Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1910-09-17
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS
Destroy the weeds.

/ The sire is half Of the flock.
Use common sense with the calf.
Wean the colt at three months.
The time Of feeding should be regular
Skim milk is q cheap feed for calves.
No butcher should tease you into sell.
ing your bsst lambs:
Gilt-edged butter will line your pocket
book with gilt.edged coins.
The best method of weed destruction
comes through rotation Of crops.
Slow, steady churning will get more
| iat out OF the milk than rapid chuEning.
Fowls in confinement have q tendency
when moulting to pick feathers of each
other.
Pure water is Of the greatest importance
for duckIings.
There is nothing like milk for getting
the calf up in condition.
Midsummer pruning heals quickly, and
is coming more into favor.
The record Of the individual COW Is the
only road that leads to success.
Everything that decreases the cost of
production is SO much self help for the
wool-groWer.
The profit Of wool growing depends as
much on the cost Of production as the
selling price.
Poorly drained soils always suffer more
nnder adverse climatic conditions than
those that are we'll drained.
Some gardeners pack caulifower by
drawing few Of tbe outer leaves over
them and tying the ends at the tops.
Teach the calf to drink and feed whole
milk for at least three weeks, changing to
q skim milk diet gradually, RF
Italian bses will quite often, especially
when crowded for room, swarm before
they have any sealed queen cells.
The bacon hogs, like other hogs, need
to be we'll fed, but the feed and habits
differ considerably from the lard type Of
hogs.
After pigs are six weeks old there is no
better feed for them than skimmilk and
shorts.
Why not screens on every door and
window of she COW stables and particular.
ly where the young calves are kept2
Diseased wood on az tree can never
be made good again. Cut it off and allow
another shoot to grow in it's place.
The best remedy for pear and apple
blight is to cut out and burn every affect.
ed tWig as soon as they are seen.
Undoubtedly one cause Of much trouble
with milk in summer is allowing cows to
have access to foul stagnaut water.
II watering in the garden becomes
necessary it is better to thoroughly soak
the soil once q week than to sprinkle
every day for q month.
Commences in good season to make the
heifer's arst milking period a long one
and 30 cultivate in her the habit Of keep.
ing up her hoW.
The roughage for calves should first be
fed at two or three weeks Of age, when
the calf begins to eat grain. Good clean
bay, timothy, blue grass, clever or alfalfa
may be used.
Sheep should be provided with shade
during the hot days. If there are no shade
trees on the place build q shed open on
all sides of an elevation where the Wisd
will have full access to it.
Bran, oats and oil meal fed in equal
parts by weight make better ration and
is more satisfactory to- supply the needs
Of growth and developments for breeding
purposes, than most anything else.
At the present time the worlds cham.
pionship for the production OF butterfat
for IL consecutive months is held by the
Holstein. Friesian COW, Oolantha fourth's
Johanna with total Of 998. 26 pounds of
fat.
All wounds on trees are the better for
being painted, tarFed or covered with
come substance to keep out the water.
Then the bark covers over the wound
little by little, and no Fotting Of the inner
wood takes place.
The codition Of the ewes at breeding
time has marked influence upon the
succeeding crop Of lambs. If the ewes
are improving in flesh and in . vigorous
condition, the chances are bright for
choice lot Of strong lambs.
The eockeEsls which are to be marketed
should, Of course, be fed more fatseninR
ration than the pnlIess, and those which
are to be used as breeders should be kept
from she pullets until about six weeks be-
fore the eggs sre wanted for Matching.
A good hand separator takes most Of
the valuable butter fat out Of the milk;
indeed, perfect machine should take
practically all Of the butter fat from the
mill; bus Il leaves most OF the protein,
which ia the most valuable food element
in the skinned milk.
In selecting breeding stock Il d highly
important that the reputation Of the
breeder FROM whom ths purchases are
made, d well and favoEably known, q
man who is noted for square and honest
dealing; and this is especially trne If the
selection is to be made by the breeder
himself.
Forest Henry. one OF ths farmers in-
stitute workers in Minnesota, and sue.
cessiul farmer, says that bis experiences
teaches that the time 10 weau ths colt,
even If not more than thSse months old,
is before going Into the harvest aeld with
she mare, he teachea his colts TO
drink skim.milk and to sat oats with the
mare before weaving.
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