Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-01-15

Ito-and equal attention must be pald 10
giving them fresh water as often. To save
your grain, it should be ground, by which
process you may do with one-third less,
and your horses be equally hearty and
strong.
| .Mzch Coacs-As butter brings a fair
price, you can afford now to feed your COWS
upon some nourishing grain Stops. Corn
ground in the cob makes rich mess when
scaIded or boiled into slop, and is highly
conducive to the encouragement OF the for
nation of cream. See then, that your COWS
get Just allowance Of Stops, that they are
warmly lodged, and get proper allowance
of hay and water.
Working Oren.-lf you desire that these
animals should be in good condition and
IabIe to perform. the work which will be i'm
posed pom them, allow them daily feeds of
grain, and plenty of hay; have them well
cleanad and provided with beds and warm
sleeping apartments.
Stock generazzy-Every thing Of the kind
should be protected from the inclemency of
winter, by dry sheds or stables, be regular
ly fed and supplied with straw OR leaves for
bedding.
Breeding Sows and store pigs should be
shielded from the wintry blasts by good
warm pen, which should be we'll supplied
with bedding, which should be removed at
least once a week. But while the comfort
of their sleeping apartments are attended to-,
it must not be forgotten to feed them. Ashes
and charcoal should be kept in trough,
where, as their appetite may indicate, they
may take a dose to neutralize acids, and
preserve the tone of their stomachs In their
! integrity.
Tools, Implements, Carts, Wagons, and
Gecring. The careful husbandman will
thoroughly examine every thing of the kind,
and have the necessary repairs promptly
made; he will be also equally careful to see
that each and all of them be placed safely
under cover, in order that they may be pro-
tected from the elements. His harness and
gearing he will of course have well cleaned
and rubbed with meats foot oil and lamp.
|bIack, and such as may not. be in use, he
Will have carefully hung up.
Young CaHze.-These should be kept in
separate yard from the old ones. In a
trough, under cover, there should at all times
be kept, mixture of lime, ashes and salt,
in equal portions, to which they can have
free access. As to their feed, though we
are averse from stutfing them, we would
certainly recommend that they be sufficient
lily we'll fed, to keep them from that state Of
hunger which makes them fretful and dis
satisfied In a word, they should get enough
to eat to preserve them in good heart and
growing condition.
Old Fie7ds.-If you have any old fields
f. that afford but Indifferent pasture in sum-
, mer, seize the first occasion when you can
spare the time this winter, in moist weather.
10 sow on every acre Of it, bushel of pIas-
ter, and we shall be greatly disappointed, il
By the first of June next, it does not furnish
rich green carpet of white clover and other
grasses.
\ Coal .AsheS.-For most lands in grass
coal ashes make an excellent top dressing
A hundred bushels to the acre will sweeten
! the soil, encourage the growth OF valuable
Fl grasses, and ultimately drive out the coarse
4. ones. ....
As we have concluded our familiar talk
, upon The work of the farm, and as there K
nothing that can be done in the open garden
while the earth is locked up by hoar frost
we will merely say to those who may have
Gardens, whose soils are stiff clays, tina
they should seize the occasion of every spell
of open weather to have their beds spadet
: up to receive the benefit of that Moderation
in the degree Of friabillty, which results
= from the action of the frost
A CoMPosT FOR SANDY LANDs.-Tak'
25 or 80 bushels of lime, Cor double tina
quantity of marl,) and mix it with % load
of clay, let stand for d few weeks, then hau
it out, spread it on an acre of ground even
ly-that done, sprerd thereon 10 double
cart loads of good strong stable or barn
. yard manure, and plough the whole in, ant