Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-06-25

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Shelters should be supplied in every
pig pasture.
A few staples prevents many
breachy heifer.
In warm or hot weather provide
shade for the chicks.
We must either put our idle land to
work, sell it or lose it.
No place is too small to afford some
garden or plant growth
The safety of horse depends large
ly upon his early education.
Putting colts in damp, dark stables
is likely to produce rheumatism.
Plenty of salt is vitality essential to
the thriftiness of the young stock.
Get the chicks out on the fresh
ground and fresh air as soon as pos
sible.
Mix all the cream to be churned IN
one vat or can at least eighteen hours
before churning.
Small white onion sets are the best.
II they cannot be obtained, yellow
sets should be used.
A stunted calf will never make as
valuable a COW as its Inheritance
would certainly warrant.
The grass and the cattle are both
better If the owner is not In too much
OF a hurry to use the pasture
The up.to date farm equipment In
cludes machinery for the housewife
as we'll as for the men outside.
Corn is naturally a hungry plant. II
you want it to grow feed it Literally
with fertilizer water and sunshine.
Horses are often whipped for things
purely imaginary in the mind of the
driver, and 1t is too cruel for words
Wash the butter once with pure
water at the churning temperature
agitating three or four times, and
drain.
Cream that contains from 80 to 40
per cent butter fat churus better than
that having only half so high fat
content
The temperature Of churning should
be such as to make the butter come
in from IS to 40 minutes. usually 55 to
90 degrees F.
Eggs absorb doors, not so readily as
milk, but readily enough that one can
not afford to store onions beside
basket OF eggs.
Always offer the horses water be-
fore going to bed at night. Never
leave the horse thirsty all night after
he has eaten his hay.
Keep the harrow coming along soon
after blowing. This is the beginning
OF that good surface cultivation that
we hear so much about.
Be gentle and quiet In handling the
SOW and she will never cause any
trouble, unless she is particularly
vicious or ill-mannered female.
Crows will catch young chickens
and carry them off and If they get
started they sometimes steal dozens
OF chicks, unless stopped with a gun.
Hogs roaming at large always sup
ply themselves with pure food and
water, and do not suffer from disease
as do those which are confined and
heavily fed.
Probably in no country are CONNER.
cial fertilizers used to a greater ex'
tent than in Germany, and there the
yields of crops are upon the average
about twice the average yield In the
United States.
When the beginner once realizes
that the more care used In the selec-
ton OF the feeds that start the young
chickens on their way to maturity
there will be less loss. and better
growth 1t pays to obtain good chick
grit.
Potato Feelings, cabbage roots.
celery tops and such things are rel
ished by hens and keep the flock
healthy. In summer the hens pick up
quantities of insects and worms. and
this form of food must be supplied In
winter BY scraps of meat or cut bone.
Hens that are broken down behind
80 that the abdomen touches or near
" touches the ground should be dis
posed Of They never lay we'll when
in that condition and never recover,
Farmers In every state can raise
their horses for half what they have
to pay on the markets. with added
freipht and thew will raise better
farm horses than they can afford to
buy.