Middletown transcript., 1912-02-17
FARM NEWS And VIEWS.
Alfalfa grows anywhere.
Sheep must have dry quarters.
Tired of chickens2 Try ducks.

Tired of chickens2 Try ducks.
A fowl drenched with rain is not com
Portable.
Missouri mules are being shipped tc
South Africa.
Parcl ed corn makes good night feed
in cold weather.
Alfalfa is winning a place in the dairy
mans rotation.
One pound of sheep.s wool will make q
yard Of cloth.
Grapes are still trodden with the bare
feet in many Parts of Spain and Italy,
Duck raisers pack 40 dressed ducklings
in barrel for shipment.
Warm wheat for breakfast makes the
biddies shell out the eggs.
Do not feed corn to the ewes while they
are carrying their lambs.
Feeding spoiled meat, moldy grain,. or
auy tainted food is not economy.
Hogs are in their highest perfection
from one and half to two years old.
Corn fodder costs less than timothy hay
and makes good change in the diet.
1t is generally estimated that broilers
shrink half pound each when dressed.
No success can be obtained with poul-
try unless the fowls are kept comfortable.
At this time of year good lock on the
poultry house represents money well in
vested.
Aim for early maturity and keep hogs
growing by intelligent feeding and good
care.
All milk utensils should be heavily tin
ned and as free from seams as it is possi-
BILE to get them.
The late Matched chickens should have
a grass run to themselves, and be given
extra feed and care.
Sows are always in better condition to
raise fall pigs than they are in the spring.
Fattening sheep should have grain
enough to push them forward as rapidly
as possible.
The pig crop is governed by numerous
influences that tend to increase or decrease
the supply.
New males for the flock each year is the
only sure way of keeping up vigOr and
other good quantities.
The bourbon hens are said to be quiet
and easily handled, non-roviDg in habit
and yet very hardy.
The man who can raise hogs profitable
without pasture can increase his profits
many fold by using pasture.
That COWS like change of feed is shown
by the way they will eat rotten hay, pull
out old straw from the sheds, etc.
When hogs go off feed in a territory
where cholera is present the owner ought
to suspect cholera at once.
Extra feed and care are needed now to
keep up tie cows vitality, for without
vitality COW is not much of Dilker.
Do not allow the sheep to stand or lie
on hot fermepting manure, as it is sure to
produce foot rot and lung diseases.
Wam drinking water on cold days does
just that much to keep the hens in the
laying notion in winter.
Keep sheep dry, giving breeding ewes
as much as possible, but avoid exposure
to rains and wet SHOWS.
Ingenius tackle has been devised to
make a tree that is being felled pull its
own stump from the ground with it.
When hens lay soft shelIed eggs give
them very little.raw linseed oil once or
twice day writes one of our folks.
Clean out the hen house and put the
cleanings on the garden. Next spring you
will wonder what makes things grow 80
fast.
A little tarred paper and a few nails
and laths will make very poor poultry
house water and wind proof for the win
ter.
Right now, when cream is flirting with
the Accent mark, is poor time to let the
COWS fall off on account of lack of feed.
Better buy.
Quality in form, disposition and gener-
al conformation must be coupled with the
size aud style to get the best in each class
Of horses.
Fresh air is all right for the hens, but
not when it is sifted through knotholes
and cracks between the boards,
New Zealand condenses and powders
great quantities of milk.
Stump is the late canning peach among
the white varieties.
In fattening fowls the wet mash seems
to have the edge over dry feed.
Fodder that is dusty will be helped
by spraying little water in the managers
racks.