Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-06-04
Agricultural Notes.

However rich a virgin soil may be
it can not long remain rich without
artificial aid from the cultivator. An
annual manuring becomes in time as
necessary as an annual sowing of seeds.
If one has eaten Savoy, SAYS gar
dener, the ordinary cabbage is coarse
and fat Farmers should cultivate
their tastes as we'll as their gardens,
and then cultivate the best fruits aud
vegetables. Try the Savoy cabbage.
Just as likely as not the little black
feas are eating your cabbage plants.
While the dew is on, dust with plaster
and Paris green. Stir the soil fire.
quently. busting with dry wood ash
es is bad for the feas and good for the
plants.
Do not furnish roosts for chickens.
Oblige them to set on the floor until
nearly grown. Crooked breast bones
are often caused by roosting too young.
A great mistake, often made, is the
trying to raise too many chickens on
the same range of ground.
Pastures are frequently unthrifty
which would be much the better Of
being thoroughly dragged. The sur
face simply needs to be scariGed with
teeth long enough to scratch it-not
cut and torn all out of shape. This
work, judiciously done, has most
stimulating effect.
Some are prevented from giving
COWS an early bite of grass because its
succulency will make them lose relish
for dry food. This idea is mistaken
one. So long as the grass is watery
and nutritious good hay will be Gag
erly eaten. 1t meets want of the
system which must be responded to
if the stock is to thrive.
At a recent meeting Of the Lenawee
(Mich.] Horticultural Society, Mr..
Edmiston says he began growing
strawberries twenty-one years ago,
and has since that time tested 100 diff
ferent varieties, most of them new and
high priced, and to-day he would not
give up the Wilson for any other va
riety he had ever grown.
One effect of salt is to make manure
more active and available for immedi-
ate use. 70 this end it is good plan
to mix salt with the manure just be-
fore it is applied, taking care to cover
slightly to prevent loss of ammonia.
Salt alone is not fertilizer On most
soils. unless it finds in them latent
plant food which it can make soluble.
Provide water places for your cows,
SO that they will not have to travel
long distances to drink. Unless you
do, your cows will go without water
until they get very thirsty. When
they do drink, they will drink too
much and make themselves feverish.
This is a condition unfavorable to the
production of the largest quantity or
the best quality.
If an old COW is quickly fattened its
meat will be more tender than where
the feeding has been protracted. The
great difficulty in feeding old cows is
in getting them to digest large amounts
of food. This is best done in summer,
when fresh grass, which is the most
easily oiSccteu VI Ioous, may NC sup
plemented with gradually increasing
rations of meal, taking especial care
never to give more than will be read
lily eaten.
More than half the diseases 80 prev
alent ameng farm houses are due to
improper attention to the laws of SAN
itatioD, and farmers would save many
times the expense of properly con-
structed stable, were they to try the
experiment. The animals that are so
closely connected with the successful
working of the farm assuredly deserve
better care and attention than is usual
ly given them. The humane man
will therefore see that they have light,
roomy, well ventilated stables where
disease will he far less likely to enter.