The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-02
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Cut the black knots out of the plum
trees. Don't forget.
The gasoline engine is helping to
keep the boy on the farm.
0When securing give the pigs a good
dose of common baking soda.
A poorly nourished. stunted two
year-old flly should not be bred.
An excellent feed for yearling sheep
is equal parts corn, rye and buck
wheat
The first step in keeping disease
away from hogs is to keep filth away
from them.
A horse that is perpetually stepping
around while being harnessed is only
half broken.
Get the incubator at work on the
broiler crop as early as possible. delay
means loss.
A, bark disease. imported from ia
pan, has killed thousands OF New
York chestnut trees.
Provide a clean, dry bed and never
allow a horse to lie on bare boards or
stand on wet manure.
Young animals require a certain
amount of warmth. but this must not
be at the expense of fresh air.
VNeyer give musty feed to fowls or
chicks, especially the latter. Put 1t
In the oven and parch 1t before feed
ing.
The puliets which are poor layers
the first winter never amount to very
much, and are not worth keeping
over.
The popularity OF the show ring is
educating the masses to quality. and
nothing but the best will justify the
breeding enterprise.
There is no more pitiable sight than
a mare and foal standing in the open
with their coats turned the wrong way
and shivering with cold.
Are there any water sprouts on
those old trees? II SO. get after them.
You Just can't AFFORD to have water
sprouts living OF OF bearing trees.
II the apples In the cellar are not
keeping well the trouble may be too
warm a temperature. The cellar
should be kept Just above freezing for
apples.
A place should be petitioned on
from the main part of the barn. where
ewes that are expected to drop their
lambs may be separated from the rest
of the flock.
WKindness is a good thing to mix
with the ration. II may not possess
much food value. but II pays every
time Don's ask the stock to live on
kindness alone. though.
The old trees bearing valuable va
rieties of fruits are very hard to re-
place and It takes many years to pro-
duce a young. bearing orchard that
will properly take its place.
The ordinary farm bull does not re-
ceive the care that he deserves. Re
member that he is half the herd and
often more. and that good care will
nay, and pay well, in dollars and cents.
Do not neglect work that may be
done now with sleighs. such as har-
vesting the ice crop. getting up the
summers wood. etc. It is much easier
ners than on wheels.
In order to secure uniformity In the
fat contents of the cream aim at run
ming the separator smoothly and at a
speed as set out by the makers. the
milk being separated at a temperature
of so to 100 degrees.
Try and be one that has fed a COM
bined ration of roughage. grain and
Aots with plenty of water and you
Will have no worry about the ewes.
The summers work and the feed is
largely wasted II the ewes lamb poorly.
It is a mistake to think that horses
at light work can be kept entirely on
hay. Colts also require more grain
and II left to grow up on straw and
hay alone they never make as good
horses as do those which are better
cared for.
To the man who has warm build
ings and the time to look after fall
pigs should keep a few old sows over,
and let them raise two filters year.
The man who cannot do that would
better keep to the young sows for q
few years. and when his sows get
smaller and fail to raise good litters
go to the other fellow and get new
stock
1t is a sad mistake for a dairyman
to allow his cattle to become run
down in vitality during the winter