Middletown transcript., 1909-05-08
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

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and If enough cows are kept to justify it,
BY all means plant a silage crop and have
q silo ready to receive it.
A bad smelling dairy barn shows that
something is wrong. There will be plenty.
though, who will laugh at the idea Of
dairy barn not smelling to high heaven.
Begin TO cut down cows rations when
ID is desired that she go dry; and feed her
so that it can be said she is we'll fed with
out being fattened while shei dry.
To develop q dairy heller into some
thing really good, do not hesitate to feed
il we'll the first two years. It will be q
better feeder thereafter II fed well when
young.
Do not delay about starting TO breed up
the herd. It will take two years before
results are got, and every year that the
delay in starting continues makes one
more year.
ii number OF calves are to be fed,
see that every one gets the feed it ought
to have. Do not have any arrangement
that will enable the large ONES to eat
what the small ones ought to have.
Il costs no more for feeding or attending
to well.bred sire than it does for scrub,
the only difference being in the first cost;
aud the well-bred sire will soon make up
the difference aud much.
Do not let temporary set backs breed
permanent encouragement, Find out
what the cause Of the trouble was, and
remove the cause. No cline has eternal
sunshine aud no business, dairying in.
cInded, has success continually.
Do not expect to get rid Of all the poor
blood by using a pure-bred sire for
single year. The average will be greatly
improved, but the improvement will be
only started by the first use Of the good
sire.
When the iatteniUg season arrives, ac-
cording to an experienced goose raiser,
keep the fowls shut away from bathing
water, and feed barleymeal, cornmeal and
beef scraps and some chopped celery.
Keep them III subdued light for three
or four weeks, when they can be let out
for a couple of days to enjoy the use OF
pond. Then return to clean quarters,
and feed on barleymeaI aud milk, aud
chopped celery, for two or three days,
letting them go twenty-four hours before
killing.
Ground properly plowed is easier to
handle, aud we can secure better results
for the time spent in working tue tiIlsge
implements. Follow the sulky plow
with twenty inch disc harrow. Then
come the smoothing harrow, brush and
drag. On ground seeded, after removing
the rocks, follow the above with roller,
and under certain conditions with some
hoed. crops some also roll the ground.
Run the weeder, alternating with the two
horse riding cultiyator, until the size of
the crop, ,forbids eultiyating deeply at first,
very lightly later. Thus dust mulch is
maintained, enabling the plant to secure
the best results from the moisture con-
served, and keeping down weed growth.
It is said that ton Of wheat removes
between eight or ten dollars worth Of
soil fertility, and that the farmer never
gets it back. OF course, there are ways
| Of replacing il BY the proper rotation and
stock raising, but the dairy farmer who
sells butter or cream, stops the leak before
it happens.
A hungry COW cannot produce milk
any more than an empty mill hopper can
produce -four
Every bard.workiDg farmer earns q
vacation Of at least two weeks every year
and generally the wife earns four. But
does she get itR
The farm telephone wire is the con
Meeting link between neighbors aud tile
outside world. II bauishes Loneliness
and creates sympathy aud ePirlt Of Of
timism.
II our troubles which keep US awake
nights were really as big as they seem ia
the dark, we would never get over them
A man may have good knoSledge o.
the two principals Of farming, but if hi
i neRlecte the details he wid fail.
As general thing the oat crop is neg
lected. A good many farmers say ti.al
it doesn't pay to grow oats bus the creT
Is necessary in proper rotation. Tht
trouble is the average farmer is careless
in the preparation Of the seed bed, lie il
careless in the selection # seed and ht
don't deserve the results he does get.
Il often happens that oats are put il
after corn and the stalks are not properly
broken up so the seed is very uneyenly
covered, which makes poor stand.
Smut is great drawback to the oa
crop. Some fields developing as much a
ten per cent when the owner doesn'
realize that he has smut to amount &
any thing.
The State Of Iowa raises 29s bushels o
oats to the acre, when the average yielt
/ ought to be at least 40 bushels.
: Oats naturally follow corn in rotation
II disc drill il used the seed may be pu
in evenly in spite Of the seed stalks. Sc
the drill to cover u to q inches aud pu
in about three bushels Of good seed pc
acre. A great many farmers use les
seed, but in every experiments that hav
heard Of, where accurate tab was kept o.
results, three bushels Of seed per acre hs
brought bigger yield and more satit
factory returns.
When oats are planted after corn tbs
has been properly tended and well cult
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