Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-07-22
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY

Wide tires are expensive, but the
don't cost as much as keeping countr
road in repair.
A five foot vein OF soft coal under
mans farm will net him about $400 pc
acre on the usual royalty basis.
Just one-half day spent in clearing ~
around many a farm homestead woult
improve its appearance 500 per cent,
The kangaroo, which is noted for it
enormous appetite, is said to be able t.
to eat as much grass as six sheep.
These five points are applicable to th'
poultry business: Availability, adapt
ability, efficiency, cleanliness and econ
omy.
The only calico mule in the world is a
the farm of G. X. Billings, near Chicago
the well-known trotting horse enthusiast
Why don't they change the wheels o.
chug. wagons and make roadrollers OF the
machines? Make 'em useful as well a:
ornamental.
An ingenious Greene county Mo- far
mer has rugged his farm wagon up with 8
gasoline motor and runs into Springfield
several times week auto style.
Boys, don't kill the toads. A close
observer estimates that one good-szed
toad will destroy nearly ten thousand in.
sects and worms in single summer.
The culture of the silkworm is being
promoted by tie department of agricul-
ture. One of the very worst fakes which
ever hit the nation was a mulberry fad
which struck it about 100 years ago.
A neigbor last year packed a barrel
full Of alternate lawyers of potatoes and
snow apples. These apples, which are an
early winter variety, kept in perfect con-
dition until May. This is worth trying.
1t is estimated, says the Ohio Farmer,
that if all, or nearly all, of our farmers
could be induced to discard the scrubs
and use only pure breed the increase in
the value or poultry would be 100 per
cent.
Give US the farmer who takes time to
look up, now and them, to see what is
going on in the world about him. Living
is not all in bending the back over the
hoe or in growing crops. Life is more
than living.
Ii you are building new small barn or
other farm building, don't 60 to the
trouble or expense of having timbers
framed, as we used to do. Get plank
of the right width. spike them together
with twenties and brace them well.
Il ftIis makes frame as strong as any body
could ask for, and saves lot OF time and
work, too.
Farmers daughters are educated in
schools, which &C. from village
to village to give girls over Is years OF
age practical lessons in housekeeping,
cooking, the selection OF food, care of
poultry and cattle, the cultivation of
vegetables and butter and cheese making.
The results have been SO satisfactory that
It is now proposed to add instructions in
nursing, cooking for the sick, mending
md sewing.
As means OF regulating the speed of |
If automobiles on the highways the
leyise has been adopted in Massachusetts
If making ridges in the road at short in
eryals. The ridges do not inconvenience
ordinary travel and are easily surmounted
" an automobile driven at responsible
preed, but they make such discomfort
or the racing automobilist that ne is
lad enough to slow up when he ap.
,roaches ridge. The prime merit Of
his plan Of regulating automobile speed
$ that it is self-acting, doesn't need the
of watchers, and is effec-
i've.