Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-29

man, generally indicates strong indi-
viduality, often accompanied with
great intelligence. A straight facial
line is quite as often found with
high degree of intelligence, but a
dished faced horse is rarely anything
but nonentity in character fool!
To learn to handle horses well you
must know harnesses and their work.
ing parts we'll You must know how
to adjust harnesses to make 1t fit and
work on certain horse perfectly. All
horses are not of the same shape and
size and no two are seldom ever in
the same degree of flesh. Harness
that one horse might work in with
perfect comfort might cause severe
discomfort to another horse. The
horse must always be made perfectly
comfortable.
Covering grass seeds of any kind IS
important, although in many cases it
is simply sown broadcast on the
ground and allowed to lie and be
covered by the rain OF by accident
AS a rule, in the fall of the year the
soil is mealier and in better physi-
cal state TO cover seed as fine as grass
seed, while in the spring of the year
it is usually too wet and sticky for
this purpose, although seed, sown
very early in the spring or in late
winter, is often well covered by the
movement of the surface soil in freez-
ing.
Soil robbery by raising money
crops" has cost this country billions
of dollars in decreased fertility Of
farms The obviously practical for
So. - g..
products as possible and as many fin
ished products In other words, feed
the meat producing crops upon the
farm, keeping soil fertile and getting
profit out of the sale of beef cattle,
milk, butter, eggs, poultry, rather
than from grain dumped upon the
market from the field at the purchas-
er's price.
The practice if inbreeding has pro-
duced some of our highest yielding
COWS, although there is always more
or less danger connected in mating
animals very closely related. While
it is one of the quickest ways of
building up a herd it is one of the
swiftest ways of tearing it down.
|, In the handling of milk opportunity
for serious contamination occurs at
several points. The sources of this
contamination are the exterior of the
COW, the barn dust, the utensils ana
the mixer.
The ordinary fowl: that is, one not
held in high esteem by an experienced
breeder. is not valuable to doctor up
and fuss with the novice. II roup
shows in the eyes and nose by an ILL
smelling discharge take the bird away
at once and kill it. Burn the body
and head.
If one has plenty of shade for the
chickens during the hot weather it
will help matters considerably If
there is no natural shade some kind
of artificial shade should be provid-
ed. so that the birds can find a cool
and refreshing rest from the scorch-
| ing sun.
Tt is customary to feed COW weigh
ing a thousand pounds thirty POUNDS
of corn silage and then all the clover
and timothy she will consume with
out waste. mix ture consisting OF
400 pounds of dried brewers grains,
800 pounds corn and cob meal and 200
pounds bran will make a combination
suitable for supplementing the rough
age. One pound of this mixture for
each three and one-half pounds of
milk produced should give good re-
suits.
The water supply of the dairy is a
matter of the gravest concern. Its
quality should be above reproach
If the hoops on a stave silo are
:. toAf 6lIino IL
frequently becomes necessary to
loosen them little after the silo has
been filled. The heat and moisture of
the silage tend to expand the wood.
When corn is cut too green ii does
not make as good silage as when it
is permitted to mature to the proper
time. The silage is more acid and
does not contain the same feeding
value. 1t will keep all right and fur
nish fair grade of feed.
Among the most common diseases
of grain are rust and smut. Vine
crops are most frequently affected by
anthracnose, blight, downy mildew
and wilt. Apples, pears and ounces
are subject to blight, rot blotch,
canker, crown gall, rust, scab and
leaf spot. On raspberry plants one
often finds anthracnoSe, black rot,
black knot mildew and brown rot.
Peaches here are most subject to leaf
curl, brown rot, scab, root gall and
yellows, while potatoes and tomatoes
have blight, wilt, scab, mildew, leaf
spot and rot These are only a few
Of the hundreds of existing plant
diseases.
Nearly all plant diseases can be
controlled or entirely prevented by
spraying treating the seed or some
other remedy. Among the diseases
that cannot be controlled are peach
yellows, which usually necessitate
pulling out the trees, and chestnut
bark disease, for which there is no
known remedy. Do not make the
mistake of thinking that every peach
tree with leaves turning yellow has
"yellows." Several other causes, such
as borers, lack of nitrogen in the soil,
peach leaf curl and other fungus
diseases often cause the leaves to
turn yellow. but each trouble has its
own characteristic appearance, maxi
ing it comparatively easy to recognize
1t after you have once learned how.
Do not lose sight of the fact that
lice flourish in filth. Keep the poul-
try house clean and thus cut their ca
reer short.
Separate the cockerels from the pull
let's and give the former some extra
feeding; they can stand it.
Cod liver oil is good for fowls light
in condition, and also for those lag
ging in the moult.
EPSON salts should always be on
hand. 1t is the poultry keepers friend
in case of Indigestion and overfatness
in fowls
Hens do not need quite so much
feed to make them work in hot
weather as they do in cold.