Middletown transcript., 1912-05-04
FARM NEWS And VIEWS
Mark layers with leg bands.

Mark layers with leg bands.
Incnbators are always on the job.
Be sure there are no lice on the hogs.
All farmers should keep pure-bred poul
try.
Duck feathers may also be made source
of profit.
Normal churuiug te nperature is around
81 degrees.
A special inspection should be made of
the stables.
The hen which lays an egg and does
not cackle is a-turkey.
1t costs no more to take good care of
good fowl than poor one.
Growing pigs should receive, where it is
possible, some buttermilk.
The l)ng-headed farmer is the one who
has hay to sell in the spring
Whether for eggs or meat. skimmilk
is one Of the best and cheapest foods.
In fitting horses for hard work increase
the grain ration, but not the hay.
Chickens halched in an incubator can
be reared either with hens or with a
brooder.
Open pals OF water and sEill have
caught more chicks than any rat that
ever lived.
Two parts and one Of bran may be we'll
balanced ration for pregnant ewes.
On the average, eleven pounds of cheese
can be made from 200 pound OF skimmilk.
Lo]k out for dra e. under and through
the floors. They are about the worst
kind.
A news item says that Il, ,OOe dairies are
used to supply London and its suburbs
with milk.
Feed the ewes carefully at first, and in
crease the ration as the lamb requires
more milk.
There are usually some ewes that have
served their days of usefulness and better
be discarded.
Breeding for special purpose tends to
develop an animal that will be in harmo-
ny with her function.
See if the entrance to the bives is chok-
ed with dead bees. Rake them out but
do not disturb the live ones.
Much of the illness aud loss in the fret
and second weeks of the chicken life is
due to carelessness the first 48 hours.
Cows that are well cared for and we'll
protected are not seriously affected in
their yield by the cold weather,
DairyiDg is rapidly becoming science.
1t is being studied more extensively than
almost any other line of farming.
Dust oung turkeys and their mother
once every two weeks with insect powder
until they are at least six weeks old.
Filth, disease and death are associated
together, at all times and plaees. Keep
things bright and clean aud they will
keep you so,
Corn stalks are plowed under with no
harm to succeeding crops-provided the
stalks are first thoroughly cut by double
disking.
Pure bred poultry consumes less feed,
produces more eggs and is worth at least
one-iourth more to the farmer than mon.
grel stock.
In the summer when the farmeris busy
cultivating and harvesting sheep require
the least attention OF any stock kept on
the farm.
Turkey hens are sometimes inclined to
Sit too ctCspfy See ttIat titley are 4 the
nest fifteen minutes each day until the
eggs begin to pip.
The COWS should be kept clean and the
long hair clipped SO as to prevent dirt
hanging and falling into the pals while
the COWS are being MIXED.
Supply clear water. 1t is essential to
health and to the hen for the production
of the egg, the contents OF which are
nearly three parts water
In growing a heller for the dairy mus
cular vitality is wanted rather than fat,
and this is obtained very largely from the
skim-milk portion of its Diet.
Among the essentials of the successful
care aud management of farm flock of
mutton sheep are that we treat them in
manner adapted to their nature.
A box of crushed oyster shell should al
ways he within reach.
Split carrots. turnips and cabbage in
half, instead of chopping fine.
Clear fresh water is necessary for the
hens at all times aud all seasons.
The most profitable way to keep chick
ems of any kind is to feed them we'll.
To obtain supply of winter eggs we
must have the chicks out early in the
spring.