Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-02-06

winter stock Good straw cut up fine
and mixed with corn meal, wheat bran
and middIings. makes an excellent feed
for all kinds Of stock One Of the feeds
each day may be cut cornstalks.
With the disuse Of wood fires there Is
q smaller supply Of ashes on most farms,
and this may iii part account for the diff.
ficulty in growing fruit. No more prof
liable use of ashes can be made than IN
apple or other fruit orchards It is best
applied early in the spring, that it may
be washed into the soil If applied in
the fall it may make some of the fertill.
ty of the soil soluble and be washed
away before the trees can use it.
Where the grain is only to DO used .or
feeding. oats and peas are sometimes
grown together. The practice is an ex-
ceilent one, as the two grains win pro-
dnce more feed than either grown sepa-
rately. They are also good when
cut green for soiling purposes, or for
putting into the silo. Peas are strong,
rich feed, and their vines shade the
ground 50 completely that they act as
mulch to the soil during the hottest
weather. Oats growing with peas keep
the, vines of the latter from falling down.
As many people are beginning in the
poultry business. a caution may be need
ed against building very expensive hous-
cs,. and especially very large ones. If
you calculate to keep 500 or 1000 fowls
do not build any one structure for more
than tenth of that number. and do not
keep more than fifty together. Then, If
you succeed, it will be tho easiest thing
in the world to build second, or third,
or fourth house like the first. with as
many improvements as experience sug-
gests.
1t is generally agreed among pomolo-
gists that the characters OF the fruits of
different varieties are too vague and un-
defined to answer all the purposes of
identification. Attention is being turned
to the flower. We might suggest that
more attention be given to the general
habit of the tree. Most varieties are so
we'll marked by the shape of the top,
disposition of the limbs, color of the
twigs and leaves, shapes of the leaves,
etc., as to be at once distinguished by
experts. The time of blossoming, of
leatng, ETC., is also distinctive feature.
1t is probable chat all our small grain
is sown more thickly than it should be.
There is no enemy to the wheat plant
so dangerous as another wheat plant
contesting with it for light and room
in the struggle for existence. Both
want the same food when there is
not enough for both. The result
is a puny growth, however the field
may be fertilized. The same is true Of
oats and barley. Farmers well under
stand the bad effects of too thick stand
of corn IN diminishing the grain yield.
Three stalks in hill give more sound
corn than greater number of stalks,
and with some varieties even two stalks
will yield even more than three. The
same fact holds true with regard to small
grain.
Great CARE should be taken to feed
horses only with hay from weed seeds,
The weeds themselves are tad enough,
as they are less nutritious than good hay.
but the greatest objection is the seeds
which weeds contain, and, which pass
through the animal without losing their
vitality. In carefully conducted ex-'
pertinent it was found that ninety per
cent. of daisy, plantain and other small
weed seeds passed through horses unin-
jured, and, mingled with theexcrement,
will be in just the best condition for
growing. It is well known that oats fed
whole willpass through horses uninjured,
and the scattering punches found in corn
and potato fields generally come from
feeding whole grain when blowing or
dragging.