The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-06-23

IL the house for the fowls is per-
mitted to become foul, you will soon
find that your profits will be minus
quantity.
A sour feed pail has wrought havoc
among the calves on many a farm.
The time spent in scalding the pals
is well spent.
The well-matched work team should
not only be about equal in weight,
but should be about the same size Spd
have similar dispositionS.
The best results from the farm can
only be obtained as the farmer studies
the individual characteristics of each
field which he is cultivating.
Too heavy feeding sometimes causes
paralysis in young pigs. When such
condition arises take away the corn
and feed only bran and skim milk
If you have not facilities for pastur-
ing the hogs, be sure that their pen
from lice.
Make every square rod on your farm
yield its quota of profit. Some use
can be found for even the poor striTs.
Study out how you can best use all
your land
Night hawks in the poultry house
are found in the presence of those lit
tie red mites and in the lice that in
fest the hens. If given free reign they
will suck all your profits away.
The most fruitful source of contain
ination in milk comes from the dust
in the air. For this reason too great
care cannot be taken to have the barn
as clean as possible and at milking
| time to have as little disturbance of
the atmosphere as possible. Handling
| of feed and hay should be deferred
until after the milk has been removed
! from the barn to the milk house.
This is Prof. Hackers remedy for
scours in calves: After castor oil has
teaspoon of Zenolium or in very bad
cases tablespoonful. He recon-
mends that the navel of the young
calf as soon as dropped should be
bound up with a four per cent. disin-
fectant solution. Others suggest that
the navel of the calf be wet with
1900 solution of bichloride of mer-
curry corrosive sublimate).
The silo has passed the stage
where its value can be questioned.
Such feed in combination with alfalfa
or clover with mixture of corn or
barley for grain, silage furnishes an
especially good ration. all grown on
the farm and cheaper than mill feeds.
The Importance of palatability can
not be overestimated, as it increases
the amount of feed eaten and when
properly assimilated, the more the
animal eats the larger product it will
return.
Be careful that you do not use too
much arsenic in the spray used on the
| fruit trees. Prof. Headden believes
that arsenic sometimes accumulates
in the ground under trees that have
been oversprayed during series Of
years, until it reaches quantity that
menaces the life of the trees. In re-
cent bulletin he says: Hundreds of
such trees are dead or sick beyond
recovery. and all show the same
symptoms. The first sign is the ap-
pearance on the trunk of chocolate
colored spots. The bark is soon killed
and dries down. The foliage drops
early so that diseased trees are easily
picked out in the fall. and they will
be found nearly girdled with dead
bark The second year the tree will
start but it dies about midsummer.
In every case the roots are found to
be dead and the bark at the base OF
the trunk is in bad condition. In fact,
the trouble seems to start here. Chem
ical tests of wood taken from roots,
trunks. etc, plainly showed the pres.
ence of arsenic"
The feeding or the growing pigs to
get the best results and the quickest
returns is a problem which every
farmer is anxious to solve. The agri-
cultural department of the govern
ment. after experiments, offers the
following suggestions as to the proper
rations: Twenty to sixty-pound pigs.
three ounces of cornmeal to each
quart of milk; sixty to one hundred
pound pigs, six ounces of cornmeal to
each quart Of milk; one hundred to
1sO-pound pigs, eight ounces of corn
meal to each quart of milk. On most
farms the supply of milk will be lin
tied, especially when calves are fed.
and in these cases they recommend
the following rations: Twenty to 1SO-
pound pigs, three ounces of cornIneal.
wheat, rye or hominy to each quart
of milk, and then gradually increase
meal to satisfy appetites: 20 to 60
pound pigs, milk at disposal. plus mix
ture of one-third cornmeal. one-third
wheat bran and one-third gluten
meal to satisfy appetites; GO to
1O0-pound pigs, milk at disposal.
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