The Lamar register., 1910-01-12
Green fields are useful.
Wrap the young apple tree.


Do not fail to give all stock plenty
of salt
Early Matched chicks grow faster
than late Matched ones.
How many raisers test the eggs
they guarantee to be fresh?
Never set a duck egg over a week
old. They lose fertility quickly.
A good time to dispose of any stock
is when In a marketable condition.
Buckwheat does not make very
solid pork. Mix 1t with some other
grain.
II you have plenty of time It will
pay to'raise your cwn vegetable seed.
Otherwise not.
Don't trust any kind of paint to
keep the rabbits from the young trees.
Wrap with something.
Grapes can be pruned any time now.
Cut back to two buds. II more are left
the fruit will be inferior.
Mulch the strawberries rs soon as
freeze comes nard enough to reach
the ground around the roots.
Glover is the best cover crop to
grow in a young orchard. Crops taken
from the ground rob the trees.
We do not mulch plants or vines to
keep them warm, but to prevent the
alternate freezing and thawing.
II you wish your separator to do
good work you must have 1t standing
perfectly level on a solid base.
II your pure bred birds look good
to you. take them to the fairs and
find out If they look good to the Judge.
Economizing on the use Of high
priced corn will likely again mean more
poor horses In the land than there
should be.
An experienced buyer can tell at a
glance the qualities of the steer. but
to the novice few suggestions as to
his conformation might be helpful.
More than 10000 gas engines have
been purchased by farmers of the
United States in the last two years
and the demand seems to be growing
steadily.
OF all things, a horse hates to lie
down In a filthy bed. BY nature he is
clearly animal. He Is worthy Of a
good. clean bed every day that he
lives.
your own use. Why not? You have
raised them. II anybody is worthy to
enjoy the perfect fruit. why not your
folks and you?
II the farmers would plan their
work so that they could keep more
labor during the winter they would
have less difficulty In finding compe-
tent dairy help.
II isn't always possible to have a
front yard. but It is a sad common
tary on a mans judgment to build n
house where his wife and family will
be denied its comfort.
The red lice and mites do not breed
on the chickens. rs the large gray or
white ones do. Most of them leave
tho chickens in the morning. hide in
the cracks. and go on the fowls again
at night
Those late Matched chicks must be
kept separate from the rest OF the
flock and given chance to mature.
Give them every advantage and they
will mature into good egg producers
next February and March.
As pasture grass becomes short and
killed by frosts. began to give the
cows extra feed SO they will hold up
in milk. Taking the cows into winter
in good shape mean a steady. high
milk flow all through the winter.
Ice water is not best for the dairy
COW. as she drinks sparingly OF II.
failing to supply herself with n suffi-
cient quantity to keep up the flow Of
milk. Water for the dairy COW should
be about the temperature Of 65 de-
grees.
A COW that comes fresh in the fall
and is well fed and cared for during
the winter. will go out to pasture in
the spring and give very nearly as
large a quantity Of milk as one that
freshens in the spring while she Is In
a weak and rundown condition.
A good seed ear isn't the largest in
the load, but an ear that is well formed
and is all corn. Corn did not I'LL out
at the tip as well as common this