Middletown transcript., 1906-07-07
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
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4 Are the insurance policies good and
tight? Look Them over.
Hasten the moalting period and you
will hasten winter egg production.
I Let ms see that all the animals have
drink when they want it, this sultry
weather.
Dom; get overloaded and then drink a
a lot of cold water. Sip little and wait
till cooled off.
Clover hav and alfalfa make fine green
food for the hens in winter and it will
pay to save some for that purpose.
Don't be too anxions to get the best Of
ynur neigthor every time on bargain.
/ Let hin have the best end once in while.
Which are vou-a awill," !" or won't,
ora escan't2 r. The man who tries always
gets ahead Of the fellow who can but
doesn't
In FEEDING Young chickens the fowls
will want green foad next fall and winter
and plant few mangels, carrots, onions
and cabbage for that purpose.
What does It cost to produce each crop
grown on your farm? Ever figure II ont ?
It's worth while The result may be a
surprise and hint for next year.
A 9-year-old colt was sold few days
ago for $4,000. It should be remem
bered, however, that Edison has on sew
eral occasions put the horse out of busi-
ness. Just the same.
It costs abont twenty-five cents per
bushel to ship wheat from Q mia 10 Iix-
erpooI, England, and about fifteen cents
of thatsis fer railroad freight and elyator
charges in the United States.
A recent test made by the Pennsylvania
Experiment Station, Bulletin No.
76, shows that Harvest King red,
smooth chaif whsat, gave the largest yield
of grain of any variety tested.
F6ur thousand different varieties OF po-
tatoes have been planted on the farm of
Luther Burbank, the Santa Rosa, CAL,
horticuIturist, constituting part of the H.
600 species of the tnber family which
Burbank will experiment with this year
in his plans to give the world another
new potato.
The most valuable thing the farmer or
his wife has is health. Bank stock counts
for nothing by the side of it. Everything
they can do to preserve their bodily yigor
is go much added to the sum the total of
life. Sound health means happiness, COM
fort in the house and out-of-doors, and
years full OF enjoyment:
The Department Of Agriculture states
that in France price of $1,000 was Of
fered for the best method of killing |
honse-Hies.. 1t was won by suggestion
to use oil stirred in water in vaults and |
cesspoois. For-mannre the oil is mixed |
with sand or phosphate scattered over
the piles. This prevents egg-layihg or
Matching, as most of this is done in
manure piless
There's splendid prospect ahead for
the man who has timber lot. During |
1906 New England alone used 600, ,493, 600
feet OF lumber in box making /; the steam |
railroads of the United States used 84,-
100000 ties, and vast quantities Of timber
were required for numerous other indus
tries. to say nothing of the 5000, 900 cords
of wood consumed by the paper pulp
mills last year.
II sometimes takes good deal of re-
modelling to make a successful farmer out
of city man, for good living is not
made so easily on the farm as some Of
our city cousins imagine. The farmer
must contend with problems Of soil and
seasons never just alike. Itcosts money
to study, and it also requires much labor
with the hands to grow profitable crop
Of fine herd of cattle The success
ful farmer learns in the school Of. expert
ence, zlnosttg, how to deal with living,
things. And while he is educat-
ing himself lie pays dearly at time for
mistakes. before he becomes qualified for
farm life.
Look at these figures The average an
nnal appropriation made by Congress for
the AgriculturalD Department for five years,
was only S., ,424, ,l80, while there was ap-
propriated for Notifications, 81, ,250, 1872 (;
for Indians 81, ,250, 1882 796, ,262 for riy-
ers and harbors, SIS. 200, ,36 for the navy,
sS3 ,7I9.6l5; army 800, ,957 ,684 and for
Sal, ,l3l ,848. On the other
hand the various farm products of the
United States last year aggregatedthe stu
pendons sum Of Sc, Ala, ,000, 600, and each
year brings an increase of more than $780,
Ooo, 600 LiteraIlySse feed and clothe the
world, furnishing as We do, lnore than
thirty per cent. of the meat, and fully
eight per cent. Of the cotton Of the world.
INCREASE IN BIRDS AND RABBITS