Middletown transcript., 1909-05-22
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

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permanence as soon as possible after being
drawn, as ii gathers bacteria and odora
rapidly wherever it is, and should be
protected as soon as possible.
Sal soda is excellent for removing fat
and disease from milk pals, cans, and
separators. but soap is best for dirt alone.
Sal soda il neither poisonous nor cor
rosiye. Use with water in small proper
tions.
Some OF the swiftest milkers are the
worst to dry up cows. Que needs i be
rapid, and yet 60 gentle, so thorough and
so painstaking that the COW will regard
the process as relief and luxury, and will
increase in milk rather than diminish.
The best dairy barns are long, With low
cei;ings. Ventilation is enhanced II the
ceilings are low To keep the stable free
from flies at milking Time burlap curtains
should be hung In the windows, and the
windows should be plentiful and well
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distributed.
Il is claimed that goat milk gives con.
stitution to the child which cannot be
obtained from cows milk, aud also that
both the milk and the meat are absolutely
free from tuberculosis germ.
With the advent Of spring gardening
comes the question Of destroying trouble-
some insects and fungi. An effective
mixture for the destruction Of the cab
bage worm has been discovered by the
Nebraska Experiment Station, and is as
follows:
Fill a dust bellows full Of air-slaked
lime, to which add q teacupful Of green
arsenuid. After being well mixed by
shaking and turning over of the bellows,
apply to cabbages, in a fac dust that will
cover the center OF the heads. VI anele
ever the worms are found.
Green arsenoid is a preparation very
similar to Paris green, equaIiDg it in the
per cent. Of arsenic, but differing in, for.
nation Of crystals Paris green or Lon
don purple would no doubt be equally as
effective. The dust form has the adyan.
tage Of the liquid solutions of these poi-
sons in that the former adberes more
closely to the leaves. In the proportion
use-l part poison to parts Of lime-the
dust can be distributed quite evenly and
with no danger of getting an overdose of
the poison. An ounce OF the poison in
this mixture would be distributed to 100
heads or more, and person would have
to eat 10 heads or more-outside leaves
and all-ia order to get dangerous dose.
Paris green may be used without dan.
ger, so long as heading has not begun.
Alter that time, however, ii is best not TO
use this substitute on account OF its strong
poisonous qualities. For youpg cabbages
il may be supplied in the form Of spray.
using one teaspooDful TO pail of water,
or pound to 200 gallons Of water.
As to the pesky sparrows, could they
be held in check or destroyed by feeding
them real strong salted food, bread OF
wheat, anything with salt en- 1ugh to kill,
and il does not take much 10 kill hen.
| Let the farmers try it.
1 Trees should not be trimmed too much.
They may be ruined in this way. The
branches should not be trimmed high, al
in that case the lower limbs will die out,
and so the tree will continue to grow up
ward. Such trees are expensive to spray
and to harvest the crop. Climbing into
tie tree for picking fruit should be avoid
ed, as injury often comes from the bari
being bruised by the shoes.
An excellent mixture for fatteninl
poultry is made as follows: One hundred
pounds tntly ground barley, 100 pounds
finely ground corn, 100 pounds finely
ground oats with hulls sifted out), tC
which mixture is added thirty pounds d
beef scraps. Battermilk or skinmilk i
used for mixing, the former being pre-
fprred. The birds are feed twice day a
intervals Of twelve hours aud are KEEP
on this diet for three weeks. Crate Of
machine fattening should be adopted. An
other ration is made as follows: One hun
dred pounds ground oats, 100 pound
ground corn, fifty pounds -four. foul
pounds talloB.
How long, OH, how long, viii our far
mers burn up every spring the little fer
/ tility that Mother Nature has laboriously
spent the previous twelve months trying
10 deyelop2 Turn out an old 6eld, sick,
iamisliHg, naked, aud Mother Mature
clothes il With coat of grass TO heal itl
scars, 70 stop the woundiug of il will
gnllies. aud to feed il With Fotting vege,
table matter humus) as the only way OF
earth to bring il back TO life and strength
Aud yet nine farmers out Of ten will q
ahead and in tHenty-four hours time
1 burn of ali the potential humus tha
Mature has spent year growing for tht
salvation Of the land. Fpr she land'I
sake. " indeed, We must stop burning Of
| our old fields. l. may make the grasI
seem greener this season, but in the enc
/ il means that the land will become tot
barren 10 grow any grass AZ all.
/ Practical experiments by indiyidua
| farmers are Of more value 70 EhesRroWel
than any analysis Of the crop or soil
Moreover, the growth Of plants depends
more upon tie soil and its meehanica
condition and upon the feediug habits oI
i ishs plants than upon the chemical com
ppsition oi the plant.
Il j farmer does not need TO have scien
slim education 70 understand the need
oftths soil. About The only elements
shat can be lacking are ptosphorus, nitro
Eeen and potash. Phosphorus ia the ele
meut that brings plants 70 maturity and
lfornis the seed. Il makes The ears d
Ecorn and heads Of wheat fill with plump
rips grain. Nitrogen gives color 10 ths
plant and promotes rapid groAttl. Whe1
tie plant grows rank and dark green, aud
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