Middletown transcript., 1905-03-11
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the HOusshoId

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i Member of the Household
| Farming is poor business when the
farming is poor.
The croc Jdie, the chicken and the
ostrich take pebbles with their food 10
aid in grinding it.
The qualifications for successful
poultryman are patience, perseverance,
pluck, enterprise and capital.
The farmers are anxious for the trust
buster to hurry and get around to the
implement and binding twine trusts.
The wasted corn fodder OF the state of
Iowa, if economically used, would pay all
the taxes OF the state and build lot of
macadamized highway each year.
1t is predicted that the greatest agricul-
tural development in the next ten wears
will be the irrigated lands of the West.
and that in time to come there will be
the highest type of civilization ON this
continent.
A crop OF potatoes was grown i'm Eng
land which netted its producer more
than it, weight in gold. From one
pound Of the seed of the Eldorado variety
he raised 1858 plants, many of which he
sold for $40 each.
Never store away oily clothes in anv
unventlated place, as such things some.
times cause spontaneous combustion,
Fires in machine shops have often been
traced to the cotton waste filled with oil
from p fishing machinery.
In a recent report of the Department
of Agriculture the relative merits of irri-
gated and unirrigated fruits are discussed.
The general conclusion is that irrigated
fruits are superior in quality, are better
for canning and for canning and for dry
ing.
1t makes everybody happy to hear a
farmer say "Good-mornipg' when You
meet him, as if it really were the very
best morning that the sun ever shown
on. 1t lifts us up to catch the tone of
his voice, and makes us think life is
worth living, after all.
In your plans for the next crop, do not
let yonr mind run too much to acres.
Big field farming is going out, and "the
field well tilled' is coming into favor.
Better cultivation. better fertilization.
better and easier handling and, above all,
better marketing-these are what must
give farmers bank account
The census bureau has issued a report
on the condition of irrigation in the
United States in 1902, showing that 3,4l5
systems, with 59,3ll miles of main canals
and bitches, we're inigating 9,4S7,077
acres on l34, ,036 farms The amount ex-
pended in constructing all these systems
was $93, ,320, ,452. The average construc-
tion cost per acre in the arid region was
$S9.l4, and average per irrigation system
$2,7lO.
Rye bread in Germany is being super
seded by American corn bread. In Ber-
making bread of corn and wheat flour
and they are selling it for less than rye
bread. Corn Murphy who introduced
our corn into Germany declares that the
preparation of corn flour can be infinitely
more varied than that of wheat and that
Americans have never taken proper
v1ri Ia, 1,<r
Dampen piece OF clean, rather thick
cloth, and place it upon plate or saucer.
Count out one hundred average seeds
from the lot to he tested, and scatter
them on the cloth. Now place another
piece of damp cloth over the seeds, and
cover all with a piece of glass. Keep
the saucer in moderately heated room
for ten days; moisten the cloth OCCASION
ally if dry; then count the sprouted seeds.
At least seventy per cent of them should
sprout vigorously.
The man who is the possessor of a
piece of land has the game in his own
hands. There is no promoter or stock
gambler who can jeopardize his invest
ment. Where it is purchased with judg-
ment, land is always worth the money
paid for it and it is bound to increase in
value. 1t can not be destroyed or carried
away. 1t requires only industry to make
It profitable and productive. 1t consti-
.utes source of independence in any
of the money market and amid
Ill the mutations of speculative enter
,rises.
What blessing it would have been to
his country if the vast acres of the
public lands that have been legislated
way to railroad corporations or parted
With for song to alien land owners,
ould have been reserved for homesteads
or many of the people now crowded into
he large cities. There is nothing so
'reservative of purity, patriotism, and
levation OF thought as is the ownership
+ country homes. There is much in the
cry air, the wide expanse of fields,
he budding and unfolding of nature,
he waving grain, the meadow rich with
razlng grasses, the pasture lands with
razing herds, that fills one with larger
ope, higher aspirations, and desire
Or the better life, than is possible to OBJ
ain in the motley, rushing, restless, sell
sh, brutal tide of great city. The
of the country home, men,
ally and morally, is purer and brings
lore of real cantent and happiness.
he home-makers, country and town,
lake the hest citizens; they are the wealth
roducers and upbuilders and protectors
the nation.