Middletown transcript., 1911-05-20
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

Feed the brood SOW well so her pigs do
not pull her down in flesh.
Whey is worth about one-halt as much
as skim milk for pig feeding.
Make q shallow trough for the little
pigs and give them plenty Of room.
Keep the pigs active and clean and the
growth will be quick and profitable.
Don't crowd your young chicks.
The loft should be cleaned out every
month, at least.
Resolve to set no eggs this year from .
weak, crippled or aiIing hen.
Do not catch ducks by their legs. II is
much safer to handle them by the necks.
Warm charred corn is fine for the liver
and sends biddies happy and warm to
bed.
A good male bird is half the pen, and
his influence on the entire progeny is
very marked.
Keep the brooder perfectly clean and
always feed the chicks in clean place If
you want them to live and thrive.
A Pennsylvania woman raised $50
worth of young turkeys from three turkey
hens last year, an unusual record, but
what has been done can be repeated,
A COED way to test chick food is to
place small quantity on dish before
some husky chicks and note what they
leave of it.
Strongly fertile eggs from coed, healthy
stock will often hatch we'll and produce
good chicks under apparently unfavor-
able conditions.
The mixture of poultry manure with
such materials as land plaster and kainis
or acid phosphate is almost imperative for
satisfactory preservation.
The young chicks which are to make
our winter layers should be Matched from
the middle of March to the middle Of May
depending on the breed.
Other things being equal, the breeds
belonging to the Mediterranean class OF
fowls, namely the Leghorns, Minorcas
and Hamburgs, are the greatest egg pro-
ducers.
Hen nests should be cleaned and white
washed after each hatch before starting
another and the old nesting material
should be burned. Fight lice now and
all the time.
It is all right to rear turkeys with the
chicken hen il the fool hen wouldn't
Weau them so early. Then lice are alWaye
more troublesome than with turkey hens.
It is the little things that count.
Give all of your fowls plenty of fresh
air and sunshine.
Ewes should not be used for breeding
before year and half old.
Don't feed the newly-hatched chicks
until they are about thirty-six hours old.
Shorts mixed with corn meal and
moistened with skimmilk makes a fine
mash.
Although good ewes should be kept, it
is not necessary that they be pure bred
1t doesn't take so much work to care
for sheep as for COWS, and the work is
pleasanter.
A building IA by IS feet is large enough
for so hens. Keep it free from drafts,
moderately warm, sunny.
No food nor nourishment about char
coal-not bit, but it is corrector that
helps the chicks digestion.
Give the pigs exercise and sunshine
from birth, but do not allow them to get
damp nor to be exposed to the wind.
The pullets should be brought to ma
turity as soon as is consistent with the
normal development and body growth.
Ten acres of timber, cared for, will re.
turn a larger profit, ultimately, than any
other ten acres western farmer can cul-
tiyate.
Undoubtedly one Of the most remuner-
alive branches OF the poultryman is the
production of eggs, combined with the
sale Of eggs, combined with the sale OF
market broilers as side line.
Land plowed last fall may be sown to
oats without again blowing. If soWn broad
cast SOW two bushels to the acre over the
ploWed ground and harrow them in both
WAYS, then roll to level the land.
When the SOW is given warm, rich
slop, or other milk producing feeds just
after her pigs are born, strong milk dow
is forced. The new born pigs get too much
and have diarrhoea.
The main crop of onions is usually
grown from seed sown in the open field
in rows IL to IA inches distant and thin.
ned to three inches in the row.
There is vast deal of time wasted on
many farms in travelling from one part to
another, the waste being due to the fact
that the buildings are not centrally locat.
ed.
Produce commission men state that of
late years there has sprung up great de.
mand for late fall-hatched chicks to be
marketed in early spring before broilers
are "ripe."
DR.. W. 7. Tuck, who is in charge Of the
New York Office of the bureau of animal
industry of the department Of agriculture
spoke of the uses of porpoise meat. "Por-
poise meat" he said is not at all bad.
1t is only through the legumes, and
through certain lower orders of plant life
with which farmers are not familiar and
which we will not discuss now, that the
soil has been filed with the nitrogen,
which ID of the utmost Importance in any
system Of agriculture.
If seed oats are infested with smut il is
advisable to treat the seed to destroy the
.,,,t usinO formaldehyde treatment