Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10

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Camphor is said to be obnoxious to
mice. and putting 1t in the places they
frequent will sometimes make them
leave.
1t is advisable to place a box of grit
or coarse sand where the turkeys can
find 1t, as not all farms have sufficient
quantity for the purpose of good diges-
ton.
Old folks have their trials, it's true,
but few of them equal in sharpness Of
disappointment that of the small boy
who Is compelled to stay at home on
circus day to weed in the garden.
1t Is a good time about now to prune
back the raspberry canes of this years
growth. If the job is done 1t will tend
to thicken the stalks and cause them
to put forth lateral shoots which will
give a greater bearing capacity for next
year.
The right time to put a strain on a
wire fence is when 1t Is being stretched
the first time. If you can LAY to-
with all your might with good
stretcher without pulling up the end
posts you have done your work Like
q man
In business life, covering many vo-
cations, promotion usually comes to the
one who at any given time Is doing a
little more rather than little less than
be is paid for doing. 1t Is truth it
is well for the young man and woman
to remember.
Turn small boy loose In patch Of
onions. and the way be does the work
of wedding can be taken as a pretty
accurate index not only of the way he
gets his studies in school, but likewise
of the way he will be likely to do his
work when be gets to be man.
The dry mash method of feeding
chicks and poultry has this decided
advantage over the old fashioned wet
mash. that 1t does not sour and spoil
and cause intestinal trouble. The rea-
son for this is that terment bacteria
work in wet mash. but not In dry.
If It is impossible to provide the flock
of hens with shade from growing
things during the scorchiDg summer
days they will appreciate that made
by stretching good sized piece of
sheeting or canvas over some part Of
the yard This Is mere humanity to
dependent things that eau do nothing
for themselves
Keeping bees may seem in the opin-
lon Of sope a sort of small potato
kind Of vocation, yet one of the lead
ing northern beekeepers has produced
as high as $4,000 pounds Of white
clover honey in a single season, while
another professional bee expert Of Tex
as is credited with having produced
10000 pounds in a single season.
A herd of common red cows that the
writer passed through the other day!
numbering some twelve to fifteen indi-
viduals, did not contain three that 1t
would be safe to say were more than
paying for their feed. Just what sat
lsfactlon the owner gets milking these
cows during the hot summer months
OF, for that matter, whether the wealth
er is hot or cold 1t Is hard TO see
Some experiments which have been
conducted by the Missouri station
with milk cows during the few weeks
Immediately following calying show
that cows that are fat at calving time
give richer milk In the interval follow
Ing than do cows that are thin and
richer than they themselves will give
after three or four weeks By an in
teresting process the fat on their bod
les is reabsorbed and converted into
butter fat In the pail.
The weather has been pretty dry
down in Texas of late, AMI the people
have been adopting somewhat extreme
measures to secure the desired pre-
tipitation. The residents of San An
telo raised $1,000 as rain fund. and
1000 pounds of dynamite were ex-
ploded. This disturbance of the ele-
ments is said to have resulted in two
inch rain within a comparatively short
time. In view of the benefit result
Ing, this seems to have been pretty
cheap irrigation.
While there is good money 10 be
made from ginseng under most favor
able conditions. the business has its
risks also. and where native timber lots
cannot be used for beds there is con
,iderable expense Involved in provid-
/ inc tho ShedS necessary to give the ar