Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-11-15
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Small Farm Maxim.

ter for capital invested. Therefore, small
farms are best.
2. If you want to make your farm pay,
you mnst give it your daily personal atten-
ton. But if your farm is too large you
cannot do this; hence, as I said above,
small farms are the best.
8. If you don't want your farm to run
away, you must stop the little leaks. We
may expect fewer leaks on small place
than on a big one; hence, again, small
farmes are best.
4. Feed your land well, aud it will feed
you. 1t takes less to feed few acres
than a great many. So you see small
farms are best.
5. Ifyou would live long and enjoy life,
work little, then rest little. But if you
have large farm you must labor all the
time. Here again, small farms are BEST
6. To raise big corn, you must keep
small grass. To make small grass you
must cut often. So in this, we find small
farms the best.
Z. If you have good fence you need
fear no loss by stock. But fences are cost
ly. Thus once more we find small farms
best.
s. If you want good roads, and plenty
of schools, churches, ard mills, you must
have dense population. If farms are
large this is impossible. Therefore, I de-
clare small farms to be best.
9. Farms should increase in value year
by year. 1t costs less to improve few a.
ores than great many. Here, as before,
small farms are best. -Rural Carolintan
How to Treat Breeding Mares.
A poor half starved mare will bring
puny weakling into the world. The physi-
cal condition of the colt depends upon that
of the mother. Not only does be derive
from her the principal of life, but the con
duct of the vital processes in her constitute
the agenies which mold his entire bodily
organism-bone, sinew, tendon, muscle,
and ALL The health Of the mother can not
be affected without corresponding detri-
ment to the fetus. 1t lis through the me-
dunn of her digestion and circulation that
the latter is nourished and matured. Hshe
is we'll fed, the colt receives his share of
the benift, and if she is impoverished, the
colt will be the same.
To feed the mare with foal upon strong
heating diet is a great mistake. What
she needs is moist, nutritious food, such
as can be easily digested and will keep the
bowels loose. In winter-time, or at any
other season when she is steadily worked,
chopped feed. with provender, is the best.
In no case let her be gorged with corn
BUTT will be no harm to give her sparingly
of corn-meal, as provender, made moist
and thoroughly soaked. If it is in time of
pasture, she will need no other feed. In
the latter months of CESSATION the food may
be- increased She requires more at this
period, having both the foal and herself to
support, and the former now draws heav-
lily upon the mother for his sustenanoe; yet
while she should never be allowed to fall
off and become poor, very full, plethoric
condition is decidedly Objectionable. To
fact, it is still. more hazardous to her than
the reverse.
Concerning the qualities of the feed. too
great care is impossible. At this time,
Of all others. the food should be pure. nu-
tritious, and wholesome. Mouldy hay or
fodder, or injured grain, should be scru
pulously excluded from diet. Possibly
the mother might resist its Injurious eff
fects, but the foal must inevitably suffer,
and might be ruined entirely. Thousands
Of colts are in diseased condition, induc-
ed by the unhealthy food upon which the
mother has been compelled to sustain the
lives of both.
Another consideration of Importance is
the amount of labor the mare may perform.
1t is better for her to do light work, at least
up to within seven or eight weeks of foal-
ing, at which time she should be relieved
of all service, unless it be some OCCASION
al mild exercise. She should, also, about
this time, be removed from other animals,
that she may not be injured by them. At
no period should she be assigned any very
hard labor, or be subjected to severe
strains. As she nears the time of foaling,
she should be kept where she can be east
ly watched, so that if any difficulty arises
during parturition assistance may be rem
dered promptly.
During the time Of sucking, the mare
should receive the best of attention. Her
food should be generous, wholesome, and
abundant 1t should never escape the
mind of her keeper that she now has two
lives to support, and the tax upon her
which the colts necessities occasion is We
ry great. Occasionally, bran-mash may
be given rye-bran. if it can be obtained
and at all times plenty of chopped feed,
good sweet hay. and oats will be just the
diet for her. But abstain from feeding
her any corn. IF pasture can be produced,
she will do better on this than upon any
thing else. As feeding the mare is feed
ing the colt also, nothing should be allow
ed her that can injure the latter, as some
articles Of food or medicine may do without
seriously affecting the stronger organism
of the mother.
AFTER thirty days, if she is again in sea-
son, the mare may once more be put to the
horse, if the owner is determined to have
her bring colt every year. But to this
is grave objection. En- all of the animal
creation, a state of pregnancy injuriously
affects the character of the milk afforded
the sucking offspring. Better colts can
beraised by breeding the mare only every