Middletown transcript., 1906-06-16
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Short Puagaut Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

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Hay aid cotton are called kings, bnt
tie potato has come to be a potentate of
NJ small influence.
Great Britain, it is said, eats in thirteen
weeks all the 73, ,oO0, ,O00 bushels of wheat
which it grows.
The real wealth OF this country is in its
soil. When agriculture is neglected the
nation must go to the wall.
Kerosene will exterminAte bedbugs.
Use it pfentifully. 1t will not injnre the
furniture, but rather clean and improve
it.
Some people use one-qualter of their
strength in doing a job, and three-quarters
in Dragging about it.after It's done.
Get the children a camera. Many of
t le scenes Of childhood can be better re-
membered by pictures than from memory
a'one. The pictures will be much priced
i'll later years.
The COW, the hog ard the hen will sup
port the family, raise mortgages, and
bring in money every week in the year.
The world can not beat that combination
tor steady production.
What does clean farming mean? 1t
means everything where it belongs the
best crops We can grow, houses fit for
folks and their friends to live in, and
good clean folks living in those houses.
The hog is All important factor in the
central states. 1t is figured that ten of
, these states produce about two thirds of
all the swine in the United States. Corn,
ipugs and prosperity seem to make good
team.
There is nothing SO efficacious as white
wash upon firm buildings and lane
fences and tile pure white seems to make
the most agreeable coi,ta-t with the green
OF grass and fuIisge. There are many re-
cipes for making the kind that "won't
come off
There are so many different kinds If
prepared food stnffs on the shelves of
tie modern grocery, that it almost seems
as il city folks must live out of pasteboard-
boves. How thankful the farmer should
he that he, day by day, gets his living
fresh from the earth that bore it. No
better place to live, in all the world, than
Oil the farm.
The farmers work at this time of the
year is hard. 1t ~rings the sweat from
the brow. Night finls our bodies weary
and longing for rest but how soundly we
s'eep! And the new garden stuff, fresh
and crisp, gives US an appetite. TO be
able to work, eat, sleep, look up and enjoy
this glorious June weather, are all things
for which to be thankful.
An np-to-date twentieth century farmer
reads his local paper. He wants to know
what his neighhors are doing, What is
happening in the world around him and
he wants in many cases to study the ad
vertisements and finI where he can buy
goods the cheapest lie don't say much
about it perhaps when he gnes to the
store to do his trading, but just let a mer
chant advertise special bargain and see
if the up-.o-date farmer don't find it ont
and take advanta &c of it.
The butter made annually in the United
States somewhat excee Is /, 800, 900 pounds
and requires the milk from abont 10000
600 cows. These COWS are kept on some
thing like 4,OOO.C0J. farms ard furnish oc-
cupalion, wholly or in part, for about t.
600, 900, or nearly 10 per cent. of the pop
ulation. The total value of the output of
butter is nearly $500, OO0,O 900, which is a
lit!le more than 5 PER cent. of all the ag
ricultural products of the United States.
Considered as crop, it is exceeded in
valuation only by corn. wheat, hay, for
age aud cotton