Middletown transcript., 1907-12-28
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

catalogue ana early maze up your mind
/ what your order shall be-
| The following wash il claimed to be
excellent 10 prevent rabbits gnaNing
apple or other orchard trees Take one
iIatf gatfffou carboiiiiC acid, four pounds Of
sulphur. two gallons soft soap and thirty
two pounds of lime. Mix the soap with
enough water to slack the lime. then
while hot mix Ia the sulphur and acid.
lit will also act as sure preventive Of
borers il applied the first Of April.
A veteran farmer says that oats should
be soaked sufficiently TO swell them be-
fure they are fed to stock. When soaked
ihs husk is partly forced aside, thus
helping in the digestion of the grain.
The original Seckei pear tree, il is said,
is still standing on the Neck, mot far from
the League Island Navy Yard, in PhiIa-
delphia. Tie tree is too old to bear fruit.
Tile Ssckel pear was perfected years ago
by Adam Seckel, an old resident Of that
district, whose daughter, May Seekel.
married George Pepper, of the4sell-kuewn
Philadelphia family Of thai name.
Arrange the stable with view to the
comfort of the animals and so as to faeili-
tate the work Of cleaning, milking, ste.
Have the floor smooth and incapable OF
absorbing liquids, and enongh sloping to
cause good drainage.
A food that is good to make milk or
eggs is equally good to make muscle and
growth.
The calf should have new milk ex-
cIusisely the first IA to 80 days. 1t
silenid have the milk in small portions,
and As often as The COWS are MIXED, as
only then We get the iulI benefit of the
milk.
| To dslay milking ct tile proper time
| viii do more to cause COW to go dry
before her period than anything else.
She should also be MIXED TO the last
drop, if possible, for the last portion of
the milk is the richest.
A pint of kerosene mixed with gallon
Of butiermilk, and stirred rapidly until
well mixed, is recommended as 4 good
wash to kill lice on small pigs or shoats.
| Apply once week for month or so:
Farmers who sowed crimson clover this
fall will have an excellent fertilizing ma
terial for pIowing under. No nitrogenous
fertilizers will be required where crimson
clover has grown, but applications Of
phosphates and potash vii be beneficial.
They Gust but small sum, however,
compared with the substances containing
nitrogen.
The farmer must make a study of both
climate and general conditions. The kind
of management that will suit one section
Of the country is not SO apt to suit an
other II the farmer is wise he combines
crop-raising aud soil.iinproying. mother
words, he rotates crops in such way
that one will practically prepare and pro-
| vide food for a succeeding one. Ii is a
fact that ieguminous crop had better
be followed by grain q root crop leaves
the ground in first-ciass condition for
corn or beans, and SO on.
The appearance of weeds is danger
signal that must be taken care Of at once.
This is especially 60 when there is an
inclination for them to predominate in
the meadow or pasture field. The best
remedy is to promptly put in crops that
will require considerable cultivation. In
case the opportunity forgetting the field
in crop has passed, then the weeds
should be cut two or three times during
the growing season, TO prevent their
maturing seed.
Different other plans are followed One
is to plow in the fall, in time to prepare
the ground thoroughly for grain sowing.
another is to plow the weediniested field
at once and SOW with buckwheat. and
when It blooms plow it under and SOW on
the plowed gronnd 25 bushels Of lime. |
Another way to msnage such fields is to
pioW and harrow Them. Whenever it is
noticed that the weeds appear, harrow
thoroughly during the middle Of hot,
sunny day. These harrowings must be |
repeated during hot, dry days as often
as the growth of weeds will warrant.
Millions Of weed seeds will in this way be
destroyed that in another season would |
have been troublesome.
Especially during dry season pasture
lands are often cropped so close that
nothing remains that is apparently grow
ing, excepting the weeds, which the stock
will not eat. If the. warning is not at
once needed the weeds will flourish and
mature seed, and the pasture field will
eventually become unsightly and COM
paratiyeIy worthless.
Il is always profitable to do all farm
work thoroughly. Timely attention pays
in every branch. Delay in attending to
small matters when first needed adds to
the cost when it does receive tue required
aftelliion. Hurried work is not always
the best done, but there are times when
Il seems necessary to do considerable
huslling in order to get the work done in
time. The aim, however, should be TO
do the work as thoroughly as possible,
and with The most haste Consistent with
good work. At no time is poor work
more plainly exemplified than at the
harvest time. An iudifferently plowed
in the spring viii produce an
nLeEioF crop, and lt VIII ue stItf futtiieT :,
decreased in both quality and quantity
{ the cultivation has been Indifferent
the rank weeds will be good evidence Of
,Iothfnl methods.
a case in point is given in an article
written several years ago BY an authority,
IN which il was said "The farmer who
,uIlivates more land than be can properly !.