Middletown transcript., 1908-04-25
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

When the COW is suffering from con-
gested udder, it is good idea to dry her
off at once and feed one-half ounce of
nitrate of potash night and morning in
the soft feed. Give plenty of clean water,
feed pure and wholesome food, and mas
sage the udder once day with little
iodine ointment.
If the COW gives bloody milk, as re-
suit of an injury to the udder, the best
treatment is to let nature effect cure.
Dry the COW off, and let the udder rest
until the COW is fresh again. 1t is useless
to try to treat serious injury Of the inter-
ior of the udder when this organ has to
be manipulated twice each day in milk
ing.
Ontario, Canada, has made a new de-
parture in farm institute work. The
women of the territory have organized
what is called Woman's Institute. Once
each year the women meet aud discnss
methods of caring for milk and cream for
making butter. Much of the work of
caring for the milk and cream and nearly
all of the> work connected with butter
making falls On the housewife, and these
institute meetings cannot help but bear
much fruit.
A recommended remedy for mango on
calves and COWS is to apply part -four
sulphur and four parts vaseline to bald
patches once day.
1t has been found that poultry with
deep angular breast bones have to be fed
longer to make them look well, and will,
therefore, eat great deal more feed than
the one with the plump breast bone.
The bull should be fed good, nourish-
ing food, but not of fattet,ing nature.
There should be some sort vi lougnage
along with the corn, oats or bran he gets.
He should be thrifty, but not fat active,
but not sluggish.
1t must not be forgotten that the man-
.ure from the herd is an important item
in counting the profits. 1t has money
value that can be realized by using it on
the land, and it is worth the most the day
it is produced. If allowed to become ex-
posed to wind and weather, it will soon
lose in value,
The hoofs of sheep should be pared at
least twice year. Nature provided this
animal with rapid.growing hoof to stand
the wear and tear of stony ground, but
soft pastures will not wear down the
hoofs fast enough and the broken horn
often results in disease.
A horse will never run into any other
burning building besides his own, or even
pass bonfire if he can help it, but when
once be scents danger he tries to get to
his stall-his home-and when once he
reaches there can only be driven away by
fright or shock superior to his dread of
fire.
For humble foot in poultry paint the
corn literally with tincture of iodine
daily for a week. If this is done in the
early stages the corn eau be spread.
Ashes made from hard wood are more
valuable than those from soft wood. 1t
is claimed that some ashes from soft wood
have not enough value to make it worth
while to bother with them. 1t has also
been discovered that the value is largely
governed by the part of the tree from
which the ashes are made. 1t is declared
by chemists that the ashes of young twigs
are of more value than the ash of the
trunk OF the tree, while the ash OF the
leaves is still more valuable.
Dry bydrate of lime formed by slaking
fresh lime with just water enough to
crumble it into a fine powder is used as
an insecticide. 1t is still very caustic and
fatal to the larvae of asparagus beetles,
slugs of current, pear, plum, ETC., and
other larvae having moist surface. Ap-
plications are best made in the morning,
while the plants and insects are yet
little damp.
II given before the hogs get past the
eating and drinking stage, the following
is claimed to be an infalible cure for hog
cholera To barrel of good slop add one
pint of Venetian red and one pint of kero-
sene oil. Mix well.
The garden should contain most or all
OF the common medicinal and havoring
herbs. Most of these can be grown with
very little trouble, and the herb plat
should include such useful plants as sage,
hoarhound, caraway, saffron, pennyroyal,
tansy, and others that will suggest them
selves.
Rhubarb requires deep and very fer
tile soil. The great secret of success in
raising it is high manuring. 1t is gross
feeder, and requires liberal application
of manure every year. A grower whose
small patch produces rhubarb of enor-
nous size explains his success from his
practice of throwing soapsuds over the
ground on washing days. He has sold
$50 worth from patch of two and one
half rods in single season.
The cutworm is the larvae of a moth
the worm is of a brown color, fat and
sluggish, about an inch long, and feeds
only during the night.