Middletown transcript., 1906-04-07
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
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The no account farmer is often the
farmer who keeps no account.
Poultry culture will never do for drones.
1t requires live, wide-awake men.
Farming implements have not been
improved in China for over 2, 600 years.
A cat is said to have nine lives, but a
COW cen kick the bucket oftener than
that.
Ii the fresh eggs are going into cold
storage to replace the old eggs that have
been taken out, it is a mean trick on the
hens
DO you want your cows TO come up
and lick your hand in the pasture or yard?
just one way you may teach them to do
it-be kind, true and honest with them.
The recent sale of Shorthorn bull for
$4,000 to parties in Argentina, goes to
show that the cattle raisers of that country
are not blind to the value OF having good
blood in their herds.
Don't get too busy to make your wife a
flower bed, or half-dozen, if she wants
them. Remember. she has to live with
you 365 days in the year, and she needs
something to brighten her up.
Watch the horse that you think OF buy
ing, while he is walking. If he walks
steadily, and takes his PAGES long, and
evenly, other things being equal. he is. a
good horse for farm work.
Every sensible farmer will post his land
against the intrusion of gunners for there
is not living thing which these pot
hunters will kill on your farm which will
not be distinct loss to you.
One might as well neglect to plant half
the area of his cornfeld as to use seed that
will produce but SO per cent. stand.
Yet in spite of this fact the number who
will use such seed is beyond belief.
The outlook for the farmers who plant
timber trees was never better. Millions
of poles, ties, ETC., need replacing an
nually, and the supply is decreasing.
Plant yellow locust and catalpa speciosa;
also plant black walnut and hickory.
Up until about 1850, nearlyall the small
fruits that were marketed grew in wild
state, and only gradually were they do
mesticated. The latest statistics now es-
innate the value of the small fruit indus
try, exclusive of the grape, at SIS, ,O3O, ,S77.
Observation leads to the belief that the
fellow who plants poor seed corn is the
| same chap that signs his note for a
stranger and buys ounces and apricots of
fruit tree peddlers for planting north. of
latitude AZ degrees. This kind seldom
read, and, if they do, fail to comprehend.
While most farmers are quick to ap-
preciate the value of good blood in all
their breeding animals many are strangely
reluctant to apply the same rule to the
seed sown and planted in their fields. It
matters not whether it be corn or any of
the small grains, the fact remains that the
poor and inferior seed if sown or planted
is certain to be the prime begetter of
poor and inferior crop. No work done on
the farm is SO well paid as is that devoted
to careful selection and thorough prepara-
tion of seed to be sown,
The man who owns a good farm, free
from mortgage, and who invests most
or better living-is the center of finan-
cial world of his own. He's the king pinl
And many big city financier envies him
his security of possession and his free
dom from uncertainty.
There>shouid be two days sacredly set
apart on every farm for special work.
One day should be devoted to tree plant
ing, the planting of trees in waste hooks
and corners all over the farm, evergreens
on the knolls too barren or too rongh for
civilizations, willows along the runs and
draws, shade trees at intervals along the
highway, and then another day should
be devoted to general clearing, picking
up day around the homestead. These
two days properly used would do more
to improve the looks of the farm than
any other one thing we know.
There is so much all around us that is
worth rejoicing over. Take it on the
farm just at this season of the year, when
Nature is beginning to think what she
can do to make this old world beautiful
once more. Suppose we just sit down,
the first thing We do, and wipe away all
the cob-webs out of our hearts. Eat
mess of green, too. Take horseradish, if
you can't get anything else. Boil it up
good and eat it hot with bit OF vinegar
on it. 1t will stir up the liver first-rate,
and make the world look better.