The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-05-14
Farm Notes.

DO not crowd chickens in their night
quarters.
Flowing in green crops with lime will
bring up worn lands.
Coal ashes are better than wood ashes
for fowls to wallow in.
Sheep manure is more fertilizing than
either horse or COW manure.
To strengthen fowls, chop onions fine
and feed to them three times week.
Iron nails thrown into drinking water
will make good tonic for chickens.
"A good remedy for gapes is to introduce
spirits of camphor into the chickens mouth
on the point of a feather.
Hogs may be kept from measles, trichi-
noss, etc, by mixing handful of good wood
ashes with their food twice week
When chickens are four weeks old,
chopped wheat will give them strength, cause
them to grow and assume flesh rapidly.
Coal ashes do well as fertilizer for to-
matoes. Make your ground half soil and half
coal ashes and the results will be surprising.
"A hefer with her first calf should be
MIXED as long as possible and well fed on
food that will stimulate secretion rather than
lay on fat
Roll all the grass lands as soon as dry
enough to get on. One hundred pounds of
land plaster to the acre on the clover fields
will give big money reward.
Worms at the roots of plants can be en-
terminated by watering with solution made
from fresh lime and water. Use after the
lime is settled. 1t will improve the plants.
An advance of one cent pound in the
price of butter means nearly S10,000,00 to
the total value ofthe production ofthe country
for one year.
The farmer should remember that his
fields are part of his capital, and that in
creasing their producing capacity means add
ing to the principal.
1t is said that bag of hops as large as
the two fists, placed in Il grain bin, will kill
or drive away every grub or weavil in the
bin. The dead can be removed by tanning.
Bone meal is one of the best fertilizers
for grapes 1t should be applied as early in
the season as possible. About a ton to the
acre, will make a valuable dressing for two
or three years.
"A horse that is to be used for work
should be exercised at regular intervals for at
least half an hour on every day ON which il
is not required for work Many sudden deaths
in winter and spring result from the neglect
of this salutary precaution.
An English farmer very successful dur
ing ten years in fattenng cattle and sheep,
supplied ration made as follows. Eight
bushels corn, soaked in ten pals water two
days, then simmer for an hour; afterwards
mix with fourteen pounds of coarse cheap
sugar, and commngle with cut straw, hay or
other fodder.
Lima Beans Without Poles-It is not
often convenient to get poles for Lima beans
to run on. They produce best on poles, but
if the young runners are kept cut off as they
grow, and the plants kept as bushes, they
generally do very well. Indeed those who
have tried them report that they grow quite
as well as the ordinary bush bean.
II, after the wool has grown to some
considerable length, sheep or lambs become
annoyed with lice or ticks, wash the lambs in
strong detection of tobacco Another way
is to take II pair of bellows and inhale tobacco
smoke then blow the smoke with consdera-
bic force among the ticks. This will prove
instant death TO them.
The liquid yicldings of animals are worth
more-good authorities say one-sixth more
pound for pound, than the solid excrements,
and are saved with greater care by the best
European farmers and gardeners. All the
leaks in the stable are not in the roof; those
often in the floor are quite as Objectionable
and are the cause of n great deal of waste