Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-21


or other grain that appears above tn.
surface is therouIy one that the see,
Itself produees. In good soil the par
from this basis should spread an,
send up numerous other leaves, an,
when ripening time comes stalks ant
grain also
The first requisite in the successful
management Of harvest is to have the
best of machinery, and keep it in good
running order. The farmer should do
his own repairing as far as PISS ole.
Machinery is sometimes brek eaSW hen
in use that can be repaired by any
man Of ordinary tact.
A heifer's first calf is not apt to be
as good as Its successors, especially in
these days when so many heifers are
bred too young. The best calf comes
from the mature COW, other things be-
ing equal, and some men have so much
faith in this point that the first calf is
usually sacrificed.
Apple trees should not be trimmed
to a crotch with two or more limbs
1t is all right while the trees are
young, but when apple trees begin to
bear. the crotch splits and the tree is
ruined. Train one leader mp straight
and the branches from this will be
less likely to break off when loaded.
Wool and mutton are bound togeth-
er inseparably if either would be made
most permanently profitable, and he
cn for ut RI "a FNN
ish. To make our focks most prof
table, or at all profitable, no source Of
revenue must be neglected, whether
: it be mutton, fleece or increase.
The English remedy for worms in
the lungs of sheep is to shut the ami,
mails affected in close room and re.
quire them to inhale the fumes of sui
phur. Calves subject to this same
way. The presence of worms in the
lungs may be known by the animal
having a constant troublesome cough.
Seed of oats or barley should always
besplump and heavy, as this produces
strong plants, which tiller freely.
While shrunken grain will grow. it is
not good economy to use such. as 50
much more seed is required. The
great number of small stunted plants
crowd each other, and produce less
crop than from a smaller seeding Of
plump grain.
After calves get so they will eat hay
give them what they will eat clean of
this and about one quart of oats daily.
Without the grain, the hay will only
keep them in store condition, and
worth little more at a year old than
now. All the profit will come from
the grain, and the farmer who sees this
point will increase the gram feed all
the animals will bear.
OF course more care is required in
feeding concentrated food, grain or
meal, than in feeding hay; but to the
extent they can be used the more con
centrated foods are cheapest. The
time has gone by when hay was fed
without stint because farmers thought
it cost little With average light
crops of hay it is about the dearest
feed that any stock can eat But the
growing of clover is so helpful to the
soil that this pays much of the excuse
of sowing and harvesting it. F
Peas Will probably bear deeper
planting than any other seeds. The
crop delights in cool, moist soil, and
deep planting insures these conditions.
We have found, however. that making A.,
furrow seven or eight inches deep,
filling it with mixture of soil aud
superphosphate, and planting he peas
on this two inches below the surface,
produced better results than deeper
planting. If the pea roots want to
go down deeper they will know how
to do it, provided we have prepared
the proper condition.
There is altogether too little enter
prise among farmers in hunting up
new ideas. Visiting wide awake !
young farmer lately, We. found he had
been using ground rye mixed with
wheat bran as food for his horses.
His team was constantly at work Oh
this feed, looked well and was
kept at about two thirds the ex-
pense eff feeding hay and oats. Rye
may be Objectionable for feeding to
breeding animals, on account OF dan
ger from ergot, but this Limitation
makes it a cheaper feed than it would
otherwise be, and for working teams
and for growing hog it can hardly be
excelled.
The time for cutting or harvesting
timothy depends on what it is to be
fed to. II it is for sheep hay it should
be cut just after it is out Of blossom
and when the seed is formed. Cat at
this time it makes very good and
profitable hay for sheep. For horse
feed, timothy should be cut at the
time when the seed is ia the dough
state, and the heads are just beginning
to get light color Where timothy
is allowed to get dry aai dead before
harvesting it makes poor feed, mas
much as in the operation of the ma
turing of the seed, which is the whole
object of the existence Of the stalk or
plant, the starch and sugar found in
the green state are converted into
woody fibre, aud Of course are lost as
nutritiye element.
Ali the profit in farming comes
from maximum crops. From the
statistics, as shown by the census re
ports of the United States, it appears
that the average yield of the corn
crop is about thirty bushels per acre.
That these averages will give no pro i
fit is evident.to every experienced far
mer, and as these are the averages
there must be many who grow less,
for We'know1 there are many who grow
much more to the acre. We might,
then, divide farmers in three classes-t