Middletown transcript., 1911-07-29
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS
Put ''grounda'' in wire fences,

| For dressing at all ages the white color
has an advantage.
The CESSATION period-of cows is nine
months, or $50 days.
| Cockerels should be caponized when
they weigh about two pounds each.
Realize the profit from your capital in.
vested 10 beef as soon as possible.
A sandy soil is one Of the most difficult
ones on which to grow blue grass.
Gull your chicken focks often.
Alfalfa is the best soiling crop known.
1t does not pay to be careless with farm
machinery.
There is nothing equal to mothers milk
for young foal.
The honey bee is necessary in the pol.
lenization Of fruit trees.
Whitewash is cheap aid to the keep.
ing of sweet and sanitary stable.
This is the time of year v hen il Is
necessary to keep the cultivator going
overtime.
After cooling, milk should in all cases
be held at the lowest available tempera.
ture.
Good ventilation is absolutely essential
but drafts must be prevented in the lamb.
ing shed.
The best way to get rid of mosquitoes
like the balance of our troubles, is not to
raise 'em.
The Guernsey, when il comes to butter
tat holds distinguished place as record
breaker.
The cost of 100 pounds' gain in calves
is about 81 10, while il is nearly $500 for
two-year oIds.
The cultivation of beans should be along
the same lines as of corn, and if possible
more intensive.
Spray the first time for the special pur-
pose OF filling every blossom on the tree
with the poison used.
Breaking broody hens is not a hard
task. A little care in the feeding and
housing is all that is required.
Do not wait until the broody hen be.
comes chronic, but discourage her as soon
IS she shows signs Of it.
There seems to be no limit to what the
traction engine can be made 10 do on the
farm.
For potatoes only well-drained ground
should be used, where no stagnant water
stands.
The best sheep for any state are those
that will bring the producer the most
money for bis labor.
Be sure to keep drinking vessels in a
cool, shady spot; keep them clean and
we'll filed with clean, fresh water.
All animals produce stronger when
both sire and dam have a reasonable
amount OF exercise each day.
Alfalfa is one of the best plants to fur.
nish green food for chickens, but ordin.
arily it soon kills out if over pastured.
shorn sheep sell at discount because
the wool cannot be pulled until it has
growth of three quarters of an inch.
Brush the utter aud surrounding parts
just before milking and wipe them with
clean damp cloth or sponge.
Look after the horses teeth. They re.
quire attention when they get along in
years. The ragged teeth should be filed
off.
The mixer should wear outer garments
used when only milking, and kept in a
clean place at other times.
It is commonly believed that a warm
horse should be given water to drink,
which is correct if the animal is to be
allowed all that he will drink.
Some turkey growers who cater to spe-
cial hotel and club house demands, seek
to improve the flavor of the flesh by intro
ducing wild blood into their focks.
Ducks est many bugs.
Goslings must have free range.
The quickest returns are from baby
beef
Exercise is essential to the best growth
of the foal.
You have some things to learn after
you get an incubator.
The best time to cut the lambs tail and
castrate is at one week old.
Calves make more gain with given
amount of food than does older stock.
Too much emphasis cannot be laid up.
on the use Of cover crops in our orchards.
Giving water at irregular times is in.
furious not only to chicks, but to old
fowls.
It ia seldom that the very early varieties
of potatoes yield SO well as those little
later.
Mans object in fruit growing is the
production and improvement of the edible
po.tion of the fruit.
There is best temperature for each 10
uf cream, but this can be determined only
by experience.
The l ,400-pound mnle is becoming
draft animal. He is tough, eats less than
a horse Of the same weight, and ii sound
will sell for $500 or better.
Alfalfa sown in the fall is almost in
variably helped by disking the following
spring, with the disks set quite straight,
so as not to cut the crowns, but to split
them.
Corn and corn meal are carbonaceous
matter, similar in composition to that Of
cream, and there is no feed that cali
likes 80 we'll asshelled corn or corn meal.
Dogs and sheep don'tmix.
Keep your chickson dry ground.
Fodder corn should not be neglected
Roots should always be part OF the