The Penn's Grove record., 1912-05-17

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a butterfly and a fly in the butter.
Be sure the little pigs have a nice
dry place to stretch out in the warm
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Milk fever might often be prevented
by a little attention to the cow before
calving.
Remember that your orchard, espe
clally the young trees, needs good
cultivation.
The three important elements of
plant food are nitrogen, phosphorus
and potassium.
Alfalfa is the most wonderful of all
cultivated plants, and the Oldest one
known to history.
There is no germ slayer better than
an ounce of carbolic acid added to a
pail of whitewash.
One of the chief advantages of feed
ing live stock on the farm is the
maintenance of soil fertility.
1t will take good farming to keep
up and increase soil fertility without
purchasing feed grown outside.
Teach the children to respect the
dragon fly. This friend of ours kills
flies and many other obnoxious in
sects.
If dusty hay is fed, sprinkle with
much annoyance; but better not feed
it at all.
A box of ashes under a clump of
~shrubbery will be greatly appreciated
by the hens in warm weather.
1t is as impossible to estimate the
productiveness and value of a COW as
it is to guess the exact number of
bushels of corr a certain field will
yield.
The right kind of a farm garden
will keep the family during garden
season with the help of the hens. 1t
won't take many hens for this help,
either.
A good crop for the orchard would
be coWpeas-wide strips sown between
the rows of trees. This would make
good early hay and is also good for
the soil.
While sheep will eat grain and any
kind of grass and some kinds of
weeds, they are, after all, dainty
feeders, and the feed must be abso-
lutely clean.
If you intend to raise sheep for wool
buy rams and ewes that are bred
for wool, and do not make the mis-
take of mixing mutton types with
wool types.
The young pigs often become crook
ed in the legs, if kept OF the hard
floor too long, and this means that
the pig. if a good breed, loses much
of it's value.
Weighing milk at stated intervals
not only tells the owner which are
his profitable COWS, and which are
robbers, but it stimulates rivalry be-
tween the mixers.
Alfalfa grows best on a deep, sandy
loan underlaid by a loose and per-
meable subsoil. 1t will not grow If
there is an excess of water in the
soil. The land must be well drained.
English farmers do not hesitate to
pay as high as 500 for a pure bred
sire ram. Do you imagine they would
do this if they could get just as good
results from a scrub at one-tenth the
price?
The high producing dairy cow is an
animal that follows in the wake of
civilization. She never goes ahead.
Conditions must be suitable be-
fore she can be of any value to the
farmer.
If strawberry plants are dried out
when received by express do not water
them, for water on the foliage will
quickly cause the crown to rot Dip
the roots in tepid water and lay them
in a cool cellar for a few hours.
No matter what analysis may show
regarding the goodness of different
feeds, If stock do not take hold of it
with a good appetite it will not do
them much good. What they like and
what their system Graves is what they
need to put on flesh and make milk.
An old COW is a better judge of what
is good for her than the chemist.
Kerosene emulsion is easy to make.
Cut up half a pound of soap and boil
in a gallon Of water. Add two gallons
of kerosene, while the water is hot,
but remove the kettle from the fire
before doing so, or you may not live
to use the mixture. Churn briskly
for five minutes. For spraying dilute
this with seven or eight parts of wa
ter.
The earliest sweet corn may give
you a few bites, but bites that will
have to be taken with care. Very
early sweet corn is apt to be destroy
ed by worms. When it comes in silk
the first brood of moths that produce
the worms are flying and they fnd
no place that suits them better to de
post their eggs thar on this early
corn.
-Four ounces of sulphate of potas-
SUM to a gallon of water makes a
| good solution for killing lice on horses.
Benzine is also beneficial. Both ap-
plications should be rubbe1 in twite,
a week apart, in order tc do the work
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