Middletown transcript., 1912-02-10
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS
Be gentle with Pll animals.
The farmer must have horse.

The farmer must have horse.
Examine the collars of your work horsel
often.
With the better poultry is coming bet
ter equipments.
A heat I chicken house is a bad thing
for pouIl,y.
The cleaner the feed and feeding places
the better the quality of the pork in all.
1t is conductive to health to feed hogs
when they can have the range of the pas
ture field.
Those seeds, like the elm and soft ma
pie, which ripen in May or June, belong
to the 'sooner" class.
Never work a team of colts together
until they are thoroughly broken, as they
will worry each other.
Filling up the neglected holes about the
drinking tank is now in order. Fill them
up now and avoid trouble.
The man who calls improved stock
"fancy stock" will have an account to
settle with bis Maker on the judgment
day.
Garry your good care of the ewes this
fall as far as feeding plenty of nice bright
oats to keep them in condition.
The old troughs will soon have to re-
place the fountain waterers or there may
be burst fountain some cold morning.
After the strawberry bed has been set
and cared for through the summer, it
should be mulched through ihe winter.
The milk should be strained through
one thickness of clean white flannel and
then should be quickly cooled and we'll
aired.
Wise turkey breeders will not breed
from the same tom more than one year
unless the same breeding hens are retain
ed.
No matter how highly bred and care
fully cultured a colt may be if it is not
carefully trained and properly developed
it loses it value.
For general or common use, caustic or
burnt lime or ground limestone are en-
ployed almost exclusively for the correc-
tion of soil abnormalities.
Wetting the hoofs with sponge and
clean water every day, or simply dipping
each foot into pail of water, will keep
the feet from becoming dF5yf
If there are two kinds of roughness for
the COWS this winter it will be better to
feed OF both at the same time rather than
to feed out one then start on the other.
Look out for collar that rubs lap of
flesh at every stride of the horse. It is
liable to wear a gall on his neck, and
much sooner sometimes than suspected.
The neck and shoulders of a horse are
points that must not be overlooked when
when buying. A weak neck and a Dars
row breast do not go with the most desir-
able horse.
1t is source of satisfaction to the pro-
gressive dairyman to be able to sum up
at the end of the year just exactly what
every eng has done. The milk record
sheet is the key.
Anybody living near good sized town
can do fine business in sweet corn by de-
Iivering it fresh every morning to custo-
mers direct and get nearly twice the
whole price.
Skimp your sheep on good pasture and
they will skimp you on mutton.
Rabbits do great damage to young trees
during winter, especially when anow COW
eIs the ground.
The use of fruit is a great help toward
keeping in good health, and more of it
should be grown.
The proper time to spray fruit trees is
during the dormant season.
Well bred, we'll selected pigs, make |
more profit on the food eaten.
A horse in order to keep in good condi-
tion should be we'll bedded every night.
A machine in the shed is worth just
about two machines left in the fence cor
ner.
Two or three shovefuls of earth about
the trees will prevent water from setting
about them, which may cause bark burst
ing near the surface and possible injury
to thin roots.
The Massachusetts experiment station
saws that lime is an aid to good farming
but cannot the place of fertilizers, stable
manure thorough cultivation and proper
crop rotation.
Farmers don't begrudge the food good
dairy COW consumes, and they should not
count the cost of the chickens food so
ong as the chickens pay for it and give
them profit besides.
Rape is popular with hogs.