Middletown transcript., 1912-01-27
FARM NEWS AN VIEWS
Study your horse.
Salt is essential for cows.

j. Study your horse.
u Salt is essential for cows.
Give young pigs comfortable quarters.
One breed is always better than a
hodgepodge.
e 1t is not always the largest hen that is
! the best layer.
Ifnot mouldy sorghum is an excellent
root forage for all stock.
In order to have good.sized sheep grow
them rapidly while young.
Poorly fed sheep will not prodnce very
good wool, nor good mutton.
Horse breeding requires more capital,
is more profitable if successful, and invol.
yes larger losses, if not, than any other
kind of stock breeding.
MOles in garden prove an intolerable
nuisance. While they may be trapped,
the only sure way is to inject bisulphate
OF carbon into their runs.
Give the old sows, and those that have
been pulled down by late litters, extra
care and feed, so they will go through the
winter in profitable condition.
A half teaspOonful of Psris green added
to heavily sweetened water or moIasses
will kill the cut worms, but care should
be taken that the fowls cannot get at it.
If you have any COWS that believe in
short seasons, give them the grand bounce
just the minute you can. Cows that hold
out are the ones that put the money in
your pockets.
Prepare land for small fruit plantation
next spring.
Thorough and constant spraying is the
price OF good fruit.
10 Michigan the apple barrel is still the
most popular package for this fruit.
Do you know that sifted coal ashes are
good soil lightenere2 Save them for this
purpose and apply to heavy soil.
Are there any old apple trees 10 your
orchard bearing desirable iruit2 Easy to
graft good varieties upon them.
Give plenty of sunshine these days.
Curtains do not belong to windows where
plants are kept. Roll up the shades;
wash the glass.
Get ready to do some grating. Top work
that old seedling apple tree. The cherry
comes first, then plum, apple, ounce and
pear.
Fruit trees should be planted in regular
rows in the orchard, or fruit garden, 90
thorough culture can be given both ways =
Of the orchard.
General farming, planting variety of
crops and keeping variety of animals, is
The safe way and withal the most success.
10! for insuring a steady income.
Give salt regularly.
Cows should be kept out of the cold.
Rhubarb forcing may begin at any
lime.
Egg production isn't made with a one.
rain diet.
A hen can't lay unless it has an abun.
lance of feed.
The horse is the only animal which
very farmer must have.
When yon go into town, invest in
ood thermometer for the dairy.
Keep the ensilage covered Frozen en-.
ilage is no advantage to stock.
A good horseman never trots a draft
orse, even when be has no loadl
Sometimes size in sheep is secured at
he expense of activity and vitality.
1t is a mistake to feed the pigs sour
nix when they are learning to eat.
When at all indisposed, turkey should
separated from the rest of the flock.
A lamb that is large and strong will
and weaving better, and also winter bet.
II better.
Hogs are great lovers of warmth and
ust have it for their most economical
owth.
Size, vigOr and activity OF both cocker.
and pulets are essential te good breed.
e of fowls.
The most beautiful horse is not worth
1ch unless he has good, sound limbs
d feet.
is life to all animals and all
lmals and all farm buildings should be
plant 81 as to afford it.
Axle grease pays 100 per cent. profit.
Keep both eyes open when near the
ntle bull just the same as if he were
ly' Tor he may take you unawares.
The best dairy COW is ihe one that will
lyert the forage raised on the farm into
greatest amount of butter fat.
4 dairy thermometer comes into good
y any time of year, but is especially
liable to have around for winter churn.
1he supple of vegetable matter is most
lily maintained in the soil BY the grow
of green crops and by the application
manure.
Jhange in the condition of dairying
irving many men ont of the work be.
Sc they would rather quit than i'm
We their methods.
,ou will appreciate the difference be-
en- low-headed and high-headed trees \
en- you are picking the crop.
'ecaying vegetables in storage urder
living rooms in the cellar are apt to
mote ill health in the household.