The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-06-22
Keep up the fight against lice.

turkeys are perhaps the most prof.
table of poultry kind If properly han
| died.
Burnt wheat may be fed If fowls eat
1t readily-that is. good conditioned
fowls.
Dried red blood. meat meal and hoof
meal contain from 10 to IA per cent
of nitrogen.
Horses very often lose their eyesight
through dust and hay seed falling into
their eyes from the loft above.
A new style in baby beef has been
set The kind that is going to market
at present is the 800 to 500-pound
type.
1t is easily possible almost every.
where to make a hen produce three
dollars worth of eggs a year on $1.50
worth of feed.
Soy beans require conditions and
cultivation similar to those required
By corn. Good preparation of the soil
is necessary.
For dry and cloddy corn fields.
either before or after the corn is
planted. a heavy roller is better than
either the harrow or drag.
Barnyard manure adds quite a little
plant food to the soil besides contain
ing considerable organic matter which
will go toward the formation of hui
mus.
To secure the greatest benefit from
green manuring crop care must be
taken In turning It under to have the
soil narrowed and packed as fast as
1t is plowed.
A proper handling OF the milk is
most essential Too often 1t is drawn
from the COW in stables in which the
air is filled with dust and put In un-
clean vessels.
Live stock needs water at all sea-
sons. but water during warm weather
Is more essential. P-epIre now for
a good water supply for the animals
during the summer months.
| The color of milk does not indicate
the richness of 1t. Oftentimes milk
which is rich is blue in color and
oftentimes milk which is yellow and
rich looking is of a rather poor quail
ity.
| Cream. on the average. will weigh
about eight pounds to the gallon. but
It varies. according to the per cent OF
butter fat which II contains. II is well
known that butter-fat is lighter than
milk.
Success In poultry culture is simply
the result of looking after all the little
details connected with the business.
Anyone can be successful II he will
use a little diligence and common
sense.
| Most of the brood mares In the
central west are dual purpose In char
acter. They not only raise colts but
most of them put in eight or ten hours
of strenuous labor every day after
the colt is ten days or two weeks old.
| Fertilizers too rich In nitrogen
should not be applied to the field In
tended for oats. because the growth
will be too rank and the production of
grain will be retarded. The same Is
true in a very limited measure of
corn.
II young hogs are kept in close con-
finement and fed heavily on corn
alone. they will most likely develop
leg weakness. as they require nitro
| genous foods in which skimmilk
should take a large part in order to
grow good. solid bones.
| Not how much. but how well. is a
good motto for folks who are in the
| chicken business. Better to hatch and
raise a small number of fine. thrifty
early chickens than to hatch a hun
dred or two and lose or stunt them
for lack OF care or suitable accommo-
dations.
Plant lice are sucking insects which
damage trees and other plants by in
jecting a poisonous saliva, and then
sucking out the sap. The leaves upon
which they live curl until they form
protecting homes within which the
pests are safe. and cannot be reached
by any spray liquids.
Just because your neighbor is get.
ting more eggs than yourself don't
think that you must change your
breed of fowls. There is something
nowadays in the kind of care you give
your stock. Some breeds lay better
than others. but any one will lay a
fair average of eggs ten months in
the year.
Wheat containing kinghead seed is
cut in price, because 1t is almost i'm
possible to remove them, and II they
are ground with the wheat the flour
is discolored and lowered in grade.
1t is an annual. living only one year
from the seed. 1t infests the border
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