The Lamar register., 1909-02-10
The surplus rooster in the flock is a
nuisance. Get rid of him.

Bury the old rubbish such as old
broken glass. tin cans, etc.
Feed grain ration with the silage
If you would get best results.
II the hens are to lay they must
have the feed and care which will en-
courage egg production.
Women succeed as rule with poul-
try because they are careful, and more
watchful as to details, than are men.
Oats make a good part of a grain
ration. Good plan to let them have
it right in the sheaf and to scratch 1t
out for themselves.
1t Is the poultryman who knows how
to keep his chickens well, rather than
the one who is wise as to how to treat
sick chickens, who makes good.
Don't temporize with the sick chick
en-. Remove at once from the flock,
and if the ailment does not yield at
once to simple remedies chop off the
head and bury.
Don't let spring come before you
have been through the orchard and
picked off from the trees all the insect
nests and cocoons on limbs or bark.
Easy to find them now that the trees
are bare.
Post up, take stock and lay plans
for the coming year The successful
farmer not only knows what he has
on the farm, but how the last year
turned out and what he is going to do
the next year.
| You can pretty nearly guess when
1t is time for the dinner horn to blow.
The livestock and the poultry are
just as good guessers as to when feed
ing time has arrived. Don't disappoint
them. Be regular.
| You should look over the harness
| from time to time and mend up and
strengthen all the weak and broken
places. 1t will not only prove money
saver in making your harness last
nearly twice as long as it otherwise
would, but it will make it safe.
| Don't burn the cornstalks which are
left after the stock have been through
and stripped them. Rather run a
sharp disk over them when the
! ground is frozen and plow them under.
In this way you will supply much hui
mus to the soil besides putting In
a very considerable amount of potash.
White soap can be made by using
the following formula: Use four
pounds OF clean fat. pound of potash,
four ounces of borax and two ounces
of dry ammonia. Dissolve the pot
ash in three quarts of hot water. then
add to it the borax and ammonia.
Warm the fat and add 1t to the hot
mixture. Let the whole boil five min
utes; set in a cool place and stir for
halfhour; then pour in box to
harden.
Next to poultry manure. the drop
pings of sheep is the richest fertilizer
produced on the farm. 1t ferments
easily, and is classed as a quick-actine
manure. and when allowed to accumu
late in the pens where it is tramped
hard by the animals 1t loses little fer
tilizing value. When placed in piles
or composts, as in the case of horse
manure, 1t is benefited by mixing with
COW manure. 1t is especially valuable
for use on vegetables, when a quick
acting fertilizer is desired. A sheer
produces about four pounds OF manure
per day.
Make your own harness backing.
Here is the formula for the famous
English brand: Three ounces of tur-
pentine and two ounces of white wax
are dissolved together over a slow fire
Then add one ounce of ivory black
and one dram of indigo well pulver'
lied and mix together. When the
wax and turpentine are dissolved, add
the ivory black and indigo and stir
until cold. Apply thin. Wash after
ward, and you will have a beautiful
polish. This backing keeps the leath
er soft and is excellent for harness
and buggy tops.
The horse that is kept working dur
ing the winter should be well fed
But the idle horse should have his ra
ton changed both because over-feed
ing wastes the feed and endangers the
health of the horse. Many horse
has died from having been highly
fed when being worked, and the same
feed given when he was idle a few
days. This is especially true OF feed
such as clover hay. bluegrass hay and
oats. A hard working horse that has
been well fed should. on being given
rest for several days, have his ra-
ton changed. In such cases corn is
better than oats as grain feed, and II
clover hay has been fed timothy hay
should be substituted.
Feed plenty of roughage and only
enough grain to obtain the results you
are after Prof. ]. H. Grisdale of the
Ottawa, Canada, experiment station