The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-06-02
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Slack coal is good for the hogs.
Spray or whitewash the henhouse
this spring.
Good pasturage is essential to sue
cessful hog raising.
Cold winds and sudden rains cause
many loss to the chicken raiser.
1t takes 81 days to hatch goose
eggs, ten days longer than with those
of the hen.
Heavy roads make hard pulling for
the horses. Remember that, and go
easy on them.
Don't touch the. land when 1t is wet.
clayey loan If you do.
Spoiled grain and dirty water are
poor encouragement to the cow to
give either quantity or quality milk.
Calling the unreasonable weather
names and going around with thun-
der cloud on your brow and anger in
your heart never changed the weather
or made crops grow.
Don't think you know more than the
maker of the separator you use. Fol-
low the directions which came with 1t,
and follow them explicitly If you want
to get good results.
The farmer who is considerate OF
his teams during the early work OF the
spring is the farmer who is going to
get better and better work out of them
as the season progresses.
All the tools and machinery in good
repair? Use the bad days to look
after these things. II you have not
already done so. Such work should
have been done months ago.
It is a good plan to rub the horses
of at night; to wash of the shoulders
under the collars with cold water. and
to let stand for half an hour or SO be-
fore giving the grain feed.
Turkeys like secluded nests. A
nook in the brush heap or thickets
Is much to their liking. But they will
also take kindly to an overturned Lar
re. or to an inverted V-shaped coop.
1t must be of ample size, Of course.
to give the turkey easy entrance.
Preparation of the soil is the first
step towards the raising Of good
crop, but it is of no avail unless you
plant good plump. healthy seeds that
possess a strong vitality and are free
from all hereditary diseases. All
small grain seed. such as oats. bar
ley, rye and wheat, should be run
through tanning mill and all weak
and light seeds and all dirt and weed
seed separated.
Manure is one of the by-products OF
the dairy which should be figured in,
in estimating the profits. As farming
land becomes more scarce and high
priced, farmers in general are coming
to realize the importance of making
their land as fertile and productive as
possible. The large, final profit of the
dairy to the man who owns his own
land is the manure by which he is not
only able to grow larger crops, but to
increase the fertility and actual mon
ey value of his farm.
Look after the collars. A majority
of the shoulder troubles arise from
To- ThaCa
and shift with every motion Of the
horse. Even collars that fit reasona-
bly, we'll at first sometimes stretch and
enlarge with use, while the necks. as
they harden, grow smaller, even IL the
horses keep in good condition, hence
chatting soon wears the neck, or Gre
ates shoulder boils, and the suffering
that follows increases the stress and
wear upon the animals vitality, often
to such an extent that great loss Of
flesh follows. Frequently. even IL
there is no break in the skin. 1t is
practically impossible for an animal to
do its best in a collar that bears chief
ly on the outside front of the Shout
ders, or against the points of the
lower shoulder, rather than close up
all around the neck.
The rolling of winter wheat in the
spring has never failed to increase
the yield in experiments by the Ne
braska experiment station during
four years, it showing an average CT
81 bushels per acre increase. The
rolling was given early in the
spring, soon after frost was out and
about the time growth started. Har-
rowing after rolling was not as good
as rolling alone, probably due to loos-
ening up the plants again after the
roller had pressed them firmly into
the soil. Early spring rolling of win
ter grain. pressing the earth as it doef
firmly about the plant roots. produces
good results. When frost comes out
in the spring it is very apt to leave
the soil filled with small cracks or
checks, especially around the plants.
If these checks are examined closely
it will be seen that a large number OF
roots are thus exposed. and II the
! weathar continues dry they are killed