Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-02-20

1t is bad management of very
Bhortsighted kind to use a dairy COW
as a tank heater for cold water when
the weather is zero. It's a good deal
cheaper to use cobs in a sheet iron
heater
The farmer who shells corn by hand
for a large flock of poultry and the
calves is In about the same pickle as
the housewife who wrings out her
clothes by hand when q machine
would answer the purpose well. Both
are entitled to sympathy.
Surveys that were made last August
by an exploring party sent out by the
geological survey show that Mount
Rainier towers 14,404 feet above sea
level, which makes 1t the second high
est peak in the United States, Mount
Wilson in California being still more
lofty.
Somehow the idiotic report has goi
into circulation that the feeding OF
silage tends to sour the soil. This is
a mares nest pure and simple and Is q
companion yarn to that other referred
to in these notes some weeks ago tc
the effect that the eating of slage
ruins cows teeth.
Egg sucking dogs can be cured of
the habit by making small holes in
the ends of the eggs, blowing out a
portion of the contents and inserting
in one of the holes as much tartar
emetic as can be held on the point of
a knife. The dog that gets this egg
will think he is sent for and can't come
and will give eggs a wide berth there
after
1t is hardly more than truism to
observe that boys and girls will stop
leaving the farm when the conditions
there are made as Interesting as pleas
ant and as remunerative in the long
run as those to be found in towns and
cities. There is no solution of the
problem of keeping bright boys and
girls on the farm that can possibly
succeed that does not take definitely
into account the facts stated.
The famous "ScOtty" Phillip herd oil
buffalo which has been kept in a 10,
600 acre pasture near Fort Pierre, S
D., has lately been placed in the mar
ket by the sons of the former owner
now deceased. This is the largest herd
Of buffalo in the United States anC
comprises 275 animals three years ole
or past. fifty-five head of two-year-olds
and seventy head Of yearlings. The
entire herd is full blooded, and most of
them were born in captivity.
A girl who has been working fol-
several years past in an office in town
and who is thinking Of getting married
has wisely decided to take course il
domestic science for the next few
months in order that she may be the
better equipped for the duties and
responsibilities which will rest upor
her in her own home. This girl has
the right idea. There would be good
many more happy homes If more girls
served just such an apprenticeship IL
home keeping.
The round barn, of which there are
a good many scattered here and there
over the country, costs considerably
less from the standpoint of materials
but seems to require an architecture
skill that is not always available. MOI
does the round barn give maximum
OF room for its size, but it lends itself
to an arrangement which makes it pos
sible to care for the stock in less time
A further point urged in its favor is
that it will resist windstorns better
than will structures of the rectangular
type.
Henry Ford, the automobile manu-
facturer brought to this country some
few months ago $50 English song
birds, representing five species-name
ly, the chaffinch, English blackbird
linnet, thrush and lark. These birds
were given their freedom on a 260(
acre farm some eight miles from
Detroit Just now most of the birds
have gone south, but it is expected
they will return in the spring and that
they will become accimated and
thrive under conditions which this
country affords. To further encourage
the propagation of native birds Mr..
Ford has had 1000 bird houses erected
on this bird ranch for bluebirds, wrens
and other home loving birds.
1t is little wonder that a good many
corn belt farmers have little faith in
the serum treatment for hog cholera if
any considerable number of them get