Middletown transcript., 1905-02-25
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household


best of you.
Farming is a poor business when the
farming is poor.
Irrigation is said to be lowering the tenn
perature Of Egypt appreciably.
Is there in this bright country single
home on the farm where reading is un.
known?
Last year nearly $4,000, 900 pounds of
butter were hauled over the Minneapolis
& st. Louis railroad.
The Canadian authorities are increas-
ing their efforts to encourage immigration
to the Dominion.
b Now plan what you are going to do this
year. Have something ahead to work for
and the work will be lighter.
A pig is usually kept in every stable in
Persia; it is thought its presence is bene-
ticial to the health of the horses.
Do not neglect to examine the horses
mouth frequently. A sore mouth is the
cause.of many unpleasant habits.
Farmers who have kept right along
growing draft horses through good times
and through bad have been money
ahead.
The Missouri supreme court says fal-
mer is not hawker or peddler conse-
quently needs no license to retail his pro-
ducts in town.
In Cuba they cut off the timber and
brush, then punch holes in the ground
and plant corn. 1t is never cultivated
but grows to height OF sixteen feet and
has to be husked by man on a mule.
Be up-to-date,
Be never late,
Hasten where progress leads.
Read up-to-date,
Get up-to-date,
And try those grand new seeds.
Georgia has held the lead in the pro-
duction OF peaches for the Eastern market
since 1902 and for years to come is likely
to be the leading peach state in the Union.
She has more than 100000 trees.
A piously inclined schoolboy in Liver
pool wrote religious essay, in which ap-
peared this striking passage: $50 he sed
unto Moses Come forth; but he came fifth
and lost the job. Moral, get up urly, and
avoid the rush."
If you think you are the best farmer in
the county just see what the other fellow
exhibits at the fair and note that he is
little ahead of you in premiums. Don't
criticise his stuff, but turn your sharp
eye upon your own exhibit and see
wherein the fault lies. Then dig.
A Colorado farmer writes: "We are now
raising mules and one very good thing
about the business is that buyers come
around after them and pay the price we
ask, so that we do not have to hunt |
them up. If a farmer is not a very
good ruster for customer there is a big |
object"
1t cost about one cent week up to the |
age of ten weeks to feed a young chick, at |
which age If properly cared for, it should |
weigh two pounds. This is equivalent to |
five cents, as the cost for each pound of |
chick. To this must be added, of course,
the cost Of the egg and the labor and |
trouble of Matching.
An Illinois farmer pIewed up an old
feed lot of 10 acres and raised paying
crop of corn. The corn was drilled in rows
21 inches apart and kernel every Q 9inches
in the row. The yield was an average OF
lS0 bushels per acre. This is about three
times as much as the best farmers usually
grow.
A CulloIn woman gets up in the MORN
ing, put on her husbands trousers,
builds the fires, milks the cows and does
the chores-alI before the old man wakes
from his slumbers. There would not be
so many brokendown husbands, who
believe that marriage is failure If |
more wives would follow the Cullom WOO
mans example.
If we were unfortunate enough to be
among the class of renters, if we had not
a foot of land we could call our own. we
would make desperate effort to have the
move made this year the last one.. We
know il is easier to say this than it is to
do it, but by this time next year we
would at least be found trying to hold
down small farm of our own.
.'"There is" said one of our farmers, pro-
badly a good deal Of wealth beneath the
soil OF Illinois, not counting coal mines,
which yield fortunes to their operators
every year. But it is nothing in the
wealth that is found above it between
July and November, every year. Some
of the best paying dirt in the universe is
hat which is to be found in the corn belt
If the Prairie state"
Hit. or-miss farming, as a rule doesn'
oaFs but it hurts no man to try an expert
nlent now and then. One or two i'm a
year is enough for the average farmer who
farms because he makes his money that
way, but to turn the whole farm into a
iort of an experimental station, trying a
little OF this and little of that, but not
IN ongh Of one thing to make ii pay, is the
v rong idea altogether.