Middletown transcript., 1910-04-30
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

they have grown their crop Of feathers.
Keep your hens from sIraying over on
the land of your neighbor. Be particular
about this If he has any crop growing
there.
Give the houses a good cleaning, and
pIow or spade up the yards. Dirty houses
breed VermiD, and polluted soils are incu-
bators for the cape worm.
Give the turkey hen and her brood a
coop large enough for the mother to move
about and stand erect in, and you won't
be SO apt to have bad luck.
Guinea fowls will now be laying, aud a
watch must be kept on their nests, as it
lie their nature to hide them. The eggs
had better be hatched BY hens.
II fowls must run at large on range
over farm, by all means keep one bred,
and give them all the time, knowledge
and attention possible. You viii have
something of which you may be proud,
and that will profit you financially as
we'll.
This is the month that gspes are more
or less prevalent on heavy Soils Chicks
should not be brooded on the same gronnd
that was accorded TO chicks afflicted with
the disease last year. Place them on
ground that VAS never before used by
poultry.
A field is not fenced when the bars are
down.
Don't put away steel tools wet; dry
them first, then oil them.
Lift up your eyes occasionally. All
good things aren't in the burrows.
The boy smokes cigarettes behiud the
barn because dad smokes cigars in the
open.
Never lead colt at the end Of l1ng
strap. Men have been killed in this way.
Cut your clover while il is in the bloom.
Dead-ripe clover is just about spoiled go
far as feed is concerned.
After all it is the producing power Of
the farm that determines the boy in his
going or staying. Show him that there's
money in it, and he will stick 20 the old
farm like sandburr to sheep's tail.
Don't let the back step be uusightly
with swill pals, cat dishes aud hen food,
thus strewing food and attracting flies and
disease. Cart away all the old cans,
broken dishes, old coats and boots, from
back places and yards.
Here is the most approved method Of
treating seed potatoes to prevent ncabby
crop: Soak the whole seed for two hours
ina mixture of one-half pint of formalin
(often called formaldehyde) and fifteen
gallons of cold water; dry the seed, cut,
and plant 10 ground that has not recently
grown potatoes.
Probably not one farmer in a thousand
ever took his moving machine guards
out and ground them on the cutting edge.
Look at them and see how dull they are.
Some day before haying. when you have
little time, just take them all out and
sharpen them. You have no idea how
much better they will work.
Tarring corn: In coating seed corn with |
cosl.tsr as protection sgainst crows and
blackbirds, putthe grain into a pail and |
pour on enough warm water to cover it. |
Add teaspoonful of tar to peck, and |
stir well. Throw-the corn ont on sieve
or in basket 70 drain, and then stir in a |
few handfnIs of land plaster (gypsum).
Do not pour the tar on the dry seed.
Hogs are waste savers. A farm without
hogs has many leaks.
The fall litter should come in early
September, If possible; therefore the sows
should be bred 10 May.
Do not put any other stock in the pig
pastures:
Cattle do not relish, eating after pigs,
and colts are apt to iniure hogs By chas.
ing tbem.
Look out for creep holes; the little pigs
will find them.
Fortify your wire fence by placing
boards around the bottom. The tighter
these fit to the ground the better.
Swine learn bad habits easily, and are
very cute.
The cows should not be driven faster
than walk while on the way to the
place of milking or feeding.
Give the calves clean lock OF bright
clover or mixed hay every day. You
will be surprised how soon they will be-
gin to eat it.
The spring calves should be kept in
roomy box stalls the first summer, so they
can.abe-ppeteeted from she scaIding sun
and bothering flies.
Do not blame your pullsts next winter
when they are not laying; you shonld
have been busy on the problem during
the winter You should know which
hens are furnishing the eggs from which.
these pullels will be batched. The chances
on the average farm are that the eggs
from the poorer layers and slower matur-
ing pullsts are being used for this purpose
and that the hens that have been laying
all winter are being used to hatch these
eggs. Culling, selection, eIimiuation,,
kept constantly In mind aud continually
practised, will mean healthier fowls, /
IiVabIe chicks, earlier pullets and eggs
when they are most wanted. Gull out
the extra males and the Weaklings; select
the quick maturing, early laying pu lets
and the hens that laid we'll during their
first laying year and make up breeding
pen for producing eggs for Matching.
With them, If possible, have male or
males whose dam was vigorous, prolific
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