Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-30

finding people who want your prod
uct if you viii but let them know
what you have and what you sell it
for.
An ordinary hen in good condition
viii eat three ounces of mash in the
morning two ounces grain at noon
and four ounces grain at night.
\ little sulphur given occasionally
is a good thing for chickens 1t is
especially good to feed at moulting
time and also may lessen feather
eating among confined fowls. One
teaspoonful for three fowls may he
mixed in the mash two times week.
The appearance of the combs and
the condition of the droppings are
the surest indication of the health
of the fowls. The comb should be
good red and the droppings. grey,
tipped with white, when the birds
are in prime condition.
II the baby chicks show signs of
bowel trouble, try two drops of milk
of bismuth given for three morn
ings. If young chicks manifest any
signs of weakness, it is we'll to look
for head lice Many a youngster is
having a hard time to thrive and
grow, handicapped by these pests,
and should be given the benefit of
proper care. 1t is always wise 20
put a drop of oil on the head Of
hem Matched chicks. Free from lice,
and with sufficient food, there should
be steady growth from the shell to
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duce the best bird, whether it be for
market or for the breeding yards.
1t would be a good policy 10 seed
the old runs this spring to sweeten
the soil: also keep the houses and
surroundings clean. Frequent disin-
fecting will keep down vermin during
the hot weather, and will do much
in preventing disease.
Provision should be made for the
young growing chicks SO they will
have places of shelter from storms
and from the hot sun. They should
also be provided with arrangements
for getting their feed unmolested by
the rest of the flock.
The team that is worked not more
than ten hours a day in the field can
do more work in a month than the
same team worked twelve to four
teen hours a day. They will have
more strength and spirit while in
harness, for they will have more time
evenings, nights and mornings for
rest and recuperation of power. 1t is
lot regular daily work that Injuries
lorses. but irregularity, long days and
careless handling. Ten hours in the
ield is enough.
Almost all of our soils are fairly
with mineral matter. Some of
his is in already available, or disable.
orm, while there is an unlimited
mount of rich mineral compounds in
he deeper layers of soil not in an
valuable form for plant growth
danuring the soil and working the
manure into it deeply will cause it TO
ONE in contact with the insoluble
mineral elements. and unite chemical
y with them to make them soluble
md Immediately available for plant
growth. Manure then, has a twofold
Use in the soil. 1t supplies plant
GODS directly. and by acting chemi-
ally with soil mineral compounds, IL
reates new plant foods
Buckwheat is a good crop to grow
n weedy land. 1t is a nitrogen
"a therer, like clover. 1t may be
own late with safety, when the rush
f other seeding is over, and it is a
God yielder. Whole buckwheat has
bout the feeding value of corn, but
IS middlings have a high portein
ontent-22 per cent (oil meal has %
'er cent)-and the manure from that
eed is rich in nitrogen. Ground buck
Wheat made into a thick sop is good
or the brood SOW, and it's flavor soon
induces the little pigs to learn to eat.
Horses eat whole buckwheat, and
hey seem to do we'll on it, and well
ONE il to break a monotonous diet.
Fowls like it and relish it for a long
ime continuously.
Prune spring Towering shrubs as
Don as they are through blooming.
Tut out the weak and spindling
branches and those that crowd. Dig
mt the new shoots of the lilac, and
,eep them out, or your bush will soon
leteriorate. Lilacs that fail to bloom
hould have a top dressing of bone
neal, wood ashes or air-slacked lime.
II all three. They will seldom do
veil in damp location.
Administering shrubs should be
1runed in the winter. If it is done
low. there will be no flowers this
fear.
Cuttings of the half-ripe wood.
neither too soft or too woody. are
lasily rooted now. Roses, syringa,
9Tiv+pf hpnaNse4ypl-l n a11rYaaAfe-
yea, currants, grapes, in fact, nearly
Ill of our hardy shrubs and vines,
nay be propagated in this way. If
he weather is dry. invert a fruit can
n flower pot over each cutting for the
irst two weeks. Raise some of these
.hings to exchange with your neigh
oors for other plants which you have
lot.
Keep the soil in the flower beds
stirred with the hoe. Weeds grow
faster now than at any other time of
the year. Do not think it necessary
to get down upon the knees to weed
the flower bed; plant so that you can
20 among them with the garden hoe.
1t is hoped that all property own
ers will give close attention to the
care of all fruit and shade trees to
reduce, rs far as possible, the insect
pest. Close attention and a little in
telligent work along these lines at
this time will save great annoyance
and damage later on.
REED OF SHEEP