Middletown transcript., 1905-11-11
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Member of the Household
Who makes everything right must rise
early.
The pine is native of America. The
pear and apple are from Europe.
"You always seem so jolly don't y ou
ever borrow tiouble?" ''No the interest
is too high. "
France believes hen is more valuable
as meat and egg producer than grower
of fine feathers.
When We get to raising nothing but
good men we shall need to raise much
less money for war vessels and cannon.
Town men are always worrying about
the way farmers neglect their machinery.
Don't town men do trifiing things?
Set apart certain time in which to do
all the little jobs. You have no idea
how much worriment such a method
will save you.
Only four Years ago the daily papers
throughout the Northwest were denounc-
ing macaroni wheat as worthless goose
wheat" Now who's a goose?
Are you patient with the children and
the men and the neighbors whom you
have dealings? We all need to be pa
tieiltIy dealt with, for every one of us
makes mistakes.
The worlds production of gold during
the last thirty days combined was $4,
897, 600, 900, but the United States farms
alone this year raised crops worth over
SIS, 900, ,0OO,Oo
As life progresses you will find you
must either bend or break; so try to
laugh off your "blues" for they are harm
full to both body and soul. Now, three
cheers for the farmer
As the cold increases, il you find that
the stables are not warm enough, build
ing paper, literally used and carefully
put on, will help the matter. 1t is
cheaper than anything else.
Many farm and farmer would go to
rack and ruin, morally and financially,
were it not for the woman's influence and
the wife's help. The average farmer
and farm are what they are largely be-
cause OF the wife.
Even Grover Cleveland has been smit-
ten with the desire to go "back to the
farm" and has purchased estates in New
Hampshire to which he may retire to
rest from the strenuousity of active life.
Lots of others are doing the same thing.
Look over your mail before the young
folks get at it, Some of the most danger
Gus literature of the day comes to us
through the medium of circular letters.
The only reason why it is fit to make
fire with is because it smells SO of the
sulphur and birthstone OF the internal
regions.
The straw burned in the Northwest
every fall would make some countries
rich. But if you don't save all the straw,
be sure and save plenty of bedding. And
fix up the barns, if they need fixing, as
some most certainly do. In peace pre-
pare for war" was good motto for little
Japan and in good weather prepare for
cold and storms is good one for the
dairyman. A pane of glass may save a
COW.
We have seen several letters from COM
mission men which read about as follows:
"There is absolutely no sale for cultivated
ginseng, and there is no use for it outside
of the Chinese trade" This is the end
of the great boom in ginseng. 1t comes
earlier than he expected, yet We under.
stand people are still investing their
hard-earned money in seeds and roots
Rural NeG Yorker.
The pride of the Missouri mule received
a sad blow when the state labor commits
sioner made known to him that beside
the Missouri hen he was an insignificant
animal, hardly to be taken into account
as money maker for the farmer. The
Missouri hen, for the fiscal year just
closed, was worth just $31 ,642, 1852 81 in
the shape OF eggs, and chickens and
feathers marketed-20,7 75l carloads in all.
That was a few million dollars greater
than the combined surplus product of
horses, mules, hogs and sheep of the
same period.
A feeding expert has figured amounts
of corn it takes to produce various amounts
of pork, under normal condition. One
bushel OF corn will produce 10 l8 pounds
of pork, from which you can easily deter.
mine whether it is better to sell corn or
pork. Careful experiments have shown
the following facts in regard to feeding
corn to make pork. Fifty pounds of
corn, fed gr uni and raw makes 15
pounds OF pork. Fifty lbs. OF corn, fed
whole and raw makes 10 pounds of pork.
Fifty pounds of corn, fed ground and
fermented, makes II pounds of pork.
Fifty pounds of corn fed cooked and fer
mented makes 20 pound, of pork.
A. U. W. REGISTERS
Dr. (;eur,e W. Marshall, State InsuI-