Middletown transcript., 1905-04-01
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW

Hot, strong whitewash on wall is light
sweet and cheap.
Don't expect to get the best profits on
Of horse raising unless you raise the bes
class.
Good roads means good farms, good 90
ing, good prices, good neighbors and gooC
times.
Map the farm and mark the year tha
each crop was in certain field; record til,
yield. 1t becomes interesting.
1t costs no more per pound to raise /
colt than steer, and the right kind o
colt will sell for four times as muLh.
There is no better or cheaper way tc
grow hogs than to pasture them OH alfalfa
One acre will pasture from 10 to 20 hogs
There is no difference between being
burned out once or moving three times, sc
the old saying goes, and it still goes
with US.
Drunkards from Eastern States have
bought 1000 acres Of farming land in
Glenn county, California, and will settle
there with their families.
Eighty-four million pounds OF sugar
reached New York from the West Indies
and South America in one day last week.
Louisiana should take notice.
A small city boy was much astonished
to see the COW MIXED again in the morn
ing. "Well," he said, thought you
emptied her all out last night"
It is always better to have flock OF
sheep on farm than mortgage. In fact,
the sheep will help to drive a mortgage
off farm, just as they will the weeds.
Do not despise your plodding, dust
covered neighbor, my young gilt edged
farmer; he may work long and hard at
his trade, and on payday draw more
money than you earn in half year.
Hens like to lay in a rather dark nest,
| the opening Of which is hidden from
view. If box nests with the opening to-
ward the wall are placed III the poultry
house, very few hens will steal their nests
in out-of-the-way places.
The government distributes bacteria so
you can inoculate soil for clover, alfalfa,
soy beans. or cowpeas. Write to A. +.
Woods, Washington, D. c., and state
which crop YOU wish to grow and you can
get the bacteria that will aid in growing
that crop.
How do our farmers account to them
selves for the fact that hardly ten per
cent. of their grain grades number two,
when they sell it and yet ninetv-fve per
cent. of the grain going out of Chicago
grades number two.
1t isn't exactly healthy for team to
be rushed through every day Of the week
ahead of the plow or harrow, then be
hitched up to a buggy on Sunday and
driven all over the neighborhood in
search Of "a good time' for the driver.
Remember it isn't "a good time" for the
team.
Nearly every farm hand thinks that
ne is receiving the smallest wages OF any
branch Of labor. However, the hand
that is getting SIG per month with board,
washing and the keeping of his horse, is
better paid than the bookkeeper, the
clerk or the tradesman who gets $40 per
month and has to pay his board and
laundry out of this.
Texas is not only destined to make
rice so cheap and plenty in this country
that, as in China, it will supersede wheat
as the staff Of life, but it is also to be-
come the greatest silk producer of the
world. To this end great Japanese
colony of silk growers is about to be
planted in southwestern Texas. A
splendid tract OF land has been procured
and already the first instaIlment Of JAP
anese, consisting of 500 skilled silk |
growers, are on their way and will be
ready to 60 to work during the coming
SUNNI err.