Middletown transcript., 1908-10-10
Farm NEWS AND VIEWS

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with gallon Of kerosene. makes an ex-
celient spray for poultry houses, and it il
the cheapest.
Tobacco dust placed about the trunks
and roots of trees every few years will
prove complete protection from the at
tacks ofthe woolly aphis. This is a cheap
remedy, and it is good fertilizer, as
we'll as insecticide.
Il is generally conceded that the best
times to sell chickens is from the first of
January to the first OF November. Every
one seems 10 want to sell during Novem-
Der and December, and consequently. the
market is always overstocked at that
time.
Wood ash seems to be curious remedy
for diseases in animals, yet its virtues in
that capacity are much appreciated in
some sections of the world. The London
Standard says that well-known English
farmer has raised pigs on very extensive
scale for nearly 20 years, without ever
receiving visitation of cholera or swine
fever, and with loss of only per cent.
OF his animals from the plague. He at
tributes bis good fortune to the fact that
he keeps wood ashes and charcoal, mixed
with salt, constantly before his pigs. The
mixture is kept in large covered boxes,
with holes bored near the bottom, iron
which the animals work the stuff out as
fast as they want it. They never, it ap-
pears, eat more of it thaa is good for
them.
A reliable recipe for putting up hams is
as follows: Rub the hams with dry salt
and drain. for "a hours. Mix four quarts
Eof salt, three pounds of brown sugar, one
pound Of saltpetre, four ounces Of salt
prunella and four ounces of bruised juni-
per berries together, and boil in six quarts
of water. Cool and skim the brine, then
take the hams from the salt and wipe dry.
Pour the cold pickle over them and rub
| we'll into the meat. There should be
enough brine to cover the meat. Turn
the hams every second day for three
weeks, after which take out, wipe dry
and rub mixture of pepper, salt and
brine thoroughly into the meat. Paint
with liquid extract OF fsmoke or place in a
regular smoke house. Hams shriak about
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l0per cent. in weight in smoking, while
picked or saited pork gains about 10 per
| cent.
Sod culture is recommended by some
| successful peach growers. The soil is
worked during the time the trees are grow
ing, and clover crop is sowed for fall
and winter, which is plowed under early
in the spring. Clover crops should not
be left until they suck up too much mois-
ture from the soil at a time when it is
needed by the trees.
It takes longer and costs more to make
up pound OF loss than it does to add five
pounds of gain under favorable condi-
tions.
In feeding lattening hogs, the food
should always be given in clean whole
some condition and never allowed to be-
come sour.
The walk is the foun dation of all the
other gaits, and without beginning at the
foundation all future developments will
be unsatisfactory.
As soon as the tops of the onions are
dead they should be pulled, thrown in
rows, allowed to cure few days and then
be stored away.
Good hickory ashes are said TO be ex-
cellent for expelling worms from the
bowels Of young horses. Give couple
of tabIespoonfuls twice a week in their
feed.
The great secret in making underdrain.
ing permanent Improvement ID in sc.
curing uniform form in laying the tile,
and maintaining good outlet. As a
rule, the safest plan is to look the ground
over carefully and then plan out the
bitches to the best advantage.
Professor F. D. Fuller, OF the PennsyI-
vania Station, declares that as long as the
farmer can raise plenty Of corn. hay and
oats and he cannot afford to purchase any
material containing less than IA per cent.
OF protein.
Extensive experiments in Switzerland
show that cows produce more milk and
butter if they are turned out of doors a
portion Of each day, than those that are
confined in the stalls all OF the time.
There is large shortage ofeggs in cold
storage throughout the country, and indi-
cations are that prices win rule firm and
higher throughout the year.
September aud October is the fall far.
rowing season.
Castrate the pigs when they are three
or four weeks old; then they are unusually
active and the wound heals quickly, and
is well before they are weaned, causing
no setback IN the pigs development.
A Virginia farmer makes considerable
money each year by selling to Northern
people hams and bacon cured in the old
fashioned way, with molasses and black
pepper, and smoked over fire from hick-
ory chips. He sells between 800 and 400
pigs each year, at an average price Of 80
cents per pound for the cured meats.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana and
Michigan lead IN the order named in the
production OF Portland cement
Farmers and others who knowingly
pack bad eggs with good ones aie going to
be prosecuted by the Nebraska and Mich
igan Pure Food Commissions. Dealers
claim that their losses amounted to sew
eral million dollars last year.
The best dairy barns are long, with low