Middletown transcript., 1909-05-29
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

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lof the red, white, yellow and violet
varieties Of potatoes shows that the violet
fieshed potasos stand highest.
Hogs not living IN dusty houses, that
have persistent coughs, are, as rule,
suffering from worms. An excelent
remedy is to dissolve one-half pound Of
copperas in warm warm and mixing in
the stop for 100 head Of pigs. This dose
should be given for five mornings; then
wait a few days, and repeat if necessary.
For smaller number than 100 head give
a good dram to each head.
Mer rno is the wool sheep, Shropshire
the all purpose, and southdown the best
mutton sheep.
Late potatoes should be planted be.
tween May 18th and June LIST. IMPLANTED
later than June Ist they may not mature
before frost. Potatoes, like other crops,
need plant food. Potato soils should be
weIIsupplied with bumus to increase their
capacity for retaining water. Drought is
q serious enemy to the crop. Humus is
best supplied by plowing under clover.
Ifstabfe manure is used it should be ap-
piled year ahead of the potato crop.
Some good foods for little chicks are
cracked wheat, table oatmeal, raw eggs
thickened with bread crumbs, johnny
cake, baked beans, eustards. sweet cut
bone, bread and milk not sloppy, dry
cumbs, curd not ropy, lettuce, chopped
onion, eggs boiled one-half hour and well
minced, mixed millet seed and wheat,
and later cracked corn. Dry food is
safest. Cooked food makes them grow
faster,
II two or more hens are given chicks
on the same day, do not keep their coops
close together, or the chicks will become
uncertain Of their own mothers voice,
and surprising number will be lost in.
high grass and on windy days, simply
because they cannot accurately follow
their mothers ''cluCk." This is Of 60.
pecial importance with chicks having
wide range. Do not give one hen too
many chicks. From fifteen to eighteen
will give best results.
The old,fashioned method of planting
in hills is still in vogue to some extent,
bat sho6ld be abandoned entirely. All
seed should be planted level and at an
even depth and the ground should be
kept level during cultivation. There is
not a single advantage to be gained by
hiliiug anything, but often crop is SER
iously damaged by the practice. Roots
often suffer for food because the surface
soil is seriously damaged by the practice.
Roots often suffer for food because the
surface soil has been piled up about the
stalks where there are no roots. In dry
weather hilled crop suffers much more
than the one given level culture. Plants
feed aud draw more moisture from ever,
inch Of ground. When the land is ridged
up the feeding surface is lessened instead
Of increased.
The discoveries made By agricultural
scientists during the past few years show
the superiority of ieguninous over nom
leRuminous crops to produce soil fertility.
Both enrich the soil with humus and
plant food, but the plaut food deposited
BY the non-leguminous crop is wholly
obtained from the soil, while the nitrogen
contained in the leguminous crops is gath.
cred from the air and costs nothing. In
southerR Illinois, Indiana and sonle Of
the Eastern States soil which has been
"worn OUT through successive crops of |
corn for thirty years has been brought
back to almost its original fertility in
three or four years simply by the systsm
OF green manuring. Professor Cyril 6.
Hopkins has produced some remarkable
results on his own land and that of neigh
boring farmers in southern 1 ilinois.
As the time nears again when We must
begin to think about the seed that is to
be.put into the ground wish to make
plea for the old fashioned sunhower. |
They are bright and CHEEKY in looks, they
will grow readily in odd places around |
buildings or in fence corners where moth |
ing else would be planted and some people
claim that they keep away malaria. lido |
not make such claim as this because l |
do not know about it, but what do |
know is that they will prove very valu-
able when fall comes to use for your moIt-
ing poultry.
have found that poultry that have
proper amount of sunfiower seed molt
quicker and lay sooner than those de-
pfived OF it, and also that their feathers
are more glossy. I would especially rec
ommend them for birds that are being |
fitted for show purposes.
OF course With these as with everything
slee common sense must be exercised in
The feeding, handful Of seed for each
iowI three times week while moIting is
plenty, and after that never more than
once or twice week. but they are yalu-
able feed in this way in extremely cold
weather.
If ,ou do not care to shell them tile
will be perfectly willing to re-
ieye yoa Of the trouble if you throw
hem tile heads.
In raising them procure The seed from
he large headed variety and then each
iear save seed to plant from the largest
head. Ours average as large across as a
Jig milk pan, and some exhfbited at our
,ounty fair last year we're much larger.