Middletown transcript., 1908-07-04
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

A recommended remedy for enlarge
ments on the legs OF horses is a mixture
of potassium Iodine, one ounce; Iodine,
three drams; water; eight ounces. Mix
we'll and apply over the affected parts
The application should be made at the
| first appearance of the trouble.
A successful farmer says that he finds
that the most certain way to succeed with
the clover crops is to break new ground
shallow in midsummer without burning
over, cultivate with disk harrow, sow
the seed two inches deep the following
spring without nurse crop, cover with
heavy roller, and then run over with a
light spike-tooth harrow to leave the top
soil loose and rough.
Thistles are spread from the seed, and
if the plant is not allowed to go to seed
there will be no danger of this pest spread
ing over the pasture. The best time to
cut the weed is just before it comes into
bloom and before there is any possibility
| of the seed maturing.
That coils need humus is shown by the
recent test at the West Virginia Station.
The ash OF stable manure even when
applied with sodium nitrate did not
show as large returns as when stable ma
nure alone was applied. In number of
cases it is decaying humus and not latent
plant food elements that the farmers soil
needs. See that the soil is rich in organic
matter first, then if it fails to produce, ap-
ply the plant food elements in the pre-
pared forms.
Alfalfa or clover pasture is the best for
the hog. a good substitute for either sof
these is rape, field peas or cow peas sown
in pasture.
For rheumatism in young horses, it is
said that three drains of salicylate of soda
three times each day for three days, then
omit for six days and repeat, is an effec-
tive remedy.
Cornstalk No. in hill is a crowd; NO.
is weed.
Impure and bad smelling cistern water
is often caused by the growth within it of
microscopic plants called aigea. Sulphate
of copper will quickly kill these germs,
and other germs. The common name is
blue vitriol. Try it in stock tanks, also,
which have green scum in them. A piece
the size of grain of wheat will be
enough for barrel of water.
Use no wooden milk vessels, and after
washing milk vessels set them out to dry
scalding hot. Never rinse out with cold
water after the final scalding. Leave
them hot, so they will dry quickly and
not get musty.
Bran is good hog feed from a chemical
standpoint, but mechanically it is too
coarse. Shorts are better.
The possibilities of a small farm under
intensive cultivation, ARE strikingy shown
in the following record of production
| IL dCL6Et LOSdbCA hCQA ASCo0AuEg "a
36l5 punches of radishes, 80 bushels OF
white China radishes, IT'S bushels of
onions, 1900 boxes of Strawberries, 675
punches and 20 bushels of beets, 500
quarts of lima beans, IL bushels of soup
beans, rs bushels of peas, 125 bushels OF
potatoes, 440 baskets of tomatoes, 1000
heads of lettuce, 5000 heads of cabbage,
600 dozen ears of corn, 125 baskets of egg
plant, 1O0, 900 pickles, 40 bushels of tur'
nips, IL bushels of carrots, 35 bushels OF
parsnips, 1000 roots of horseradish, 1000
stalks of endive, 20, 900 stalks OF celery, 25
bushels of artichokes and eight bushels
of popcorn.
Healthy animals require no medicine;
conditions in them may be established
and maintained by intelligently applied
alterations in the quantity of their food
and labor.
While liberal fertilization will increase
the yield. thorough cultivation is also
necessary to keep up and improve the
quality.
Frequent crop ot.sion is the only prac-
tical remedy for .he well-known straw
berry crown gborer. The infested field
should be burned over in the fall and the
next year planted to some other crop,
i upon which the pest cannot thrive.
4 hou fot1nH y
pounds Of timothy, five pounds of white
clover, three pounds of Kentucky blue
grass and one pound of red-top seed per
acre to be an excellent mixture for pas
lures. If the ground is inclined to be
wet, the red-top will take the place OF
the timothy.
Feed the COW all the hay or other rough
ness she will eat, even if she is running
on good pasture. Her appetite tells her
better what she needs than you can tell.
It's said that bees usually supersede
their queens before they are too old for
serviee;a when an apiary is once stock
ed with good grade Of queens the bees
can, as rule, be depended upon to
supersede their queens at the proper
time.
Under the present methods OF farming,
the soil is becoming exhausted. Twenty
years it was supposed that the soil of Illi'
nois was as nearly inexhaustible as it is
possible for soils to be. Last year the
farmers of that State paid over 81 900, ,00C
for commercial fertilizers. A perfect
system of rotation, and seeing to it that
the soil was amply rich in humus al
all times, would have prevented much ol
this expenditure. If you have rich
soil, do not congratulate yourself that il
cannot be worn out, but begin now tc
rotate systematically and keep the humut
content by growing legumes and applying
green or barnyard manure.
There is more danger of oyerfeedinl
colts than undertaking. Either one
however, is disastrous. Overlooking in
jures the the digestive organs and leaves