Middletown transcript., 1912-09-28
FARM NEWS And VIEWS

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more heavily than late oats.
The use of tile under four inches il
diameter is not to be recommend.
There is little practical benefit result
ing from the use of mulch with wheat
Spraying of potatoes with Bordeaux
mixture is preventive of potato blight.
Any impervious covering will checl
but not entirely prevent deterioration o
silage.
Get that piece ready for alfalfa. Better
double disk itagain just for good luck.
You cannot keep your farm permanent
iy productive without the use of legumes
Don't put in the alfalfa seed too deep
and remember to roll it well after sowing.
A barnyard full of manure never pro.
duced big corn crop until it was spread
on the field.
Tobacco uses up a large amount oi
plant food and for that reason should be
heavily fertilized.
Keep after the mites.
Chickens relish cracked corn.
Silage is the cheapest feed.
The incubator is always on the job.
Thorough milking tends to develop a
cows udder.
The siIo makes the best crib on earth
for soft corn.
Better get at that new silo right away
after harvest.
Water should be supplied in the pas
ture these hot days.
Don't make the mistake of pasturing
the clover meadow too close.
1t is pretty safe rule to select breeding
pigs from the largest itters.
Where apple tree blight, remove the af-
fected limbs at once and burn them.
The practice of keeping the COWS in the
yard at night with no feed, is most waste
full.
The work horses appreciate and occa-
sior al chance to roll and get a bite of
grass.
It is best to make haste slowly while
plowing corn, especially the first time
through.
A wet soil causes corn roots to grow
nearer the surface while dry soil sends
them deeper.
Silage must be put into the feeding pro-
gram of every beef producer who wants
to fit steers for market.
A nation wide movement for the pre-
vention of waste would do more than
nation wide revival of industry.
When each cultivator shank collects
handful of corn roots in once across the
field something is wrong.
Giving COWS a good dry feed before
turning them on a rank growing forage
crop does away with danger of bloat.
Ifyour hogs have to get their drinking
water out of a muddy pond, don't COM
plain if they are wormy and unthrifty.
The uniform excellence of a bunch of
feeders from poor side addresses much
to the profit of raising and feeding pigs.
During the first years of an orahard
proper pruning is one of the important
items that means much in the years to
follow.
Cement floors slightly roughened are
The best for the COW stable, easy to keep
dry and clean if plenty of sunlight is let
in on them.
Oats and peas should be cut for hay
when the oats are in the m ilk tage and
The advance pea pods contain reasonably
good sized peas.
A shadeless pasture is but little better |
han prison for the COWS these hot sui
ry days. If there are no shade trees, an |
'pen shed will do quite we'll.
Hot! Yes. But when we see how the
uniight makes vegetable 11fs-hoW it re- i
'ivifcs, purifes and snstains life we do
lot wonder that there were sun worship
,ers.
Bran is very satisfactory feed for the
airy COW, since it gives bulk to a ration,
J slightly Laxative and provides protein
nd phosphorus so necessary in milk pro-
uction.
About this time of the year the farmer
'iil do we'll to look up promising candi
ate from bis barnyard or pasture or from
is grain field, to run for his first prize at
ne county and state fairs.
Weeds harbor flies.
Overhaul the corn crib.
Kerosene kills onion maggots. 4
The unframed dog is nuisance.
The use of hooded pals means cleaner
fix.
The horse should be given food free
ON dust.
The Importance or the sorghums is a
ten overlooked. d
Line fences well kept up help to make
iod neighbors.
Alfalfa should ordinarily be cut when b
is coming into blossom. d
There is no grass that will stand food
g for any considerable time. fc
A crop of potatoes should be sprayed at "
lst twice with Bordeaux mixture.
Hogs should be fed as near as possible d
the same hours, morning and evening. III
One of the cheapest root crops to grow
stock Is turnips. Plant early this st
nth. "
No animal that gets only feed enough
support life can make gain or profit. fl
a weeks chill rains or cold dl
ather will set the pigs back a month
their Orowkh W