Middletown transcript., 1906-11-17
THE FARM. GARDEN AND DAIRY
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Kansas farmers are complaining that
! their ears Of con, this scar are too long
for the shelter. There i always some
Thing the matter Will, Kansas
| The Government Agricultural Depart-
ment has just issued valuable book
about tlle art 81 irrigation II can Be se-
cured free by application to The secre-
tary Of Agriculture, Washington. D G.
Concentrated lye and nlolasses make
good paste to daub around the ras holes.
II makes rats SO tpnderfooted that they
leave. Keep itw where cats or ally usefnI
thing cannot get to it.
/ Il you do not own good saddle horse.
get one. Tie landscape looks fairer and
the outlook in life much more cheerful
from the back Of horse after half
hours ride, than iron, an other point OF
| view.
Two hundred dollars for ten ears Of
corn may seem an extraragant price 10
pay, but such an amount will be given to
some pupil from the schools of Minne-
sofa for the best ten ears produced in tile
State.
The COW that you think the most OF
may be the very one you ought to get rid
Of Fiud out about that. Test all your
COWS. Don't be satisfied with once; keep
at it till you know. Then do something
about it.
There are thousands of acres of billy
and rough land unfit for farming vege-
table crops in the Uuited States at present
that could be put into practical use by
fencing them fol mich goats, as is already
done for Angora goats.
/ A pound of wheat furnishes more real
nutriment than a pound OF any other
grain. Corn contains about eight per
Cent. Of digestible protein; barley s 90 per
cent; oats ga per cent; rye, 9.12 per
cent, but wheat contains To- q per cent.
Get rid Of the grafters! Almost every
flock or herd has one or more One
horse in the stable is poor worker, so
we use the others oftener rather than
bother with him. One COW in the herd
is boarder, giving thin or little milk;
we hardly know why we keep her, but
: she still boards with US.
The old-tiIne practise OF raising oxen
and getting pair ready for market each
year, was thrifty one. Also that other
method: Buying a lean young team not
broken and making it do all the work
while becoming sleet, fat and civilized.
) At maturity it was sold at fancy figure
for road-niaker's team or for beef.
Experts in the broom corn district Of
central Illinois estimate that the harvest
this year in the United States will furn-
ish sufficient material for making a., 000,-
900 brooms, valued at sl5, 100000 IL
placed in cars for shipment, allowing A.,
600 to car, it would require 10000 cars
to hold them. This means 200 freight
trains Of fifty cars each or about 100 miles
of brooms.
The most crying need of the country
+ Just now is men. The newspapers report
that %, 900 more men are needed in the
cornfelds of illinois, to finish taking care
. of the corn. What is true of Illinois, is
equally true of Iowa and Nebraska and
the probabilities appear that the women
of those states will have to come TO the
rescue and go ont in the fields to shuck
the corn.
II 1t is surprising fact that Cuba, with
, all of its fertility and its tropical climate,
] does not raise enough poultry for its own
j demands. The Cubans annually import
from 0,O00 to 10000 cases OF eggs from
the United States, besides large quantities
of live and dressed poultry. Poultry
raising is not profitable on the island be-
Icause Of the prevalence Of certain poul-
try disease which the natives term small
, Ipox.
Here are some nuts for farmers to
crack: Almost every sort of nut can be
grown in some part of the United States
yet last year We imported nuts to the
value Of S., 1873, ,435, more thana third of
the sum being for walnuts; while the al
mond importations reached 81, zoe, Goo
In the same period we exported, all told,
nuts to the value of SALE, 1896, mostly pea
nuts. The United States should not only
grow all the nuts needed for home con-
sumption but should also be able to ex-
port largely.
Farmers should not expect too much,
at first, Of the denatured alcohol law
J which goes into effect on the first of Jan,
uary. Converting potatoes into power"
may materialize in time, but meanwhile
turn as much farm power into potatoes
and other crops, as possible. However,
as there are more than 70, 600 alcohol dis
tilleries in Germany alone, and as at
least go, 900 of these are farm distilleries,
it gives one the impression that free al
cohol may have some rather immense
possibilities for the farmers Of the United
States.
THE TRASscRlpT, sloo per year