The Lamar register., 1909-07-14
Keep the drains and cutters clean.


The dry spell is the time to keep
the cultivator going in the corn.
Grass is essential to the diet of the
hens, but something else is needed as
food
1t is a short-sighted policy for the
farmer to work his soil for present
gain without thought as to its future
fertility.
The value of cream depends upon
its flavor and palatableness. Be care
full that it does not become contami-
mated in any way.
In order to make a balanced ration
with alfalfa ground corn and barley
should be fed. together with little
wheat bran and linseed meal.
The high priced grain calls for the
economical COW, which is always and
ever the COW which gives yield OF
milk inrichness and quantity sufficient
to warrant keeping her on the farm.
Feed Just enough SO that 1t will be
eaten up clean. Left over food calls
rats around the coops and you know
what that means where there are lit
tie chicks.
Feed as much of the produce of the
farm to your own stock as you can.
In this way you turn back to the soil
the fertility and keep improving its
condition.
Experienced dairymen who have fed
silage would as soon think of dairy
ing without hay crop as going with
out silage. Hay and silage are both
needed. Alfalfa hay makes an ideal
feed in conjunction with corn silage,
as it supplies the protein necessary for
the balanced ration.
Hot water applications will give re-
lief from the pain caused by contact
with poison ivy. After the hot appli-
cations wet the poisoned portions over
with a strong solution of sulphite OF
soda, adding some glycerine to keep 1t
from turning white when dry. Re-
peat the operation when necessary.
The successful dairyman must be a
student of the task before him. He
must know his cows. know how to
care for them, know how to handle
their product, and know how to breed
for better stock. This of course he
cannot do unless he has the pure bred
bull to breed from. This is one of the
prime requisites of the profitable
dairy farm.
1t is argued by those who feed all
the corn the cattle will consume,
swine following at the same time in
the pastures. that the hogs will take
care of all that is not digested. It is
true that swine will gather all the
corn in the weddings, but IL is also
true that cattle when fed very heavily
will consume and digest more food
than can be assimilated by the sys
TEN, SO that neither the animal to
which the grain Is fed nor the swine
will get the full benefit of the same.
The grubs which often trouble the
COW are the larvae of the OK MARBLE
fly (hypodermis lineata), and should
be squeezed out and destroyed: other.
wise on entering the ground they will
emerge after a time in the shape OF
flies to carry on their pestiferous
work By applying fly extruders to the
backs of cattle in fly time and spong
ing the back of each animal with
strong salt water or solution of coal
tar dip in late fall and early winter
much of the trouble can be prevented
Hogs pastured on rape do well. II
will pay farmers to investigate the
matter. The Wisconsin experiment
| station has recently finished series
of experiments and finds much to in
dictate the value of rape as hog
feed. The conclusions are, that with
pigs from four to ten months old, rep
resenting the various breeds of swine
an acre of rape. when properly grown
| has a feeding value, when combined
with a ration of corn and shorts
equivalent to 2,436 pounds of mix
ture of these grain feeds and money
value of 1890 per acre. That rape
is better green feed for growing
pigs than good clover pasture. the pigs
fed upon the rape having made on the
average 100 pounds of gain on 1915
pounds less grain than was required
by the pigs fed upon clover pasture
That pigs are more thrifty. have bet
ter appetite and make corresponding
ly greater gains when supplied with
a rape pasture in conjunction with
their grain feed than when fed on
grain alone. That plat of Dwarf
Essex forage rape when planted in
drills 80 inches apart, early in May
in Wisconsin. will yield three good
crops of pasture forage in favorable
season. That rape is the most salts
factory and cheapest green feed fol
swine that we have fed. That every
feeder of hogs in Wisconsin should
plant each spring small field of rape
adjoining, his hog yard. and provide
himself with "a, few rods of movable