The Lamar register., 1909-08-04
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Cut out the old cane from the rasp-
berry bushes and burn.
Lambs need plenty of clean cool wa
ter. See that they get it.
The fence corners often tell what
kind of farmer is running the farm.
Well-bred and well-kept are two i'm
portant considerations when consider
ing a horse.
Treat the surplus runners on the
strawberry vines as weeds. Don't for
get to cultivate.
Good tillage not only increases the
available supply of food of the soil,
but it conserves the moisture.
Look after the young trees you set
out this spring. Keep them growing
right. Care now will prevent troubles
later.
Pasture the cows at night and
keep in the barn during the heat of
should be screened.
The profitable orchard must be the
well-kept orchard. for nothing is apt
to prove profitable on the farm if it
is not properly managed.
The garden is now yielding it's daily
offering to the table and how good
things taste! My. aren't You glad you
took the time to get it started?
Feed the young chickens well. AL
most impossible to overfeed. How
ever, do not waste the feed by CIV
ing more than they will eat up clean.
Sheep return more fertility to the
soil than any other animal, and when
you consider that they distribute the
fertilizer without additional cost you
can give the sheep an extra credit
mark.
Make 1t a point to leave the farm
machines under cover after finishing
the days work A storm may come
up and a few days of exposure to bad
weather cuts short their days of USE
fulness.
II you want to keep the boy on the
farm make it point to enlist his
interest. Ask his advice, talk things
over and make him feel that he is an
active factor in the responsibilities of
the farm and a sharer in the profits
and benefits.
When we were at the state fair
last year an auto did the lively stunt
of dragging the race course before ev-
cry race. This suggests the idea OF
setting the autos to work on the coun-
try roads and letting them pull the
log drags. They can do the work
quicker and better than a team.
Might be good idea to penalize some
of these speeders by making them
drag a stretch of road instead of pay
ing a fine.
In feeding the calves cleanliness is
essential to thrifty growth. Together
with a proper supply of skim milk
and a little grain the growing calf
should have access to a good grass
plot, one that provides in plenty a
variety of grasses and clOvers If pos
sible. II two or more pastures can
be used, SO much the better, for then
the growing grass can be kept in
the thriftiest and most palatable con-
dition for the youngster. Shade of
some kind should always be handy
for the calf He will not do well If
obliged to endure the fortunes of the
sun. Bodily comfort has much to
do with thrift in any animal. 1t re-
uuires care and attention to details
to properly grow a calf by hand. But
when properly done, hand feeding will
keep him in a thrifty growing condi.
ton and at the end of the year he
will not compare unfavorably with
his brethren that ran with their
dams.
Corn root worms are pest in some
sections, and about the only effective
remedy is rotation of crops. The
beetles of the corn root worms usual
ly deposit their eggs in the old infest.
ed fields and by changing the corn
from such field to another, which
WAS not III COTu, tuc pIcCeuiu6 year
these eggs will be left behind. There
are two kinds of the worms: the
northern and the southern. The north
ern form of the root worm in its adult
stage is a plain, grass-green beetle,
about one-fifth of an inch long. In the
fall these small green beetles are com
mon objects on the silk of the corn
and the flowers of the golden rod The
spotted beetle of the southern corn
root-worm is frequently found along
with the plain green beetle. The
beetles deposit their tiny eggs in the
soil near the stalks of corn. The next
year these eggs hatch out young root
worms which begin to attack the corn
almost as soon as 1t is out of the
ground. Throughout the summer these
northern corn rootworms are at work
on the roots, until the worms become
full grown in the late summer. When
they become mature they transform
tn the pupa. or resting stage, in which