The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-02-03

Time to mate up the breeding pens.
The rooster ought to be with the flock
several weeks before using the eggs
for setting.
Air-slaked lime sprinkled around the
cracks and crevices of the hen house
make it very uncomfortable lodging
house for lice and mites.
No matter what kind of stock
farmer is handling kindness always
pays. Even pigs have feelings. and
appreciate kind treatment.
Keek hammer in the barn where
1t will be handy in driving loose nails
and knocking the snow balls from the
horses feet when they come in off
the road.
Some hens, like some people. will
shirk duty when they get chance.
Weed out all the star boarders. Keep
the business-like hen and use her to
breed from.
The quick-tempered man who loses
his head when handling horse is the
man who generally has horse that
gets spells, too. Like owner, like
beast to a great extent.
To make the cellar good cold
storage place open at night except dur
ing the severest weather, and close
it during the day. Keep fruit cool.
but do not let it freeze. Sort the
apples frequently.
To some farmers ventilation and
draught are synonymous terms. One
means fresh air for the stock with
out injury, and the other means fresh
air with a drawback of discomfort and
colds which is ruinous.
Have an extra rope with a snap
on one end hanging up in the rear
of the horses stalls, so that 1t will not
be necessary to unite the rope from
the manger every time you want to
lead horse out of the barn.
Here is how some folks keep sweet
potatoes through the winter success
fully: They wrap each potato sep
arately in newspaper and place in
barrel lined with newspapers until
the barrel is full. when it is well COW
cred and kept in a warm, dry room.
The horse is no better than the feet
he stands on. For this reason look at
the hoofs of the stallion you propose
to use. II they are fiat and other
wise defective have a care,- for the
chances are ten to one that the colt
you get from him will have the same
undesirable qualities.
According to the Maryland expert.
ment station, a hog produces ten to
fifteen pounds of solid manure per
day. Hog manure is a wet, cold ma.
nure, and ferments slowly. Its com
position, of course, varies as does any
animals, depending upon the food
consumed. 1t is much like COW ma.
nure in its ( cneral character, but gen
orally considered richer.
More than ever do the hens need
something in the way of green food.
Now that you cannot give them the
trimmings from the garden provide
clover meal scalded and then cooled
before feeding. Also give them a
carrot, beet or turnip to pick at. A
good way to manage the vegetables is
to hang by a string from the cell
ing, just high enough so they will have
to jump for them.
Various remedies exist for the treat
ment of scours in calves. One or two
raw eggs broken into a calf's mouth
have cured such cases. The feeding
of dried blood in small quantities, eth
or in the milk or in the corn feed, is
a good remedy when the bowels be-
come too loose. The feeding of kafir
corn, either in the chopped heads or
meal, is good grain for feeding
while the calves are drinking milk.
Kafir-corn has constituting effect
which offsets the laxative tendency of
the skim milk.
Water the horse before, not after
feeding. There is popular idea that
warm horse should not be allowed
to drink and. unlike great many
other popular ideas. there is little
truth in it. If you water a warm
horse in the ordinary way, letting him
drink all that he will, you are likely
to have a foundered horse on your
hands. This is especially so If, at the
time. the horse is fatigued. Neverthe-
less, 1t is always safe to allow him
from six to ten swallows, no matter
how warm he is. If this be given on
going into the stable and he be al
lowed to stand and eat hay for an
hour, and is then offered water, he
will not drink nearly so much as he