Catoctin clarion., 1912-07-04

Pigs must have good pasture.
Cherries require very little pruning.
The COW and the SOW make a good
farm team.
Drive colt the first time with
fast walking horse.
The hens will relish a feed of scald-
ed oats at any time
Pull radishes just as soon as they
are big enough to bite
"Study to be quiet" Is a fine thing
in handling team anywhere.
Chaff from the hay NOW floor
makes the best litter for chicks.
Too sudden a change of diet for the
young calf is bound to start trouble.
Covered cream or milk cans on the
way to town bespeak careful dairy
man.
There is every Indication that grass
fat beef will bring good price this
summer.
When the calf is two weeks old
some skim-milk may be added to the
usual feeding.
A horse that is watered two or
three times day is apt to drink too
much at one time.
Fine corn meal for the skim-milk
calf is a good substitute for the more
expensive oilmeal.
Clean the mud from the horses
limbs during seeding operations, and
prevent scratches and fever.
Quality in vegetables is the result
of quick. unchecked growth, and this
means plenty Of water at all times.
It is not a difficult proposition to
raise calves when the feeder uses
some precaution in their management.
After turkey chicks are six weeks
old they must be allowed to range
else they will be sadly stunted In
growth.
It is a mistake to try to fatten the
ho Gnn
with the hogs that are being prepared
for market.
While It requires one sort OF edu-
cation to make good riding or driv-
ing horse. It requires another to make
q cart horse.
Hens that roost in damp, close
house are apt to give out In the leg
Joints with trouble somewhat akin
to rheumatism.
It is easy to notice the effect OF
grass on the milk, but. with the cows
that have siage, the change will be
less perceptible.
Fruit trees planted in the hog pas
ture will supply shade and abundance
OF food In the fall when the trees
come into bearing.
Better dairying should be the aim
of every dairy farmer. 1t is only as
he strives for better things that he
cap aDnrOaph his ideal
The man who makes success at
dairying or any other line OF work
starts with the right aim and neve'
changes or loses sight of 1t.
Tests at experiment stations have
shown that 20 per cent of the cream
Is saved by the use Of a separator as
compared with hand skimming,
There Is no problem that is OF
greater Importance today than con.
servation of soil fertility The dairy
cow. the hog and the hen help solve 1t.
Good care consists in doing every
thing from milking and caring for the
cows to marketing the butter or cream
as II your whole life success depended
upon 1t.
Mix plaster OF Paris and turpentne.
mould In the shape of eggs. and put
one In each nest to kill lice and
mites. Do not use with eggs that are
Matching.
There are 2S slos within short
distance of this farm. Many farmers
have been closely pressed in order to
find feed for their stock but none OF
the silo owners were.
A city chicken man has found
good way to break broody hen He
puts an alarm clock In the nest and
when the clock goes off that hen goes
off too-and never comes back.
The cost Of hauling over our coun-
try roads is now about % cents per
ton per mile. In European countries
the cost Is below 10 cents. Our bad
roads are an expensive proposition.
Shallow cultivation Of corn Is most
in favor with the experiment stations,
but much seems to depend upon cli-
matte conditions. In dry climates you
can safely cultivate deeper-three tc'