Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-12-12
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Give fools their gold 4 knaves their power
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who soyvs a field or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree. is moro than all.

Give fools their gold 4 knaves their power
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who sows a field or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree. is moro than all.
Farm Work for December.
This is no idle month for either the
farmer or gardiner. All emergencies
of weather are to be provided for by
both the farmer and gardiner. First
OF all for the health and comfort of
our respective families be sure to en-
brace the first opportunity to get
supply of ice. This is likely to be
long. cold winter, and it is the part OF
wisdom to provide for it. If it should
be otherwise, nothing is lost by the
early provision for different season.
10 do so, see that you provide for the
comfort of all your animals, by having
warm shelters and stables; heaps Of
leaves, dry and cut straw for the bed
ding of stalls and the littering of the
sheds that all your stock may have
warm, dry beds to sleep on, and to
walk over when exercising. Let good
clean water be accessible to them at
all times. Do not force them to slack
their thirst, to walk through mud or
mire a long or short distance, and rely
upon their ingenuity to break the ice
for drink.
be sure to SOW weekly or oftener
supply of plaster over the manure piles
compost heaps and in the stalls of the
stables. 1t not only fixes the ammo
MIA but it keeps intact this volatile
matter that so effects eyesight in all
who are stalled and chained and forced
TO endure its insiduous effects.
See that both corn and provender
are brought into close connection with
the s'crib" and the farm yard, before
snow offers an impeachment to such en-
terprlses and all important work. A
stick in this direction will save you
hours Of chagrin, and work, and terri
BILE discomfort, that must be perform
ed, stormy or not, for the preservation
OF animal life. Take time by the fore
lock if you wish to live comfortably
and have easy consciences during the
coming winter, predicted to be long
and cold one.
The corn crop is supposed to be in
the cribs, but if not, let it be housed
as soon as possible, certainly before
Christmas, as it is liable to depreda-
ton all the time it is in the field, and
the longer it is out the shorter will be
the crop. Provender ought to be con-
veniently placed, so as in bad weather
to be easily accessible for feeding the
different sorts of stock. Shelters must
be at once provided to keep the stock
warm and dry. Large quantities of
leaves, it is advisable to have gathered
dry and put under cover to make beds
for cows and hogs particularly; and a
large wood pile against the coming of
deep SHOWS, bad roads and severely
cold weather. Keep all the shelters
for sheep and young stock we'll litter
ed with leaves or straw, so that they
will be dry at all times.
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start in next years work. |
Mich Cows.-Feed your cows gen.
erously and make all the butter you
can before freezing weather overtakes
you.
Hogs.-Push ahead the fattening of
those intended for killing. Feed them
regularly with variety Of food until
week or ten days before you kill
them, during which time confine their
diet to sound corn or peas. or both, so
as to harden their fat and make their
meat firm.
Stock of all hinds.-Feed all the
stock generously, but waste not the
hay or other long provender; keep the
barnyard we'll covered with cornstalks
leaves, muck, old straw, woods earth,
and any and everything that will in
crease the manure pile, by the con-
slant tramping of the stock, and by
absorbing the liquid manure. Use
plaster freely in the barnyard. Let
your stock have plenty Of salt, and
sometimes ashes may be mixed in equal
portions with the salt. Keep tho weak
and young stock separated from the
older and stronger. If you have a
spiteful OK or COW. or a vicious horse,
put it by itself that it may not injure
others. Lock your stable doors at
night; it may be some protection
against thieves, or home folks riding
the horses at night, as is often prac-
ticed by our sable help and sometimes
by our white employees.
Plowing.-All low, turfv spots ought
this month to be plowed in narrow
lands, with the center burrows left
deep and clear, so as to act as drains
All stiff lands should be plowed deep,
or SUBSIDIZED, 80 as to have the full
benefit of the ameliorating and fertil-
izing effects of the frost and snow Of
winter.
Pouztry.-If you desire a good sup
ply OF eggs, see that your hen house is
warm and kept dry and clean. Make
their nests of leaves or cut straw. Have
boxes filled with coarse gravel, lime
or broken bones,-coarse bone dust is
excellent, accessible to the fowls, and
pure water; let large box be kept
filled with ashes for them to dust
themselves. Feed high with a variety
of foed-baked or boiled potatoes mix
ed with meal, husks, oats, rye, or buck
wheat, and bits of refuse meat, SC.
See that they have sometimes the outer
leaves of cabbage, or turnips cut fine.
Sulphur or lime occasionally put in
the water is wholesome, and cayenne
pepper sprinkled over their potatoes
or cabbage, &C., is excellent for the pre-.
servation of their health.-Maryland
Farmer.