The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-09-15

Proper feed and care Is the secret
Of healthy chickens.
Cut out the old raspberry and black
berry cane and burn.
Relieve yourself and watch the 9TH
er fellow for new ideas.
Soil washing is one of the great
wastes which is robbing many Amer
lean farmers
Alfalfa hay must be well cured be-
fore stacking or it will be apt to
heat and spoil.
A good dairy thermometer is quite
| necessary where much cream Is
handled. Test your COWS.
Picnic lunch is fine, but don for
get the horses that haul you to the
grove. Have feed for them. too
Alfalfa for seed should be cut when
the greater portion of the seeds are
Lots of chance for leaks on the
farm. Look out for them. Stop them
up as quickly as possible when found
Wet ground can be successfully put
down to red top and alsike clover.
The blowing and seeding can be done
during q very dry spell.
Feed the young chickens freely. Lit
tie danger of overlooking. But feed
the old stock only what they will pick
up clean in a short time.
Know what your cows are doing for
you by using the scales in weighing
their milk and the Babcock tester in
determining the quality of the milk.
Better farming means better crops.
and better crops mean more money
and more comforts on the farm. Why
not study to improve your methods?
The colt, like the boy, Is easily
spoiled, and 1t 1t hard to undo mis-
management. But raised right, colts
and boys prove one of the most profit
able productions of the farms.
Warm and cold cream should never
be mixed. Cool the former to the
temperature of the latter before put
ting together 1t is a good plan not
to mix different days cream. whether
1t is of the same temperature or not.
Alfalfa is first cousin OF the clover
family. and a agriculture crop which
must be handled with especial care. II
should be cut when about one-tenth
in bloom. This gives better chance
for subsequent cuttings in the season.
1t must be handled In such a way that
the leaves will not be lost, for If they
break on. the part of the plant most
rich In protein is lost. Each season
two or three cuttings of alfalfa may
be harvested II care is used at each
time. and II the season is at all
natural.
The egg which matches the larva Of
the peach tree borer Is laid in Au-
gust on the bark at the base of the
tree, says Prof. II. A. Surface, and
after some days the larva. or grub,
matches and commences to feed at the
surface of the bark. finally eating its
way through and boring up and down
and across beneath the bark. often
cutting on the total sap supply and
causing the tree to wither. After the
pests have passed beneath the bark.
they are concealed and can not easily
be reached with insecticides. They
should then be killed by cutting them
out, always cutting lengthwise rather
than crosswise of the bark. or by
piercing them with a pointed wire.
Weeds often become a serious pest
in agricultural communities because
some one failed to do his duty in ex.
terminating them at the first discov
cry. Such carelessness is intolerable
because 1t is usually a comparatively
easy matter to get rid of weeds in
their incipient stage. Some of these
weeds are left to grow and spread be-
cause the land owner does not realize
that the new plant is damaging to
crops. until the pest is thoroughly es
tablished. Perhaps in no other period
in American history has there been
SO much complaint among farmers on
account of spread of noxious weeds as
now. This is due in a large measure
to the impure seed that is foisted upon
farmers who depend upon the market
for their supply.
Swine feeding is a science. The
Illinois experiment station has, found
that pigs fed on ground corn and wa.
ter alone for a period of six months,
the fourth to the ninth months In.
elusive. made gain of only 20 pounds
per head during the entire period as
compared to $50 pounds gain made by
other pigs fed mixed ration during
the same period. The gains in the
former case required 81 pounds of
ground corn per pound of gain. and
in the latter 4.6 pounds of feed per
pound of gain. It was further shown
that ground corn. water and mineral
matter. such as salt, wood ashes.
bone-meal, charcoal. etc. without 9TH
er feed. will give very good and prof