Middletown transcript., 1911-05-06
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS
your fowls hungry.


Keep your fowls hungry.
Pork Is too high not to feed right.
Concrete is an excellent material for clio
building.
Examine the eggs with the egg tester
before setting them.
Whatever breed is chosen, purebread
ram should be used.
In raising onions for commercial pur-
poses large bulb ls desirable.
In caring for pigeons one should go
about quietly and never frighten them.
One of the easiest ways OF mskiDg
money on the farm Is by rearing sheep.
Oats should be sown early, just as soon
as the land can be made ready.
Lime from the sugar beet factory is a
very valuable product for the soil.
More profit can be made on one acre Of
onions than on ten acres Of corn.
Long straw manure should be piled
and each layer plastered so it will rot
quickly.
1t is good plan to shorten the tops of
cabbage, cauliAower, onions and similar
plants when they are trsnsplsnted.
Potatoes produce wonderful crops in
proportion to the amount Of seed planted.
In planting young orchard see that
the trees are properly pruned before set.
Hot msshes on cold days are on the
feeding program of many successful poul-
try raisers.
This is good time to figure up accounts
for the year and see what the chicken
business has done for us.
Sheep farming is profitable to follow
where land can be had for about fifteen
to twenty-five dollars per acre.
Every garden should have a few OF the
aromatic herbs for seasoning and other
kitchen use.
Fine rotted manure from the stables
may be applied with great benefit to the
grass if spread early.
Onions have been cultivated success.
fully for long time. They require q
moist, rich soil.
A good grass fertilizer for spring appli-
cation is animal bone and potash com.
pound, say 400 pounds to the acre.
Do not dispose of too many early pullets
for fattening purposes-they are your
principal assets for another season.
A hen is good thing, but too much Of
good thing is bad thing. Two hund
red hens are enough for the average.
Any drainage system should be
planned with reference both to the work
tbs to perform and to it's future main.
tenance.
Young calves should be kept dry and
never allow them to become chilled.
The best thing for any dairying locality
is the organization OF COW test associations.
Never plant box elder.
Don't have a round flower bed.
Don't plant salyia against a red brick
wall.
Don't plana street trees nearer than 80 |
feet apart.
Don't scatter "shoe button" shrubs all |
over the lawn.
Don't have Teas weeping mulberry
or any other weeping freak.
Don't have iron seats, dogs, rabbits,
deer or other limitations on the place.
The SOW should be given warm millfeed
sIop, made fresh for each meal, whole
oats and little sound corn twice day.
Cows approaching Calving should be
placed in roomY box stalls, given a good
dry bed of leaves or straw and not inter-
fered with.
If the breeders are in poor condition
you will produce puny or WeakIing
chicks.
Sheep increase the value OF farm.
Ducks and and geese are easier to raise
than chickens.
Don't have terraces near the sidewalk.
Grade from the house to the walk line
With an even slope if possible.
Don't plant cottonwood unless you
alternate it with good slow.groWing tree;
With the intention Of removing the cotton
wood as soon as the other has fully de-
'eloped.
Breeding young ewes leads to weaken
ng Of the flock.
The lack Of protein is a direct cause Of
nature puIlets not laying.
Dairying is one Of the profitable lines
q which farmer can engage.
Asserting market eggs according to
ize and color is good business move.
Sheep will eat many kinds of grasses.
hey thrive in dry, mild climates.
II protein is supplied freely there will
Q abundance of eggs from the same
ock.
The right time to castrate pigs is a week
: so before they are weaned, if healthy;
delicate, wait week or 80 until they