Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-03-13


# potatoes are kept in cellar six
months, they viii shrink IL per cent. IN
weight -
Ensilage is specially adapted to old
COWS as il is as succulent and as easily
digested as grass.
Coal ashes are not Of much use excent
10 garden walks and to ill in wet places
around the house.
It has been found that d good remedy
for cabbage worms, to be sprinkled an
the heads, i made BY dissolving Ia
blespoonful Of saltpeter in twelve quarts
of water.
Dry rot In trees Is tfansmissabie dis.
ease. and one diseased tree Is capable Of
injecting q whole nursery. Therefore.
look well to your trees. Clear away the
dead and diseased trees.
When the ground around pigpen is
thoroughly underdrained, as 1t should
be, bare earth makes the best and GER
tainly the most desirable floor. "A fresh
supply Of loose earth should be thrown
in twice year and removed as manure
whenever Il becomes rich enough.
It is unsafe applying salt in contact
with cut sect potatoes, but, after the
plants are up, little sprinkled over the
hills will repel worms, and on some land
will make bright, clean tubers, which
would otherwise have been affected with
scab. The salt also helps to keep the
soil moist il dry time.
The richer the feed the better the
manure. This is an old saying, and
generally true. The scarcest elements.
however, il manure, are the phosphate
Of lime and nitrogen Phosphate IS
largely found In the coarse parts Of
grain, that have little feeding value.
But it is not possible for farmer to
fatten stock without making much valu-
able manure.
a difference Of four quarts of milk per
day, ct the low price Of two cents per
quart, makes, for 300 days, $24, which
is the interest for $400 for year. This
does not repreEent the entire difference
in value, as the progeny of superior
mixers will be worth many times as
much to raise as will the progeny OF the
inferior animal. No farmer is rich
enough to afford to keep poor cows.
Barley is commonly sown after some
h0ed crop, usually corn or potatoes.
Good yield may, however, be secured on
stubble plowed early in the spring, or
better still, fall plowed the year previ-
GUS Where the catch OF clover last year
failed barley is probably the best spring
grain to seed with. Where clover seed
IS aown with the grain bushel and s
bushel and . half Of barley per acre is
sufficient seeding.
An apple tee that has been long
plowed around will generally have one
deep tap root with branches below where
the pillow can reach. It is not nearly So
difficult 20 dig out such tree as might
be supposed, provided it is alive. When
the layer Of earth is removed and q few
roots cut. the weight Of the top strains
the roots SO that they are readily severed
On one side. A rope attached TO the top
limbs and pulled By two Or three men At
. little distance on the ground helps
this exceedingly.
Where cornstalks are dry and hard
when cut il win not pay 80 mix meal or
other enc feed with them for feeding.
| Cattle viii nose them over 20 lick
Of the meal, and finally leave much of 1t
] to be wasted and thrown out on the ma
/ nure heap. But If cooked sufficiently to
| incorporate the meal with the stalks, cat
| tie viii eat the whole. Whether this
| win pay or not, depends On the kind Of
stock, abundance 0r scarcity Of labor,
/ and general facilities for cooking food.
/ Il may not pay with small herd, while
/ It VIII with large one.
] American farmers will scarcely credit
the fact that On the experimental grounds