Middletown transcript., 1911-08-19
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

men has the ability to reproduce her.
self over many times in year.
OF all chick troubles bowel complaints
are the hardest to cope with.
Cattle, horses. hogs and sheen grow
nights and Sundays. every day in the
year.
Don't feed the little chicks more than
they will eat up clean in five minutes.
Stable manure contains much vegetable
matter and this adds humus to the soil.
Tramsworth are good rustlers, yery pro.
llhc, and the meat is of the highest quail.
ty.
Brush the udder and surrounding parts
Just before milking and wipe them with
a clean damp cloth.
Most varieties of pears should be picked
when mature, but not ripe, and ripened
IN cool, dark place.
A woman who makes success of poul.
try raising has the laugh on the man who
makes failure of farming.
There is no other part of the farm from
which so much is expected or which is
more neglected than the pasture.
Duck eggs do not batch as we'll if they
need to be washed. Therefore keep the
duck pen bedded with clean litter.
Too heavy feeding clogs the appetite
and too slight feeding makes the pig in.
vestigate the weak points in the fence.
The poultry raiser is now finding out
that the early hatched chicks are more
vigorous and profitable than the late
hatches.
We cannot market our corn stalks and
hay in different cities, but we can supply
the world with meat and stock products.
Harsh treatment of broody hen may
cure her of desire to sit, but it may also
kill the hen. Gentle measures are better.
No goat should be called mich goat
that does not give an average of at least
one quart OF milk per day four months
after kidding.
The poultry raiser who is too lazy to.
keep his poultry house absolutely free
from vermin does not deserve success nor
will he have it.
Farmers are beginning to find out that
chickens pay better on an average than
farming, as the chicks will grow whether
it rains or shines.
II is not always possible to regulate the
price for which milk or butter fat will sell.
but it is possible to control the cost TO a
certain exttnt.
Medium sized hogs are now most in
favor. 1t is best to feed hogs for only
eight or ten montus. After they are a
year old the feeding is not profitable.
When the horses rub their tails it is
sometimes sign of worms. To effect a
remedy feed equal parts OF salt and wood
ashes everv day for week.
Promptly remove any animal not in
good health, and reject her milk. Never
add an animal to your herd that is not
perfectly vigorous and healthy.
When butter is gathered in the ere m
in granular form it is never over.worked.
Working out buttermilk and working in
salt is where the over-working is done.
Kafir corn is becoming very popular as
poultry feed. Consequently it should
not be used as single feed except for fat.
teniDg.
The danger in feeding turkeys is that
too much food will be given and eaten.
The secret of success in raising poults, as
to feed, is to keep them always somewhat
hungry.
Select the cockerels as soon as possible,
then select the strongest of these, as the
cockerel is half the hen, in vigor, any
way. The molting bird will show its
weakness then.
Take day, or two if necessary, to walk
the fences with hatchet and pocket fall of
nails. When the grass comes the animals
become restless and will qnickly find the
weak spots.
MotAed butter is generally due to im.
proper working.
Udder troubles are frequently the re.
suit of bad feeding.
More sunshine for-the big producers,
more fresh air for the whole herd.
Sunlight and pleasant surroundings are
great factors iu stimulating large milk
yields.
Dairy work is no longer guess work,
but science. Simple, it is true, but all
the same science.
When the cream runs off the spoon like
oil and has a slight acid taste it is usually
ripe for churning.
Salt on the casein in butter forms light.
er spots and the remedy is thorough wash.
ing before sailing.
The COW should have capacity to pro.
duce more milk than che is called upon
to produce in ordinary dairy work.
The COW should be fed SO that she will
produce full flow of milk and maintain
practically the same flesh condition.
From twelve to twenty four hours be.
fore churning you should commence to
ripen the cream, according to the time Of
the year.
Dairying need not imply abandoning
wheat, but more wheat on less acres. Both
bread and butter should be produced on
the farm.
Grading of cream is receiving more al.
tention by the dairy press and dairymen
than it possibly has in the history Of the
dairy business.
Ever notice how the dairy business
booms when the owner is Interested in
ttis work. There is too much lack Of in.
terest among dairymen.