The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-12-29
Low-down wagons are not good.

Truly speaking, the turkey is the
only true American bird We have.
Get around to a new hen house this
fall II you can. 1t will pay you to do It.
No owner OF work animals can al
ford to let their shoulders get sore.
When soft-shelled eggs are laid you
are feeding a ration too rich in pro-
tein.
The hog having a clean place to
wallow is rarely troubled with lice or
| mango.
ne old-timers OF the range are rap
idly thinning. but we still have quite
few left
Good, substantial shelter not only
adds comfort to the sheep. but money
to the purse.
| Hard wood ashes are valuable to
spread around the grippe vines and In
the strawberry patch.
| In Norway and Iceland fish meat Is
used as a cattle food. Such diet
gives the milk a fishy taste.
| In marketing. eggs should be grad
ed before they are offered for sale.
Put them in boxes according to size
| and color.
By having a dog-proof yard 1t will
save a great deal of trouble. for dogs
are great hindrances to successful
sheep raising.
Because hogs utilize grain products
SO efficiently and economically. the
mistake of feeding grain exclusively
Is too often made.
The subsistence ration is an expen-
sive one; plenty of wholesome food
is necessary to farm animals well-be'
ing and good service.
The cattle will maintain a better
physical condition than when they are
ration of heavy. concentrated dairy
foods.
Many farmers never attribute the
failure of their orchards to produce
good fruit to lack OF plant food In the
soil but Just let their trees drift along
until they die.
Where there is still plenty OF native
burr oak timber growing the farmers
do not know what the fence post
problem is, but the prairie farmer Ii
not SO fortunate.
Drag when the soil is moist, but
not sticky" advises ID. Ward King
whose efforts to introduce the road
drag in the middle west are bearing
such splendid fruit.
The greatest menace to hog raising
has always been disease. but now the
Missouri experiment station mas found
real cure for cholera there Will be
little loss In the business.
|
dairy cows should be continued just
as long as the corn is at all green. II
is a splendid supplementary feed with
the short autumn pasture grass.
Warping of timber Is caused by the
movement of it's fibers in ADJUSTING
themselves to the moisture within
the wood and in the atmosphere.
based upon the external conditions.
A New York man who has an or
chard of 1000 trees planted 20 Zee
apart each way. plants currant bushei
five feet apart each way except II
every other space running In the long
est way of the field.
When one has purchased bull o.
the conformation and breeding de
sired the main idea will be to so us'
ard care for him that he will be
sure breeder and will reproduce In his
offspring the desirable characteristic
possessed by himself.
The difference between aged sow
| and gifts seems 10 De thdt ~" ~
years old or more is fully matured ant
easily kept in good flesh. usually Tar
rowing much larger pigs than a gilt
She is a much better sucker ane
gives SO much more milk that the pig!
get a better start earlier in life ant
thus grow very rapidly. making gain
younger in life.
Good sanitation is more and nor'
coming into practice in modern dairy
ing. Build sanitary barn If you can
and II you cannot, then remodel thu
, COW stalls and make them as com
: Portable and sanitary as possible
Floors that can be kept dry and clean
and walls and ceilings that do no
catch dirt, or are easily cleaned. ant
, plenty of light and ventilation arr
essentials for good dairy stable sani
tation. The work may be done .itt'
at a time.
There are all sorts Of arguments
brouGh, forward to prove that inbred
, ing is sane breeding. Some point t.
. wild fowl; others to the Jersey breet