Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-14


states that for five years he had . horse
with hoofs shelly and brittle, SO that il
was difficult to keep shoes on him during
the dry weather Of July and August. In
May last he dressed his feet with pine
tar, and now repeats IL every week, aid
the hoofs are perfectly sound even IN
midsummer.
Professor Arnold states that il cost
more TO make milk from old cows than
It does from young ones having the same
milk-producing capacity. The period OF
profitable milking does not terminate at
the same age with all COWS alike. Some
hold out longer than others, but, rs
rule the best effects do not reach be-
yond the eighth year of the cows age.
1t is claimed by an experienced horti-
culturist that there is nothing equal to
the little and often system of pruning or
rather pinching. The soft young shoots
can be easily removed by the finger and
thumb, and the pruning, instead 81 be-
ing confined to single period, extends
throughout the whole season, or when
ever shoot is noticed that demands
pruning.
Those who breed poultry are often per-
picked to know why the late Matched
chickens do not thrive as well as those
Matched early in the season. In nearly
all cases the difficulty may be traced to
lice, which prey so greedily upon the
chicks Matched in warm weather as to
make them feeble and subject to disease.
The best remedy for them is to dust she
chicks with Persian insect powder end
thoroughly clean the coops.
A writer in the Santa Cruz (Cai., ..ss-
tineL keeps caserpillars. the appel aphis
and other varieties of pernicious insects
from his orchard and grapevines by the
following process: II take q ve-eighths
bit and bore to near the center of the
tree, in trees five inches and upward in
diameter, fill tightly with sulphur and
ramie, then plug with a thin piece of
Eastwood, so that when dampness comes
to it it will reject water by easily swell
ing"
Whenever practical test of different
animals is made in feeding. 1t is sure to
demonstrate that the employment of i'm
proved breeds secures product of such
superior quality as to command an en-
HANGED price, and more of it in a given
time, or on a given amount of suitable
food. The great advantage and economy
of employing improved stock would be
still more apparent Is pains were taken
to make the feeding experiments exact
and complete.
Small or newly set garden plants or
vegetables, which need watering in dry
weather, may be more injured than ben
Gifted if the operation is not properly
performed. Merely wetting the surface
of the earth forms hard crust as soon
as it becomes dry. Covering the surface
an inch and half deep with fine broken
manure will prevent a crust, and the
earth will remain moist much longer.
Newly transplanted plants will do much
better with this mulching.
When farmers learn from experience
that by housing their manure and thor
oughly working it over, mixing with alb
sorbcnts and such as muck. earth. road
dust, leaves, etc., to take up the liquid
and the ammonia set free. its value is
double what it now is, and that, too, at
an expense much less than the same
amount of plant food could be obtained
in an artificial fertilizer, new era will
have been reached in agriculture, and
we shall see the fertility Of our old farms
brought back to where they were fifty
years ago.
The common practice Of allowing ewes
and lambs to run together until taken up
for winter is bad for both. While the
eve does not afford the three or four
months old lamb sufficient nourishment
to meet his wants. she does afford
enough to cause him to continually CHASE
her about, to annoy her and to spoil his
appetite for other food, and the drain
upon her system is sufficient to cause
much loss Of flesh The proper age at
which to separate lamb from its dam is
when it is from fourteen to sixteen weeks
old; but it should be prepared for the
separation by being previously taught to
eat.
Probably there is no branch of farm
, ing where, with proper care, an equal
amount of capital invested will yield so
large and sure returns rs poultry keep
ing. As an exchange remarks, Poultry
can be converted into money while living
or dead. and no one has to wait for years
before he gets some Of the benefit for
outlay and labor. But though this is
unquestionably admitted and proved.
nevertheless poultry keeping will not
yield much profit il left to shift for
themselves, and neglected and unprovi-
ded for in food and comfortable housing.
To be remnnerative, the comfort and
well-being of the stock must be at
tended to-