Middletown transcript., 1912-12-21
FARM NEWS and VIEWS
Eradicate the quack grass.
Stubble will catch the snow.

Cabbage which is to be stored should
be handled with care.
II there were fewer whips in the world
there would be fewer ugly horse.
1t is Just as necessary to fit a collar
to a horse as it is to fit shoe to the foot.
The young calf should be trained to
lead. This habit will be decidedly appre-
ciated in later yeatf.
A man cannot work on boiled turnips
alone; neither can horse work on diet
OF straw and fodder.
Alfalfa is injured by pasturing,. and can
not be recommended if the fields are to
be kept for meadow purposes.
1t is entirely possible that you may be
able to double the income from your COWS
by selling half the COWS.
Wel-managed poultry is preferable to
farm crops, in that poultry will produce
an income at all times of the year.
1t costs good deal of money to buy
satisfactory team. In most cases this can
be avoided by the farmer raising his
own.
When a bird becomes i'll, separate it
from the rest of the flock. By doing SO
the spread of an infectious disease may be
averted.
Always tie your team when in town.
1t is much cheaper than having to buy
new harness aud wagon.
The horse that is all the time being tap
ped with the whip never knows what his
master means by it, and comes to think
he means just nothing.
Indigestion is the cause Of more than
half the diseases of the horse and largely
caused by improper food and working
horses on full STOMACH.
Il is more profitable to have the hens
in laying condition for the period when
prices are high than it is to attempt to
preserve" eggs until that time.
All implements that are not needed
further this summer should be taken to
the Toulouse and protected from the SUD.
A dollar saved is equal to dollar m lde.
By raising standardized poultry one
will be able to sell stock and eggs for
breeding purposes and get much better
prices than when selling eggs and fowls
ior food only.
The San Jose scale is not capable of liv-
ing and thriving on all kinds of plants,
add it is extremely important that the
grower should know which ones are most
/ liable ia attack.
Tie COW gets up Oh her lind feet first,
her head down. For this reason the
manger should be low and the cow al
lowed enough freedom in her stall so that
she can rise with ease.
Men who are inexperienced in alfalfa
growing should have forced on tneir at
tenton the important lesson that it pays
we'll to. put a little labor on the surface
after removing each crop.
PloW the garden in the fall.
The separator is an essential
Make experiments with fertilizers.
Cut out the extra strawberry vince.
A sheep that lie damp to the skin is
never a we'll sheep
Roots of peony aud bleeding heart |
should be planted in the fall.
In order to have good sized sheep grow |
them rapidly while young.
1t costs less to deliver butter fat than |
any other crop on the farm.
Sheep are not found on enough farms
and it is the wonder why they are not.
The one great secret in producing milk
that is pure is to keep it clean and cold.
1t requires quite as much care in pack
ing butter for storage as in canning fruit.
All dead limbs from trees in the orch
ard should go into the brnsh heap or
woodshed.
Eleven dozen of eggs per year is a fair
average Tor hens and pulets Kept in large
flocks.
As the potatoes are dug, sort out the
small ones and keep them for the hen
this winter.
Hogs fed in the fsld gained nearly |
one-third more rapidly than those fed In |
the yards.
Rotten fruit which has fallen to the
ground should be picked up and cOnsign-
ed to the fire.
Pork was produced with less gain by
hogging off corn than by feeding ears or
snapped corn in the yard.
Trees that are badly infested with the
| San Jose scale appear as if they had been
busted over with ashes.
Hens afflicted with scaly leg cannot
possibly give the best service in egg pro-
duction, and rough 81. tanks look bad.
Decay soon spreads in fruit or vegeta-
tables in the cellar. To be on the safe
side they should be culled over frequent
ly.
If YOU had good luck with pumpkins
and squashes this summer, better save
some seed for next year from the best
specimens.
Don't neglect the seed corn which 30
many lost last fall and winter because 1t
was not tborougly cured and dry when
zero appeared.
A good quality in the DoIsets is their
puguacious disposition which makes
them able to use their big horns in de-
fense against dogs.
A fine line of ladies Shirt Waists in the
new punch work, centre pieces, carving