Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-02-09
Farm and CardeIs Notes.

As q
rule, are never fat.
"A little charcoal fed to swine now and
then proves beneficial
The first element of success in the care
of livestock is fondness for the stock.
Use the curry-comb lightly. When
1t is used roughly it is source of great
pain.
Never clean horse in the stable. The
dust fouls his crib, and makes HIM loathe
his food?
New York and Pennsylvania grow
two-thirds of all the buckwheat produced
in this country.
1t is asserted that ''there is not one
farm hand in 10000 who knows how to
feed livestock"
The cellar should be kept strictly clean,
as decaying vegetable matter is often a
source of disease.
Young pigs always sell for good prices
and return larger profit in proportion
to cost than hogs.
A farmer in Plymouth. N. H., raised
last year four hundred bdshels of onions
on less than an acre of land.
Sprinkle little lime (air sIackcd) over
the potatoes in your cellar. 1t will tend
to prevent rot, and purify the air of the
cellar.
Every fruit garden should have its
manure heap, that in the fall or spring,
when it comes to be applied, will cut
like paste.
Should you run out of axle grease some
busy time, mix two parts of lard with
one each of black lead and wheat -four,
and apply.
A pound of flesh lost to the brute is
twice lost to the owner, for the waste of
the body must be repaired while it is be-
ing replaced.
1t is said that if apples are covered
with buckwheat chaff they will keep well
and do not freeze as easil J as when straw,
sawdust or earth are used.
20 procure good coat On your horse,
use plenty of rubbing and brushing.
Plenty of 'elbow-grease" opens the
pores, softens the skin, and promotes
the animals general growth
Keep stables warm during the cold
weather and free from draughts. This
does not mean to exclude all outside air;
the stable should be ventilated, but that
can be done without draAghts.
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment
Station calls attention to the fact that in
its experiments, potatoes raised from
large, whole seed ripened nine days ear
lier than those from seed cut to single
eyes.
Chestnuts are usually grown from seed,
either planted during the fall or kept in
sand through the winter and planted in
the spring. The largo varieties of the
Spanish chestnut, or marrow, which do
not come true from seed, can be grated
on the others.
Every preparation sh0nld be completed
for making and saving the largest amount
of manure possible. Provide a tight
shed or dry cellar for the manure. If
exposed to the weather. its most valuable
constituents are washed out aud lost. 1t
is the worst economy to permit this.
Horses that have a rackful of hay be-
fore them all the time will grow poor,
when. If fed limited quantity, with
some grain. they will become fat. The
rack filed with hay becomes offensive
from the horses breath. and the animal
must be partly starved before he viii
eat it.
A Wisconsin farmer stoutly maintains
that he prevents the ravages Of the
beetles in his potatoes by planting one or
two fiaxseeds In each hill. He says the
bugs will shun the fax every time. and
that he has grown potatoes in this way
for ten years and secured good crops
when others failed.
In the care of fowls no one thing is
more important than system. There
should be q daily routine. Ii must be
somebody's business to attend to the
fowls punctually at just the same time
every day--just as much as It IS essen
tial to the well-being Of well-ordered
family to have the meals atregular hours.
the washing done on Monday, the iron
ing on Tuesday, the baking on Wednes-
day, the sweeping on Friday, etc. 1t is
just as essential as it il to groom the
horses. feed and water all around,
regularly and daily week in and week
out.
The man or boy who Aas ever had oc-
casion to drive or lead hog does not
need to be reminded tAat the task is
oftentimes irritating. 1t is claimed that
BY the aid of q strong bashel basket the
hogs aversion TO going Is you please
can be successfully overcome. The
method of operating il shis When the
subject turns and makes dive Tor your