Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-09-03
farmers' Guluula.
Give fools their gold * knaves their power
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who soxvs a field or trains a flower.
Or plants a tree. Is moro than all.
Agricultural Notes.

AS the market for the new crop of
wheat opens millers are anxious to
economize store room. A ton of bran
is bulky in proportion to higher value
or weight, and for this reason it can
often be bought much cheaper than in
winter, when the demand is more &C
tive. Thoughtful farmers will lay il
supply for next winters use.
The root crops should be kept free
of grass. and the land light. In the
last working of the sugar beet and
mangolds, draw or throw the earth
we'll up to the roots, it is better than
to have them exposed foot above the
ground to the scorching sun. A heavy
sprinkling of plaster and Stacked ashes
would help turnips and rutabagas.
The great advantage of the creamery
system is that it cools the milk quick
ly by means of ice, and thus gets the
greatest amount of cream. 1t is very
important that the milk be put in the
creamery while yet warm from the
COW. In large dairy every cows milk
should becarried away as fast as drawn
by boy or man employed for this
purpose.
If at a loss what to do with ground
from which some early crop has been
taken, we advise to SOW it with rye.
This grain can be sown early in Au.
gust and fed down until cold weather,
besides furnishing an early run for
sheep next spring. In places where
drought has shortened the hay crop,
rye is now the most available resource.
1t IS not injured by early frosts, and
may be cut late and saved for winter
use in the silo.
Lack of water is one reason why
COWS shrink in their yield of milk at
this season of the year. Partially
dried herbage is more like hay than
grass, and even plenty of water to
drink will not obliterate the differ
epce. If the yield of milk is once al
lowed to fall off, no amount of good
feeding will ever quite restore it to
what it should have been. Worst of
all, the COW poorly watered loses flesh
and will not be so good another season.
In the drouth which has prevailed
in many places this year, just as pota-
toes were setting, the advantages Of
planting on a clover sod have been
most apparent. Where good growth
of young clover has been plowed un-
der, it has furnished enough moisture
to either carry the potatoes through
the dry spell or at least insure two
weeks more growth. And two weeks
time, with the plant food that de-
caying clover sod will furnish, means
an immense increas, in the crop of po-
tatoeS.
Owing to the high price Of phos-
phate most farmers who use it mix it
With something cheaper to make a
small quantity 60 farther and distrib-
ute evenly in the drill. Wood ashes
are among the best substances for this
purpose. They neutralize the excess
of acid which makes phosphate moist
and sticky. They scour and make
bright the bottom of the fertilizer box,
provided they are used dry. But
wherever ashes are used the drill must
be cleaned thoroughly every night, as
they draw moisture and cause the iron
to rust.
BRoDNAX, LA note that one of
your correspondents wishes to know
what will prevent horses and mules
after eating lesperdesa, from "slobber-
ing" Take equal parts salt and ashes
mixed, and wet so as to make ball
the size of cocanut, and stick it in
the end of the feed trough. Feed no
corn unless you desire it, but give
full feed of dry corn shucks or old
fodder at night. The horse can live
and get fat on lesperdesa without
corn, and no soldering if the above
directions are followed.--DR. BEN H.
BRoDNAx IN the Louisville Courier
Journal.