The Democratic advocate., 1909-04-23

A few drops of kerosene put in the
water used in washing the windows
make the rag slide easier and give
good polish to the glass.
All the corn they will eat and no eX-
ercise is about as unfaVorable pro
gram as could be arranged for the
flock Of hens if one expects them to
do anything along the line of egg pro-
duction.
If the small boy had to go as far
to get wood and water as he often
does in chasing some coot or mud hen
when the outdoor call Of the spring
days is strong there would be mighty
little fuel or water in the house. How
ever, one is sport and the other WORK.
or viewed as such.
There is no bacon or ham that is
eaten with as much satisfaction as
that product which comes from the
porker of ones own raising. Proper
ly cured. it is clean and sweet, Whle
there is a reasonable surety that 1t has
been kept under cleanly conditions
and fed clean and wholesome food.
Let that bright boy of twelve or
fourteen have small plot OF rich
ground for his own this summer on
which to plant some pure bred seed or
other crop, if corn is not the leader.
He will not only be interested in such
an experiment, but will be more inter
ested in the other work about the
farm.
Those living in sections where al
falfa can be successfully raised or are
on what might be called the border
line and would like full information
about the plants, it's habits and how to
grow it successfully should write to
the department at Washington for bull
letin No. 339, which is devoted to this
subject.
This spring there are being sowed in
several of the northern states small
quantities of the Daubney oat, which
is white with strong, medium coarse
straw and which for several years
past has proved one of the heaviest
Welding varieties in Ontario, Professor
Zavitz of the Ontario station reporting
a yield of ninety-two bushels per acre
with it.
The chap vino will pay $25 for
scrub sire to head his herd of scrubs
is a first cousin to the fellow who
doesn't believe in testing his seed be-
cause it takes too much time or will
not pay fair price for seed which his
neighbor has tested. There is no use
trying to talk better farming" to this
kind until some sort of cyclone has
hit 'em and walked them up.
Every now and then you run across
a farm owner who says that his land
is producing more bushels per acre
than it did twenty years ago. 1t may
be taken for granted without inquiry
or investigation that such a result has
not been brought about by skinn1ng
the land and selling the fertility Of the
soil in the shape of raw grain prod
ucts.
The average dairy cow over the
country gives butter yield Of about
160 pounds, the average in some states
running as low as 40 pounds per COW.
With proper selection and develop
ment Of the dairy herd and the adop-
ton of correct methods of feeding and
care this butter yield ought to be near
ly doubled and would be if each herd
owner would go at the problem in a
systematic and painstaking manner.
Charcoal placed handy where the
poultry can get it will prove a great
regulator Of the digestive organs, and
this is especially true If the flock is
confined and cannot pick up just what
they want. Where there is room for
the purpose it is also a good idea to
shut the chickens from small area
and SOW it to rye or oats, so as to fur
nish a supply Of green food when it
isn't in good form to let the hens run
on your own or your neighbor's lawn.
A very good feed for the hogs may
be had at small cost by sowing rape
seed-about three pounds to the acre
on a piece of the oat land week or
ten days after the oats are sown. This
will keep the rape in check until after
the grain is cut, when it will come on
and make fine feed 1t is well to
have besides this smaller patch sown
as early as possible and conveniently
located, so that the pigs may be turned