The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-09-22
NJ FARM
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The sheep should never be handled
roughly.
Tho nonlayer makes a good eater
for the table.
Horses with tender shoulders should
have sweat pads used upon them.
With the tightening of the work
tighten up on the feed ration for the
horse.
A handful or oil meal daily in the
horses ration will help put gloss
upon his coat.
The wife will prove your best coun-
sellor. Listen to her and many legal
complication will be spared.
Milk is good for the hens as well
as the pigs. See II you cannot spare
them some. 1t helps to make eggs.
How are the drains about the
house? Time to think about getting
them in good shape for the winter
months.
Hold the wheat in the bin rather
than sell at too low price. 1t is al
most certain to run into money before
the year is over.
Food left in the trough by the hogs
is the best kind OF evidence that you
are feeding too generously. Feed only
what will be eaten up clean.
To produce good eggs and get them
on the market in the best possible
condition one must provide good
housing, food and water regularly.
and above all keep the nests clean.
Eggs should be gathered daily, and
when the temperature is high they
should be gathered twice a day. Re:
ject all doubtful eggs and keep the
eggs In as cool a place as possible.
Mnch has been said in the papers
abont petroleum butter" and the
curiosity II not the anxiety OF the
dairy farmers has been excited.
Dairy Commissioner Foust of Phila-
deIphia secured a sample OF "petrole-
found 1t was composed of so per cent.
vaseline. two per cent. salt and 10
per cent. cornstarch. The rest was
water. The sample looked much like
yaseline and is said to taste like 1t.
Mr.. Foust decided that it could not
be sold as butter.
Drained soils are generally well
ventilated soils, for as the water per-
colates through and lowers the water
table. 1t draws an equal amount of air
into the soil. Then when another rain
falls and a sheet OF water is formed
on the surface OF the field. 1t presses
down upon the soil air. and has a ten
dency to force It out through the
drains. and in settling draws another
volume Of air into the soil. SO that
every shower helps to change the air
in a drained field. The drains them
selves continue ventilating fues by
means Of which air circulates through
the soil more or less because of
changes in temperature and baro-
metric.
The simplest form OF silo is the
stave silo. II should be made from
two-inch narrow plank. properly bev-
cled ard he'd together by strong
iron bards. The slaves. after bevel-
ing so that when fitted together they
will form a circle of the desired size.
are placed on end on solid founda-
ton and properly fitted. These are
strengthened and held in place by
strong iron hoops. which are SO made
that they may be frightened or zoos
ened at will. Doors should be built
at intervals from the top to the bot
tom so that the silage may easily be
got out. II is not necessary to put
roof on this silo, but it is much In
be preferred. This style of the silo
should be kept well painted. both In
side and out II properly built and
taken care of stave si'o is durable.
rigid and Albright
Gapes in young chickens is caused
according to Prof II. A. Surface
state zoologist Of Indiana, by eating
of eart:iworms. There are parasites
in tie earth-worms which find their
way into the windpipe of the chicken
and lodge there. where they take the
form of little red worms. The best
preventive is 10 keep the chickens
from the surface of the ground. or
use salt or strong water on the soil
SO as to kill the esrth-worms, or
strew strong lime or something of
the kind on the ground. so that the
chicks will not get hold of the worms
to eat them. After the chicks have
been attacked with gapes, however
you can dislodge the worms by max
ing very small loop of twisted
horse hair. draw out the tongue of
the chick slightly, insert the horse
hair loop In the windpipe opening.
which will be seen between the forks
at the base of the tongue. and, twist
ing the hair around. withdraw it. The
worms are likely to be found within
the loop, or some of them will have
been thus removed, and the operation
h, can be repeated. Another remedy is
to dip the tip of a soft feather into
l. kerosene and insert it in the wind
=, pipe opening to dislodge and kill the