Middletown transcript., 1912-05-18
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS
Cut out the quack grass.

Out cut the quack grass.
Have the swine quarters dry.
Miliet is a great egg producing food.
Share the skim milk with the poultry.
Ducks do not need expensive houses.
Incubators are saving Of both time
and money.
Plenty of roOsting space is needed sum-
mer and winter.
Never set thin lousy hen. She won't
stay her time out.
Chicks should not be fed until they are
at least 36 hours old.
Keeping the finger nails cut may save
both milk and modification.
Lately drained gumbo or black clay
loans merely need good farming.
DoD't be too cure of your first old biddy
that makes noise like sitter.
Butter color should be added to the
cream before churning is commenced.
One of the prime causes of roup in poul
try is close, stuffy roosting quarters.
A quart of cream weighs about 81
pounds, and quart of milk 2l5 pounds.
The period of time between the hatch.
ing of the chick and its frst feed is criti-
cal.
Don't get big flock OF hens till you
can manage small one to good adyan-
tage.
Quack grass is a perennial and the root
must be cut off under the surface, to kill.
Wheat bran and linseed meal make the
best combination to give to a frsshenlng
COW.
Weed out the pimping chicks. Only
bright lively ones should be kept for the
home flock.
In changing feed with the hero, ,remem-
Der it is necessary to make the change
gradually.
Winter dalrying will never be over
done. At least no one has noticed any
indications of it,
The consumer is paying as much for
four quarts of good as be is for one pound
of butter.
With plenty of moisture in the ground
this promises to be good season for early
gardens at least,
A mixture of corn chop and bran is
splendid feed for the young calf just as
soon as be can be taught to eat it.
Haphszard methods don't pay and are
always unsatisfactory. The law that like
begets like must not be forgotten.
When you turn stalks under the
ground needs to be plowed deeper than
ususI-in most soils fine advantage.
Whatever the kind of brooder the main
point is TO have it thoroughly under con-
rol as to temperature and ventilation.
The pure-bred sire, and a dam of the
,ame type. of as good blood as it is pos
sible to get, will usually bring desirable
colt.
If one has large flock of sheep much
time will be saved aud better results OBJ
tanned by the use of the machine clippers.
Many a dairy farmer is robbing himself
of legitimate profits by keeping cows that
give milk only few months in they ear.
Chickens when taken from the nest or
incubator should be placed on ground
upon which no other chickens have rang
ed that season.
If the sheep are kept on the pastures
too late, they will eat right down into the
roots, and do more harm than the grass
will do them good.
The rich butter fat COWS can be made
more numerous only by careful breeding.
If you mate rich butter fat stock only the
improvement will be rapid,
There are l55. .S46 colonies of bees in
Illinois, valued at $4S7, ,7S9. Bees are
owned on 90, 74l farnis in the state, or on
1l.S per cent of all Illinois farms.
Every farmer who raises chickens
should have an incubator, as they are a
money making, time saving machine and
worth many times the price asked for
them
If a cold wet spell comes when apples
are to bloom spray with bordeaux mix
ture to prevent scab, This fungous is ale
ways most destructive in a cool, wet
spring.
Young chickens require plenty of
ground to range over; some conveniens
shade, such as fruit trees, or growing corn
or artichokes; tender, green foods and in
sects.
Opposition by few crooked dairy men
to reasonable reforms brings the dairy.
business into bad repute and turns the
best customers from the use of dairy
products.
If several spraying machines are to be
used, it is great convenience in making
repairs to have all of the machines of the
same make. Broken parts are then inter-
1 changeabie.
Missouri raised $1,000. 600 worth Of COT
ton in 1910.
Too early calving stunts the heller or
dairy purposes.
Coal ashes are good for busting over the
dropping boards.
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Poultry keeping is a decidedly health.
ful occupation.
The more active the hens the more
water tliey viii drink.
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