The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-02-03
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NII FARM
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Lihe tue DedH d man needs snap
TO be worth anything.
The long. steady stroke is best in
milking the COW.
1t is nearly time to think about
getting the hot bed started.
In all your management of the
flock let it be with the aim to improve
your stock.
A little millet scattered in the straw
will set flock of hens to work as
perhaps nothing else.
Weak harnesses are peril on the
most tractable horse. They invite dis
aster. Don't trust yourself with one.
Never was saying more true that
an ounce of prevention Is better than
a pound of cure than in the poultry
business.
It's little trouble to put the tools
back in place after using, but It saves
lots of time when next they are
wanted.
None too early to begin the cam
paign against the lice and mites. Be-
gin now and avoid the rush-that is,
the thrush of the pest during the sum-
mer time.
Well-filled is not always well-fed
The hen will crowd its crop full of
corn. and will put on fat, but will lay
few eggs. To be well-fed means more
than just plenty of it, 1t means those
kinds of food which will so to make
eggs.
The farmer may get along without
keeping diary, but he ought not to
try to run the farm without keeping
some kind of accounts, as to outgo
and income. Too many farmers are do
ing business by guesswork and not
by facts.
The hen cackles because she has
something to advertise, and when she
has properly announced the arrival of
the new invoice of goods, she gets
busy to do another days business for
the farmer. What would the farm be
without the business hen?
Do you know which crops netted
you profit last year and how much ?
Do you know what animals you fed
and made money on? OF course you
don't If you kept no accounts or rec.
ords. Quit such reckless methods. Do
your farming as the business man
conducts his business.
Some poultrymen say: Don't allow
the flock to go out when there is snow
on the ground" This is a mistake
Let the hens be the judge as to when
they will go out and take the air. Open
up the slide every bright day that is
not too cold or windy, and the hens
will go out on the snow and will go
back in when comfort demands 1t.
The young man who goes counting
and spends the long evening by the
warm fireside in the delightful com
pany of his inamorata while his horse
is hitched to the cold side of a wire
fence with little or no blanketing is
more than apt to show similar
thoughtless disregard for his wife aft
or the glamour of the honeymoon is
over.
1t would be a first-rate plan during
the leisure of the winter days to make
an inventory of all you have on the
farm-buildings, equipment, machin-
cry and stock. Know what you have.
Plan how best to work the farm, and
use the machinery, and you will find
that there will be a larger margin
between expenditures and receipts
than ever before.
Pennsylvania must have some aw-
fully good and awfully poor cows, for
the average annual production per
cow of the state, according to the
dairy officials of the state experiment
station, is 160 pounds of butter fat
worth $4S. These figures mean that
while there are good cows which are
returning profit, there are also very
many very poor ones which are be-
ing maintained at an absolute loss.
Try growing Gala lilies this way. |
Place a thick layer of charcoal in the
bottom of box Is inches square and
fill with leaf mold and a little sand. |
Plant Gala in each corner, and in
the center sink six-inch fiower-pot
with the drainage hole stuffed with
moss, and with a layer of charcoal
above the moss. Water carefully till
growth is well started, then fill the
six-inch pot once a day with water |
II the lilies drink SO quickly that the |
pot is empty before night, refill. Wash
Z and shower the leaves weekly.
Winter is the f4st season for dairy |
ing when the handling of the milk and |
cream is considered. Then there is
an abundance of cold water and cold |
air, both of which are very necessary
in the keeping Of dairy products. After
the snow comes it can be used in the |
water in which the milk cans are sub |
merged. The milk should be quickly |
and thoroughly cooled to get the best
results with the raising of the cream
oni the keening of the dairy DroductS |