Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-07-26

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Alfalfa growers of Kansas consider
the best antidote for grasshoppers to
be turkey or two per acre to range
over their alfalfa fields.
When q two and half pound chick
! will fetch 80 cents per pound at three
and a half months old there ought to
be pretty good money in the poultry
business.
Professor Moore, head of the depart
ment Of agronomy of the Wisconsin
Agricultural college, states that $4,000
boys will this year be enrolled in the
corn contests that are being conducted
this season.
An eastern farmer who has tried 1t
with good success recommends apply.
ing a half teaspoonfu of gasoline to
the crowns of dandelion plants. He
states this kills them and more easily
than can be done with knife or other
methods.
Every rabbit that can be put out of
the way during the summer season
means just one less pest to gnaw the
bushes and trees the coming winter.
In the work of determination a %
target rifle is an excellent weapon.
provided one is fairly good shot
The religious professions of a man
who does not make an earnest effort
to pay his honest debts are heavily dis
counted If not entirely cast aside by
thoughtful people who have a becom-
ing sense of the elements Of fair deal
ing and of the eternal fitness of things.
1t Is easy to understand why milk
is higher priced today than it used to
be when 1t Is known that in 1870 there
was In the United States one COW for
every 3.S people, while In 1910 there
was one COW for every 81 people. 1t
Is simply q case of more folks and less
milk.
Unless that mole that is working
about the premises Is making insight
ly ridges on the lawn 1t will be q
pretty good idea to let the little fell
low live. He will not only kill a good
many white grubs working in the
roots of the grass. but many others
that may be making headquarters in
the flower and vegetable gardens.
Many Of the intestinal Ills of the
small child, as we'll as epidemics of
diseases which aflict older people,
might easily be avoided If the milk
used were kept In clean vessels and
pasteuriZed before using-that is, held
at a temperature of at least $50 de-
grees F. not less than thirty minutes.
This treatment not only destroys germs
that cause putrefaction. but the bacilll
of typhoid fever. scarlet fever and
diphtheria.
Two deaths and thirty-two cases of
typhoid in the vicinity of Anoka, Mimi,
have been traced to the eating of but
ter made from foul cream produced in
two or three filthy diaries in the local
ity. The health officer. who directed
the investigation into the causes of the
outbreak of the epidemic, stated that it
was marvel that worse diseases than
typhoid had not broken out as result
Of the germ producing condition found
in some Of the diaries.
The luXuriant appearance of the wild
sweet clover In many places where
limestone crops out-along railway
cuts and on the dump heaps adjacent
to limestone quarries-seems to point
to the fact that many soils should be
rather heavily lined and sweetened
before clover, alfalfa or any other
legume will do well thereon. The
farmer who has had trouble in getting
q field of alfalfa started would do well
to take stock of this quite evident fact.
Thorough cultivation during the
growing season is viewed as indispen-
sable for young orchards through all of
the irrigated districts of the west. and
during the past two years the same
principle has applied with nearly equal
force in the central and eastern por-
tons Of the country that were visited
with drought. Such frequent cultiva-
ton. even during a very dry season,
will keep the surface soil mellow and
enable the soil TO retain the largest