Middletown transcript., 1912-07-20
FARM NEWS and VIEWS
Cooking food for animals seldom mar.

Cooking food for animals seldom paws.
The stallion shoull show lots of mason.
Unity.
One hundred acres will carry forty
head of live stock.
Sheer the sheep before their wool gets
to be burden.
II you haven't long house, prepare to
build one next fall.
4ou can't be too particular in picking
sires for your herds.
There is little advantage in grinding al
talfa hay for cattle feeding.
Many stations are used too much to
produce large per cent. of colts.
Horses, cattle, hogs ami chickens are
dirty if they are not handled in an intel
| ligent manner.
The development of the young horse
requires the exercise OF the best Judgment
in handling him.
The Ohio experin ent station has fnnhd
that rape is one Of the very best forage
rops for hogs.
Pigs are scarce enough this vear, 80 that
the man who has few can sfford to take
mighty good care of them.
Sell your wool on rising market. Nine
times out of ten you will miss it if you try
to keep for something better.
Potatoes after alfalfa are bound to make
a fine crop.
The easiest way to kill a weed is never
to let it sprout.
Try this rotation: Alfalfa, potatoes,
grain. 1t is good one.
Hen house cleaning makes the best fer
tilizer from the onion patch.
Wide rows and cultivator in the gar
den means less hand work.
Rotation makes use of all the elements
! of plant food in the soil
The best time to fight weeds is the very
first day they show their heads above the
ground.
The surest way of getting rid of moIes
is to set one of the steel spring traps over
their runs.
Smaller and more fir. quent paintings of
vegetables will lengthen out the garden
season.
A row of parsnips, carrots and satisfy
planted now will come into good play next
falI after frost.
Beg, borrow or buy all the wood ashes
you can to use in the garden; work it we'll
into the soil.
If blossoms appear in the newly set
strawberry beds pick them off, this will
make the plants stronger.
Asparagus will grow in any good we'll
drained farm land.
Onion sets should be set out Just as
early as ground can be worked.
Amost all our common garden vpgets-
tables require somewhat slgaline soil.
Selling all the hay and grain raised on
the farm Is a sure method of selling the
farm.
Young cabbage plants require thorough
protection in the hoIbed and cold frame.
1t is seldom that the very early varie-
ties of potatoes yield so well as those a
little later.
Long, straight rows will make easier
work with the horse culLiva.or or wheel
hoe later on.
Heroic pruning measures are needed to
bring many old trees into bearing, but it
need not all be done the irst year.
There is no danger of an overrch soil
for asparagus. In fact this crop can only
be grown profitably on very rich land.
Did you ever think how much ground
good ear of corn will plam2 Il is Just
that much ground wasted if you plant
poor ear.
The less fl tn in the cream, the longer
it will remain sweet.
The way to absolutely know what a
COW is doing is to weigh and test.
The feed and feeding is the first imIor-
tant point in successful dairying.
The Aeifer calf is COW in the making.
Handle and feed her accordingly.
Remember that tine cold rain is harder
for the cow to stand than dry cold
weather.
Care should be taken that the COW does
not have to wade through filth in the
barnyard.
To obtain a maximum supply of milk,
small pastures Glowing frequent changes
of feed should be provided.
From being a winter feed for dairy COWS
silage is coming to be an all-yeaT-round
feed for all kinds of stock.
The best dairy COW is the one that will
convert the forage raised on the farm into
the greatest amount of butter fat.
That COWS like change OF feed lsshown
by the way they will eat rotten hay, pull
out old straw from the sheds, etc.
Raise more hugs.
Hairy vetch may be sown in OATS
Stock always prefer to drink water that
is clean.
Burr clover can be sown broadcast in
permanent pasture.
Sugar beets carrots and turnips are fine
feeds for sheep.
More attention is being given to COW
peas as a farm crop.
Dairy cows should have rich and liz
beral feeding every day.
Salt is esse ntial for COW and she
should Lave all she wants.
Crowded poultry will not lay-feed and
care for them as We may.
The Caul flowers must have a rather
dry air, and free ventilation.
Onions sell best when graded by rum
ming them over potato soFter.
A mnla "a i'll dO "a mueh work as a horsa