Middletown transcript., 1906-06-09
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
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/ A man has invented and is having pat
ented six row corn planter. Forty acres
OF corn can be planted in one day with
tile new planter.
The man who says IN afraid should
fair better not tackle the farm; the man
who says, "I'm sure should succeed
need have no niagiyings.
Nowhere in the world are SO many fine
vegetables grownand eaten as in America,
and nowhere are vegetables so sickly and
wanting in the valuable constituents Of
palatabIe and healthful food as in France,
Switzerland and Italy.
The proper training of horse often
resents from one-third to one-half of its
value; hence it is piece of bad manage
ment to take pains with the breeding Of
colt and put it on the market in an unfin-
ished aud crude condition.
A western farmer claims that he isnow
operating cement block machine which
enables him to make tile at cost of two
cents each for the small tile. It's coming
l-the time when the farmer will make
his own tile, tanks. barn floors, fence
posts aud lots of other things and do it
for less than he pays for the perishable
things which he now buys and uses.
/ Here is something that is worth many
dollars to every farmer to know: sprinkle
i lime in your stock tank and not par
tiee OF scum will form on the water.
When the lime loses its strength scum
will begin to form, which may be twice
during the season, wash out your tank
/ and repeat the dose. It is cheap, not
only harmless bnt Wholesome. keeps the
water sweet and saves the live stock.
The largest farm in the world is owned
/ by Don Terrazas OF chihuahua, Mexico.
1t comprises 100000 acres and trains
are half day in crossing his estate. He
owns 100000 horses, 100000 sheep and
brands 800, GOO calves annually. He con-
ducts great slaughter and packing houses
and owns his own refrigerator lines He
employs 10000 laborers and lives in q
palace worthS2. .OO0. 600, being the richest
man in Mexico and the wealthiest farmer
in the world.
The U. S. government has scored its
first great victory as ''trust bustersS 1t
has been entirely successful in its case
against the paper trust and having been
driven into corner by the government
prosecution the trust has confessed itself
to be guilty as charged and therefore
judgment has been entered dissolving
the combine The immediate result |
| is a drop in the price of newspaper Of |
about twenty per cent. Having thus
scored victory the prosecution will |
doubtless be encouraged to proceed vigor-
eusly against other unlawful combinations
in restraint OF trade.
A Richmond township farmer says |
there is a man in the western part OF Iowa
who has made 50, 200 the. past season buy
ing poultry and feeding it on the milk be
bought from nearby creamery. He al
lowed the milk to'sour and fed it in shall
low troughs after it became thick And
to use his own words "you would be sur
prised to see, how they take on flesh with
it" These milk fed chickens are sought
after by both Swift and Armour at good
prices. This man commences work where
the farmer or the farmers wife leaves off
with. He finishes the product-ge it
into marketable condition. Poultry
should be fatted for market with inst as
much care as the hog or the steer. If it
pays this man to do it, it win pay the
men of New Castle county whoraise poul-
try. +
A wlntewashed stable is better in ap-
pearanee and healthfulness than one that
is old and weatherbeaten. Il
Corn is gross feeder, and fresh manure
is acceptable to it. Where the sod has
been top dressed early in the spring, and
the manure turned under with the yigor-
Gus growth Of herbage, no better prepara-
ton can be made for this crop. Then,
light dressing Of some ac-
tive fertilizer, ,guano, blood fish hscrap orany
OF the special corn manures, may begiyen
broadcast or in the hill. When the sod ,
has not been previously fertilized the ma
nure.i coarse, may be spread upon it and
plowed under, or il fine, may be narrowed
in. When the stable manure cannot be
had liberal dressing OF artificial fertil liz
ers should be used for the corn crop.
Nitrate Of soda, being a combination Of
nitric acid and soda, not only acts chemi-
caliy on the soil, but the nitrogen therein
contained enters directly into the compo-
sition of the soda is also appropriated to
a limited extent. Nitrate fsoda contains
about II per cent, OF ammonia In buy
ing this article the farmer also gets pro- I
portion Of soda, fertilizer of itself on Fl
some crops. 1t comes from Chill, and is i
known as Chill ssltpetre. There is Ii
another saltpetre. much higher in price, s
known as nitrate Of potash, s
A teaspoonfnl Of dried blood at each
feed is claimed to be an excellent remedy
Tor any calf that is subject to scours. 1t
should be continued until the scours dis
appear. Iu case of weak calf the al
Iowance may be gradually increased to a Ic
tablespoonful at feed To prevent the ls
dried blood from setting to the bottom of Y
the feed pail, when the calf will not eat +
it should be fed Immediately after being b
thoroughly mixed. or stirred while the e
calf is drinking ,
1t is sometimes more profitable Co use
thousand pounds Of fertilizer per acre than =
a smaller quantity, but where such large a
amounts are used over field OF ten or d
twenty acres the cash outlay is consider Es
able The majority Of farmers who use 7
fertilizers every year apply about 200 a
pounds per acre, but never omit to use it