The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-02-07

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Corn and alfalfa make a combina-
farm.
The hens need strenuous exercise
these days to keep, them from becom-
ing sluggish and inactive.
Cornmeal wheat bran and ground
oats, equal parts, and a few handfuls
of beef scrap, moistened with skim
milk, make a fine morning feed for
laying hens.
A small paddock for the horse to run
in is cheaper than veterinary bills and
good deal cheaper than losing the
horse by death through lack of place
in which to exercise.
The dealers who had large quantities
of eggs in cold storage can hardly be
said to have met the new year in a
cheerful frame of mind. 1t is apparent
that the worst is yet to come"
Rats and mice are such all round
nuisances and so destructive that traps
should be kept set for them all the
time. Only in this way can the ro-
dents be kept in anything like subjec-
ton.
In three instances which have come
under the writer's notice lately little
children from one to two years old
have been scalded to death by falling
into pans or tubs Of hot water left on
the floor by busy mothers.
If the job has not been already done
the little orchard trees should be given
protective covering Of wood veneer,
wire screen or common newspaper.
Such protection will prevent damage
by both rabbits and field mice.
LIE uellS VI lle OIlleu SlulcS lulu
1,700,000,000 dozen eggs in 1912. which
were worth $350,000,000. The value of
fowls of all kinds raised was S220,0OO.-
600, which brings the total value of
poultry products up to $57O.O0O,OO0.
Analyses show sorghum seed to have
about three-fourths of the feeding val
ue of corn. Like corn, it should be
balanced as ration with tankage or
oilmeal Owing to the hardness of the
seed it gives best results in feeding
when ground.
Both meat and fish, as well as fruit,
put up in tin cans should be removed
to a glass or earthenware vessel as
soon as the cans are opened Most
cases of ptomaine poisoning are the
result of allowing these products to re-
main for some time in their tin retain
ers.
That big turkey that was furnished
the White House family and whose
crop was given daily massaging to ia
cilitate the process Of digestion prob.
ably did taste bit better than the fine
little eight pound hen turkeys that
graced the tables of hundreds of folks
| all over the land.
1t is really feed economy to blanket
the horse that has to stand in the open
during the cold weather, as blood is re-
quired to furnish animal heat and feed
Is required to make blood. However
when the horses are standing idle in
the stable or roaming around in the
yard the blanket is a rather expensive
substitute for the currycomb and
brush.
When boy gets to the age of fifteen
and thinks he is so smart that he does
not need any more schooling and Oh
top of this becomes addicted to the
reading Of yellow back ten cent yarns
(he usually gets to reading these be
fore he decides to quit SCHOOL, he is
headed straight for humanity's SCRAP
heap, and unless he is Jared to his
senses by something out of the usua
is pretty sure to land there.
Nine men and boys killed and some
thirty-three wounded more or less Sc,
riously is the score in Ohio for the
thirty days open season for shooting
rabbits. This is about as bad as the
showing during the open season on
deer in Maine and Michigan. What
the writer can't understand about the
Ohio situation is not that there were
so many killed and injured, but why
the open season on rabbits is not
In L. I.