Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-08-14

/ tlllllllielAt tNti y lAAiiiS but tilS 16i+e''
/ the names and the tugs?
/ When early potatoes are dug ploN
, the ground and keep weeds down the
rest of the summer, Your pay vii
come next year.
For cabbage worms use insect
powder mixed with flour in proper
ton of one pound of powder tc
twenty-five pounds of flour. Dust
the plants well after each rain.
Vegetables must be grown quickly
If their best flavor is to be obtained
Do everything possible to get con-
tinuous growth.
When vegetables are we'll grown
and not likely to be damaged drive
poultry through the garden and lei
them devour the insects and worms
they find.
Corn is one of the best grains for
hens, but 1t must not make up the
entire ration. Wheat and oats should
also be fed and meat food furnished
in some form.
There is death to poultry in foul
water. Even with drinking fountains
water should be renewed twice day
and kept undes' shelter to keep it cool.
Enough permanganate of potash to
give 1t a wine color, twice week,
will do much to prevent sickness.
Cut up dandelions and the tender
young shoots of grass for the chicks.
They like it, and 1t is good for them.
There is always a little loss of grain
in the wheat field after harvesting.
Large stock will iniure the young
clover. but the fowls will speedily
clean the field of any grain that Is
left.
| Feed little, II any. corn or other
heating foods while the temperature
is high.
Don't send fowls to market until
fat. Plenty of yellow corn increases
their value.
When hens or pullets have free ac-
cess to pure, cool water and use II
freely. It tends to increase egg pro
/ duction. It's too cheap an egg tonic
to overlook.
| Plant a few sunflowers and sorghum
cane so as to have an abundance OF
feed for the long winter months.
Don't relax feeding the young
chicks during the hot summer months,
because you think there is plenty of
grass and bugs for them They need
more than that.
Don't keep the same material long In
nests. Clean out. spray with insectt-
cides and paint or whitewash, then
put in clean litter. A few tobacco
stems are help.
A great amount of water is used tc
form an egg.
Roots of all kinds can be fed cooked
or raw, but they should be chopped
fine.
The legs of dressed poultry wher
/ shipped to market should be perfectly
clean.
The more heavily you are feeding
the more demand there is for charcoal
Make it an article of every day diet
A tablespoonful of baking soda
: placed in the water two or three
times a week will prevent bowe
trouble.
A light morning feed for the flocl
is best, because it keeps them hust
, ling through the day.
. Cabbages, beets and mangels max,
l ideal greens for hens during the win
. ter. Small potatoes and specket
apples are also relished. particular,
when the fowls are confined to thei
l indoor quarters.
' Allow every hen from four to 81,
feet of floor space; better six. Tel
inches of roosting space is not to,
much. The roosts should be placed a
t least eighteen inches apart.
/, Few eggs can be expected until tn
+. pullets are matured
IF possible, mark the pullets tha
lay in the fall and use them in tn
breeding pen for the following sprinl
! tSoft-shelled eggs are often cause
, by fowls being confined, becomln
overfat and from lack of miners
matter.
Uniform products command tn
best prices. Pure-bred fowls pro
duce uniform products.
: Keep the cucumbers picked off eacl
| day.
: Careful hoeing prevents frequen
) waterings.
SCOT and lime, used with care, max
good fertilizer.
: Kerosene emulsion is good-or ba,
for squash bugs.
j If onions are running to tops, breaI
: down the tops.
A small hand cultivator is hand
G and saves much hoe Work.
T All who have Rhode Island Greer
q ings, Northern Spies, Mcintosh Re
/ and other soft-skinned varitie
I which are bearing fair sized crops tn
3 year, should apply another spra
n against the apple scab. The scab ws
e very prevalent and serious last yes
: and the frequent rains this seaso
Q promise to make il equally ssEiQu