Middletown transcript., 1909-05-01
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

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separator too often.
Milk pailand pan should be used 70
no other purposathan Tor milk.
The favor Of good butter is frequsntl,
spoiled BY too heavy salting.
In order I" get ths best favored milk,
the COW shn, be fed nothing until aiteI
milking.
Inc cows should be kept clean, and
net allowed to wade in mud or filth.
TINS calls Tor clean yards and clean, we'll
bedded stalls.
DO not allow ehsilage or other feed
stuHs to stand in the COW stable, nor any
hay to be feed to the cows just before
milking on account OF the dust that will
be raised
The hay stacks aud silos should be far
enough away from the COW stables to
prevent any danger of the milk absorbing
the odor of the ensilage or hay when it
Is thrown out to be fed.
It is important with silaee and soiliDg
crops to feed some dry hay as well as
grain through the summer for the effect
that it has on the digestive tract.
All the corn they will eat and no ex.
ercise is about as unfavorable program
as could be arranged for the flock of hens
if one expects them to do anything along
the line Of egg production.
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. Properly cured, it is clean
and sweet, while there is a reasonable
surety that it has been kept under cleanly
conditions and feed clean aud wholesome
food.
Let that bright boy of twelve or four
teen have a small plot of rich ground for
his own this summer on which to plant
some pure bred seed or other crop, il corn
is not the leader. He will not only be
interested in such an experiment, but
will be more interested in the other work
about the farm.
Charcoal placed handy where the poul-
try can get at it will prove great regu-
lator 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 lis
also good idea to shut the chickens from
a small area and SOW it to rye or oats, go
as to furnish 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 a 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 we'll to have besides this Q
smaller patch sown as early as possible
and conveniently located, so that the pigs
may be turned into the patch as soon as
the rape is three inches high. If il is
left too long before they are turned in it
gets tough, aud they will not keep il
grazed down as it ought to be.
Where possible it is well to let the
poultry have the run of the orchard, as
they will destroy great numbers of worms
and bugs and will not iniure the trees,
as will cattle, sheep or hogs.
The owner of large turkey ranch in
North Carolina who is also an extensive
tobacco grower is authority for the state.
ment that q flock Of from twenty-five to
fifty turkeys will keep tobacco field al
most entirely free from the worms that
do them so much damage.
If any man would make an Investment
for his children to reap the benefit from
twenty five or thirty years hence be could
hardly do better than to plant ten acre
tract to cottonwood trees. If they we're
given good care at the start and stock
kept out during the whole period they
would give lumber yield at the end of
the period mentioned that would be sur
prising. With lumber prices advancing
as lapidly as they are, a timber lot of saw
logs will be a veritabIe gold mine few
years hence, when any kind of stick
will be called lumber and will fetch high
prices.
In the spraying Of potatoes the bor-
deaux mixture should be made up, ac-
cording to the LILO recipe, OF copper
sulphate, lime and water or even stronger.
This should be applied with paris green
added if the bugs have appeared when
the vines are about six or eight inches
high and should be repeated at intervals |
of ten or fifteen days until growth of
vines stop. For large fields it will be
found both economical and advantageous
in the spraying work to use special po-
tato sprayer which is so arranged that
from four to six rows may be sprayed at
once and large area covered in short
lime.