Middletown transcript., 1905-03-18
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

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Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household
More than half of Russia's profit from
exports come from the sale of grain.
About 100000 bushels of corn are
used annually in the making of corn
starch.
The crop of cotton for 1904 is found to
be IL, 1852, 700 bales, produced on 80, ,O55,-
700 acres
The boy on the farm to-day must not
be satisfied to simply know as much about
agriculture as his father He has got to
know more and will.
Honey is shipped from Cuba to Ger
many, the United States, France and
other countries. The amount gathered
last year exceeds $600,00O
Do not kill the ducks in sprirg time.
Let them alone. Allow them to rear
their young and then in the fall there will
be more and better hunting.
John B. Guyton OF Missouri, signed
contract at Seattle the other day, with
Japanese officials agreeing to deliver
100000 horses for the japanese army.
In Denmark the farmers have large
cooperative egg marketing concern, and
every member working off bad egg is
fined $l.25. Ii such rule was in vogue
in this country it would bankrupt the far
mers paying the fines.
We do not think that the average
farmer needs to know how to make more
money SO much as lie does to know how
to make it easier and in more profitable
way-make fewer acres do the work of
the many now run over.
The boy brings back 50 where he costs
a cent. If you don't believe it, just wait
until he is gone and see what hole it
makes in running the farm. Instead of
figuring how much the boy costs, think
it is Il great deal better to think how much
he saves.
According to figures compiled by the
Union Pacific railroad the alfalfa crop of
Nebraska for 1904 vas 9OS, ,242 tons. Ten
years ago it was stated no alfalfa existed
in Nebraska. Every farmer who raises
alfalfa, it was pointed out, can raise cattle,
sheep, horses and hogs.
Pennsylvania should step more lively;
she appropriates only 1000 year for
the Agricultural Experiment Station.
Ohio gives SCI 900; New York, $4,000;
New jersey, $4,000; Connect icut, ST.,
600; Montana, $4,000, and so on. We
feel quite lonesome when we contemplate
these figures. Pennsylvania ought to do
better.
| want to say another word to the
farmer boys. 1t won't he long till you'll
be out working for yourself. You have
been thinking and dreaming about that
already, and wondering when the time
will come. 1t will come and come
quickly. What are you going to do then?
Something honorable, of course; some
thing that will benefit the world and
give you fair name. Such is the pur-
pose of every good, ambitious and honor
able boy
Farm Less and Make More
Some men 60 on the theory that if
farming is paying business and good
thing more of it will pay better and will
be better thing. If man could do
lot and do it as well as he can do the
right amount, there would be no reason
why this theory wouldn't stand the hard
knocks of practice, but no man can hire
work done as well as he can do it him.
self; that is farm work. And here is
where the over-reaching farmer falls
down. OF all farms in the United States,
those paying best per acre are the 40 and
80 acre farms. 1t is true that there are
some instances that almost anyone can
cite where the 200, 300 and 400 acre farm
is paying the best, but we speak of farm
ing as a whole-of the average farm in
the United States.
Farmers Should Take Hint
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is to plant 10000 trees this year on q,
600 acres of its land along its principal
divisions. This will be in addition to
the setting out OF 25S, $50 seedlings, which
recently was completed. These trees are
being planted to insure the road of SUI
ficient ties. When railroad companies
find it necessary to give attention to tree
growing it is time for farmers to bestir
themselves in the same direction. There
is demand for all the timber that can
be raised within the next so years. Pro-
fessor Stewart of the western N. y. Hor-
ticultural S ,ciety gives this advice: call
forms OF ill-treatment including bad
planting, growth of weeds. and total neg
lect, is as harmful to fruit trees as to per-
NIT the grass to grow around them"
The Apple
1t is well to remember that the apple
contains larger percentage of phos-
phorus than any other fruit or vegetable.
This phosphorus is admirably adapted
for renew ing the essential nervous mat
ter OF the brain. The acids are also of
great value for use by people of sedentary
habits, these acids serving to eliminate
from the body noxious matters which. if
retained, would make the brain heavy
and dull. or bring about jaundice or skin
and other allied troubles.
Some such an experience must have led
to the custom of using apple sauce with
roast pork, and similar dishes. The malic
acid of raw or cooked, neutraizes any
excess of chalky matter engendered by
eating too much. Apples are quite
efficien. as a disinfpctant for the system
and have considerable value as an anti
1ote for tobacco and liquor, which is
quite marked in all cases. Under all
conditions and in all cases, there is no
iruit as benz fetal or harmful as the apple