The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-03-23
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Good butter is always in demand.


Good butter is always in demand.
The best hay, next to alfalfa, is
clover.
The little pigs should be supplied
a variety of feeds.
1t is better to be an honest man
in one language than a liar in Ave.
The total output of farm wagons in
a year of normal trade approximates
100000.
Pure-bred poultry costs more than
the other kind. but bring better prices
when sold.
Replenish the stock Of wood on the
back porch. Do a little better than
that-increase the pile.
Most shepherds believe that the
blood that goes to maintain a long fat
tall should go into the body of the
lamb.
The decrease of beef cattle from
1907 to 1908 was 1.492.731. and the
present supply falls short of last years
total by $4,000.
II doesn't make much difference
whether you cook pumpkins for hogs
or not. Corn meal and bran are both
good feed for them.
The growing and harvesting Of rape
for seed is an industry worthy OF at
tention in districts where the soil and
climate are suitable.
Be sure that the new hen house is
located where the drainage is good.
and not in a place where water will
stand for any length Of time.
In winter as much variety should be
furnished the sows and pigs as posi-
BILE. They need some roughage. They
will eat clover hay and corn stalks.
In economical pig feeding we must
make the most of our grain feeds by
mIngling them with coarse cheap
foods. thereby reducing the cost of
the ration.
Egg-eating hens are usually hens
that do not have sufficient meat diet.
Give them plenty of meat scraps or
bugs, worms and insects and they
won't eat eggs.
Corn silage has proved to be the
most excellent feed In fattening
steers where a heterogeneous concen-
trate, such as cottonseed meal. has
been used with 1t.
Mate your animals in breeding with
reference to individual characteristics
as well as known pedigrees. The pedi-
gree alone will not always insure the
greatest merit in the progeny.
The Osler theory. modified. ought to
apply to poultry; when hen sees her
grand-daughters running around and
figuring on being mothers. too. It's
about time to make a chicken stew.
Some farmers say they do not keep
sheep because they are subject to dis
ease, which is a great mistake. be-
cause properly cared for sheep have
fewer ailments than any other farm
animal.
threshing, like everything else. has
been SO much improved upon that
where conducted upon anything like n
large scale. 1t is now anything but
hard or risky work.
The best plan of feeding fodder de-
ponds a good deal on conditions. IL
an old tough pasture is available, the
most economical plan from every
standpoint is to haul the fodder from
the shock directly to the pasture.
The amount of nitrogen put into
the soil by a crop of clover Will. OF
course, vary much, but good crop
will probably add enough of this i'm
portant element to grow several crops
of grain. 1t will probably add about
200 to $50 pounds to an acre.
The most foolish thing In the world
is to take an old, WORKOUT mare and
raise colts from her. You stand good
chance to get colts that are worth
little. and then. is 1t not adding insult
to injury to treat a poor old horse
that way? Get your colts from good.
sound, bright, lively stock. Then you
will have something to be proud OF.
Hog raisers can fall into no greater
folly than to confine their hogs to the
pen entirely. Exercise and fresh air
are essentials to the feeding of all AMI
mails. If hogs are not allowed sufii-
cient freedom to give them exercise in
plenty, and they have no access to
&the earth so as to get the phosphate
from the ground by roofing or gra-
zing, they will surely go wrong.
Seedlings OF two widely differing
types have been produced by ]. Bre-
zezinski from the common hOrserad-