Middletown transcript., 1910-06-18
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

/ Don't be a cheap farmer. Do not be
afraid to exercise your manhood. Nor
afraid to be dubbed by some of your
thoughtless neiRhbors "a progressive far
mer," as the title contains an uninten-
tional compliment and is well worth
earning.
Careful observations show that the time
OF milking is in large degrees the time of
milk-secretion. If well-fed, highly
developed dairy animal fails to give down
her milk the source of the trouble NAV be
sought among causes that tends TO dis
comfort, and nervous excitement.
Usually the good walker is the pro-
fitable horse on the farm.
A horse that is doing heavy pulling
should never be checked high.
Give cold range rather than confne-
ment to make good horse out Of him.
In nearly all cases the natural curve Of
horses neck is better than the artificial
position created by the check rein.
A COW win give as much milk in
stable as in barn, but the work of caring
for her in modern dairy barn is pleas
ure, while the saving of feed will 60
long ways toward paying the interest on
the building.
The most fruitful source OF white scour
in pigs is dirty sites. The first step in
curing is to provide clean, dry bedding in
warm, secluded spot. Give small doses
of castor oil to remove the food in the
bowels which soothes the irritation and
effect cure.
Whatever else may be the cause of the
high price of butter the dairymen are not
to blame. They are trying to produce
all they can and are doing their best to
see that it reaches the ultimate con.
sumner" as pure butter, not mixture Of
lard, tallow and coloring matter.
During warm weather calves should be
kept in during the daytime and turned
out during the evening, so as to avoid the
hot sun and the flies. Whole or chopped
oats should be fed, or mixture of whole
and chopped oats. About cupful twice
day for an ordinary-sized calf, that is
on good pasture, will be sufficient. Eor
fall feeding, until the roots are harvested,
there is nothing equal to green corn run
through the cutting box and mixed with
some chopped oats. The main point in
calf-feeding is never allow them to stop
growing, and for beef animals keep them
in good flesh. In feeding calves, as in
every system of feeding, the extremes of
over and under-feeding are to be avoided. |
Continuous, regular liberal feeding al.
ways brings the most profit and the best |
practical results.
Someone has estimated from statistics |
that fruit trees and bushes will bear for |
the following periods: Apples, 25 to 40
years: blackberry, 6 to IA years; currant
20 years; gooseberry, 8 to IL years; pear,
so to 70 years; plum, 20 to 25 years;
raspberry, 6to IA years.
Captain Joshua D. Wheaton, Chinco-
league, Va, claims the distinction of be-
ing the only wild goose farmer in the
world. He has 250 acres Of land skirting |
the coast of Chincoteague Sound and has
at the present time over 1900 wild geese
on the place. He ships alive to the North.
ern markets and gets an average price of
S. per pair. He got a start by capturing
young birds and clipping their wings.
At farmers meeting in Durham, N.
H., President F. W. Taylor suggested as
q fertilizer mixture for corn 200 pounds of
nitrate of soda, 200 pounds sulphate Of
ammonia. 400 pounds of tankage, 1000
pounds acid phosphate, 200 pounds nitrate
OF potash.
TWenty-three acres of corn after rye,
planted June 1st last year, with COW peas
drilled between rows at the first cuItiya-
tiuu, produced III the Ffew JERSEY Expert /
ment Station 214.S tons Of silage. The
total cost was So 81 per ton in the silo.
The United States Department Of Agri.
culture, Office of Public Roads, Washing
ton, D. c., has issued an elaborate bull
letin on the subject of concrete fence
posts. This bulletin goes into details,
gives full and minute instructions en-.
abling the farmers to build their own |
fences with the farm labor. By applying |
to the Office of Public Roads, United
States Department of Agriculture, Farm
ers' Bulletin No. 403 will be sent without
charge.
The Bureau of Animal Industry, United
States Department of Agriculture gives
out the following recipe for hog cholera,
which it claimed by many who have tried
it to be invaluable in Warding off the dis
ease:
Part Wood charcoal.
part sulphur.
2 parts sodium chloride (salt1.
,ests sedinm hicarhonata (andal
parts sodium hyposulphite.
part sodium sulphate.
part anthony sulphate.
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