Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-16

Never apply nitrate Of soda or any
other very soluable form Of nitrogen
or ammonia in the fall.
a prominent fruit grower says
weeds viii never bother farmer if he
viii keep the land il grass. turning
sod for crops. and reseeding again to
grass after one or two ploughings
When colts are running with their
dams. care should be exercised while
feeding, as any food that has the least
tendency to mares loose wiz operate
on the colts in the same manner.
Salt in their took when cooked. for
poultry, is very proper seasoning,
but salt given in its raw state is dele
terious if much of it is eaten by fowls.
We do not recommend its use in any
form, save mixed with their mash Of
calded m sal and boiled vegetables
Put in big crop Of turnips in the
fall, some for the table and some for
the sheep, hogs and cattle Ground
from which you have taken oats or
potatoes the present year makes an
excellent place for turnips. A dress
ing of stable or hog-pen manure viii
insure big yield.
While they ger plenty of food, or
rather place to lay their egg, potato
beetles will never move from field,
and very seldom move much init. But
soon as the early potatoes die down
or are eaten or thousands of beetles
may be seen flying to fresh pastures.
A spring colt should be weaned a
little before winter in order that it may
become used to the change of food
while the weather is warm, ana while
plenty of succulent food can be had.
Ensilage is an excellent feed for main
tanning growth of colts and other
young stock.
Oats, barley and peas will do very
well to precede winter wheat. provided
the soil is free from thistles and other
weeds. Lack of fertility can be sup
piled at less expense than the use of
the land year to develop it by fallow-
ing, but the time between spring grain
harvest and winter wheat seeding is
too short to make foul land clean.
Well-cured oats make good feed for
horses at work, the straw, if bright,
being eaten with the grain in place of
hay. 1t is not easy, however, to keep
oats in the straw for Winter feed, as
mice and sometimes rats get in and
destroy the grain. Besides they soil
with their feet and droppings, so that
it is only eaten on compulsion of hun
ger. The grain md straw may, how
ever, be fed separately at any time in
the year. and it makes excellent feed.
1t is well to be suspicious of a cow
oyer-fat while giving milk. She either
gives little, or it is poor in quality.
The best mixers not only put most of
what they eat in the pail, but steadily
pull themselves down while being
MIXED, no matter how highly they
may be fed. For this reason the
best mixers should, if possible, be
dried two months or more before calv-
ing, so as TO give some chance for
laying on flesh. They viii give it back
in the pail next season.
An Indiana man gives the following
as a remedy for MARBLES in cattle:
Take lard or any kind of grease, and
grease your cattle's backs from the
shoulders to the root of the tail.
Grease every two weeks from July to
October, as this is the period in which
the fly does the mischief.
1t is said that few drops of carbolic
acid--that is, 10 drops in one pint of
water-will, if poured over the earth
in flower pots, kill all living things
except the plants.
Manures made on the farm are of
very unequal value. and their helpful
ness is greatly increased by thorough
mixing together before applying to the