The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-03-15
Plan for Matching season.


Charcoal is good STUFF for the hens
digestive tract.
It's mighty poor policy to let the
stock shrink in winter.
Don't feed your fowls so that they
will eat too much at once.
Just because fat hens are not good
layers. do not starve your fowls.
The best cows are the cows that
will fill the pocketbook most quickly.
More cattle die from the effects Of
being drenched than from tubercu-
losis.
Potato peelings fed raw in not too
large quantities are good for the lay
ing hens.
Warmth should be supplied to all
farm animals but not at the expense
of fresh air.
When figuring up the profits from
the cows for last year don't overlook
the fertilizer
Men love their families. but are In
clined to neglect the crops that can be
produced for the stable
Exercise is good for the animals
and they should get their share every
day when 1t is possible.
A good dairy sire is one that pro-
duces daughters which give more but
ter-fat than their mothers.
Eggs should be gathered often. es-
pecially II the weather Is cold and
they are to be used for Matching.
Much of the success in poultry
keeping depends on the vigor and
vitality of the birds themselves.
A male bird that is gallant, always
ready to share with the hens, is pre-
ferred to one that is too generous.
The by-products of the dairy can be
made almost as profitable as the
straight products II rightly handled.
cheap separator is worse than
none. Get one that does not waste
each year more than the original cost
uhattId he
early taught to drink warm millfeed
slop in winter. and cold slop in sum
mer.
Get all the wood ashes you can and
apply them to the garden and truck
patch soon as you can. and then pillow
1t in.
The number of hens farmer should
keep depends on his interest In the
business and the time he Is willing to
devote to It.
Unless a bird is matured and pos
sesses size, vigor and a sound consti
tuition, It should be barred out OF the
breeding pen.
For idle horses. straw and well
cured corn fodder may take the place
Of hay. giving a half ration OF corr
morning and night.
A man who has a good quality OF
dairy products and high-class OF
dairy stock for sale seldom knows
what competition is.
II you are to get eggs, you must
have healthy. vigorous hens. and II
you wish to keep up the supply you
must retain the vigor.
As every poultryman knows. OF
should know. protein is an important
and invaluable ingredient in the ra'
ton for egg production.
In planning adornment for the door
yard avoid straight lines as much as
possible. Set the trees and shrubs
in groups or irregular lines.
II is very important that the wa
ter drunk by the COWS giving three
or more gallons of milk daily be
warmed to about co degrees F.
In winter dairy farmers often for
get that nothing is cheaper and more
beneficial than pure air. sunlight and
a reasonable amount Of exercise.
The calf that goes into winter quar-
tiers lousy will not do well. Rubbing
the calf with a cloth moistened with
coal oil and lard will put quietus on
the lice.
II is essential in raising beef te
know the characteristics Of prime
beast. for in order to command the
top price the animal must be In the
pink of condition.
The feeding or care of young In
dian Runners is the same as for any
other breed. but compared to chick
ems the housing and management re
ou,red are much easier matters.
II you will figure what poor roadi
cost YOU every year you Will soor