Middletown transcript., 1909-11-27
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

to 500. II then the COW cannot be mad
to rrodnee more than $55, she is ne
worth keeping. good COW ought /
produce at least $ll0. OF double the cosfc
her keep.
When cows are nervous or troublego II
IN any way at milking time, they shonl,
be fed just before being MIXED. Til
giving down Of the milk is governed b,
tile nerves, and the more the cows mini
is sakets from the milking process the les
action the nerves will have on the milk
secreling glands. Feed will make I'll,
COW more contented, which in turn vii
result in larger yields.
Salt has lot to do With the keeping
properties and quality Of butter. Ust
none but tlie best.
The healthy cow Is the one that give
pure and Wholesome milk. No one caret
to use the products from diseased COW
Taints and tel odoFs are out OF place
around the COW stables and milk house
as the dairy products are especial y rus
crptIble to them.
TIE butlern,ilk al sBimmilk should
be allowed for when committing up the pro-
fits from dairy herd. Both have food
value when fed to the pigs.
Poor care and under feeding will wear
out COW quicker than orerwork. Good
care and treatment and good feed prop
erIy balanced viii not break a COW down.
Dipping Of sIIeep is profitable. Always
dip when the wool is short, as less dip is
consumed aud ticks will be more apt to
leave the Sleeps body. Commercial dips
ars good, but some farmers make their
own With tobacco, snIphur and carbolic
acid.
Dairy COWS not kept warm and com.
fOrtab!e during the winter months must
use more feed for maintenance and their
milk f1G will necessarily be less than
those comfortsbly sheltered. Comfor: for
the COWS and profit for their owners go
hand in hand.
horsemau says he has cured horses
and colts Of worms b> pulyeriSing tobacco
leaves with his hands and placing a small
quantity in each feed Of shelled oats for a
few days. He says the worms will be
expelled without any i'll effects to either
the horse or colt. Colts will soon learn
to like the tobacco AMI eat it freely. He
says that many colt that is now kept
poor and scrawny by the worms, if given
pnIverized tobacco leaves in this manner,
will coon begin to thrive and take on
flesh.
When scalding poultry for market, it is
best to FIRST dry pick the legs, SO that they
viii not necessarily be placed iu the water
and change color. Neither the heads nor
the feet should touch the water. The
water ought to be as near the boiling
point as possible, without boiling. The
way to "plump" dressed fowl is to dip
it for ten seconds in water nearly or quite
boiling hot, and then Immediately in cold
water. Hang in cool place until the
animal heat is entirely out. Pumping
gives tlIe fowl a much more attractive
appearance. 4 duck il not fully matured
until il is about two and half ears old.
There's no use buying hat can be pro-
duced at home unless you can buy
cheaper. Bsrnyard manure is a by-pro-
duct oi stock raising and when saved and
returned to the land Gusts only the labor
of properly caring for it. There are two
good Ways Of saving manure. When the
lay OF tile land is right SO it cannot WASH
away there's no better way than to haul
it right onto, the fields, especially the
meadow, with spreader as fast as made.
II the land is too rolling this is not an
economical way of doing, especially after
the ground has frozen. But few farmers
have manure shed in this county. We
are not awake to the necessity of saving
as are our European friends. There are
two ways of using manure shed. 1t
may be place where the manure IS piled
to keep it from teaching, or it may be a
big covered barn in which stock is kept
and these work the manure over and mix
il with abundant bedding aud thus make
use of the straw. Thuse who have the
covered yard are sure that it pays. The
manure is thrown in there, the cattle aud
hogs mix it and prevent It's heating, and
much more straw is thus used and re.
turned to the field.
You have use for ice in summer. Yes,
yUu dU-Att iie5ssss ie5sssss jfet,E y lie cnnld nse it
to advantage if she had an ice box handy.
Have cool cellar? Have cold spring
on Tie farm? Yes, maybe, but think of
the extra steps the women folks have to
take every day putting vic,uals away to
cool in those places and getting them
again three times day.
Yon save steps in the field by using
the sulky plow, sulky cultiyator and har-
row cart. Yuu never walk if you can
ride.s You never do what yon can make,
the horse-or hired man do. How about
saving few steps for the overworked
women fniks? II can be done when an
ice box stands handy to the kitchen-oD
shaded back porch maybe. Don't keep
them I,nrver going mp and down stairs
with hands full Of dishes. Bad enough
10 du thai for vegetables.
But that ice hHlse. Select q spot as
handy lu Ine house az you can, provided
you San get good drainage, as there is
some melting Of ce la tie house. Exca-
vate few inches AID fiji with gravel or
broken slnne pounded down hard. This
for Drainage The main feature ia con.
structiOn is insoiation SO heat cannot get
in the building 10 melt the ice. SaWduat
is put around and over the ice to aid in
air from striking the ice. A
dead air space is as good an iIisulator as
can he found. There are insulating ma
teiiNls s0ld TO put on the walls and roof
10 keep heat 0ut. After you once have
the Ice huuse the harvesting of the crop
is small matter A number Of neigh
boys eau go in together and own en- ice
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