Middletown transcript., 1905-04-08
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Eyery
Member OF the Household

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} Patience brings profit.
Aim high-shoot straight.
One job at time, please!
| Asparagus is said to be the oldest plant
used for food
The first thing to teach colt is a
prompt, energetic walk.
| A good farmer on poor land will get
more satisfaction out OF it than poor far
mer on rich land.
| While We should profit by the exper-
fence of others, we should try to be little
original ourselves.
Fruits grown in China are usually infer
ior in flavor, but superior to American in
keeping qualities.
| Canada wants Russian farmers to settle
in the Dominion. They are talking of
giving each family fifty acres.
From bed 24 by 81 feet, $50 quarts of
extra large Strawberries were picked last
| year which sold for $27 90.
Be sure to set trees far enough apart.
Apples not less than thirty five feet; pears,
twenty-five feet; peaches and pIums,
twenty feet.
The best plan Of farming is to raise
variety of crops Grow everything you
feed, and sell it mostly in the form of live
stock, using the fertilizer to build up the
farm.
There are no less than $40 agricultural
societies scattered over Servia, which dis
tribute modern agricultural machinery
and implements among the farmers.
These societies have a central office at
Belgrade.
1t pays to study ones horses. They are
too valuable to be injured or permanently
disabled wlfully or ignorantly. 1t costs
to buy horses, and not many of us can af-
ford to spoil them. and even if we can it
is wicked to do so, if we can help it.
When the broom becomes shorter on
one side, and the ends of the straws get
sharp as needles, just dip it into hot
water, trim evenly with the shears, and
the scratchy broom will do considerable
more service in the house, and afterward
at the barn.
Every farmer ought to know about COL
lodion. 1t is just the same thing to close
up a cut and keep it closed until it heals.
Will stand washing. Get it at the drug
store. DO as we say; court-plaster is no
good in comparison. Never mind if it
smarts little when first put on.
The government in South Australia has
advanced more than one and half mil
lion dollars to assist in purchasing wire
netting fences, the principal and interest
to be paid back by instalments, as pro-
lection against the rabbits. 4 stern ne
cessity, no doubt but rather hard on
bunny to be fenced off the earth.
Down in North Carolina, near Edenton,
SAYS ali exchange, there is man who
probably grows as many potatoes as any
grower in America His name is Makely,
and last season he grew and shipped co.
900 bushels of potatoes. 1t took 400 bar
rels of seed, and more than 100 tons OF
fertilizers to produce the crop. Many of
the potatoes grown in the locality are sold
as "New Bsrmudas," and are said to be
really better than the genuine Bermudas.
As spring comes on we think we must
hurry and get things under way. This is
not right Work steadily, but don'tS
hurry. 1t seems to me great many OF
us have worn our finger nails off, and
made our fingers themselves sore, grab
bling after the topknot of old Father
Time. It always scarces him to see folks
rushing after him that way. Take him
by the hand, and he will help us right
along through our work, and be glad to
do it. This is far less wearing, and we
shall live longer for it, too.