Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-10-03

Caponizing Is profitable.
Range for the chicks ia best.
Sheep must have some shelter
Separate the pullets and cocker
els.
Good feed. good care, good breed.
good stock.
Some COWS are better bred than
their owners.
DO not put the colts In q pasture
fenced by barbed wire.
Do you have lot of young roost-
er! Sell them for frys.
It's mighty easy matter to over
crowd the chick coops now.
1t may be wise to protect the colts
from the flies during the day.
You cannot fatten your cattle while
ticks are sucking their blood.
Hill culture produces earlier straw
berries than matted row culture.
Unless a man has a great love for
horse he should not handle colts.
A sheep or calf staked in the
front yard Is a splendid lawn mower.
Warm skim milk for feeding pur-
poses soon pays the cost Of farm
separator.
Most of the fly dopes are fairly good
but for results they have to be ap-
piled every day.
Sheep have Just as important
place upon the average farm as any
other live stock.
Drink Is all right for the hogs, but
they need some grain and vegetables
to 60 with their milk.
There Ia plenty OF farm talk In the
air, but It IL farm work that counts
in the bank balance.
A good plan Is to make the lots
long and narrow and sow them to pas
ture, blowing up alternately.
Remember, chick coops are very
apt to become foul and unhealthy
while the weather Is so sultry.
II will only take about half as much
grain and other feed to raise litter
of pigs II they be given pasture.
There is nothing about green fodder
that would have q depressing influ-
encs upon the milk flow Of the COW.
There are about a dozen different
breeds Of dairy cattle and the best OF
them all Is the kind that suits you
best
The best favored butter Ia obtained
by ripening or souring cream until
from s to 6 per cent. Of acid has been
developed.
Roughness cannot be made to en-
tirely take the place Of grain. but
heavy crop of roughness Is not to be
despised.
Ground limestone is preferable to
burnt lime unless two tons OF the for
mer cost considerably more than one
ton OF the latter
There are very few farms on which
additional labor expended In prepar'
ing the seed bed would not yield
handsome returns.
A wide range and frequent ex.
change OF pasture will reduce the
ravages OF the stomach worm. that
fearful enemy of the sheep.
An enterprising farmer living near
a town Of 5000 or more can sell every
pound Of his butter at full retail prices
or little above the year round
The man who Is trying to raise hogs
without pasture and forage crops Is
like a puppy chasing his tail. He gets
plenty Of exercise. but nothing else
Sore shoulders on horse are moth
ing less than shameful, land no man
should consider himself worthy who
permits them to appear upon his worl
animals.
Many 1airymen are giving their
cows simply maintenance ration,
and then complain because there Is
no profit in dairying. Such dairying
don't deserve to succeed.
Don't neglect to cultivate the crane
vineyard up to frniting time. The
surface OF the soil In the vineyard
must he kept mellow throughout the
hot July and August days.
containing quite little butter fat
may be most excellent for the pigs.
but butter fat at 20 to 2S cents
pound Is expensive pig feed.
We saved up some Of our profits
from farming and invested In some
farm land few years ago. The re.
suit may surprise you. but we mad