Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-12-12

their appearance, but increases thei1
market value and at the same time
does not retard their growth.
To produce the best quality of WOOL
sheep must be in excellent physical
condition, and to bring this about abun-
dance of pasture is necessary.
Where it is possible to do so a rath-
er long, heavy belt should be used on
a gas engine 1t gives q steadier mo-
ton and seems to add to the power
Kansas has adopted "chinch bug
day" on which there is to be a united
effort to burn rubbish and old fields
for the purpose of getting rid of the
bugs.
When frightened or disturbed hens
are said to hold back their eggs in the
same way that Il COW will hold up her
milk, and under such conditions dead
eggs are the result
The back of the average man who
keeps flock of hens on the place
needs limbering up to the extent Of
spading up the chicken yard so that
the hens may have a supply of worms.
The leaves make a fine covering for
the rose and other bushes and should
be saved for this purpose. If they are
to be burned they should be put on the
garden. 1t is better, however, to let
them lie until spring and then spade
or plow them under.
Over In Germany a convention of
scientists is going to give thorough
test to divining rods as means of To-
eating water supplies and minerals.
Those who have faith in this long
standing superstition will now have
chance to deliver the goods
1t is useless to apply gypsum as a
substitute for lime to correct soil acid
ity, for it is an acid and not an aka
line compound its chemical symbol be-
ing Cas- 1. while that of lime is Gao.
The former is commonly known as
calcium sulphate, while the latter is
calcium oxide.
The writer's table is now being sup
piled with turnips from n patch which
was not sowed until the eighth of
August. There has been abundant
moisture since Aug. %, but the wealth
er since the middle of September has
been unseasonably cool and has pre-
vented the most rapid growth.
What Is said to be the talleSt corn
ever grown in the state of Illinois was
! produced the past season on a farm
near Downer's Grove. 1t reached an
! average height of seventeen feet and
| two inches. The corn was grown from
! seed furnished by the government ex-
pertinent station and got from an old
Indian mound in southern Colorado.
The dignity and Importance of the
hen have lately been established by
decision handed down couple of
weeks ago by the Iowa supreme court.
In effect the decision is that hens are
not a nuisance as some animals that
are allowed to run at large have been
/ declared to be. If one wishes to keep
/ his neighborS hens out of his garden
he must fence the hens away from it
instead Of trying to persuade his neigh
Dor to keep them shut up ut home.
Mrs. l.. A. Hill Of Lees Summit.
Mo, one of fifty ladies who entered a
contest for hOnOrs in the poultry divi-
sion at the American Royal stock show
at Kansas City. in relating her ex-
perience in the Kansas City Star states
that she has One-half acre of land de-
voted to poultry raising. She has been
raising pure bred poultry for the past
fifteen years and states that she has
found it easy to earn $500 year above
all expenses. She further states that
she does not devote to her poultry an
average of more than two hours day.
How pitifully inadequate the meas
ures OF precautiOn sometimes taken by
state legislatures for the safeguarding
of live stock interests against disease
is rather strikingly shown in the
writer's home state. The last session
of the legislature appropriated $4,000
tor the purpose of equipping a serum
plant In connection with this it may
be recited as a matter OF economic his
tory that since that time in one county
of the state alone, Cerro Gordo, the
losses from hog cholera are put at
S1,0O0,OO0, and for the state as whole
it is fair to assume that the losses OF
the past year will total between $50
900, 600 and $7O,OOO,OOO 1t would seem
as if an industry of the Importance OF
the hog industry of the state WAS en-
titled to more protection than that af-
forded by a $4,000 appropriation.