Middletown transcript., 1905-11-25
Y MORNING. NOVEMBER 25, 1905.
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

L1ttle paragraphs mat VIII Interest Ever.
Member of the Household
This country had to import eggs il
August.
A chicken louise born to-day is great
great grandpa tomorrow.
A pound of ground corn is equal in
feeding value to 28 pounds of alfalfa
hay.
Having worked hard this season Old
Sol now goes to bed early and gets up
| late.
The onion harvest for red and yellow
| is a quarter million bushels under last
seasons yield.
Montreal has the largest -four mill in
the British Empire. 1t turns out five
Thousand barrels OF flour day.
The first solid train of canned peas ever
shipped from an American canning fac
tory went out from canning company's s
plant at Longmount, Colo, recently.
A Missouri farmer has kept and kept
well, four cows and 75 hogs on four-acre
patch OF alfalfa at time when all other
grasses are burned with the draught.
1t requires fifty hands for month to
harvest the popcorn crop grown OH farm
near Burlington, Wis. bus is run from
that city every morning to carry the har-
vesters to work.
Every man owning and living on a
quarter section farm is entitled to and
should have farm house which costs not
less than 81, 800, and this home should
have modern conveniences.
The monthly list of publications by the
agricultural department at Washington
are not appreciated as they should be.
The up to date farmer will get in touch
with the department and get the list
from which lie cali select such as he
needs.
We know of several farmers who make
quite a bit of money on some. side line.
One raises fine celery, another shepherd
dogs, another ferrets, several raise fancy
chickens. 1t is good thing to have
some hobby OF this sort-it advertises a
man.
1t is surprising what lot Of warmth a
good banking of old hay or straw will
give to building. and when it is as plen-
tiful as it is this year, no one has a good
excuse for keeping stock through the win
ter in cold buildings, even if there are
cracks in the roof or sides.
Did YOU know that the COW that fresh
ems in the fall of the year will give fully
25 per cent. more milk during the year
than she would if she freshened in the
spring? That the fall-fresh COW will then
give butter fat when it is high in price,
thus making her fully SO per cent. to l0O
per cent. more valuable than she would
be if she had calyed in the spring?
Here is formula for water-proofng
leather which an old fisherman used for
over 20 years: One pint boiled linseed
oil, J pound mutton suet, (fresh), q
ounces yellow beeswax, (clean), ounces
yellow resin. Melt and mix well, apply
with soft brush, warm but not SO hot as to
shrink the leather. You can stand in
water for hours and your feet will not be
damp.
Thousands of acres of land in Mexico
are being leased and millions Of dollars
are being invested there, to grow new
kind of rubber plant. 1t is bush, which
thrives without rain and upon an eleva-
ton where other things will not grow.
The demand for rubber has become i'm
measurable, in recent years, and fortunes
will be made-and perhaps lost-in de-
veloping this new kind.
Farmers are discarding plank floors in
barns and boards in sidewalks and no
longer use wooden troughs and tanks,
having caught onto utility and durability
of cement stable furnishings. Already
these desirable changes have been made
in stock farms and are so satisfactory that
the use of concrete will soon become gen.
eral. Those who have made the attempt
have succeeded beyond expectations, say
ing it is no trick at all to get the proper
proportions if the mixer is able to count
eight shovelfuls of gravel and one of ce-
ment.
Out in California farmers who get up
before sunrise in the morning, or who
work until after dark, hitch and unhitch
their horses, milk their cows and do
other "chores" by the light of electric
lamps. Nearly all the farm houses and
stables are lighted by electricity, and in
nearly every case it is generated from
streams flowing from the melting SHOWS
and the perennial springs of the Sierra
Nevadas and the Cascade Mountains
The plants are owned and operated by
local companies, who distribute the power
and the light over the country by trans
mission wires