Middletown transcript., 1912-11-23
FARM NEWS And VIEWS

A bone cutter is essential
Protect young fruit trees.
Sell all the superAuous cocksrels.
Good fences hely make good neighbors.
.Englishmen eat on an average, 95 eggs
year.
Study individual tastes in. the cows, and
feed accordingly.
Austrslia raises nearly 10000 900 acres
of wheat year.
To most farmers the old COW looks bet
ter than she used to,
Better three good cows any time than .
half dozen scrubs.
High feeding, unless the horse is used
every day is a positive injury.
Keep the sire in service just as long as
improvement follows bis use.
A little green corn in the stalk OCCASION
ally will be reIished by the hogs
Regularity in milking hours means
more milk in the pail with the same feed.
The fall-plowed land should net be
worked, but should be left rough over
winter.
Gather your vegetables before heavy
irosts aud store in suitable places.
Cuts decorations and bruises are treated
10 the COW the same as in man.
Sweet clover is one of the most yalu-
able crops for improving rundown soils.
After the baying aud harvesting are.
completed, change the sheep from the
regular pasture.
The eve flock should be run through
the mill aud cullad Just as the wheat is
before sowing.
| Dusty feeding places are very injurious
and lack Of sunshine for early pigs is de-
tumentai.
Somehow the poultry yard seems 10 be
the very last place that reforms IN stock
breeding take place.
The ideal time for picking apples is
matter that must be settled to a large de-
gree by the individual.
A liberal banking Of $ eds on the north
side will prove boon to the cows when
the cold weather comes.
At this season of the year with thecou-
ing of the fall rainP, dry shelter should
be provided for the sheer.
The value Of livestock on the farm for
turning low-priced products into good
money has never been thoroughly under
stood
Fall poWiug usually produces better
corn crop than spring blowing, th
ground being nlrilowed by the frost and
T il.
it is said by observers that hog roots
in the grodnd for alkali which 1t finds in
the soil aud which aids him in digestion.
Let the hogs husk their own corn.
Corn and soy beans, corn and rape, or
corn and pumpkins, will produce pork for
So per ewt. or less.
Fall is a better lime TO manure tbe gar
den or potato patch than spring. The
richness has time to soak into the soil dur
ing the winter.
Don't leave any rotten fruit lying
around in the orchard for the insect pests
to harbor in this winter and hatch their
young out next spring.
One lesson that short hay crops have
taught US is that crop Of hay can be
raised along the roadside where weeds
had their home before.
The dairymau who is trying with dry
feed to complete with the man with silo
might as well make up his mind to get a
sllo next summer
Rub the cow's udder with damp cloth
before milking. We would discharge
mixer whom We caught wetting the teats
with milk drawn into the hand.
Keep the plgs growing.
Sheep deserve good care.
Asparagus is hardy plant.
Onions stand considerable cold.
A kerosene bath for roosts is urged.
Keep the pigs in pen by themselves.l
Onions should be topped and kept in q |
cool dry place.
The most experienced shepherd has
yet much to learn.
Sheep like a variety of pasture as well
as other stock.
It is poor economy toletthe brood SOW
get thin IN flesh.
The dairy COW should essentially be a
q large aud rich mixer.
There is more or less risk in feeding or
dinary silage to lambs or sheep.
lis a weIl-known fact that alfalfa does
not do wed upon en- impervioas subsoii.
IL feeding dairy cow i've them all
they will clean up at ylcl9ieed bus no
nore.
Range bred lambs are far soDerior TO
native-brsd lambs ior breeding purposes
Geslings must be kept out Of dampneas
aud fed only grass water aud coarse
sand.
Dent iaiI to divide the buttermilk be-
tween biddy and the pigs. She relishes
il as mucs aa they.
The grape Ieol Hekm has committed
extensive dspr dalious anong The gine-
yards Of Penns nia
toothbrus1 naptha viii
clean your ytl and make
them look nen
Select one ID suck TO t.
Don't mix up 90 ili &c
the sale of gouf
AII ionls, chicks
that ere kept 10
of green every
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