Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-06-17
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

Rose bugs-kerosene them.
| Potato bugs-Paris green them.
llumbugs gs-touch them not
Good farming and good men are in
separable. The one can not be had with
out the other.
One hour a day well spent in vel
regulated garden will furnish the family
in truck the year round.
The desert lands of the West are wait
ing to be the gardens of the coming
agriculturists OF America. Irrigation il
doing it.
Hens will use a great deal of milk
every day if they can get it, and it is 6
most perfect food for them, too. 1t con
tains just the stuff for producing eggs
and lots OF them.
Now this is a mistake; we can not keep
ourselves fresh without sufficient rest
and sleep. 1t is all right to get up early
the lazy lie-a-bed farmer never accom-.
plishes much.
When the little chap on your farm
does really good thing, tell him so.
There is day coming when there will
be no "little chap at your house. The
more's the pity, too
To destroy tleas, scatter bits of fleece.
wool where they have been found. After
few hours, gather the wool and drop il
into boiling water. The feas will have
hidden in it.
California's botanical wizard has ori
ginated potato that grows its crop above
ground. That may be an improve ment
but device to grow the potato bug 1C
feet underground would be more appre'
ciated.
Have you been too busy to see the
beauties that are all around you on the
farm to-day? Don't 60 to bed till you
have stepped out and taken one good
long look at the world. 1t will help you
to sleep better.
Farm economy demands that every.
thing around be made to contribute, and
if there are no 'Fgive backs" from fold
''given out" it's loss. A lot of cock.
erels kept after Growing begins are con
sumers, and profitless.
You can make your horse understand
that you are master without yelling Oh
whipping him. Tussles with horses
never pay. They leave bad impression
in the mind of the horse and you think
less OF yourself afterward, too.
A boys conception of how to make the
hens fill the egg basket can hardly be i'm
proved upon. Said he: 81 make my hens
scratch SO hard for grub that they are
glad to get on the nest and lay an egg SC
that they may rest awhile"
1t is a wonderfully good thing to dc
our farm work with some other thought
than self in mind. We do not milk oul
COWS, plow our fields and dig in the gar
den all for self-or ought not to. So We
plant trees, clear up our fields and build
up our farms for the men of tomorrow
And this is just as it should be.
We understand that the Department O
Agriculture has recently established 6
division for the study of nails, wire, fenc
ing, ETC., used by farmers. Good idea
There has been much complaint lately
regarding the poor quality of such manu-
factured articles and it's high time tha
somebody took the matter in hand.
Now and then farmers think they will
live longer and be happier if they leave
the old place and go where they will no
have to work. 1t is mistake, and they
find it so sooner than they desire. 1t il
not work that kills; work, keeps mer
alive. A farmer may live without any
thing to eat, for while. He can gC
without very fine clothes, and still bt
comfortable; but without work he soor
finishes his course on this old earth.
The farmers wife hasn't got thing to
do nowadays but watch the setting hens
hover about the little chicks, milk the
cows, attend to the milk, churn butter
feed the pigs, look after the young calves
watch baby carry the water, make the
garden, do the cooking, baking, scrub
bing, clean the house, make the beds
wash the dishes, wash end iron the
clothes and few other little things. He
days are one long, sweet song in thu
spring and summer time, and when thu
sun goes down she has few chores tt
do, just enough to keep her mind occu
pied until about 8 o'clock when she car
90 to bed feeling refreshed and frisky
In the morning she is awakened early by
the victorious screeh of a rooster out il
| the garden inviting all his female friends
to come in and have nip. A pleasant
sound, one that brings smile to her lips
and twinkle in her eye-abernit.