Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1912-03-16

nights and provide sufficient shelter for
them so they will not be inclined to
crowd each other too much.
If market hogs are your specially. your
aim is of course to produCs iFom youg
brood SONS as large q number Of strong,
healthy pigs as possible.
Lambs of low vitality and ewes deficient
in milk flow at Iambing time are usually
the result of improper management duE.
ing the pregnant period.
When out in the barnyard or corral
the COWS like to keep busy picking at
some corn fodder or other roughage even
if they get enough feed in the stables.
Clean pens, stalls, bedding etc., and
plenty of ventilation are important and
without these things the hogs are in such
weak condition they are likely to take
anything.
Gooee eggs require thirty days for incu.
baton and it is customary to hatch ct
least some Of them With hens, sIncs the
geeee are heavy and often not inclined TO
set.
When dirt from the COW or from the
mixer is introduced into the milk there
is not only introduced the bad favor of
the manure, but also soEe ferments COM
mon to the digestive tract.
As soon as fall ploWed ground ia dry
enough 10 the spring the disk should be
put on it and kept going every week or
ten days go that moisture will be stored
up which may come in handy during
next July and August.
Provide succulent food Of some kind in
the sheep ration. SiIaRe is best, but you
have no silo, give roots of some kind
manRels, turnips or rutabagas- chopped
into the grain feed, which will irsshen
up the ration wonderfully.
Keep daily dairy record.
Poultry food should be pa'atabls.
Tuberculosis of chickens cannot be
cured.
Chaff for food is worth twice a. much
as straw.
The goslings are very hardy and require
no coddling.
Poultry will never do well if infested
with lice or mites.
You are safe to buy an old sire, bat
get him very fat.
Winter is the time to plan for improv-
ments about the farm.
The horses should be given at least one
feed of mixed hay once q day.
To fatten and fit up farm horse stock
for sale is not difficult task.
Scatter the manure as yon haul it don't
put into little piles ell over she land.
The flower garden is q thing cf beauty
and has place on every farm stead.
Profitable beef production In tbe future
means that better gains must be made.
Cows should be in prime condition at
time of freshening. Therefore feed grain
if necessary.
The first requirements tor success with
fall calves are clean, we'll ventilated and
sunny pens.
The levelnsss with which horse walks
is one Of the best evidences that bis legs
work in harmony.
On small scale vegetable seeds may be
started in small boxes or fats, placed uu-
der the kitchen stove.
Never breed from a fowl, however hns,
if it shows tendency to be king to dis
ease germs or has any weaknesses.
Butter from fresh and properly ripened
cream not over one day old keeps better
than does butter made from sWees cream.
Every poultryman has bic fayoFite
breed and it would be foolish for him to
desert it for some fowl that be did not
cart for.
The heifer that 10 cared for and hand.
ed gestly throughout her entire life will
need little bTesking in when il comes
lime to milk her.