Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-06-06


liable people.
Veterinarians seem to agree that the
serum treatment is fairly successful
preventive of hog cholera. but that in
the strict sense it is not a cure.
There should be a place for every
tool on the farm, and when they do
not keep their places look for the
cause. 1t may be just carelessness.
Moldy hay is just as fit for stock to
eat as moldy food is for folks to eat.
Folks won't eat moldy food, and anil
mails ought not to be made to eat
moldy hay.
1t is not bad practice to treat the
wheat seed TO a liquid spraying of one
pound of formaldehyde in forty gal
Ions Of water. 1t will prevent the
smut damage.
\ hungry rat can smell an ear OF
corn a long way. and it beats all what
ingenuity the rodent viii exercise to
get to it in case it does not happen to
be within easy reach.
Sepia, the brown which is used so
much in picture coloring, is secured
from the cuttlefish, being the fluid that
it emits for the purpose of muddying
the water when it is attacked.
Storage eggs are sick" is the phrase
used by the Packer to describe the egg
situation short time since. 1t might
have added that the fellows who own
the cold storage eggs are good deal
sicker"
One of the chief diversions in the vi
cinity of Maiden Rock, Wis, is rabbit
hunting. The other day a group of
men chose sides and hunted for two
hours. Tie winners bagged sixty
seven rabbits and the losers fifty-two.
If the barrel of apples is not being
consumed at rapid rate and they are
not long keeping variety it is a good
and see that those apples showing de-
cayed spots are removed for immedi-
ate use.
When the thermometer is shuddering
around 20 below zero the human does
pretty well if he keeps the house fires
stocked so rs TO prevent the water pipes
and plants from freezing and keeps
himself fed SO as to generate the bodily
heat needed to make such weather en-
durable
Exercise is good thing, but 1t is
possible to get too much of it, as is
true in the case of a number of other
very good things. Sometimes boys,
and more often girls, who are of a frail
and nervous makeup suffer serious in
jury in participating in those sports
that are really tax on strong consti-
tutions
In many sections Of England the goat
seems to be taking a place as the poor
mans cow. Good milk animals may
be got for SIS, and one of them can
live In any place where big dog can
live. Almost any city back yard will
serve as a pasture, while the lawn cut
tings and a small ration of grain will
insure a regular and cheap milk supply.
The unthrifty appearance of many
young hogs is due te their being in
tested with the long white worms
which may be seen bottled up in the
window Of almost any druggist who has
worm killer" for sale The medi-
cine which goes under this name will
Kill the worms, and so will little tur-
pentine mixed In the slop with which
the hogs are fed.
Having been quite successful In
breaking the egg corner, the house
wives leagues of some Of the larger
cities are now tackling the apple sit
uation, inasmuch as they think there
is altogether too wide a margin be-
tween what the grower got for his ap-
Piles and what the retailer is now sell
Ing them at 1t is fair to assume that
a measure of success will attend the
efforts of these determined women.
Valdessa Scott H., a Holstein COW
owned by h. Meyer of Finderne. N. j.,
has recently established a new worlds
record for weeks butter production.
She gave 605 pounds of milk during the
seven days, this testing AT per cent
butter fat and yielding 1875 pounds
OF butter. Her milk production for
thirty days was 2.9339 pounds and her
butter production 1865 pounds. The