Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-08-26
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
Ii does not pay to use the milking stool
on the cows.
3 George Could has gone into the poultry
business, and he is making it pay.
Prices for good short-haired hides are
r now claimed to be higher than for
twenty years past.
An up-to-date farmer will not tolerate
dung-hil hens any more than he would
scrub COWS or swine.
Ii you use fly paper, put it high in the
room. There you will catch more flies.
and you will not be nearly so apt to get
caught yourself.
A tin wash basin will last but short
time, as commonly used. To make it
last long time, keep the bottom of it
painted with common oil paint.
Look out for the picture-enlarging
agent who promises, for dollar, fine
pastel from treasured photograph. Don't
let him have photograph or money-if
you value either.
Never brighten young animals that you
have On the farm. Stroke the Young
calves on their sides, be gentle to the
swine, and be quiet among the sheep.
Because cow was imported from
across the sea is not dead sure sign that
she is just what you and think she
ought to be. Lots of miserably poor
COWS come from the other side of the
ocean.
Tie farmer usually has little time in
August when he can rest, if he villa
sort of breathing spell between the work
OF the earlier summer and that OF the
fall and he should make the most of it.
Do not cut short your own days work
and leave the hired man to milk the COWS
after dark. Did you ever think what
misery COW must be in with big bag
pressed just as full OF milk as it can hold?
More than 600 head of cattle have been
ordered killed by the state authorities of
Wisconsin since January l. They are
trying to stamp out tuberculosis which is
so prevalent there among the cattle.
Make a detinate central plan for the
conduct of the farm; then every season
let experience seek to revise and improve
It little. Keep record Of tie failures
as well as the successes. Perhaps it will
help you to avoid them next time, so
have them located on your chart.
De not permit water to stand in the
buggy body. If moisture gets into the
stills and frame of the body, the box is
liable to open at the corners, as they are
bone dry, and if they swell nothing can
keep the corners from opening. Wet
carpet left in the bottom of the bed is
likely to cause the same result
And we notice that automobile clubs
while pretending to a desire to protect
the public, are always on hand with
powerful lobby when the legislatures
meet, trying to prevent the farmers from
getting adequate laws pass, usually with
success; and then they are seen rushing
to the courts in order to have nullified
such feeble laws as have been enacted.
The Department of Agriculture has is
sued 776 page book and contains much
valuable information, especially on mat
tiers which directly interest the farmer.
But it also treats of agricultural problems
in the United States island possessions.
1t is beautifully illustrated with color
plates and half-tone cuts and has statistics
cuts and has statistics galore. 1t is really
book or great value to anyone interested
in agriculture of fruit growing. You can
obtain one free of charge by writing to
the Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, d. C.
There is great need of educating the
farmer in the care and right use of the
machinery on the farm. 1t is estimated
that there is made and sold each year in
this country about $l00,0O0,0 900 worth of
farm machinery and that this goes into
the farmers hands, one-half OF whom do
not know how to select it wisely or to
keep it in proper condition. By the i'm
proper care given it the loss runs into
millions of dollars annually. In addition
it is stated that implement manufacturers
lose large sums of money in making and
attempting to introduce machinery un-
suited to the work it is intended to per-
form, with a resultant loss to both far
mers and manufacturers.