Middletown transcript., 1910-09-10
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS


| of little grain in addition to the pasture.
Crushed oats, ground wheat, or wheat
or wheat bran and oiI.meal make good
mixture for lambs.
Scrub the dairy house and utensils and
dispose of the scrub cows, that Il may be
well with you.
Do not expect too much from tbs young
SOW at the frat litter. Older sows should
give better success.
Do not discard a promising heller Il
she is notup to the mark during her first
or even her second milking season.
Some corn may be added to lambs
diet to hasten the fattening. Do NOT sell
habitat lamb; il is poor business.
Good brood soWs are worth more than
pork if all right and not dangerous. Do
not be in hurry about selling
Lambs that were dropped in April will
begin to eat grain in three months, IN an
enclosure where the ewes can not enter.
1t requires year of close attention e
small flock Of chickens to come to know
Rhere The mistakes are made and II one
can learn how to avoid them one-half Of
the difficulty will have been overcome.
Give charcoal to your fowls. It has
tendency to keep them in health. Corn
on the cob, thoroughly scorchsd, will fur.
nish charcoal in as good form as there
is. Feed it freely. No harm can come
from it.
There are many times in doing little
repairing about the house that plaster of
Paris must be used. Remember when
mixing it up not to use water, bat vine.
gar instead, as the vinegar makes the
plaster harden better and keeps it from
crumbling, as it frequently does when
mixed with water.
Beets may be canned or picked and
saved for winter use. When vegetables
are scarce they will be greatly enjoyed il
saved in this way.
In Japan there are Igz people for every
40 acres Of land and 256 COWS, 256 don
keys, and 5l2 swine for every square
mile of land in the kingdom.
Take soma time to make handy de.
vices for the bouse and barn. They are
easy to make, and many Of them are
worth much more than they cost.
Il is not fair calculation to take the
average of the herd as the basis Of
computing annual profit from the dairy.
Let each individual stand on her merits.
The sitting hen should be given new,
clean box for nest filed with the clean
est OF material. Place her on the new
nest and give her the eggs in the even.
ing,
No animals are bred that ara capa.
BILE Of supplying the largest amount Of rich
milk and storing away the largest amoHnt
Of flesh and fatness in their bodies at one
and the same time.
Most find that the yearling hens lay
more eggs than the older hens, but some
claim that the old hens eggs are better
for hatching, because they are moro
strongly fertilized.
Good food never creates the character
nor temperament Of COW, nor makes of
her good dairy animal, any more than
it never makes q good mixer out OF
small mixer; il is useless TO make the
effort.
Water or moisture is always on the
move. When it rains il soakes into the
ground, and as soon as it, stops raining
starts its upward movement by capillary
attraction. It travels from one coil par.
ticle to the next and so on until the soil
becomes what we call dry.
ALI stock will be healthier and will
thrive better if salt is kept where they
can help themselves daily rather than at
linteryalss. Medicated salts are now put up
and sold that are much better In every
way for the stock than the common
salt usually used besides being better
conditioner.
The soil has wonderful Rbsorptive power
to hold on to its moisture, for if we
place some soil in the oven and dry out
the moisture by heat and then examine
these soil particles under powerful mi"
croscope We will find each soil particle
coated with thin film Of what Is called
hydroscopic water.
Shade and water are important mat
ters in connection with grazing cattlei
and the more nearly natural the condi-
tions can be made. the better, IN Q pas
ture which contains no trees, Il sometimes
pays to put up board ROOT to protect
cattle from the hot sun in July and Aug
ust, but summer feeding on large scale
is not generally advisable ct all where
there is no natural shade In the held.
Unless the cockerels are 10 be retained
for breeding purposes, il lie advisable TO
kill them off as soon as they are sufficient
Iy large, thus clearing the ground and
giving more space for the pullets TO grow.
When cockerels are allowed to run TO-
gether, growth is considerably retained,
besides which tho flesh loses good deal
Of its excellence. both in favor and fne.
ness.
Professor Washburn Of the Minnesota
division of Entomology ct University
Farm, finds toads to be friends OF the
farmer. They feed entirely upon an in
credible number Of insects. The federal
department of agriculture. investigating
the toad, discovers the startling fact that
in "a hours the insect food consumed BY
one toad equals in quantity icur times
the capacity Of its stomach, which ia
practically allied and smptied four times
every "A hours.
A good soil il needed for peach trses
bat soil that 10 deficient in the food
elements needed cannot grow the tree.
The ground must be In proper condition.
The peach tree needs no lsrtilizing until
is has sci crop; then fertilizers should