The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-05-18
VOL. XXI---NO. 20.
Farm Notes.

Thorough preparation of land is abso-
lutely necessary to the successful and lux
uriant growth of crops.
A bushel of plaster per acre, sown
broadcast over clover, will add from ten to
100 per cent. to its product.
The periodical application of ashes, un-
leached, tends to keep up the integrity of
the soil by supplying most if not all of the
organic substances
Good breeding without good feeding
will never give fine stock. Good feeding
alone, however, will do it, though it may
be much advanced by careful breeding.
Many farmers can accomplish twice the
amount of work done by their neighbors;
the reason is obvious-they go to work
with definite plan, and with order and
SYSTEM which carries them through with
out and stoppages.
Melons require that the entire patch
should be worked to mellowness and be
made rich. 1t is all wrong to merely work
and enrich around the hill. For melons to
do well the roots require good chance to
run as far as the vines.
Seed beds upon light dry soil should not
be raised above the surrounding surface
Raised beds suffer more from drought
and plants do not thrive so well. Upon
| light soil, beds, rows and hills should all
be kept as neal the surface level as posi-
BILE.
Cattle need the most salt in the spring,
when they are on green grass. 1t is very
| common mistake to give salt during the
winter season when there is but little work,
and then neglect it as the busy time adj
vances. Salt should be kept in some con-
venient place under cover, where the cattle
can always have access to it. They will
take it only as they need it.
In buying stock ram, buy q young,
strong, vigorous one. 1fhe hicks well with
your ewes, breed him to these same ewes
as long as they live. The oftener female
produces offspring from the same male rs n
rulc-and where breeding after the male is
prominent more will she breed like
the male. This is noticeable in all cases
where large families have been produced
from the same pair, animal or human
There are exceptions to this rule, but in
those cases our observation and expe-
ricnce is, that they never should be bred to-
gether.
In reply to a subscriber will state my
remedy for lice of young cattle. 1t is very
simple and something all farmers have,
viz, soit-soap suds, in the proportion of
one third soap to two-thirds water. had
some young cattle that were decidedly
lousy-pretty well covered with red lice.
| applied the soap suds freely, let the lath-
er dry on, and then carded them. The
dead bodies fully repaid me fol III. tlou
bic, and since then haven't been troubled
with live lice on my cattle. This is my
remedy; take it, you're welcome--no
extra charge. Correspondence Of Dirigo
Rural.
Cleanliness is important in lighthouses,
for experience shows that poultry are I'M
favorably affected by the emanations from
filthy quarters, and besides, working in
places where roosts and floors are covered
with the droppings, is decidedly unpleas-
ant. Dry earth in the form of powder,
scattered everywhere, will absorb the bad
odors, giving wholesome atmosphere to
the hen-house, and at the same time pre-
serve the manure in the least offensive con-
dition. Besides these purposes, a box of
dry earth should be in Il convenient corner
of every fowl-house for the fowls to roll in.
Dust from the highway is the most con-
venient. Replace the same 10y an equal
quantity of good gravel and the public will
be the gamer.