Middletown transcript., 1912-06-08
FARM NEWS And VIEWS


place to stretch out in the warm sup.
Milk fever might often be prevented by
alittle attention to the COW before calvinp.
Remember that your orchard especial
Iy the young trees, needs good cultivation.
The three important elements of plant
foods are nitrogen, phosphorus and potas.
siulo.
Alfalfa is HE tie ifft5st wonderful of att CUT
tivated plants, aud the Oldest one known
to history.
There is no germ slayer better than an
ounce of carbolic acid added to a pail of
whiteWash.
One of the chief advantages of feeding
live stock on the farm is the maintenance
of soil fertility.
1t will take good farming to keep up
and increase soil fertility without pur-
chasing feed grown outside.
Teach the children to respect the dra-
gon fly. This friend of ours kills flies and
many other abnoxious insects.
A tablespoonful of oilmeal to each eve
will be found profitable
Limestone land and red clay land ur-
der good culture are most profitable.
A little pig loves sunshine and needs it
almost as much as he needs food.
Ventilation is good thing if properly
done but drafts are not good ventilation.
Some feeders advise giving the hogs
medicated salt to drive out the worms.
New South Wales is said to contain
more kinds of Towering plants than all
Europe.
The man who makes success of poul-
try is the man whJ starts with the right
aim
The dd raisers on Long Island use
large quantities of fish to feed their breed
ing stock.
With five or more COWS hand separa-
tor ought to pay for itself the first year of
its use.
The weak sheep should be kept in sepa-
rate pens and the lambs separate from the
old sheep.
The hen that makes good record for
herself in eggs for the whole year is the
hen to keep.
One sigh OF good milker is large milk
veins on the underside of tie mody. 1t
doesn't often fail.
A heavy covering of manure over the
outdoor vegetable pit will give front less
of chance to get in.
The COW should be studied individual
y and food supplied according to each
animals consuming capacity.
With only three horses to every 100
persons Switzerland has the smallest
equine population of any country.
"More bushels to the acre., ia an ex.
ceedingly good motto for any farmer even
if it should mean fewer acre.
Two Paris department stores use storage
battery driven electric-:ri-cycles to deliv-
er purchases to customers.
Paint your tin wash basins on the in
side with good white enamel paint il
you would prolong their usefulness.
Many flock owners make serious mis-.
take by disposing of te that are in a run.
down condition at weaving time.
Soft. shell ed eggs can be caused by one
of four conditions: Lack of sufficient lime
in the food; Indigestion; overfat; fright.
Dairy farming is good businers, but is
exacting as the cows must be fed, watered
MIXED and cared for every day in the
year.
The ability of the ewes to feed and
nourish the lambs after birth will depend
upon the care and feed given them during
The winter.
It pays to have the farm fenced into
small fields and to have plenty of yards
10 keep hogs of different sizes and ages
separated.
Those who are feeding bundle corn to
heir cattle must make arrangements to
nave hogs follow them or the waste will
De too great.
Breeding ewes and store sheep will do
veil on good, bright, wheat straw and
tubbe grasses and half pound of corn
,iven to each daily.
The best location for new peach
richard in this latitude would be north
lope. There buds would be later in
tarting and not so apt to be caught by
rost
The pig, like other animals, suffers at
lines from arrangement of the stomach.
The driver more than the horse is al
vays more to blame for the animals being
icious-if he ever is.
Don't grow any kind of live stock for
edigree. This is the worst thing against
he pure-5red business.
At farrowing time feed the SOW lightly
n corn for few days to prevent exciting
er feverish condition.
Never rush a horse on a down grade.
his is one of the first causes of sprung
nees and strained tendons.
For fattening sheep feed literally of oat
raw and about three pounds of corn fod-
er daily for a 100 pound sheep.
On his early training entirely depends
colts usefulness and value as a hor.e,
nd 1t 5iIOufd D5gIH the day II IS IOa1Fu.
A horse or colt will drive better upon
Vc-shirds ration of hay and one-third of
raw than upon full ration of hay
lone.
Whau the OlOu horsas oro brouuht in