Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-07

crops of grain. Roots are preferable.
Unleached wood ashes added to the
radish bed will keep it free from worms
Bronze turkeys are the largest tamest,
most prolific and hardest of all varieties
If your cows seem indisposed, give
them warm bran slop well seasoned with
ginger.
The Japan muskmelon is white, bald
headed looking thing, but the inside is
delicious.
In washing wooden dairy utensils use
first not water then cold, and lastly hot
See that they are well dried.
Paris green, applied in solution the
same as for the potato bug, will kill the
black squash and pumpkin bug.
Give the fowls soft feed in the morn
ing; it satisfies their immediate wants
after their nights fast quicker than whole
grain.
At three weeks old pigs may have
skinned milk, little corn that has been
soaked for twenty-four hours and I'M
ground oats.
The salamander lettuce will stand
drought and heat better than any other
large and compact head.
Dig the holes for melon hills very deep,
mix the soil with manure and put back
into the hole Thus you have fine earth
In which the plants will grow safely.
Green manuring is the best for corn,
therefore save the stable manure for veg
etablcs and small grains, and SOW clover
and grasses to be turned under for corn.
In digging out ferns put your hands
close under the root or bulb and pull it
gently but "bodily." Before transplant
ing put the root in water. Ferns require
shade and cool soil.
The chedder cheese OF Canada is made
by draining off the whey while it is sweet,
the curd being allowed to sour afterward.
There is more nutriment in the chedder
than in the common cheese of the
States
Cows that are watered from stagnant
ponds or from wells in the barnyard will
give milk more or less tainted, and from
which it is impossible to make the best
butter. So large part of milk is water,
that the drink of the COW is of quite as
much Importance as her food
The earliness with which rye can be got
ready for cutting makes it a favorite for
early soiling. There is, however, danger
In feeding green rye to animals with
young, as the spores of ergot which it
contains have in some instances produced
abortion in ewes, cows and sows to which
it had been fed.
When a cow loses one of her teats it
does not follow that her actual value is
impaired, except as it may make milking
more difficult. After the milk veins
have become accustomed to the change,
all the milk secreted will 90 to three
teats as well as to four Losing teat is
an indication that cow is or has been a
great mixer, and may, therefore, be
worth more than one that has never had
any such difficulty.
Heavy soils and those rich In vegetable
matter should receive frequent light
dressings of salt. 1t does not act di-
rectly as fertilizer except in very rare
instances, but in small doses helps dis
solve and make available other plant
food of which heavy soils usually have
an abundance, though not in available
condition for use. On land entirely de-
ficient in vegetable matter, salt is usually
of little benefit.
Wherever it is found by experiment
that the commercial fertilizers help the
crop they should be used up to the limit
that they are found profitable. Only part
of the benefit is given to the first crop,
and if this pays the expense, as it often
win. the surplus is so much accumulated
capital to be drawn upon in future years.
With some kind of crops extra heavy
manuring is the only means of securing
paying crops.
Where stones are plentiful it is COM
mon practice to pile them up in large
heaps, usually over a large rock, stump
or some other supposed to be permanent
obstacle to good farming. In course of
years these heaps increase In size until
they become disagreeable eyesores and
very expensive to remove. There is
really nowhere In or around TILED field
that stone heap can be made with a
certainty that it will not soon become q
nuisance.
From experiments made at the Iowa
Agricultural college it was thought that,
for producing milk, two pounds of corn
were worth fifty cents, the same quantity
of oats would be worth sixty cents; bar
lev, fifty-fve cents; wheat, sixty five
cents; wheat bran. seventy cents: oil
meal, $1.45; clover hay eighty cents:
timothy, fifty cents; potatoes, ten cents.
BY comparing these relative values with