Demoraic Wat Bellefonte, Pa., June 27, 1913. FARM NOTES. —f i t milker is made very largely by her treatment the first season. a aL dry turely ill form a t that will hardly ever be broken. swill destroys from 30 to 60 per cent. of the food value of the ration, | and the hog when feeding upon clover should have something to correct acidity f the stomach, rather than a food to in- tensify it. © own —Coughing does not necessarily mean tuberculosis in cattle. Cattle cough from many different causes, but a chronic cough in this class of stock always gives a reasonable suspicion of tuberculosis where there is no other cause apparent. —Save all the wood ashes and apply them to the orchard. They supply pot- ash, which is a necessary element of fer- tility. In addition to the plant food val- ue of ashes they benefit the mechanical condition of the soil in making it mellow and friable. —Mange in horses is much more diffi- cult to treat than scab in sheep or com- mon mange in cattle. Prevention of in- fection with the disease is safer and more satisfactory. There is no best all-round treatment, even for lice on stock. The class of stock, physical condition of the animals and season of the year deter- mite the kind of treatment most advis- able. —According to the Oklahoma Station, grinding grain for hogs is generally con- sidered to effect a saving of from 5 to 10 pet S50; Svaking is 2s considered i mprove n rations for young . Cooking, on the other fF n roved by many experiments to make feed ess, rather than more, digestible, and it is, therefore, unprofitable except in cases where feed is made more palatable through cooking. —To paint and care well for buildings is economy, and it is loss to neglect to take good care of good property. The implement worth buying is worth takin care of, since its life may be prolong and the gsrslness Souk Ney Wagons grow ol m ect and ex- ure when they are littie used. We P of one man who claims that itis useless to build a shed or house for a on, for his wagon lasted a long time without such care—but it did fall to pieces finally, and from neglect, and not use. —The corn crop of the United States fur- nishes yearly 250,000,000 bushels to mills, 40,000,000 bushels for starch and glucose, 21,000,000 bushels for distilled liquors, 14,000,000 bushels for malt liquors, 120,- 000,000 bushels for town feed, 45,000,000 bushels for export, 728,000,000 bushels for swine, 254,000,000 for meat and cattle, 231,000,000 bushels for dairy cattle, 97,- 000,000 bushels for poultry, 92,000,000 bushels for human food, 60,000,000 bush- els for sheep, 23,000,000 bushels for seed and 131,000,000 bushels tor miscellane- ous uses. —In trimming the colt’s hoof all that needs to be done may be done with a rasp. The hoof wall should be rasped off on the bottom surface until the relation of the heel, side and toe is approximately one, two and three in length, and the work should be done in such a manner as to cause the foot to rest squarely on the ground. Practice and observation will soon enable a man who has fair judgment to determine just what trim- ming each colt needs, and how often at- tention will be uired. As a general rule the feetshouid be examined every six or eight weeks. —Bulletin No. 357, of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station (Gene- va,) announces the failure of summer pruning to control currant cane blight or currant cane necrosis. For ei every cane showing injury in parts of a currant plantation was cut out, the in- spections by the Station botanists being said i tis 2 i g | f EH i! I : i gs E : Sgt i: