Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-12
.lrm and Garden Notes.

Never clean horse in his stable.
The dust fouls the crib and makes
him loathe his food.
A bushel of corn fed to hogs in
August and September will give better
results than two later on.
Farmers who are careful to see that
The collars their horses wear are a
proper fit save the animals much I'M
necessary torture.
Weedy pastures makepoor and bitter
butter. When pasture is in a very
foul condition it should be plowed and
planted with some hoed crop.
More than one farmer claims that a
little timothy or pure grass in the
clover greatly assists it to cure quicnly.
Glover alone is too full of juice, and
It's thick stems dry out slowly.
There is no more soluble application
FOR an orchard than the dirt and chips
hat accumulate around a wood-pile
md the leaf mold from the forest
spread upon the ground and plowed in.
Without sheep En- lish farmers
could not keep up the fertility of their
and. There are three sheep to four
acres kept in England, while Ameri-
cans only average one sheep to thirty
four acres.
Gate and bran are better for calves
;han corn and bran, as the former
produce bone and muscle, which is
more desirable than flesh. If the oats
1nf - M
hem in scald.ng water.
A plan practiced in the East for
getting rid of stumps is an old one.
1t consists in boring holes in the top
and putting an ounce of saltpeter in
each hole. When this has b come wet
and penetrated the wood the stump is
set On fire.
+. ID. Curtis, Saratoga county, New
York, says that the best plan for kill
ing Canada thistles is seeding heavily
with clover and moving it, and the
best way to spread the pests is TO put
the land in hard crops. His argument
is that as every little broken Joint
makes new thistle and starts new
bed, the less they are dist rib d the
better, unless the ground is plowed
so frequently that they cannot grow
at all
Ringbone is quite common defect
in horses, and often needle sly pro-
duced A veterinary authority says of
it: The great majority of ringbones
in young horses come IT ,m the failure
To shorten their toes. To this may be
added that ringbone is apt to be formed
if coltS are allowed to stand on II plank
floor, or anywhere else where tn foot
ing is hard, during the first eighteen
months of their age. Whether in
stable or yard during this per oil, let
them have earth for standing or walk
ing, free from stone or gravel.
Newly set fruit trees should not be
neglected. The first two or three
years are important ones in the Ii of
tree. 1t can then be sparingly
pruned in spring, summer. autumn or
winter. If the grower sees branch
which needs the knife he hould attend
to it on the spot. no matter what the
season may be. Severing slender
twig then may spare the cutt ng of a
large branch few years later. The
earth should be kept tight a out the
base of young tree, and if it leans
too much it should be aled. "As
the twig is bent, so Is the tree in
clined."
w. f. Brown, IN the Rural NeaC
Yorker, says: / find more profit from
the cows that come in fresh in the fall
than from those that are fresh in the
spring. Not only does butter bring a
better price, but think the cows give
more milk in year under this manage,
ment, for just when they come to the
time when they won naturally begin
to shrink largely in their milk they 80
on fresh pasture and increase the fiow
while a cow that is fresh in the spring