The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28

IRE VIII clean the SCOT out OF stove
pipe and chimney.
The hens relish green food of some
sort and will amply repay you for the
trouble Of chopping up cabbage, potato
peelings, turnips, etc.
Hens have to have & rest spell some
time during the year, from which il
follows that if they lay heavily during
the spring and summer they are likely
to take layoff during the winter.
A pail or tub of water placed In the
cellar will serve as a protection to the
vegetables on cold nights, as the water
being more susceptible to cold than
anything else, will be the first to freeze
The value of the farm crops raised
in the United States in the year just
closed reached the huge total of $6,-
137,Oo0,oo0, an amount far in excess
of the value of the crops for any pre-
vious year.
The corn crop for the past year broke
all previous records for both total yield
and value of crop. The number of
bushels produced was 3,169,0OO,O00,
while the value of the crop is estimat-
ed at $1,759,0OOO0O.
The Christmas cactus gives profu-
sion of bright colored and attractive
bloom at time of year when the COM
mon house plants are usually taking a
rest and before the bulbs have come
into bloom to any extent.
If the strawberry bed has not been
given a coating of straw or cornstalks
the job should be attended to at once,
for serious damage is likely to result
I'm the coming weeks if it is left expos
ed to the thawing and freezing of the
midwinter days.
Don't for the sake of the dollar or
two that his work may mean encour-
age the boy to stay out of school. He
will need all the education he can get
and then some. School days come but
once, and he should be encouraged to
make the most of them.
The very open winter season preced-
Ing Christmas week was Of inestima-
BILE value to the farmers who were late
In getting their cornhusking out of the
way and to the stock, which ranged the
fields and pastures and required little
additional feed and care
Fasten a piece of beef suet out in
the tree near the house for the nut
matches, chickadees and other brave
little feathered friends that remain in
the north after the robin, meadow
lark and thrush have departed for their
warmer haunts in the south
A lady friend is worrying quite bit
about her increase in weight She is
now plump and weighs $50 pounds.
This good woman does not need to
worry or take any anti-fat dope. All
she needs do is to cut out the soup and
pastry courses and she will be saved
from the humiliation which she fears.
1t is claimed for the Indian Runner
ducks that they will lay more eggs in
year than the Leghorns, while young
ducklings grow four times as fast rs
young chickens. Another point that
might be mentioned in favor Of the
ducks is that they are not as subject to
disease as chickens, nor are they both
cred with lice and mites.
If the national and international egg
laying contests that have been and
are being conducted accomplish moth
ing else they will be well worth while,
because they are bound to attract at
tention to the hen that delivers the
goods-tills the egg basket-rather
than to the high scoring fowls of the
poultry shows, many of which look
fine, but all too often neither "toil nor
spin.'
A very proper notion of the impor-
tance of the dairy COW as a factor in
the production of national wealth is to
be had from Secretary Wilson's an
nual report, recently issued. This
shows that the combined value Of dai-
ry products for the year 1912 was
SS30,00o,o00, an amount which exceeds
the value of the cotton lint and is
nearly equal to the combined value of
both lint and seed.
AS a result of experiments in the
growing of sugar beets which have
been carried on on the island of Java at
an altitude of 1000 feet it has been
found that the beets produced are not
only larger than those grown in Ger
many, but their sugar content is con-
siderably larger, with the result that
on the average the yield of sugar per
acre would be nearly two and a half
times that which is customary in other
countries. 1t is likely that the condi-