Middletown transcript., 1909-07-03
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

pounu OF oleomaFgarlne or poor butts
= conId ever have been sold as the gepuin,
9 clean product ofthe ccw.
There is one thing the farmer lanno
afford to overlook in sheep raisinA, an,
that is thrift. Thrift means health Vsil
in qualits d lantity and productiI Ieness
the elemea's out Of which the profdt Is an,
: derived. Il must be the first object o
the owner to keep bis sheep in tlIriyin,
condition. The quality of the wJoI, d
well as the quantity, and the generk pro
ductiveness of the flock make tlks re-
quirement imperative.
An odor will be observed in thd milk
if silage is fed to cows short time before
milking, but il given shortly after milking
the siIage smell cannot be detected.
| There are several points in feeding sheep
that must not be overlooked. The feed
lot must be dry. with plenty of clean, dry
bedding; the animals must have plenty
of clean, pure water, and the feed troughs
should be kept clean. These should be
arranged so that the sheep cannot foul
them with their feet. Another point is
to keep them from becoming excited or
frightened. To this end it is better that
one person feed them all the time.
II is said that Greater New York con.
sunes Z, 764, $50 gallons of milk. 36l 900
gallons Of cream, and SS, 100 gallons 81
condensed milk in one month. The daiIy
average is 242, 400 gallons of milk, I0,34O
gallons of cream, and 1880 gallons Of con-
densed milk.
1t will mean loss to the farmer to
have the COW afraid of him. 1t is loss
every time she is frightened. To run a
COW to pasture is like throwing money
away. A COW in any way worried will
not do her best The COW that is made
q pet OF will make money for its owner.
The milk Of q frightened or abused COW
is poisonous.
II orchard grass is not sown thfckfy il
will not be success. Three bushels TO
the acre should be used. Orchard grass
is more vigorous than timothy, with q
stronger root system; but if permanent
meadow isexpected it must be top.dressed
freely.
Potatoes grown for seed under a straw
mulch produced the following weld over
forty per cent. more yield than did seed
grown in the usual way.
Wilted and sprouted seed from ordi.
nary cellar storage gave poor results. The
average yield from sound seed was over
fifty per cent greater than from sprouted
seed, in three separate tests.
Hogs that have recovered from an az
tack of cholera are immune to the dis.
ease. There are hogs that pass through
an epidemic of the sickness and are not
affected by the contagion. Such animals
are natural immunes. Immune hogs are
inoculated with the blood of animals sick
with cholera and become hyperimmune.
and such treated hogs furnish the serum
with which other hogs are rendered i'm.
mune by vaccination.
It takes lot of good feedto fill out
the lines of shoat that has long been
on such short feed and get him back to
the form of thrift that he showed when
he left his mother to shift for himself.
No man ever saw pig making profitable
growth or doing a fraction of what be is
capable when his hair is dry and stand.
ing every way, his belly girth double |
that of heart or flank, as many shoat |
shows to-day, and all because Of LACY Of a |
little more feed.
A good method to prevent gapes is to
plow OF spade the ground intended for
young chicks as early as possible, a1R J
then scatter air.slaked lime over the SUI
face. The lime will destroy any eggs OF I
other sources of the worms. Lime is also
q roup preventive. Disease always leaves
germs in the soil, and therefore the poul.
try grounds should be occasionally stirred /
by either spading or ploWing, afterward
using the lime freely. If some of the
lime is sprinking over the ground before
stirring, and then turned under, all the
better.
Il is quite possible to buy heifers, but
you never get the best that way. Rais-
ing calves is not always the most interest.
ing feature of dairying to the average
1airyman but it is one Of the most i'm.
Iortant. Men usually don't like to fuss
Fith calves. Il may seem to some like
mail business, bus is not insignificant
work to grow COW That viii make twenty
1onnda 81 butter week. You can't buy
Inch 9 COW without paying q very high
price, but you can raise one just as cheap
Is you can raise poor miserable scrub
hat will never pay for her keep. OIL
course, you won't grow tWenty.pound
iow every time, now matter how good
he feeding and breeding may be, but you
lever get twenty pound COW out Of a
lalf-starved calf even from the best milk
ng dams.
A great many calves have been ruined :
" feeding them milk that is toe rich for I
hem. Pephaps no young calf is capable {
t aasimilating FIVE per cent. milk. They q
nay have a constitution strong enough to 6
i've through it but it is not good dspolicy
0 tax their weakness in this way. q
The best dairymeu prefer to feed the 6
aIves BY hand because they know then c
lst what they are getting and how much. 1
I is really not such TERRIBLE task TO feed | n
dozen calves but ii is quite a nuisance %
} go through she motions just for one or
Ro. Perhaps great many dairyneh
Tho object TO raising calves for their own
erdg woUId chanVa their minds IL khex.i