Middletown transcript., 1908-02-15

1t is seldom that farmer can accnmu-
late sufficient amount OF wood ashes for
a large field, but on farms where wood is
used there is a limited supply, which can
be put to good use on the garden or on
the Young clover. Ashes are excellent
also on all grass lands and in orchards.
they are applied broadcast, in any guam
tity desired, as many as 100 bushels per
acre having been used on certain soils.
Cow manure, although the least con-
centrated and most watery OF all farm
manures, is the backbone of farm fertility
on account Of its quality. When mixed
with horse manure, it makes what iseam-
monty called barnyard manure, which il
well adapted for most crops. When kept
by itself without plenty Of litter there is.
danger that the liquid part Of the COW
manure will leach away. A common
practice is TO throw the two kinds of
manure together in the gutter behind ths
COWS, thus absorbing the liquid at once,
Where many COWS and but few horses are
kept, leaves ard other refuse must be
used quite freely under the cows TO SECURE
manure easily managed, abundant and OF
good quality. The liquid part is half the
farm fertility.
Hhe cows BODY il warmed BY the food
it consumes, and sfthrougll exposure 10
cold or rain the temperature 81 the body.
/ is reduced. more food is feanired to keen
up the iuaids warmth. and il the dstasna
for food fuel is kept up, little or none is
left for milk production.
Beeswax is voluntarily formed inside
the body Of the working bee from fluid
/ honiy and pollen. The way leaves the
secreting glands in liquid state, and
solidHes 10 small, transparent scales. The
pollen used by the bee gives the wax it's
distinctive color.
| The ARIZONA Station has recorded the
| results Of cold rain on the flow OF milk
of the station herd. The COWS were ex-
{. posed for three days to cold rain. Dur
ing this time the herd decreased 81 per
cent in milk yield and continued until if
reached 30 per cent, and II was month
4 until the COWS gave as much milk as be-
fore the storm. This is what might be
called a cash illustration OF the value of
sheItering COWS from cold raIna.
i When a young calf is taken from its
dam there Is more or less difficulty in
raising 1t. Some mistakes are usually
made, the result being scours. The nat
ural food Of the calf is fresh, warm milk,
and the milk given it after it is parted
from the COW should also be fresh and
warm. Ifskim milk is used there will be
Jack Of cream, WHICH Is important so
/ far as the welfare Of the calf is concerned.
One who has been successful adds a raw
egg, we'll shaken, with the milk, at each
meal. Flaxseed meal, cooked until q
jelly is formed, may be used with the
milk, a gill at each meal being sufficient
at first. Do not overfeed, but give little
milk at time and often, at a temperature
of So degrees.
| Wyoming experiments in preserving
FENCE posts show that when the posts
were dipped in crude petroleum and
/ burned off SO that the char comes above
the ground when posts are set, they will
keep Indefinitely.
Some onion growers claim that carbolic
acid emulsion often gives satisfactory re-
suits in combating the onion maggot.
Dissolve one pound hard soap or one
quart soft soap in gallon OF boiling
water; add one pint of crude carbolic
acid, and emnlsify by agitation. One
part emulsion is used 70 so parts Of water
applied at the root.
There are pear trees now in the vicinity
of Philadelphia supposed to have been
growing at the time of the Revolution,
and which are in good health and mum.
erous ones which, evidently, have passed
rs years.
Clorers differ greatly as to their ability |
TO live with water at their roots, Thus
the red varieties mnst be grown on land
whers water does not stand. A large
proportion of the failures III getting
catches OF clover are doubtless due to the
sowingof the seed on poorly y-drained land. /
Where the red clover is wanted, and
the land is wet, the only thing to do is to
drain it, so that the land will dry out
well in the spring and get warm quickly,
and SO that it will remain warm until late
in the fall. Gold land is not suitable to
the growing of medium and red clover.
Every bead OF clover consists Of about
60 flower tubes, each Of which contains
an ininitesimal quantity Of sugar. Bees
will often visit hundred different heads
Of clover before retiring to the hive, and
in order to obtain the sugar necessary for
q load must. therefore. thrust their tom
CUES into about 5000 different flowers. A
bee will make twenty trips day when
the clover patch is Convenient to the
hive, and thus draw sugar from 10000.
different flowers in single days work.
The subject Of winter-injnred fruit trees
was taken up last year in bulletin issued
BY the United States Department Of Agri-
culture, pointing out instances where it
was exceedingly difficult 70 tell early in
tie spring if fruit trees have been injured
by frost or not. In some cases the young
trees were cut off below the snow line,
and the old trees we're cut back to the
large limbs. Other trees received only
moderate pruning, while some got no
pruning at all.
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