Middletown transcript., 1911-07-22
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

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A chicken should never be eaten the day
it is killed. The tenderest fresh.killed
chicken will be tough Immediately after
the animal heat has left the body. In about
twelve hours, however, the muscles will
relax and it then becomes acceptable fol-
food.
Oatmeal has been found good diet for
young calves where shimmed milk is
scarce. The oatmeal should be cooked as
for human food, except that it is thinner.
II the calf is young strain the oatmeal
through a cloth and feed the liquid warm.
By mixing the SKINNED milk with oat.
meal broth the food is greatly improved.
Try it.
If you need more phosphorus in your
system listen to the man of science, who
says that pumpkin pie is what you need.
The humble pumpkin is 2.79 per cent,
phosphorus, while the lordly apple is only
.15 per cent. And the winter squash has
the same phosphorus contest as the pump
kins you may obtain the lacking phos.
phorus from the squash.
Never give boiled linseed oil to any OF
the farm animals. Some claim that it is
poisonous, Raw linseed oil is some times
needed to prevent impaction after the cat
tie have been turned into the stalk field
but the stockman should be sure that he
really has the raw product before he gives
it to the animals.
The veterinarian is useful man in the
community. Thousands ui Ilrs are lost
iu good animals annually trying" var
ious remedies and "fogy" treatment. Get
expert service when it is needed.
Expert butter tasters in France main
tain that favor of the soil on which the
cattle browse is always distinctly percepti-
Bile in butter, no matter what the special
race of the COWS producing it may be.
Normandy COWS sent into Potion show a
change in the flavor of their butter ap-
preaching that characteristic OF the butter
produced in that region, although the re-
semblsnce is never complete. Thus they
say that, just az there are different cruises
of soil and climate, so there are CORE.
spending cruises of butter arising from pc.
culiarities OF nourishment and pasturage.
The immediate influence of the soil is
shown by the fact in winter, when the
COWS are nourished on Consecrated food
not taken directly from the land, the
characteristic favors ascribed to the soil
vanish.
A forward step in the conservation Of
| Missouri's resources has been taken by
the University of Missouri in the appoint
ment of Professor J. A. Ferguson, OF
State College, Pennsylvania, TO the posi-
tion of Professor Of Forestry in the Col
lege of Agriculture. Professor Ferguson is
a graduate of Yale Forestry School, and
has for nearly two years been head of the
Department of Forestry at State College,
Pennsylvania. The College of Agricul-
ture owns $4,000 acres of forest lands in
the southern part of Missouri. It is plan.
ned to utilize these lands as an outdoor
laboratory for the instruction in practi-
cal forestry. 1t is probable that portion
of the forestry instruction will be given
on these forest lands. A large number of
applications for forestry instruction are al
ready on file and it is anticipated there
will be large enrolment of students at
the beginning of the university year.
According to one of the reports at the
cold storage investigation in Washington
of the average of 100000 barrels of
apples produced yearly, about 10 to per
cent, goes into cold storage. Thus during
the last years cold storage season there
were &C cording to this witness. Secre-
tary r. G. Phillips, of the international
Apple Shippers Association, 3,4l5, lO6
barrels stored.
In the use of potash as a fertilizer for
grass the Maine experiment station finds
that the greater results are seen in the
second cutting. The potash shows only
moderate effect in the first crap, but
greatly increases the growth Of clover, SO
that the second cutting or aftermath is
decidedly heavier than when no potash is
used.
A fruit grower says that washing fruit
trees with strong lime water, in which is
mixed some salt and ashes, will keep
away borers and mice. The trunks of the
trees should be washed from the limbs
down the to ground.
Truckers use both animal manure and
fsrtilizers
Clover hay should not be hauled in un-
til it is well cured.
Vegetables grown on the farm can be
bad when wanted.
The spraying of potatoes is often spok.
en- Of as potato insurance.
Do not be afraid to thin out your plants
they must not be crowded.
For farm OF 100 acres a four.horse
team with one driving horse will answer.
To have large ears OF sweet corn the
ground should be deep, and finely pull
verized.
1t is great mistake not to raise the
grain and forage to feed the farm stock
and the family supplies.
A COW that loses her milk between
milkings is hard to cure Sometimes it
can be checked or stopped by using one
or more rubber bands around the teats.
Milking COW three times a day will
avoid some of the loss. Some cows seem
incurable, and about all that can be done
with them is to keep them to feed calves
with. Thefrequent removal of the milk
by the calves will prevent enough milk &C
cumulating to leak out.
Within the last ten years the expendi.
lures for farm labor in West Virginia
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