Milford chronicle., 1929-07-19

canned in the water-bath. All non
acid vegetables and other foods
should be processed under steam
pressure.
In cutting out a dress make the
back shoulder seam " inch longer
than the front and ease the extra
fullness on to the front. Make this
allowance whether the pattern gives
it or not.
Resinous substances, such as
sticky fly paper, are often hard to
remove from clothing. Try turpen-
tine, benzol, carbon tetrachloride,
chloroform, wood or denatured alco-
hol, ether, kerosene or gasoline.
The common toad should be well
coined as a guest on the farm, since
it is an enemy Of many injurious in
sects, including the plum and apple
curculios, potato beetle, ten cater
pillar, cankerworm, and gypsy and
browntailed moth caterpillars. About
SO per cent of the toad's food is of
animal origin, and more than 60 per
cent consists of harmful insects, ac-
cording to the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. The toad feeds during
the evening and night, and in "a
hours consumes insect food equal to
four times its stomach capacity.
A colt gets more than half its full
growth during the first year, so it
should be kept growing well. The
mare needs plenty of pasture grass
and grain to stimulate a good supply
of milk for the foal. When the colt
is from three to four weeks old, it
should be given some grain. A good
mixture is 4 parts crushed corn, 3
parts bran, and 1 part linseed meal.
AS soon as it will eat hay, some
good legume hay should be provided.
The colt should be weaned at from
5 to months, when it is eating
plenty of grain and hay.
If the weather prevents making
good hay from the sweet-clover crop,
it may be saved by putting it in the
silo. Cut the crop with binder just
as it is coming into full bloom. Let
the bundles lie upon the stubble un-
til they are thoroughly wilted; then
put the crop into the silo like corn.
If sweet clover is cut too early it is
sappy and the silage is likely to
spoil. After sweet clover has passed
the blooming stage, it is too hard and
woody to make good silage unless it
is chopped fine, thoroughly tramped,
and wet down with a hose. Sweet
clover yields from to 10 tons of
silage per acre.
Chickens from the flock selected
as "broilers" should be put on fat
tening ration gradually, and care
taken not to overfeed at the begin
ming. Keep the birds with a keen
appetite for the first few days and
gradually increase the quantity fed
each time. Toward the latter part
of the fattening period they may get
all they will eat. Fattening rations
may be made up of a variety of
grains. Two good ones are as fol-
lows: parts corn meal, 3 parts
rolled oats, and 1 part middlings; or
6 parts corn meal, parts ground
oats (without hulls), and~2 parts
middlings. Feed these rations with
milk, using 2 pounds of milk to 1
pound of mash. If milk is not avail
able, add one-half part of meat scrap
n fha mach
A simple way to increase the num-
Der of bee colonies in an apiary,
when each colony is to be divided in
two, is to remove the lower hive
body containing the queen and brood
to a new location. A hive containing
empty combs is placed on the old
stand, and queencell containing
queen almost ready to emerge, is
placed between the combs in a cell
protector, the second story being put
in place. A hive-body with full
combs of honey is put on the re-
moved hive containing the queen,
for the winter food supply. To pre-
vent the return of too many bees of
the new colony to their old location,
the entrance of the new hive should
be closed with green grass. AS this
dries the bees are released. When
out-apiaries are maintained, the or
iginal hive can be divided into two
equal parts, the queenless portion,
and one part moved to another
apiary to prevent its return to the
old stand. Colonies should be in
creased before early August.