Show NOTES nOOIl J 4 FDOJ tOW Mti fARM If tritivm r I L II I II I l y A For the farmers use the drafter Is the best animal to own Havo time poultry house light and airy and above all clean Spraying Is absolutely useless unless un-less done ft tho right time The best milk pall Is the one with the fewest number of seams Hens compelled to sit upon the ground are apt to develop rheumatism Dont let the harness get stiff and hard Money out of your pocket If you do The orchard Is no place for livestock live-stock save perhaps pigs and the chickens Wellkept machinery will make the work of the farm easier both for the farmer ami his team Never mix fertilizer or manure with lime Work the lime Into the surface before applying the fertilizer The some neck and shoulder upon the horse Is more easily prevented than cured Keep close lockout Fruit trees that are worth a place on the farm are worth caring for Without care you will not got satisfactory satis-factory results You feed and water your horse with thoughtful care so as to keep him In prime condition for hard work Are you as careful of your physical condition condi-tion and that of the hired help Do a little forestry work on the farm this fall Plant a patch of trees The nursery catalogue of the forest service of the agricultural department may help you Send for It to Washington Wash-ington D C Who would think to look at the scrubby teams some farmers are content con-tent to drive that there was one bit of personal pride or ambition In them 1 It pays to have a good team and It pays to keep them right On fields where the clover crop was almost a failure the Ohio experiment station tried liming with good results The lime was burnt and then ground and spread over tho ground at the rate of one ton per acre Young trees In new ground should be the rule for when you set out among old trees or lu ground from which old jjjfes have just been removed re-moved theylire apt to find many enemies ene-mies that will prove destructive The next International livestock exposition ex-position will bo held at Chicago November I No-vember 28 to December 10 tho classification classifi-cation of exhibits being practically the same aa last year You owe It to i yourself and the boys to go Makeup Make-up your mind you will and lay your I I plans accordingly I I I The man to be a successful breeder I i I of livestock must have a true love and Interest In his work and he must also I i have a thorough knowledge of tho pedigree of his animals that Is ho I I should be certain that there Is real basis for tho qualities which he thinks his stock possess Do you know that It Is poor economy econo-my to save the cost of building at the expense of heavy loss of feed stuffs 1 Do you know that limo hay stack win tered out doors loses In value main I times what tho Interest would be on the moiiej Invested In a building suit able to house It 1 Figure it out for yourself I i ion study to provide just the right conditions for growing the biggest I I crops Are you doing as much for your boy Homomber he needs the I i right kind of soil to grow In and the right kind of cultivation to develop I I the best In him and who but mother and father should ghe tho matter mst thought and attention 1 Come now be honest Do you know Just what jour cows arc doing for you Ten chances to one that there are some robber cows In jour herd and you dont know It because you have never kept any record of their milk yield neither have I you tested theIr I milk as to butter fat content it 1M Just guess work with you What would you think of the merchant In town that was content to handle gOod year In and year out without knowing whether It was at a profit or loss And yet that Is exactly what tho dairy farmer Is doing who docs not know each Individual cow and what she Is doing for him Make up your mind you begin at once to find out what each cow It doing and weld out the unprofitable ones E Good cows In ft good barn nnd given good cure will return good profit Whitewash will do wonders towards brightening and purifying tho old barn or cowshed Stngnnnt pools and mudholes around tho pustule niulro poor watering plncea for the cattlt Remember that TO dairy farming on tho rundown run-down pine The cows will return a profit while the soil Is being Improved by the manure If you cannot grow clover successfully success-fully try cow peas or Borne other leguminous plant It will help the Boll Into good condition Dont expect you can test the value Observation reo of a cow In a mouth ords should cover at least a year In which there has been u calving Whatever specialty In farming you have set your heart upon following begin be-gin In n Hinall way and work up to largo things This Is the suro way of developing a profitable business Tho farmer who thinks fly nets for the horses are too much trouble and expense to bother with Is lie sam < < fellow who leaves his machinery ou I of doors because It takes time Bnt money to provide a tool shed The difference between profit and loss on the farm Is often measured by the waste that comes from tin careless handling of machinery ant the shiftless methods of planting cul tlvatlng and harvesting the crops For the farmer whose aim Is dairy farming exclusively the dual purpos cow Is a great mistake The only one who has any warrant In keeping such typo of stock Is the farmer whose chief purpose In stock raising is beot Do not wait to cool the milk until all the milking Is done As fast as you milk one cow pour Into can and set can Into tub of cold water The high temperature In the summer tim causes tho germs In the milk to multiply mul-tiply rapidly In fattening animals In the win tel time remember that experiments hav < < shown that good quarters and plenty of bedding are essential to profitable feeding the animals thus cared tot showing a gain of over 30 per cent more than those under less comfortable comforta-ble conditions One of the destructive pests of the garden against which the farmer Is almost powerless Is the root maggots which attack cabbage It may interest inter-est some of the readers of Meadow brook Farm Notes to know that the New York experiment station has tried screening the beds of cabbage with cheesecloth with good success The frames used being made of 12 Inch boards Face the cows away from each other oth-er for while it Is true that the feeding feed-ing Is made easier where two rowe of cows face the same alley it makes the work of cleaning and caring for them much harder Where the gutters gut-ters of two rows of cows are on tho same alley It Is possible If the barn Is properly constructed to drive tho manure spreader through the alloy thus making but one handling of tho I manure necessary Then the milking Is done easier I I Little sprouts or seedlings are very troublesome In the old asparagus bed and should be removed As soon as I they can be detected remove the roots If possible If by reason of growth this cannot be done at tho time cutaway cut-away all the seed stalks and mark the stubs so they can be rooted out when the foliage dies Do not let ono hoed stalk mature In time the bed can be cleared of all but the male plants We have a bod of asparagus started years ago and which yielded profusely this year Not a female plant shows Its head Provide comfortable quarters for your hired help and manage the work In such a way as to enlist his Interest Inter-est In the work assigned him and you will And that the farm help problem Is not such a difllcult one to solve as most farmers think Dont he afraid to talk oer matters with the hired help This Is possible without surrendering sur-rendering mastery and will add to contentment and interest Dont overwork over-work the help Theme are times when it is impossible to ntah > exact hours however If war Is well planned there is no need of excessive long bourn except ex-cept In emergencies and if tho hired I man is Interested ho will appreciate I the necessity of working over time in certain seasons when work Is rushed The Garden City Is a now move ment which Is In successful operation In I portions of England I + lund to provide so cial advantages for farmers and their I families Tho farm homes are clus bred about a common point and stretching back from this are the I fields and cultivated areas There will of necessity ho some manufacturing Plants but these ue grouped by themselves very much ns tho nianu I facturlng section of a town Is separ uteri from the lesldencd district The farm ° m8 have nil tho comforts of city life and all the pleasures of the country Thc schools err centralized and kept most effectively the church life and social lire generally are of the very best The farms vary h rf size allli streich away over the distant fields In all directions their These have as prototype the earliest known 11 European history villages |