Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-02-16
Farna and Garden Nose..

Farm and Garden Notes.
Select COWS rich in butter making
qualities.
Do not forget that the pigs like a
drink of cool, fresh water as much as
other animals
A little air-slacked lime sprinklcd over
the potatoes in the cellar will tend to
prevent rot and purify the air of the
cellar.
The great problem in modern dairy
ing seems to be how to make live COW
compete with dead hog. So far, the
hog is about two lengths ahead.
Some people are hankering after a
general purpose breed of cattle, equally
as good for both the dairy and the
butcher They may banker in vain.
Good farm managers arc resorting to
the soiling system, and nearly all agree
that the capabilities Of an acre are much
increased by this method of feeding.
If your COW is not well there is no
need of bothering about her pulse.
Simply look at her nose. If we'll, it is
moist and cool; if feverish, dry and
hot.
There are cows that have given TO-
600 to $4,000 pounds of milk in year,
and farmers should study the fact and
endeavor to bring their stock up to as
high standard as possible.
When you begin to fatten your hogs
on corn, givertheme also some stepped
clover hay in the morning, and it will
assist to keep them in good health, as
we'll as fatten them more readily.
If there is any man who, more than
another, should make it point to have
the best possible stock. it is the small
farmer; and yet many men argue, that
because they have small farms it is i'm
material what class of stock they keep.
In order to keep the striped beetle
from the vines the experiment was tried
of placing corncobs dipped in coal tar
near the hills. While the practice did
not entirely prevent the ravages of the
beetle, their numbers were largely dimin-
ished.
To make COW own two calves and
raise them we have seen adopted with
some degree of success the following
blan: Sprinkle the calves with salt, the
COW will lick this off, and a repetition
time o. two will often secure perma-
nent recognition of the calf.
A member of the Elmira, On. Y.,)
Farmers Club opposes the use of breast
collars on driving horses for the reason
that it is injurious by drawing the shout
ders of the animal together, thereby
preventing a development and expan-
sion of the breast, especially of colts.
An old swine breeder says that he has
noticed that what is known as .'hog
cholera" is usually worse in very dry
seasons, and accounts for it by the fact
that pigs under such conditions get very
little green food, and the exclusive use
of the more concentrated foods supcrin-
duces this plague among the swine.
Soapsuds applied to gooseberry or to
currann bushes will kill moss growing
on them. The application may be made
at any time. but better when no leaves
are on. Several applications may he re-
quired. but as the suds is an excellent
fertilizer the trouble will be more than
compensated for by the increased growth.
A yearling colt as usually wintered i
a sorry looking animal in the spring, and
its owner is likely to be quite as sorry
when the animal is sold. Giving four
quarts Of oats daily to young colt the
first winter is. if the colt is what he
should be, selling the oats at seventy
Eve cents per bushel. A stunted colt Is
never afterward 81 good as it would have
been If not stunted in the first winter.
Barley meal or barley soaked in cold
water will increase One-third in bulk,
and By cooking viii swell out consid-
ecrably more There is no doubt that
when thus created it gives much more
nutriment than meal in its dry state.
Water costs nothing, and to a limited
extent it is undoubtedly the cheapest
food an animal can get. It is valuable
part Of the feed in green grass aud other
herbage.
Nitrate Of soda is comparatively cheap.
owing to discoveries Of immense nitrc
beds IN South America. It is q very
valuable fertilizer. but has not been much
Used on account Of its high cost. il
England il has been more extensively ap-
piled, and has been found profitable
sown on wheat and barley ii spring. It
sanses large. rank growth of straw. and
! therefore most useful on land that IS
:otten. thin and poor. Of which there j
much even III England