Middletown transcript., 1909-08-28
fAPM NEWS AND VIEWS
Comfortable quarters for the cows and
q good silo are important factors in buttsf
nsking

1 Comfortable quarters for the cows and
q good silo are important factors In buttef
n.aking
A herd Of l,ghgfads cove. well fed and
well cared for. is the starting point in
making higll grade butter.
GOOD butter can be made in the kit
chen, but separator and special dairy
room is almost essential 10 modern butter
making.
Skinned milk is worth about fifteen
cents hundred pounds to feed to pigs
from weaving up to a weight Of 1876
pounds.
The old=lime spring house is no longer
an indispensable factor in farm butter
making. The separator has made it un-
necessary in most cases,
Butter should come granular if it is to
be of high grade. Butter which comes
pasty is never of high quality. The cream
was too warm when it was chnrned.
Don't work a misftting collar. A sore
or swelled shoulder will most certainly
result. Then your horse will be on the
pasture when you need him at the plow.
An occasional pinch Of sa!tpeter mixed
with the salt given work horses during
hot weather will be found benefcial-it
is cooling and will keep their kidneys
active.
The old fashioned dasher churn has
now gone into disuse except for very
small amounts of cream. Barrel and
power churns are easier to handle and give
more satisfactory results.
A good article deserves an attractive
package. The different size butter tubs
should be nicely linedwith paraHin paper.
Usually the home butter maker can sell
his product to better advantage in pound
cakes.
Separation is much cheaper and more
efficient method OF creamiDg than skim
ming. These hand separators are valuable
for small diaries. Send to each manufac-
turer for his catalogue, then choose the
machine best adapted to your needs
II hens are confined to the poultry
house on cold days, see to it that they do
not have to stand on the bare floor. Use
straw, cornstaIks, corn husks or other dry
material for a floor covering. Hens with
cold feet will not lay very many eggs,
Although turkeys will eat snow they
should not be permitted to do so, but
should be given plenty of fresh. clean
water.
When raising turkeys for market med
ium sized ones will be found better than
extra large ones.
Save few Of the old turkey hens, ps
the two-year old is better breeder than
the young hen.
Turkeys should not be housed with
chickens, as they require different condi-
tions.
Professor S. B. Hollister, of the Ithaca
IN. W experiment station, gives this
hint on apples for exhibition. which is
well to know. He says apples put on ex-
hibition should have the typical size and
all characteristics Of the type, with good
color, and all specimens put on one plate
together should be uniform in every re-
spect. Save some OF the best specimens
for exhibition. Get paper sacks and put
specimens in each and label properly.
Soft fruits must be packed in soft paper.
If to be kept long enough, send them to
cold storage
The japanese gardeners make secret
of the means by which the miniature
trees are produced, but the secret has
leaked out. 1t simply consists in cutting
of the roots when they first begin to
sprout. Should miniature oak tlee be
desired, the japanese gardener takes an
acorn and an orange. He carefully scoops
out the interior of the orange and fills the
skin with rich mold. Exactly in the
centre he places the acorn, leaving q
round hole in line With the sprouting
point. He puts his orange in 3 sunny
place aud waters it every day. Soon
after the iTst shoot appears and in very
short time afterwaTd the roots break
through the the orange ska. There are
shaved of continually. The tree grows
to about five inches and then stops. Ina
year it is perfect miniature oak. When |
the roots cease to grow the ends are warm
ished over and the orange imbedded in |
pot or vase.
There are two drawbacks to hop pick
ing. One is so-called hop poisoning,
which is simply sort Of prickly heat or
rash, sometimes produced by contact Of |
face and arms with the nsttle-like fuzz on
the stalks Of the hop vine, Il does not
affect all piCkera. The other is the dark
staining Of the hands resulting from the
resin Of the blossom. Il may be removed
with the crushed green leaves Of the hop.
Tests at the experiment stations show
that nitrate OF. soda is superior to both
barnyard manure aud mineral fertilizers
for forcing the growth OF tomatoes, and
that nitrate Of soda is only slightly less
effective than the complete fertilizers.
These results, however, do not apply in
the case Of poor soils or upon heavy ciays.
Replying to query Of subscriber will
say that il his soil and climate are adapted
to the growth Of orchard grass be should
have no trouble in gettinglt started in
ield now seeded to clover and other
grasses. A stiff blue grass sod might re-
sist it, but nothing else can, with our
soil and climate.
Some years ago small field near our
farm buildings was seeded to orchard grass
for early pasturage. ana since then, year
BY year, i has spread in al directions
along the roadside, around the fences the |
farm yards. and even has spoiled the lawn
of the house by its coarse. bunch Ike man