Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 10, 1919, Page 11

FEEDING MUSTY FORAGE. 1§ s a'bad plan to have to be so'un- fortunate as to be forced to give your wark animals -musty forage, writes a regpondent of the Marylud ¥arm- er. This stuff causes chronic coughs and other allments. Many cases of incura- ble heaves comc from animals filling up on musty forage. « = When a cough comes on, there is nothing better than to give pine tar about a teaspoonful at a dose. Spread this on the tongue once or twice a day, ferably befere feeding or watering. {{r:n) farmers put a little tar in the grain boxes, so the animals are obliged to get some in their stomachs whether they like it or not. By dampening the forage and feeding 1éss of it, if it is inclined to be musty, “ you can make it a little more palatable #nd less Injurious to your stock. Cattle as well as colts ean make out better on damaged stuff than regular swork stock, for they will have time to pick it over, and, besides, not being at work they will not be so [iable to force thefr demands. S0ILS FOR FRUITS. To produce frult requires a. fertlle -ml sen nu,l an orchm;‘l on vxa:y land only to reap disappoint- “meht. | The sofl must be :built up. must be maintained in fertility. A lit- tle meglect may cayuse. the soil to fail nim the regult be poor fruit or nene at al One reagon peach trees seem te fall quicker than fermerly is the failure of our orchard soils. While probably more atiention is paid to orchards today than was done years ago by farmers wiho have madé the qulture of fruits a business, insuffielent attention is paid by too many who take un the work cither as a side line or for 2 habby. As the ceuntry has been settled, land brought inte cultivatien and old farms worn, the fertility has failed in many instances. In the first place many of the orchard soils have' lost humus. “others have failed in plant food as & result of heayy crops, washing rains er hare ocultiva- tion, Peach growers know that as soon “¢ the fertility of the soil begins to fail the erop s uncertain and of poor quality. This has been proved time and time again, The best neach solls are those that are naturally easily made poor. These are the loams. the aandy lonms, the - clay loams and the gravelly loams uch soils usually nrodues well for a few years. hut unless some attention is '(-1!:1 to soll maintenanee they will soon ail, p——— BETTER BULLS. tion can de in improving the type! of sires is found in t 4 bulls were needed and these were pur- ased at @ total cost of $4,800. The tverage investment in-gach of the 13 bulls in use before organizing was $56150, put after the assoclation was formed the average Investmenmt was $1,200 for each of the good bulls.” In this way each dairyman had the use lls that, were twice as valuable us used formerly, and at ti time his investment was $125 HENS HATE TO GET : THEIR FEET WET Poultry ean be raised success(ully | well drained soil, A light leam |’ will grow. good Zrass s well | \dapted for this purpose, while a very light sandy soil. throush which the witer leaches. frecly, will stand more intensive poultry conditios of the green food for the oil will have to clay or udobe soil is not as wted to poultry ra as and does not drain readily, and much more diffieult to keep the health Long stationary houses intensive rt system suves steps, keep the birds heal- nduce the stack wnder coltmy m. whero the birds are owed nge. Breeding stock, A growing chickens, uld have an abundance of range. hens used rolely for the produc- t eggs may be kept on a a. THE BEST OUALITY OF PORK. lum condition, zaining cizht, yialds the best qual- hn ot kill a1 hog that is the United States tture, A reason- gjves fuiciness and it large amounts of fat ar sential, CANDY FOR BEES. the all Let bees alone und they will ! store of the houéy necessary to carry them over the winter. Honey, rowew was at such a premium the 3 mer and early fall that most af s were robbed down to very mieager stores, in expectation that the fate honey plants would provide food + enough to carry the begs over the win- 4 ter. Bad weather Intervened and the plans went astray; which explains why : it s that bees are given a sugar allow- ance by the governmemt when mapy . Dpersons have difficulty in buying it for AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS e An example "of what the bull asso- | home use. “According to L. B. Crandall, bee spe- list for the extension serviee of onnecticut Agricultural college, hon- sy canm best be fed at this time by ziving_it to.them in the shape of fon- 7 dant, 4 soft candy. A piece of fondang may be placed directly on top of the frames and under the cover. Directions for making the fondant are as follows: To 12 pounds of sugar add one pound ; of honey and one and one-quarter | muarts of water and one-third of a tea- speon-of cream of tartar, mixing hon- . 2y, water and cream of tariar together and heating to the boiling point. Then FTOOTHIN TRY BITRO- PHOSPHATE While expessive thinngss attributed to vaplous a a" In aierent individuain 1t ‘kmown fact that the lack of Liurdul in the bum,r ‘ em I. rgely responsible for t lg ‘:nsmn‘ 1 est i It seems to bo wel ! this; deficieney. yhuupuunu- m;y .P;- :e‘mumhy chc {Phosphate, whic ' 4 lrll tn any_g20d drogs might be uptle uus’- ¥ n many instances ih. assimilation of this phu;phlu by lln nerve tissye ¥ s0 duces’ vejcome change— 2; temi.n dl pears; vigor ana t. " 1 ce wn msn and jack ef whole hody !nnt I‘l u‘ly hull anrd abrupt am eoming enveloped In a glow o alth and bfl.iy nn th to b a TION hue anr;h-’)hu_ u unsurpaued for the reli nux, a—geal ?Ml.g”u,e tho R ng i lash !honld use utu eare in xvo tat-producing add the sugar gradually, stirring the mixture so that: the rsugar will dis- solve. .When:this gyrup reaches the boiling point asnlin -stop stirring and allow: fo-boil “until it reaches a tem- perature of 238 & Fahrenheit. It you have \no themaqum which to test the candy, tune to time by dropping a little from a spoon into cold water. IZ it forms'a soft ball so that it will stay together and can be lifted out of the water on a fork or then it has heen boiled enough. Thig seft ball should feel be- tween your teeth when you . bite it somewhat as gum feels; that is, ‘it should not disselve in yoyr mouth at once, but yoy should be able to chew' it a little, When the gyrup is cooked to this peint, remove frem the fire and: allow to eool down to about 120 dé- grees F., or unmtil you ean bear your Rand on’the dish: then stir this ayrup rapidly’ until it begins to cream or be-| comes like corpstarch paste: Then, hefore it sets, turn it syt ento | paper pie plates or on to waxed p; mr and smooth it down into 3 cake u one quarter/inch ‘thiek. .These cakes keep this fondant any length at umn it will be ben te utlit% 2 cloied dish se as tg ALFALFA: IT8 VALUE XNR .. . HOW TQ GROW H‘ By P. G, Holden.. For a small patch of twe or three acres a very satisfactory. method of getting a stand of alfalfa is to mantre a piece of ground near the.barn where it can be most gonveniently used for hog pasture. plowed, fitted and sowed to early in the spring. This should be’ used for hog pasture during May andj June. During the first week of July the rape stubble should be mowed down and‘the ground thoroughly disk- ed, then plowed and again disked and harrewed. In aboul. two weeks it should again be disked. Any time during the last’ week of July or the first week: of August:the ground should be thorpusghly disked ; and worked down so that it is firmand | solid. One of the most common mis- | takes Is in not disking the ground be- fore it is plowed and in not making a firm, saolid seed bed before sowing. If | rain comes during the latter part of | July or the first of August, it is a zood n to prepare the ground and sow the | seed at once while there is sufficient | moisture in the ground to sprout the seed and give the young alfalfa a good | 17 the weather is very dry, it is a plan m put the seed in with s} , to secure sufficient | t When the | sked and harrowed do mnot wait; rface soil is molst. and one with so: 1e others where th it from:|; The ground should be || rape, 1| too dry: is to grow wheat, barley, enarl vetatoes and follow that zrain 1s ripe. it o~ 20 loads of manure (n ~grain haule \md should then ve to mix the manvur 1o with the soil. plowed 1 kod worked down to zive a firm, solid sced bed, The ground should be left unti! about the first weelt in August. the in < described abovo, a send heine pu seed may e When | st nart of Tuly or the nru nart of Auvgust.-as in the corn bait the ehances for getling o zood_stand - diminish raplaly attes about Aug. 10 v n"PROVING ORCHARD SOiLS. But the soll must have himus before it will be advisable to nge commercial fertilizer. With nlenty of humus, which may be supplind by turning under cover crops, applying manure, etc.. commercial fertilizer may be used to excellent advantage. One might think at first thought that soil fertility, cultivation, pruning spraving, ete. would not have much influence unon winter Killing frost. etc. As a matter of experience.we know these practices do. When we think of it geriously we see the reason. A tree weakened by lack of fertility, poor cul- ation, lack of molsture, insect depre- ations, ete, cannot develop stronz fruit buds. . The tree cannot mature the leaf and fruit buds satisfactorfly. conseauently a suddefh or violent cold snap is apt to kill- the fruit buds. Again. thin soil lacking in humus. poor cultivation, pruning, etc, may cause a large per cent. of the trees to succumb to a severe drouth. At least experience has shown that this si likely to be the case. The fundamental principle of peach arowing is zood soll. Without it there is very little hone of being successful i ngrowing neaches either for home use and harrowed and well '} it the ground is in- | or for market, The land, if in fair con- dition and reasonably fertile when the young trees are set, will need no ma- rure nor fertilizer; but as soon as the COATS IN ALL SIZES FROM MISSES’ 121-125~ Mam K “Thé P hess Sto?&!fi’Norwnc 2 Street 16:TO wom;gn S 4. YOU WILL FIND A SPLENDID VARIETY OF SMAR trees begin to bear it will be adbisable o hegin ‘a system of cover erops, 6epe- cially legumos, and’ supply the gifl vegotabl ematter with by - turning under crops. Then, If the soil is not-especial- l)l r:ch it will be wel to.use acid phos- phate. FEEDING TABLE. Frequently ;no spales are ~ &t hand when the feeder'is trying to feed a.bal~ anced ratlon, of the common feeding stuffs will he handy: A quart measure ‘of ‘eottonseed meal weighs 1.5 pounds; wheat bran - The following estimates (coarse), .5 peunds; wheat middlings (coarse), .8 poynd; wheat middlings (fing). 1.1 pounds; mixed wheat' feed, .6 pounds: cornmeal, 1.5 pounds; oats, 1.2 pounds; rye bran, 5 pound; linseed meal, 1.1 pounds; gluten; 12 w\lnds MIX OWN FER'I'IL‘]Z;ER,Z The advantage of home-mixed fer- tilizers are set ferth in a government bulletin recently issued in the year book of the United States department of agriculture. Coples can be. secured from . the county agent, J. C, Grant, or he will be glad to go over ' the home-mixing of fertilizers proposition with any farmer in the colnty.: It is something which he always has advo- cated, and thera is special need that|3o2 2 ton. the practice should be followeq in these times of high prices. There ure two highly important reasons why home mixing of fertilizers should be more widely practiced. First, the saving in eost and second, the possi- bility of mixing-fertilizers to- meet the needs of each individual erop. i In pamdl times the saving by home- | mixing.yaries from 35 to 3§15 a ton, but it.may be gonsiderably higher at the presant time. Any farmer can caleula himself just . what he sayes my mixing at home, using the! unit system, or basing the cost of each unit, one per cent of one ton, or |for §81 a urit. would cost less than $15; of the mixtyre would any community further saving _could by getti BALANGE SIDE OF LE There are many 20 pounds. The amounts of each of|should he entered in a the ghree important fertilizing ele- |association. ment.! nitrogen, phosphoric acid and!reasons. But the real potash; are known from the' analysis of the sources from which the raw materials for mixed fertilizers -eome. By using the unit system a farmer can figure just what amounts of each ma- terlal he must put in to secure any given formula or proportion of these fertilizing elements. The goveMyment bulletin states the eost proposition . squarely by quoting the' prices last January. They are highér now. Tt states the case as fol- lpws: A 2-8-2 mixture is quoted at story in which all are told on the balance side In other words, “does Coew Testing where cow testing did pa, In one herd, tien of .milic per cow wa: 4,487 pounds in the year 5,331 pounds $10.25 and the potash $8.50. $3.25_a ton for mixing, the total cost it pay, here are some conerete examples fi nished by the United States Division, from - theSouth Chittenden Assoriation, the average in 1918-18, same time the income over cost Acid phosphate can be bought for $22 -a ton, nitrate of soda ton and potash for $4.25 a,| At these figures the phosphoric aeid in a ten of home-mixed fertilizers the nitrogen lowing be $37. The saving woyld be $15 a tbn. By order- ing together in large 1ots farmers of make .a still ing large-lot prices und saving on freight. DGER cow-testing “These reasens are good story—the interested—is of the ledger. and Dairy Vermont. ¥ produe- s raised’from 1917-18, to and at ‘the of reasons why cows| feed increased’ from’ $44.95 1o Der cow. Another hérd made an equally good: record. The production of 4500 pounds of milk in the year 1917-18 was | S2Tth. " & raised to 5,436 'pounds in’ 1918-19, while the income over cost of feed jumped. from $23.06 to $67.20. These were not the only hedds’ to] make good rec6flls as is shown by the fact that the, total yearly average productionof all the cows'in the as- sociation increaged from 4,860 pounds i 1817-18 to 5,215 pounds‘in 1918-19, and butterfat production, increased from 196.2 pounds te $202.5 pounds. But here is the real story; The income over ‘the cost of feed advanced from $54.22 to $89.68, an extra $35 in the| dairymen’s pockets for each cow that they owned. in'the house drained, which' also allow level. | tively SANITARY. FLOORS ¢~ FOR THE HENHOUSE The _best kind. of a floor depends | fure. upon’ the s0il and in the use of the|. board cats and dogs, floor is ¥ear by removing the contaminated sufface down to clean soil fill-with ‘fresh sand or fine gravel and zenerally used * whefte . tlife level of (ffe floor S rom one to three feet aboye thegrount surface and. in port- able houses'on ‘land which is not well Board floor s harbor and rot 'quickly: and should be raised some -distance off, the ground so that get under them, 32 free circulation of air. to, prevent thej wood from rotting. ‘Cemept floorsiare,adapted to long per- manent buildings. hrooder houses, cubator cellar, and to houses where an artfficial floor is re- quired and can be built on the ground These floors are easy to clean, nexpensive, if one has a cheap very sanitary, rat proof and compara- supply of gravel o sharp sand.— United States Department of Agricul- , and to re- rats in- all permanent poultry ‘house. On light, sandy well- drained woils a dirt floor' is ‘satis- factroy, especially for small or colony tienhouses. © Such floors , should be | from “two ‘to’ §ix inches higher than the. outside groumd surface, and it is sable to renew, them each | Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA SHOULDERS, Ib. . PRIME RIB ROAST LEAN POT ROAST ROAST BEEF, Ib. ... Absolutely no waste, FRESH HAMBURGER 16e Whole or Half SWIFT’S HAMS, Ib. . 26c Ib.. SLICED HAM, ib. Squire’s Fresh Little Pig . Sirloin, Round, Porterhouse . 20c 12Y5e BONELESS CHUCK These Hams Hiv'e\)&ll’Surplus Fat and Skin Removed. BEST CHUCK ROAST: FRESH PIG HAMS PORK SAUSAGE TSR S FAT SALT PORK RS o 26¢ VEAL BEEF, b........... 18| ZOC Wednesday Specials LEGS, b. ... 29 LOINS, Ib. :: 20¢| GRAPE FRUIT ERS, b..... 18~y LOINLAMB .| somNacy CHOPS, Ib.. 40c| 3 |bs. Peck 39¢ SWEET CAPE COD POTATOES JUI SUG%COQKES dozen cergbiit L. CINNAMON ‘BUNS, dozen. .= % ... RAISIN BREAD, loaf JELLY ROLLS, each. . 15c RYE BREAD, loaf, . LEMONS Dozen 29c CELERY Bunch 15¢ 10c CUP CAKES, dozen: . , CARROTS AND PARSNIPS, Ib. 6¢ SUNKIST . ORANGES Dozen 31c CY ..o 12¢ -SWIFT'S NUT MAR- Swift’s Oleo- margarine, lb. . dlc Meadowbrook Creamery BUTTER; Ib, LR R RN S N e i i PURE VANILLA AND Every Egg Guanntee& 4 LUNCHEON.,CHEESE Sy ... HDS PHILADELPHIA CREAM CHEESE, 2 pkgs. .... 29¢ WHOLE MILK CHEESE Mild, Tasty, Ib....... 38c Package . GARINE, b. 5. 36¢ Boston Blue Fl.sh s . Long Claims, Qpened pint, . Fresh Solid Oysteys, pint.... LEMON .EXTRACT doz. bottle. ... ..... 37c MINCE MEAT Fresh FishiDifé& “From Fishimg YORK STATE PEA BEANS 21bs. . PEARL BARLEY, 2 Ibs. 15¢ BEST HEAD RICE, Ib. 19¢ TOMATO SOUP, ecn 10e Bl ... . 20 RPN oY t