Middletown transcript., 1912-08-24
FARM NEWS and VIEWS
Keep the hoe going.
Feed the hogs a variety.
The best feed is cheapest.

This season OF the year is trying on
COWS and dairymen.
Get die and stamp your initials on
the cream or milk cans. Paint will rub
off in time.
The COW that can hold up we'll in milk
production in August is valuable animal.
Selling all the lay and grain raised on
the farm is a sure method of selling the
farm.
From 10 to so per cent. OF cream is lost
by setting" milk in pans, say the ex-
perimenters.
With the exception of the plow, the
harrow is perhaps the oldest Of tillage in
struments.
Less Kaffir corn in the feed as the
weather gets warmer will keep hens from
getting fat and lazy.
Don't fail to divide the buttermilk be-
tween Biddy and the pigs. She relishes
it as much as they.
All fowls, chicks, ducks and ducklings
that are keptin ards should have plenty
of green food every day.
A chicken takes naturally to having
feed handed him, but the turkey is al
most self-supporting until cold weather.
Don't allow the hen-mother to drag
around all day with her brood, as many
chicks succnmb through exhaustion.
One advantage in keeping feed always
before poultry is that they do not have to
hurry so to get their meals.
In building a wire fence for hogs put
one barbed wire at the button and the
worst rooter in the pasture won't root out.
One mite on the back of a fellows neck
makes him just about wild. What must it
be to have a million crawling7
There is still time to put out crop of
roots for COW feed next winter. Rich
light soil is the best place for them.
Turkeys always fnd ready sale and
are almost clear profit. The market is
never glutted.
Neat, clean crates and boxes help to
sell frnit even though it may not be quite
up to standard of excellence ret by the
grower.
If the season is dry, haul few barrels
of water to those late planted trees. Don't
let them suffer for water during a dry
spell.
If hogs are lousy, set small post, wrap
ped tight with rope, in the ground and
soak the rope with coal oil. The hog will
do the rest.
Don't imagine chicken does not need
a change of diet because it is chicken.
they need change of food quite as much
as human biped.
If you use the litter in the house keep
it dry and clean. MustY and moldy litter
is particularly liable to cause trouble at
this season Of the year.
Plymouth rocks have been made to
weigh seven pounds, dressed, at Thanks
giving time, by iu1icious feeding for
growth and development while on range.
Don't expect the hired man to work in
hay and harvest till dark, and then milk
dozen COWS after dark, and be very gen.
tie about it. He isn't built that way.
Land plaster has very small percent
age of lime; lump lime has the largest per
centage and hydrated lime next. Mar is
usually little richer in lime than ground
| limestone.
The peanut is becoming more important
as feed for stock, especially in the south-
ern states. The vines with the nuts at
tached are often cured and they make q
palatable hay for all kinds of farm stock.
Where one finds bird with contested
crop, they can cut into the crop and re-
move the ingredients, after which they
should thoroughly cleanse the inferior
of the crop with a solution Of warm
water and boracic acid. After the crop
has been treated thus, it should be sewed
with silk cord.
1t is good practice to graft plums on
peach stock.
A spraying of the currant and other
small fruit bushes will help.
Fruit should never be offered for sale
that is exposed to flies.
Never cut limb from q fruit tree un-
less you know just why you do it.
An orchard neglected for one year vir-
tually puts it back three years.
If the rabbits have gnawed only the
outer bark, wrap the wound with cloth.
Donot be stingy of water for the plants
Soak them plenty once or twice week,
and don't dribble once day.
1t is a great mistake to pick opt the
poorest soil on the place on WHICH to
plant the orchard. The best is pone too
good,
Ifa man sells fruit of which he is q.
shamed then be should throw away his
stencil and conceal all evidence of his
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The flowers will require close attention
now to keep them tidy. Pick off all the
seed pods and dead leaves and keep after
the weeks.
Lemon and orange growere, have
learned that it is best to wash and wipe
them before packing them to prevent the
spread of rot fungi.
The reason fruit trees planted in fence
corners and out of the way places do not
thrive generally may be found in the fact
that they are not cultivated.
Mature hogs that are thin may be made
a gain of half pound a day on alfalfa
without grain.
Running the mower along the sides of
the bitches will make it easier keeping
them clear of weeds:
Hot water and sunshine are two Of the
best cleansers for the dairy utensils that
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