Middletown transcript., 1911-11-11
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS
Hogs like cornstaIkp.

the plow.
Pride yourself on having fancy and
well bred stock.
The result OF care from start 20 finish
is first class butter.
All root crops should be planted a soon
as good season is in the ground.
The seed corn must be well cared for
alter It ls harvested if the best results are
expected.
Rapid growth from hogs eannos be ss-
cured on even the best pasture, without
some grain.
Farmers in general cross hogs more than
other animals, but this is considered .
bad practice.
Sheep have warm wool coats, don't be
AFRAID TO turn them out in good weather
even if it is cold.
When the pigs are young and weak
every time the SOW gets up aud lies down
she is liable to kill the pigs.
Watch the ewes and don't let them 90
through narrow spaces; it may save You 8
case of abortion later on.
If horses will really winter better ON
. 6AA AVo1 nhy uUW - KQQ0
time to adopt such line Of feeding.
Dairy butter should be packed 10 Eve.
pound jars and ten and twenty pound tub
to sell at the best advantage.
In most cities milk sells at retail for
eight cents quart, and at that price it 10
the cheapest and most valuable food
known.
It is just as important that every horse
should have bis own collar all the time az
that man should wear his own shoes.
A hogs time is not worth anything.
but your life is. The best breed Of hogs
to raise is the kind that will grow into
money quickest.
Use wire netting freely on the fronts of
all your coops and houses-Ietting out the
unused air and admitting sunshine at
MONDAY.
That bright eyed, red combed, active
pullet will surely lay soon if you are not
mighty careful that she does not get quite
enough to eat.
You might like skim milk cold but that
don't change the mind of the calf or pig,
They want it warm like nature meant
them to have it.
Tankage, by-product Of the slaughter
houses, is wholesome feed for all kinds
Of live stock, but its greatest value is for
nogs.
When the pigs are three or four houFs
old the SOW should be fed about one QuaEs
OF rich bran or shorts in fresh water made
into slop.
Work horses, who have been pushed In
the fields all summer should now have the
advantage OF every hour possible in the
fall pastures.
Some growers OF onions perfer to cut the
tops from the bulbs before they are taken
from the ground using a pair Of sheep
shears for the purpose.
The prospect is for plenty Of apples this
year.
CoWpeas are splendid for either bay or
pasture.
Clover is cut for seed after all the heads
have turned brown.
Ripe, dry corn, if put in the silo, should
oy all means be watered.
Land for Vetch should be ploWed and
prepared the same as for sowing.
Add few more roosts until the poultry
8 thinned out for winter.
Do not neglect to spray the orchard
rees and berry bushes this year.
Never allow the calf to get fat in the
ense that the beef breeder desires.
A few hens are always profitable Whils
Very large hoeks are seldom so.
Soaked grain generally puts on slightly
after gains than dry grain.
Winter rye has usually survived with.
'ut any protection from stubble or other
rowth.
1t is not unusual for the cream from
oR advanced far in lactation TO be diff
nit to churn.
The chief benefit from silage fed TO hogs
{ least that from corn, lies in she grain 10
be feed.
The best breeding calls for animals cap.
BILE OF reproducing all of those qualities
( an ever improving nature which 60 to
make perfect in the type We are aiming
I.
Small pigs take TO green feed about as
arly in life as to any feed and such green
tuH as clover, alfalfa, pea vines or good
asture are the very best side dishes that
igs can be given.
Il composition sfaade ef eaEholic acid
alf ounce; glycerine, eight ounces; is re-
commended as being good for treating
lounds made on horses or cattle by barb.
d wire fences.
A large per. cent of poultry, especially
oung chicks die through drinking from
uddlss and dirty water in their drinking
coughs.
The phosphates, when used in connec.
on with the ancient manures 90 humus,
ill pay handsomely.
The pig can eat more and he can dig
lore than he can uss. So i is not
Ict that pig can take care Of SlL be can
1t.
Every ine!9sure for the hogs shonId be
srfectly tight and with excellent wire
noes that are now manufactured this is
j easy matter.
Il makes some horses ugly 20 work them
ith horses that donot travel up with
lem. Match them as to gait as well as
other things.