Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-19

shows a bright scarlet color in the
comb Whenever the comb changes
color the fowl should be examined
for disease.
tt is a good plan to whitewash the
poultry house interior every few
months to make it look brighter and
to kill a lot of the poultry vermin
A little crude carbolic acid mixed
with the whitewash will kill all the
insects il finds in the cracks.
The goose. like the duck, has prac-
tically no crop.
cramming is a system OF forcing
feed into young fowls, either by hand
or machine, so as to put on extra
flesh,
Goose feathers range from go cents
a pound for white to 30 cents for
mixed.
Paint adds much to the appearance
and durability of poultry buildings
and is good investment
THE intensive system of long houses
is recommended for the production OF
market eggs and the colony system
for breeding stock.
Feeding turkeys with chickens is
had poliey, and throwing their feed
on ground where chickens trot is
bound to bring deadly blackheads
The beginner in hog raising should
start with good breeders. Pure bred
animals can be had at llVlnR prices prices
and are as good for growing pork
as prize animals costing high prices
With the fall letting up of work
let mn on the heavy feed. Like men,
the horses doing little work should
eat little,
Mares nursing foals should be
given a ration that will not only IN,
crease their flow OF mix put VIII
also enrich it..
Corn is no doubt the best feed there
&c for hogs. but its full value can
only be realized when ii is used in
conjunction with other feeds.
hog fed on corn alone from the
time II is weaned from the sow until
h,,fchered at eighteen months old
seldom pays for it's Keep.
MANY shepherds rerort as good re-
suits from feeding silage to sheep
as are reported by dairymen ana peel
cattle feeders
Sheen in the summer are gross
feeders, rapidly cleaning the lahu OF
brush and weeds, but In the paIi
and in the feed lot they are eA>
tremely dainty in their eatihF'
II Is when the seed is produced
tbai The land is taxed most severely
in production Cut the Weeus
fore they seed
Do not buy a horse that is too light
FOR your work. You will gam noun,
ting by overburdening him; ne VIII
soon become unsound and wear Out 4
Tot the horse have one days rest
every week. See that he is comfort
ahle in his stable. that it is neither
dark no damp, and that he has
good bed to lie on.
Just because the cucumber vines
have quit work and there are no
more summer squashes is no sum
Gent reason for letting the garden
grow up to weeds.
Horses. like human beings, are
often thirsty when hard at work. SO
offer them water frequently. A lit
tle oatmeal in the water is very re-
freshing and sustaining.
Fear of using the knife too much
on Young trees is often the cause OF
great damage when the trees are old
er. Good Judgment in pruning when
Young will so shape the tree that the
necessity of removing larger limbs
at a later time will be obviated.
II alfalfa will increase the quantity
of their milk and butter fat. giving
a product at a lower cost than the
concentrated foods, 1t should be more
used But as yet it is not generally
used, because it is not understood
and appreciated.
To many tastes the thing to breed
out in the large yellow peach is the
aboninable bitter, bark alike taste To-
Gated around the pits To many this
makes the liberia more repusnant
than the Ben Davis apple, with its
spongy insipidity.
The big, heavy draft horse on the
farm is the most economical work
animal that can be used. He will cost
more to buy or grow, yet he Will do
enough more work to more than make
up the difference between him and
common light horse He is the kind
of an animal that the modern business
farmer can afford to follow.
Cyclamen showing buds in the
early part Of October will bloom by
Christmas il given a temperature of
about So degrees at night. Watering
must be done very carefully. A little
too much or too little, or a soaking
of the crown of the bulb spells dis
aster Keep the green fly down by
strewing tobacco stems among the
pots.
The farmer who comprehends and
applies the principles of good farm or
ganization, selection of good seed, till
age and feed, who is quick to under
stand the REIMBURSEMENT and improve
ment of existing systems in case of
need is the farmer who gets the
maximum result with the minimum
expenditure of money and effort.
The palatability of silage is a large
factor in its favor, along with the
fact that it keeps the digestive sys-
tenn in good order in the winter. 1t
does not render the actual yield of
the llelu uOuDlSs Jul III VI
the feed units it adds a large per cent.
to the efficiency of the feed material
This, combined with the conveniences
brings the per cent. of the advantages
of silo well up.
Chickens grown on ground that has
become tainted generally have an UNI
thrifty sickly appearance, and in this
condition are much more subject to
disease. Chicks raised on the same
ground for a number of years. without
precautions being taken to freshen It,
are usually more or less subject to
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