Middletown transcript., 1912-06-15
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

plant potatoes.
Potatoes usually do well when planted
on clover sod.
Provide good drainage and plenty of
suitable fertilizer.
Deep plowing, well manured, is good
preparation for the cabbage patch.
A home repair outfit will pave Won
many dollars before it outlives its useful-
ness
Rotation of crops gives distribution of
laoor as well as many other advantages
Onions should be sown at the earIies.
moment that the ground can be got in
good condition.
PARSLEY sowed in cold frames will be
helped by mulch of manure between
the lows.
Don't allow fresh manure to come in
direct contact with the tuberous roots.
10 t''but have the soil very rich.
If blight was bad in the potatoes last
year it will be well to select a new loca-
ton for the patch this spring. :
After man has had little experience
with contaminated wells he begins to ap-
preclate the importance of pure water on
the farm.
The pig, like other animal4 suffers at
times from arrangement of the stomach.
TIE driver more than the horse is a.
ways more to blame for the animals be-
ing vicious-if he ever is.
Don't grow any kind of live stock for
pedigree. This is the WORT thing against
the pure bred business.
At farrowing time feed the sow lightly
on corn for few days to prevent exciting
her feverish condition.
Never rush a horse on down grade.
This is one of the first causes of sprung
knees and strained tendons.
For fattening sheep feed literally of oat
straw and about three pounds OF corn fod-
der daily for 100 pound sheep.
On his early training entirely depends
a colts usefulness and value as a horse,
and it should begin the day it is foaled.
A horse or colt will drive better upon a
two-thirds ration of hay and one-third of
straw than upon full ration of hay
alone.
When the pillow horses are brought in
at noon the harness should be removed
and the shoulders washed and rubbed
dry while they are feeding.
d. not be afraid to shoot any prowIing
stray dog that may be found on your farm
and particularly if it should happen to be
in the vicinity of the sheep.
All hogs do not equally utilize the feed
consumed in the production of pork,
Some make more pork than others from
the same amount of food. The better the
hog the less the feed costs in the produc
tion of pound of pork.
A box of ashes under clump of shrub
berry will be greatly apprecissed by the
hens in warm leather. -.
1t is as impossible to estimate the pro-
dnctiveness and value of COW as is to guess
the exact number of bushels OF corn a. ..
certain field will yield. Il.
The right kind of farm garden will
keep the family during garden season
with the help Of the hens. It won't take
many hens for this help either.
A good crop for the orchard would be
cowpeas-wide strips sown between the
tie rows of trees. This would make good
early hay and is 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 absolutely clean.
If you intend to raise sheep for wool
buy rams and ewes that are bred for wool
and do not make the mistake of mixing
mutton types with wool types.
in the legs, if kept on the hard floor too
long, and this means that the pig, if
good breed, loses much OF its value.
Weighing milk ut stated intervals not
only tells the owner which are his prof.
table cows, and which are robbers, but if
stimulates rivalry between the mixers.
Alfalfa grows best on deep, sandy
oam underlaid by loose and permeable
'ubsoil. 1t will not grow if there is an
excess of water in tina soil The aud
must be well drained
English farmers do not hesitate to pay
ls high as 500 for pure bred sire ram.
Do you imagine they would do this if
hey could get just as good results from
Grub at one-tenth price.
The man who uses system is the man
Who acconpIishes the most work with
he least effort.
The surest sign that chicken cholera is
present is the green, frothy appearance of
he droppings.
The advent of silos and silage into
Iairying has revolutionized the method
4 feeding dairy COWS.
On third of an acre Of land Missouri
10Y raised in one season crop of sweet
'eas that sold for $500.
Keep close watch OF your stock. R.
nember the old provsrb that ''the eye OF
be master fattens his cattle"
thimble carrying knife bladeon the
nd has been patented by California
1an to aid in picking trnit.
Almost every wrong act OF the horse
caused BY fear, excitement or misman-
cement, said great horsemsn.
Clover or alfalfa hay With light ration
wheat bran and linseed meal and roots