The Lamar register., 1909-09-08

Orerfeed may be bad. but under
feed is still worse.
Keep the young animals growing.
Little chance of overlooking
Stick to your job. The farmer is
the most independent of any class of
workmen.
Hogs thrive best when allowed to
Craze. II is economy to provide suit
ably fenced fields.
A bit of woodland fenced in with
the pasture provides the ideal condi-
ton for the stock.
In sections too far north for Grim
son clover, barley and Canada peas
make good cover crop.
Borax and sugar dissolved in boil
ing water and placed where ants are
troublesome will drive them away.
To keep water in common jug cool
out in the field try placing 1t in a
pail and covering with coat or
blanket.
The sow with young nogs should
never be pastured with other large
hogs. 1t means trouble with prob
able loss.
1t is better to spread lime over the
field to be SO treated week or two
before putting in the wheat or rye.
The drill can be used in spreading
lime.
Tobacco waste and salt mixed in
proportions of about one part tobac-
co to five of salt should be kept before
the sheep at all times SO they can
help themselves. Where this is done
there is no trouble from stomach
worms.
Renew the meadows on the hill
slopes in the following manner and
the loss by washing will be almost II
not entirely stopped: Break the
meadow sod in alternate strips with
the slope of the hill SO that any ero-
sion from the cultivated strips will
be caught by those left in meadow.
These cultivated strips are then sown
TO grass and the other alternate
strips broken and planted to a cult
waited crop. In this way all of the
eroded soil will b. caught and held
on the plowed meadow strips and
none will be permanently lost.
DIR. L. L. Lewis. OF Oklahoma. points
out that n great many farmers when
they obtain a remedy for hog cholera
dispense with all precautionary meas
ures and rely upon the cure for their
protection. DIR. Lewis points out that
this method is folly and that stren,l-
Gus precautionary measures should be
kept up during any course OF treat
ment. He says: Hog cholera is an
infectious disease and may be carried
in a number of ways from infected
pens to hogs that are healthy. Run
ming water is a very active means of
spreading the disease. Pens contain
ing diseased hogs and located along
streams make the water dangerous
for all other hogs below them. Out
breaks OF cholera can often be fol-
lowed considerable distances along
water courses. The infection may al
so be carried by the clothing, wagons.
crates. or. in fact. by almost all means
OF communication between FARMS
The handling OF the pigs intended
for breeders should be entirely differ
ent from those intended for market
growth, but must be fed for growth
of frame and bone; not fattened on
corn, but expanded by feed rich in
protein. At six, eight or ten months
of age. they should show more length
IL body and more scale than market
hogs, and be smooth and well covered.
but not so fat as for market This can
be very easily done by feeding a mixed
grain ration. with ten per cent of
tankage or ten per cent. of oil meal.
Use corn, barley and oats ground to-
gether, mixed thickIy with water, and
fed at once while sweet II is much
better to mix three pounds of milk to
one pound of grain. II one has no milk
the next best feed is ten per cent of
tankage. If one has the corn and does
not want to buy the mill feeds, he can
use so per cent of corn and 20 per
cent. of tankage and have a well-bal-
anced ration.
Plants are really miniature pump
ing stations and are constantly busy
pumping the land dry of its moisture
They work through the power of cap
Hilary attraction. This is the same
power that draws oil up through the
lamp wick and that makes the towel
absorb water. Every grass plant. ev-
cry wild flower and weed, all shrubs.
bushes and vines and all trees are
steadily at work during the summer
and more or less at other seasons
pumping up the water-day and
night-from the ground In which
they grow. Some of this water is
used by the plants themselves for
their growing needs. yet much of it
is allowed to pour out of a thousand
little spouts from each plant. which
instead of falling back upon the soil
| fo be reabsorbed is transformed into