Middletown transcript., 1905-05-06
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household
Time is the stuff lifes made of.
A narrow minded man is like narrow
tire wagon. Gets in rut and stays there.
A corresrn dent thinks that there must
be money il. liens since SO much of it has
been sunk in tile business.
Farmers are anxious to breed the hogs
that will attain the greatest weight at a
given age on a given amount of feed.
Use kerosene freely on the roost and
other woodwork of the hen houses, these
days. Uncomfortable hens are unprofit-
able hens.
To get along with harness just ready to
fall to pieces, is poor method of economy
in these days of automobiles and trolley
cars.
Whether man expects to sell his farm
or not, he should endeavor to bring it to
s ale where, if it has to be sold, it can be
disposed Of to advantage, instead OF at a
sacrifice.
A farmer should be at his very best at
forty-five. But how few really are We
learn SO slowly how to look out for our
selve. We study our horses and COWS
and keep them in prime condition, but
all the while we are digging down the
walls Of our own life building. Poor
policy.
1t seems singular that 100 hens produce
in egg shells about 1877 pounds of chalk
yearly and yet not single pound of that
substance or perhaps even an ounce,
exists on the farm, or anywhere about the
house within the circuit OF the hens feed
ing ground. But the material is found in
the sand, pebble dust, bits of bone and so
forth that they pick up miscellaneously.
One OF the experiment stations bought
ton of suspected bran, says an exchange,
and found that it contained ], 200 pounds
OF bran, 800 pounds of plaster, 800 pounds
of crushed oat hulls and 200 pounds OF
sawdust. One ton of good bran will keep
COW 250 days, but ton OF this aduler.
ated bran will keep her only 150 days.
Stations do good service when they put
farmers on their guard against such prac.
tees
One hundred and twenty young women
drew farming homesteads ih the rece nj
opening of lands in South Dakota, and 9
matrimonial rush that resembles the gold
rush to California has set in. Men from
all parts of the country are offering them.
selves to the fortunate young women, the
majority of them being college graduates
from the east which goes to show that q
college education does not unfit one fol
matrimony.
The King of Italy has issued invitations
to an international farmers conference to
be held in May at the beautiful city oil
Rome, the home of art and sculpture and
classic literature. This announcement
has humorous side, but the King has in
mind a strong desire to improve the agri
cultural conditions of his country, and his
real ambition is to establish an interna
tional chamber of agriculture, which shall
contain representatives of all civilized
countries and shall do for the farmers
what the United States Department ol
Agriculture does for farmers of America
"What plants the man who plants the
apple tree?" Well, it seems that the
Colorado man who planted tree bearing
coreless apples has planted both fame and
fortune. A few OF his apples have sold
for SIS apiece in London-a rate of some
$1,000 bushel. What a temptation that
orchard must be to the boys around
Grand junction! But, after all, the real
value is in the power to multiply and re.
produce after its kinda power which
would make single grain of wheat, il
there was only one in the world worth
more than all the gold in the world.