The Lamar register., 1910-02-09
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Seed corn. should be properly drie'

Seed corn. should be properly dried.
The stallion should be made to work
lust as any other horse.
The rooster doesn't count as a lay
Ing hen. but he eats like one.
1t don't pay to buy cheap harness;
sometimes bad accidents result.
Possibly the failures in raising poul-
try are not dwelt upon as much as the
successes.
The goose and the guinea fowl
should be found in greater numbers
on the farms.
What is commonly known as the
richness of milk depends upon the
amount OF butterfat 1t contains.
Foods prepared with either skim or
whole milk are much more nutri-
tious than those prepared with water.
During winter all extracted Tor
more commonly called strained honey
is liable to granulate II in glass pack
ages.
No vegetable makes better succu-
lent food for the hens in winter than
Ne beet when boiled or pulped in a
root cutter.
Poultry raising is an avocation that
furnishes healthful. pleasing and pro-
fitable employment to the wife and
daughters on the farm.
One buying a WORKOUT farm has
one advantage over the one who
buys a WORKOUT overcoat; taking care
- the first will keep him warm.
Tests have shown that butterfat can
not be fed into milk. II more and
better feed is given the milk flow In
creases. but the milk is no richer.
When buying seed be sure you get
what you pay for and that 1t is clean.
Unclean seeds cause a large per cent.
of the weeds which bother the gar
dener.
Leaky roofs and drafts are the
death knells to poultry profits during
the winter and spring. Overcrowding
is almost as bad. and poor ventilation
is killing.
To determine the percentage OF
cream in the milk Of different cows,
set some OF each In glass tumblers.
The thickness of the cream can be
seen through the glass.
Protein. bone and body ash-forming
nutriments. SO essential to successful
and economical cattle feeding. are
supplied cheapest in the form of home
grown leguminous hays.
Some idea OF the Importance of
milk as human food may be gained
from the fact that about one-sixth Of
the total food of the average family
is furnished by 1t and its products.
FOR winter shotes, kept for spring
and summer feeding. as soon as posi-
BILE get a little blue grass or clover
4 for them. There is no better stock
4 food blood purifier than our native
grass.
Be sure to drain all water from the
steam or gasoline engine as soon as
you are through with It. New cylin-
ders and pipes are expensive and Jack
Frost was never known to do them
any good.
Corn is always the best and cheap
est base Of the grain ration for fsGten-
ing animals. but with 1t should be COM
bined such other feeds as will give the
ration a proper nutritive ratio. and in
crease the palatability of the grain
feed.
An examination of the milk in but
terfat record of the COW Early Morn,
at the Indiana station for one year
fails to show any connection between
the quantity or quality of her milk
and the condition of the weather. In
fact. her greatest variations occurred
at times when the weather was sta
tionary.
The busy hen is the one that LAYS
the most eggs and to keep her busy
- must have a scratching place and
some material to scratch in. Miilet
hay is good for this purpose; so is
oat straw with the oats still on. The
hens will see that they are threshed
Have litter of straw six or seven
inches deep and the hens will enjoy
themselves and pay you in eggs for
the outlay.
The increase of insects and fungous
diseases has made the business of
4 apple growing more laborious and un-
certain. 1t has developed class Of
specialists who succeed in proportion
to their knowledge and diligence. This
is so true that the orchard business
may be said to be in state Of trans
ition.
Pullets should be grown. or nearly
go, and should be laying or showing
inclinations that way now. The hens