The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-07-13
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Any climate suits alfalfa.
Clover is a more efficient sub-soiler
than the best sub-soil pillow.
Some say that cows need salt when
the butter is hard to churn.
A good wick to the incubator lamp
is one of the important things.
Dampness in the poultry house.
yards or runs is often a source of
trouble.
try business is doing the right thing
at the right time.
Don't let the weeds get a foot high
and then pull them. disturbing the
surrounding flowers. even II none are
pulled out.
Fight green lice with tobaccotea
and the rose-slug ovith lime-water. Or
try busting air-slaked lime on the in
Tested rosebushes.
Few horsemen pay enough attention
to the teeth of the old horses, and
then wonder why they look out Of
condition
On land at all subject to foot.rot
many sheep will fall lame-more es-
pecially the close-wooled breeds on
grass.
1t Ii very seldom that q group Of
sheep may be fattened on dry food
without some of them dying or suffer-
ing with constipation.
There may be such a thing as bad
luck In the dairy business. but It is a
peculiar coincidence that 1t always
follows bad management
On receiving new rose bushes from
the dealer or from other sources,
transfer them Immediately to the soil
without exposing the roots to the sun
or drying wind.
When q colt or other animal on the
farm Is cut with barbed wire or by
other means. the wound usually can
be successfully treated without the
services of q veterinarian.
Probably the best vegetable grown
In the garden fs asparagus. II Is q
perennial plant and lasts for many
years without renewing. It is the ear
Hest and most delicious vegetable.
Select q good. strong colony to
build the queen cells. remove all
combs containing unseaied iarva. also
remove the queen. and let them re-
main queenless a few hours.
The common foxtail millet is the
best for dairy cows. This threshed
and mixed with an equal part Of clo-
yer hay makes one of the best rough
nesses. Unthreshed millet should
never be fed alone to any kind Of
stock
Vine crops should not be disturbed
after the vines commence to run. as
the leaves act as a mulch of the plants
spread almost as far as the vines and
grow quite near the surface Of the
soil. Any weeds not destroyed by
former civilizations should be pulled
by hand.
Salad plants. tomatoes, muskmeIons
green corn. beans and the like have
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another. to the greenhouse crops, and
the enlarged menu resulting there
from has gratiped the epicure and has
been a source of revenue to the pro
ducers.
Leave all the good eve lambs for
breeding. but give extra feed to
lambs intended for summer market
They may be growing now. but they
will put on better flesh for higher
prices with a daily feed OF ground
grain. 1t is a good way to cash In
surplus grain.
II you have a separator you will no,
standing around during the warn
mOntnS- rigs Will uTlnh sour milk
but the sweet milk will do them more
good. Get a cream separator ant
save more of the cream, besides de
irving more benefit from the skin
milk.
II the mare is fed on timothy hay
and corn along she cannot furnish the
proper elements for the DEVELOPMENT
OF the foal. Wheat bran. shorts, OF
meal and clover hay should be a grea,
part of the daily ration. live the marc
daily exercise and II will not hurt
to work her up to foaling time. pro
viding she is not strained or over
worked.
Rape resists drought fairly well. but
in regions subject to summer drought
the sowing should take place early
enough to get the plants we'll started
before this period. or 1t should be de
layed until after the drought. During
the prolonged dry period the plants
are often attacked by a kind Of plant
louise. which causes them to wilt ant
become valueless as forage. Where
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