her in
, exhaustible resources while other in
dustries depend on success In the ex
, ploitation OF their fellow men. The
farmer looks to the soil for his sue
| cess and becomes responsible for hi
own failures.
In grading the surplus poultry ant
dividing II into lots for fattening. sftel