Middletown transcript., 1905-05-27
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

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Every horse should have bran mash
at least twice week.
Show your neighbor how to he coed
neighbor by being that kind yourself.
COW in full milk flow needs and will
drink from so to 125 pounds of water
every day.
Nearly million dollars day is paid
by the United States to foreign ships for
carrying its products.
In Russia the average price of agricul-
tnral land is $l4 per acre. In England
farm land ranges in price from $40 to $l2O
per acre.
They seem to forget that besides the
water needed to sustain her life, like the
horse, 81 per cent of all the milk she Sc.
cretes Is water.
Milk weighs two pounds and fifteen
one-liundredtls to the quart on the aver
age, or eight pounds and sixty one-hun-
dredths to the gallon.
Whenever farmer or anv other man
says he ought to have done such and such
work but didn't have time to get around
to it, it is conclusive evidence that the
poor fellow is trying to do more than he
can do well.
1t is all right tn econonize in money
matters, but lots of folks who are real
stingy OF money, are wastful as they can
be III the matter of time and strength,
which is a hundred times as valuable as
money. So don't overlift, don't make
the hours too long; don't be stngy of the
hours OF sleep; and above all, don't waste
the heart by Worrying about troubles that
probably never will come.
South Carolina has IA ZOO, 600 acres of
unoccupied land, and her officials are
making all effort to direct immigrants to
that state by sending to New York City
a commissioner of immigration. 1t would
be good thing for the entire country if
a few thousand Italians and immigrants
from Southern Europe could be induced
to settle OIL the cotton and rice planta-
tions of that state instead OF locating i'm
the over-crowded cities OF the East and
Middle West
Comparatively few people realize the
extent to which the American navy has
been built up in the past few years. To-
day there are in the navy of the United
States a battleships of 10000 tons or
over, II coast defense vessels 10 armoured
8 cruisers above 5000 tons, 23
cruisers OF from 1000 to 5000 tons, l6
torpedo boats and s submarine torpedo
boats. The total tonnage OF the navy is
543, ,693, represented by total of 147 ves-
'els. In point OF tonnage the United States
stands third on the list of nations of the
world. First comes Great Britain with
,02 vessels aggregating 1926, 900 tons,
econd France with sos vessels, aggregrat-
ng 97S, 900 tons.
A swarm of bees consists of queen be
md from 1000 to 5000 drones, and if a
arge swarm, all the way from 10000 to
70, 600 worker bees. When pollen and
honey is scarce the worker bees have been
,nown to go seven miles in search OF it.
every wideawake beekeeper knows that
ust few days before swarming the
queen. in some mysterious way, sends out
everal thousand workers in search OF
lome for the coming swarm. These bees
We call ''home seekers" for they cover
many thousands of acres in flying back
nd forth searching out every nook and
orner until home is found, and when
II is ready the queen comes forth with
Ter swarm and is conducted on "bee
inc" by these homeseekers to their new
zones.