Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
FARM AND DAIRY NEWS

FARM AND DAIRY NEWS
As 1906 surpassed 1905 in the abun
dance of its agricultural products, thus
breaking all records, 1907 will have tc
hump herself to keep up with the pro
cession
Sheep in the northwest we're CON-
PEELED last month to tunnel through from
seven to nine feet of snow to get to the
grass on their range. If this continues it
will compel the breeding of longer
shouted variety.
When the agricultural department,
pure food commission or some other
governmental department adopt system
whereby the correct age can be stamped
on every egg that is offered for sale.
people will begin to think of it in their
prayers
We are to have free seeds another year
as Congress refuses to cut off the graft.
Strange that farmers can't convince con-
gressmen that they don't want their
petty bribe, but prefer tor buy their own
seeds and know what they are getting.
Many farmers do not realize the i'm
mensc advantages and labor-saving posi-
bilities in the telephone. BY its use, one
may learn from city or village the state of
the market, the probable demand, any
shortage that exists, and be prepared to
take advantage of it promptly, while Mr..
SIowpoke is finding out too late that
there was brisk demand for the very
goods he had to sell. Market reports in
weekly papers are ancient history when
received these days. What we want is
advance information. The telephone
was certainly the most valuable invention
of the last half century, and none have
benefited more by it than farmers. They
can now sell their stuff in whole or in
part before leaving home and do not, as
formerly, have to take the risk of driving
to town with load only to find the
market glutted. There is no excuse now
for making such mistakes as this and it is
safe to say that no farmer who understands
bis business is ever caught in such trap.
To give some idea of how weeds multi
ply it may be stated that single plant
OF pepper grass will produce 5000 seeds;
dandelion, 1900; Shepherds purse,
$1,000; wheat thief, 1000; common this
ties, IS, 600; chamomile, $1,000; ragweed,
5000; pursaine, 375 600; plaintain, Al, 900
and burduck, 43, 600.
The farm still overshadows the mill,
the factory, aud the workshop i'll proVid-
ing exports. For the fiscal year ended
June Both, 1905, tile surplus exported
amounted in value to 1915, 100000, the
largest ever reached by agricultural ex-
ports for this or any other country, and
exceeding the export values OF 1901, pre-
viously the record year. During the last
seventeen years the exports Of farmers
have exceeded the agricultural imports
by $4,000, 100000, while all other pro-
ducers find themselves at the end OF the
same period with total on the debtor
side OF $459,OO0,000. Thus, it will be
seen that the farmer saves the "balance
OF trade" for this country and is the
prime factor Of all the prosperity.
French dairymen have discovered that
the use of wine dregs as food for cows
improves the quality Of the milk and in
creases the output at least 20 per cent.
A remarkable feature OF last years crop
yields was the showing for the sugar beet.
The production was about 100000 long
tons, valued at $40, ,OOO, 900. an increase of
about $33, ,0O0, 900 in seven years.
The "hayseed" and "Rube'' stories>of
the yellow press, put forth to show what
suckers farmers are, fiud contradiction in
the following amusing incident, which
shows that at least one tiller of the soil
was fully equal to the occasion: An old
PENNSYLVANIA farmer, while on visit to
Philadelphia, was taken with q violent
toothache, and, calling on dentist, was
informed that the tooth must be extracted |
and that he had better take gas for the
operation. The patient agreed to this |
and then started to count his money. The |
dentist remarked, ''Oh, sou need not pay |
ME until / have finished. Il reckon |
not" replied the farmer, "but if you are |
going to make me unconscious | thought |
I'd lest like to see how | stand"
Californians feed their cows OH barley. |
Is this an effort to brew matted beverage? |
Milkmen should not wear whiskers. |
They breed germs and sometimes some
thing worse.
Bitter milk is one Of the most annoying |
it's with which dairyman can be affllct-
ed. Bittrness sometimes develops in the |
best kept dairies, while the most slovenly |
will be immune. Its cause is all organism |
resembling the ordinary yeast; in fact, il |
is yeast. Il is originally found on the |
leaves OF trees, just as the yeast organisms
is found on hops, but il easily transmitted |
to MIX COWS, or Tue staDle uuet. neA
once these yeast organisms gain admit
lance to milk, they find conditions favor
able for their development aud proceed |
to reproduce themselves, hence the bitter
taste in milk, cream and butter. To re-
move the source of Infection is no small
task, for in all the creSices Of every can
in which milk has been kept there will
be found sufficient Of the yeast to carry
all infection. It i, therefore, necessary
to thoroughly scaid and scrape the seams
Of every vessel in which milk has been
kept, then carefully whitewash tile milk
house, cellar or pantry, and should pre-
vent further Development i'll the house.
At the same time sweep down the walls
ond nnilinO If fire stabiHs aud give ALI IhH