Middletown transcript., 1905-09-23
THE FARM GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household.

memDer OF the Household.
Difficulties either trip us, or make US
climb.
The roofing hog will do less harm than
a rowing sportsman.
Dust bother You at threshing time?
Try little vaseline rubbed on the inside
of the nostris.
The work that hurts man is the work
which ought to have been done day be-
fore yesterday.
If your spirits are low, do something;
and if you have been doing something, do
something different
Wise folks do not wait for something to
''turn up" mol They promptly pro-
ceed to turn something up
Hard soap is a splendid lubricant and
anti-sticktight for use along the bottoms
and sides of bureau drawers.
Don't worry afterward because You
have bought thing you really need. 1t
is the money spent for what we do not
need that makes US poor
America has long been teaching the
world to take our corn. Europe has
learned to eat-it and to like it. The mar
ket is practically unlimited. There is no
such thing as over-prodaction of corn.
Watch the women folks and see that
they are not carrying too heavy load
this month it is canning season and the
strain may invite breakdown. Above
all, see that they do not have to carry
wood nor water.
The best time to cut hard wood timber
of all kinds, concludes the United States
Burean OF Forestry, is in late summer or
early September. Posts cut at this time,
peeled and thoroughly seasoned, prove
Paint is better than paper for the pIas-
tered kitchen wall. 1t is durable and
easily cleaned or renewed.
Lots of times folks 60 off hundreds of
miles to drink the water from some
famous spring, when all the while they
have just as good and pure water right at
home in the we'll, if they would only
drink as much of it and drink it as regu-
larly as they do the water they pay so
much for
Hold on, James Wilson, Secretary of
Agriculture, and do not mind if you are
criticised by editors who do not know
what great work you have done and are
doing. You are all right, and can be
trusted to clean ont any dead and rotton
wood from your department. We know
that
Drive stout stake into the ground
near where the hogs sleep. Wind with
an old rope, mailing it we'll, and saturate
the rope twice a week with mixture
OF equal parts of lard and kerosene. The
hogs will do the rest ii there are any lice
on them.
ClHIply DtCduSc HIdI Cdu uo IL 10 iIu
sign he should starve his brains out. Lots
OF farmers keep right on in the same old
rut year after year. They can do it, but
what is the use, when so much better
things are waiting for the man who will
reach out and take them? Let's not do
it.
Petaluna, Is miles north of San Fran
cisco, is the worlds greatest chicken
raising town. Petauma has population
of but 5000, yet from hens point OF
view, it is the metropolis of the world ;
Petaluma is the center of a poultry-rais-
ing district in which there are almost
1000, 600 chickens. Thirty-fve thousand
dollars day is what the world pays the
town in hard cash for its eggs and poultry
productions. Poultry raising is the chief
industry, and if all the hens in the little
city and its environs were to form one
composite hen this gigantic fowl would
weigh more than 325 tons.