Middletown transcript., 1912-08-17
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

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fodder it is worth much.
Swine raising will put your ia m on
cash basis and enable ou to educate your
children if you follow it inttlligenlIy.
Head work gives just as good returns
on the farm as hand work, Lut the best
results are obtained when the two are
| rightly combined.
Form, color aud similar traits NAV be
OF Importance in handling a COW but the
real question of profit is decided by her
vigor and ability to handle food.
The contented and happy hen is the
laying hen.
a writer recommends boiled rice for
diarrhea in young turks.
Initiate nature as closely as possible
and your turkey crop will pay out.
Eggs should always be protected from
the hot sun while being taken to market.
Windows should now be out of the
poultry house and wire netting tackled in
their places.
A foorless brood coop on clean, dry
ground is better than one with a beard
floor in it.
The average hen outlives her usefulness
iu two years, and is more profitable sent
to market,
Whether kept for hatching or market
eggs ought to be kept free from any form
of moisture.
When eggs are soft shelIed the hens are
either too fat or do not get enough miner
al matter in their feed.
Don't neglect the water supply as
plenty of water helps to keep the hens in
good laying condition.
A safe rule to follow in chick feeding is
to give then just as much as they will
clean up mic, ly at each feed.
The incubator is no longer an expert
ment, and the demand for poultry pre-
ducts suggests its more general use.
The utility" bird is one that is not
without its faults, but it is often from a
good strain, hence it has it's own economic
values
One feeding rule is to give the hens
half as much as they will eat of morning
nothing at noon and full meal at night.
The separator needs to be set perfectly
level on a solid foundation.
The feed bill Of the poultry yard can be
cut in two if you know how.
Continued care in handling the dairy
products is the price of success.
The calf that is reared naturally gets
only small quantity of milk at time.
DON'T neglect to commence feeding the
colts some grain before they are weAned.
Waiting to teach the colt to eat grain
until it is wea led is very poor econmy.
The value of silage as the cheapest aud
best succulent for cattle and hogs is fully
established.
When fattening beef cattle for the mar
ket, keep them as quiet and contented as
possible.
Regularity IN feeding and milking will
go long ways towards making dairy
work successful.
All milk utensils should be heavily tin
ned and as free from seams as it is posi-
BILE to get them.
Many OF the Irregularities in the health
of the farm stock can be traced to iniudi-
cious feeding.
Wooden pals readily absorb milk par
ticles, making it almost impossible to
keep sweet and clean.
The hatching-agg trade and the raising
of stock for breeders have assumed the
dignity of specialties.
1t is to the poultryman's interest
to keep his stock up to the best type
healthy and vigorous all the time.
A cold rain, fall or spring rain. will
check the milk flow as much as a snow
storm if the cows are exposed.
1t will be notified that though the
prices of other farm stock are falling off
the dairy COW still holds her own.
In hot weather lice breed in pigeon
houses by the million and extra care
must be taken to keep down the vermin.
Rats in a pigeon house not only de-
stroy the young but their presence fright
ems the birds so that they will not thrive.
If one has large flock of sheep uuch
time will be saved and better results OBJ.
tanned by the use of the machine clippers.
Sheep are extremely nervous and when
being fattened for market they must be
quiet and free from sudden alarm which
will cause excitement.
Pigeons Matched in March are matured
md ready for breeding in July and if the
are congenial they will cor-
,inue to breed every month thereafter.
A young girl who raises about 100
White Plymouth Rocks, always brings
very bird in the flock flying to her feet
oy single particular cry she utters.
Onions should be stored in a dry, cool,
building where the air will cirl u'ate free
y amongst them.
II the foreign demand is as great this
'ear for apples as last the better gradta
will bring as much.
Cutting corn at so much per shock is
learly thing of the past, ,sinc. tine advert
# the corn binder.
II a horse has been accustomed to drink
ng before eating, then 1t is well to let the
ustom be continued.
The cost of harvesting an scre OF corn
Till vary with the locality and amount of
lelp that must be hired.
The farmer who so manages that he has
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