Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-15
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certainly be eeononised, should be made
to perform their rightful Offices in the ini-
provement of the soil-in the increase, nu: :
ture, elaboration and perfection of the earth.
All hogs when first taken up for fatten
ing should receive two Or three doses Of
-four Of sulphur and copperas, at two days
apart, to be given in messes of bran and
meal. Their food for the first two or three
weeks, should be pumpkins, apples, or roots
of SOME kind, which should. be boiled and
made into mashes with bran, or meal, the
latter being increased from day to day, SO
that when they come to have corn or meal
altogether, the change may not be injuri-
ously felt by them.
Hogs should be Withdrawn from the
woods, and penned as soon as the supply'of
mast ceases to be sufficient to continue their
increase of size, flesh and fat:
When taken into the pen for fattening a
saving Of 20 per cent may be effected, If
the corn be ground into meal, and convert
ed into slop by water, instead of being fed
in the grain, or on the cob. It should be
recollected too, that the cob when reduced
into meal meal makes excellent food for
mich COWS mixed with cut straw.
Each hog-yard ought to be- furnished with
a rubbing -post-and trough be kept un-
der cover in which the hogs could at all
times find rotten-wood, ashes, charcoal and
salt
Fattening hogs should be fed three times
a day, say at sunrise, II o'clock, and about
sun-setting, and care must be observed to
give them their meals at these times regu-
larly as regularity in the hours of feeding
operates most favorably in the taking on of
fat. They should be watered three times
day. -. 3
Fattening hogs should have their troughs
cleaned, and their sleeping apartments well
Uttered with clean straw once week. 4,ae
CATTLE-YARDs. ,'5s
As the time is coming on apace, when
you will have to yard your stock, let'us adj
wise you before that time arrives, to have
such rough materials as we advised for the
hog-yards. collected and spread over your
cattle yards. In spreading in the materials
fashion them 6dsSn-s7sdped, 50 as to prevent
the escape Of the urine of the stock. As
the rough materials are being spread on the
cattle yard, they should be busted with
plaster, or pulverized charcoal Every
week or two after the stock are in the yards,
dust plaster over the mass.
. About II inches in depth of rough mate
trials while fashioning the yard will be about
the right quantity at first, which if it be
convenient for you to do so, you may add
to throughout the season with kindred sub
stances, taking care to dust it with plaster.
In the spring when you are about to remove
the mass to the corn, or other fields, shoy-
| Ell the whole over SO as to mix it together,
and our word for it you will find it equal to
any barn. yard manure that you ever put
upon your fields. 80 ~.
ACCUMULATION OF MATERIALS FOR
MANURE. - -
Employ as many teams and hands as you
can spare in the collection Of such rough
materials as may be convertible into ma
nure, and in the formation of them into
compost heaps, from now until the frost is
too intense to admit Of such labor. Now,
we know that there is prevalent opinion
that the making of compost heaps is not
profitable; but in defiance of that opinion,
we are induced from experience to aver that
in such formations true economy exists. If
we are asked in what such rough materials
should consist we would say that the gath
erer cannot well go amiss, and we will
name few Of the many articles that may
be converted into manure, viz: Pine-shat-
ters, mould and leaves from the woods,
road and ditch scrapings, marsh-mud, riv-
er mud, creek mud, weeds, the earth from
theadloands, stalks and all kindred sub
stances, in depth, be spread on the field to
which you may intend to apply them next
spring, over these spread 10 bushels Of
Stacked ashes for every 20 loads of the mass,
then put on another body of the materials
and similar quantity Of Stacked ashes, and
so on until you get the heap about feet
high. In forming the heap give it cone
like shape. In the spring shovel over the
heap so as to mix, the several substances
together and equalize the virtue of the ma
nure, and we think we hazard nothing in
saying that you will find the mass highly
charged with fertilizing matters.
GATHERING PUMPKINS.
Have your pumpkins gathered before
they are injured by the frost. AS the pre-
else time of gathering them your own good
Judgment must determine that point. Have
them carefully handled in pulling and haul
ing, so as not to bruise them, and store
them away in some cool place. In feeding
them out to your hogs and mich COWS you
will greatly increase their value as food by
having them cooked. For hogs especially,
cooking is necessary, as it prevents their
purging In feeding them to your milch
cows, if you should not cook them have thom
cut into small pieces, and mixed with cut
straw, or hay, peck of each will make a
milk producing mess