The Lamar register., 1909-04-21

Be sure that the hogs and pigs have
access to charcoal and salt.
Treat the COWS kindly You will
get more milk in this way than by
brutal methods.
Kindness is a good investment to
make in stock. Costs no money, but
1t gives money return.
Don't crowd the chicks in the brood
er. From start to finish chickens
never do well when crowded.
A commodious tool shed is an equip
ment which every farm should have
but which in too many cases is abb
sent.
Slick up around the place this year
and see II the neighbors don't catch
the fever. A good example goes
long ways.
In handling young chicks be careful
not to overfeed. There is as much
harm in this way, if not more, than by
under feeding.
Sheep keep the land looking trim.
Have you never noticed how slick the
lawn pastures and roadsides look on
the farm where sheep are kept?
Remember that there is scarcely a
spot on the farm but that can be
made to return profit. Study its
characteristics. If not good for one
thing 1t may be good for another.
In the hog yard put a few short
posts. around which fasten some old
bagging securely. Saturate with kero-
sene and the hogs will do the rest to
any stray lice wandering over their
anatomy.
Raise your own timber. Plant trees
every year. Put them in every avail
able place. They will not only provide
desirable shade If well placed. but
will grow timber which will prove
valuable in the years to come.
Do your work neatly. II 1t Is
greasing the wagon, don't get the
grease all over the wheels as well as
on the axle, or on your clothes, eth
er. Some men think hurry means
sloppy methods. It's a mistake.
II you have not already provided a
separator for the handling of your
milk it will be well for you to con-
slider the proposition, for 1t not only
makes the handling of the milk and
cream easier. but gives you sweet
| milk to feed to the hogs.
Garden all planned for? Surely you
are not going to let another season
pass without that promised luxury. 1t
| is a little work, but you will be more
| than repaid next summer when you
are enjoying the fresh things you can
grow on the little patch near the
house.
The surest method of killing all YER
mine and disease germs in the chicken
house is to fumigate by burning sui
phur. No living germ or animal can
exist in the presence Of sulphurous
acid gas. 1t finds its way into every
crack of the room and makes complete
destruction in its path. When fumi-
eating, remove all of the fowls. make
the room perfectly tight. and burn the
sulphur with live Goals or on redhot
shovel.
Treat the seed oats II there is any
danger of smut Get a half pound of
formalin, add 30 gallons of water.
Spread the oats out on the barn floor
and sprinkle the solution over them
making the grain quite damp. Then
shovel together into a pile and cover
with sacking and leave for about two
hours. If not sowed at once. spread
out and dry thoroughly. Thirty gall
lonsof the solution will treat $50 BUSH
els of oats.
Chickens troubled with gapeworms
can be successfully treated by putting
into box or barrel containing guam
tity of air shaked lime. The dust OF
the lime will cause the birds to sneeze
and the worms be thrown out in the
lime to die. Violent sneezing will al
most invariably dislodge the worms
| and give instant relief. Fumes of to-
bacco may be used for this purpose.
| Burn some tobacco dust or stems in
box and set the chickens in basket
over it. II sneezing takes place, relief,
If not cure, will result. Care, Of course,
must be taken not to smother the
chicks in the fumigating process.
Drilling in oats Is much to be pre-
ferred to broad casting. The seed is
much more evenly covered and more
evenly distributed throughout the
fields. From one to two pecks per
acre may be saved in the amount of
seed needed. At the Iowa station for
1907, with its cold, dry spring, the
results in favor of drilling over broad
casting were very marked. An in
crease of over nine bushels per acre
was secured in favor of drilling. When
this is figured at the rate of 33 1-3
cents per bushel, we find that less
than IS acres of oats would have paid
for a drill in that one season. In sea-
sons more favorable for oats produc-
ton. this difference is by no means as
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