Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-16
THE FARM GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household.

Little Paragraphs That will Interest Ever
Member of the Household.
The diarymen around little town il
Wisconsin have over 100000 in one littl
bank.
The investigators say that horses viii
gain flesh and muscle sooner If their oat
and corn are ground than if fed whole
'If small details are not strictly at
tended to-" once said the late William
Cook. Of England, "poultry farming viii
be an utter failure"
When worked few days, mules arr
classed as broken, and are ready for mar
ket. They sell readily at from $l25 tc
$500 each, according to size, style and
quality, at the farm.
Don't oyerfeed the horse. When the
horse has more than he needs the extra
feed is wasted, and when the digestive or.
gans have more than they can do, il
weakens them.
The progress which the sugar beet in.
! dustry is making in the United States is
shown by the fact that there are now
! fifty-hve factories that can work up almost
(, 40, 900 tons of beets daily.
Kind words will often loosen up rusty,
crusty neighbor's friendship. But if a
screw sticks it needs the application of a
red hot iron to its head to make it
obligng-it won't open its heart till it's
warm.
A recent insect bulletin from the United
States Department of Agriculture ends
with this statement: "It costs the Ameri-
can farmer more to feed his insect foes
than it does to educate his children"
4 local trade can be secured for poul-
try, eggs, ETC., if there is a house-to- house
canvas made. Have a neat circular
printed describing your goods, your
methods and your prices and leave one at
every house.
1t is scientific fact that diphtheria,
scarlet fever and even typhoid is fire.
quently carried to children in milk.
Knowing this, can any mixer with con-
science fail to observe the most ceanly
methods possible?
A man to have model farm must have
just enough land to keep him busy. 1t
is not all in the number of acres; there is
practically nothing in the number; it all
lies in the management. A medium
sized farm is best.
There never was man who was smart
enough to cheat his calves and young
stock. He may think he is doing it when
he scrimps them on their rations, but he
will find out when it comes to figuring it
up in the fall that he is the one who has
lost money.
An illustration OF the way in which the
immigration laws are being administered
was shown when it was declared at New
York that August Albert, Michigan far
mer, returning from visit to Germany,
could not land, as he is over 81 years.
He had lived in the United States thirty
years and voted for president, but could
show no naturalization papers.
In central Pennsylvania few milesfrom
Shamokin, is three hundred acre tract
of land containing nearly ninety thous-
and chestnut trees. In 1904 this prolific
grove bore one thousand bushels of nuts,
bringing ten dollars bushel, and the de.
mand for them was much greater than the
supply, and three times the amount the |
grove bears could be easily marketed at the |
same price. When the big grove reaches
its full bearing capacity it will yield at |
least one-half more.
The department of agriculture has de-
cided to establish other breeding stat ions
besides that at Fort Collins, COL, and will |
send mares of selected type to Indian
City farm, Pontiac, ILL.,, to be bred to Ak
lord, the great son of Axtell, and regarded
as one of the best types in the country to
Deget harness horses. Pontiac is also the
home of Shan Mullagh, the most prepot-
snt hackney in existence.
What are the possibilities OF production
If an acre of land? George NJ. Clark, the
champion hay crop grower, of Connecti-
,ut, has produced It's, 1928 pounds OF hay
IN eleven and one-eighth acres, over
even and three fourth tons to the acre,
n one season. A French market gar
lener on two and seven-eighths acres has
aised in single season the total of 250,-
100 pounds of fruits and vegetables.
eight persons and one horse did the work
nd the manure cost $500.
Junius G. Graves, of Edwardsyille,
1an., is the most notable negro farmer in
he United States-probably in the world
Ie is known as "the potato king" his
ight to that title resting on the fact that
wo years ago he sold 72, bus hels
+ potatoes from his farm, Il, $50 bus hels
lore than ever were produced by any
Individual farmer. In addition he
ought from white farmers and sold at
roft twenty-five car loads of pota toes.
raves was born slave in Kentucky,
ut has been in Kansas since 1879.