Middletown transcript., 1905-10-14
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Llttie paragraphs mat Will INTEREST Ever
| Member of the Household
Defeat is the wise farmers teacher.
White paint makes house look large
One mans fault is another mans lei
son.
Twill pay to line corn cribs with wir
netting.
No crib is large enough to hold some Q
the corn-husking stories.
It's good thing to know ideas an,
it's good idea to know things.
Get all the tools and implements unde
cover. Grease metal parts.
Plant memorial trees on the birthday
and your children will always have ,
monument.
Many of the automobiles toot theil
horns as though it were a notice to the
farmer to get off the earth.
Too much shade close around house
is even worse than not enough. En-
deavor to ''strike happy medium"
The farmer who never goes to town
without having something to sell, will
not be likely ever to 60 to the bank
empty handed.
A clever Missouri farmer has equipped
his farm wagon with gasoline motor,
and claims that it "runs to town in first
rate STYLE"
The people of the United States con-
sumo nearly 100 pounds OF sugar apiece
annually. 1t would seem that more
folks tempers ought to match.
An estate of 10000 acres bordering OIL
the Delaware river is solely utilized for
the study of live birds. 1t is thoroughly
equipped as bird observatory.
This is the last time you will travel
along this earthly road. Therefore keep
CHEEKY and help the world to keep SO,
too. We all have been furnished cup
with which to give some one drink.
Use it.
After fifty years of experimenting,
David Maggart, of Indiana, has produced
topless potato, says the New England
Farmer. Many farmer has succeeded
in producing potatoless tops in one season
and not half try.
In most states man must pass al
examination to be entitled to run a sta
tionary engine but any fool that can
get a chance seems to be competent to
run an automobile. Isn't it about time
we began looking into the qualifications
of the men who rush about our roads
with these mankillers?
The farmers wood-lot is an important
part of the farm, and becoming more i'm.
portant every year. Better send to the
United States Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. c., and ask for free
Farmers Bulletins Nos. 81 and 173. The
first is entitled, Forestry for Farmers
the second, "a Primer OF Forestry"
The a, b, C, Of landscape gardening is
(a) Keep the lawn centers open; (b)
Plants in masses; (c) Avoid straight lines
Remove the rickety fences; tear down the
dilapidated buildings and sheds; send the
tin cans, broken boxes, and einder pile:
the way of all useless things cleal
the yards; in the place of the aforetims
rubbish, grow things. This idea means
taste at home as well as at school; neal
lawns, whether the premises be large ol
SMALL clean roads, clean streets, clear
alleys; the abatement of nnisances; the
elevation of farm as we'll as city life; the
cultivation OF interest in the moral, intel
lectual and physical welfare of the com
munity; and creation of enthusiasm and
love for the beautiful and the good.
The Department OF Agriculture seems 8
veritable hospital for salary grabbers, al
of whom above the position of laborer:
or doorkeepers Immediately become ''pro
fessors," at least SO they are termed by
their colleagues in Office, all of which
tends to magnify their Offices and i'll
crease their salaries. They all tickle each
others backs. Just notice in his own pub.
lications the list of professors employed
each in separate office and each having
staff of clerks: Pomologists, agrostolo-
gists, cerealists, mycologists, pharmacolo-
gists, dendrochemists, brochemists, ply
siologists, pathologists, nutritionologists,
biologists, Observation-Disclosures, thermo-
logists, fungicidists, physiographists, met
eorologists, psychologists, sylvicultrists,
biologists, pasteurizlsts, riyerologists,
stormoligists, beetologists, seedologists, or
seed control. And last, but not least, his
cottonologists. A total of 4,200 regular
paid employees. This subdivision would
be laughable were it not most serious
matter done @i.h view of increasing the
office-holding class.
Never lose faith in human NATURE. This