Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-09-07
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

| give tueiu tnOuButIul care.
1t is pleasant to theOrize with poul-
try, but practice pays best.
The poultry house should he well
ventilated day and night at all times.
When it rains sufficiently put out
something for quickly made pasture.
See that your rule for keeping salt
before the COWS is strictly carried out.
Plant plum thicket for the chick
ems to run in. 1t will be good fol
both.
Arrange to raise some late chickens
They will make fine fries in dus
season.
Always keep little flock of guineas
to watch out for hawks and other in
truders
Shade is an important consideration
for fowls of all ages and conditions
just now.
Never buy stunted trees from tho
nursery, and then do not stunt them
in the orchard.
Soap wash or lime wash is of great
benefit in helping orchard trees to
shed the old bark.
The breaking of heifers to milk
should be done by very careful and
level headed person.
Every farm herd will show that the
nature of cows vary. You should not
try to treat them all alike
You can raise good mich cows if
you like, and thus save yourself the
trouble of hunting them up.
Spraying is only in its infancy, but
it is good, healthy infant and prom
ises great deal at maturity.
Whistle for the COWS when about
them in place Of for the dogs and you
will get more milk and butter.
1t is not best to grow garden truck
too many years in succession on the
same ground 1t tends TO invite dis.
ease.
No dairy utensils should be washed
inside a dairy; have small wooden
trough outside the dairy for this pur-
pose.
Bad fences very frequently are the
cause of stock becoming breachy.
Keep an eye on the fences between
the pastures and the cornfelds.
When sheep are seen running with
head close to the ground and stamp
ing, the fly which produces the grub in
the head is near. Put some pine tar
on the sleeps nose.
The butter-maker who fails to put
his butter on the market in neat,
clean, and attractive form has yet to
learn one of the most important les
sons in successful dairying.
Make up list of the belts, nuts,
screws, and small tools that you are
in constant need of and buy them in
one lot and put each in well arranged
series of pigeon holes and keep them
there. The saving will pay greater
interest than the savings bank ac-
count.
Do not be so careless as to allow
bees to get water from the horse and
cattle trough. Take a small, clean
grocery box without cover and set it
on an empty hive in the middle of the
apiary. Keep water for the bees in
it, and if it leaks little they will like
it all the better.
The following from poultry writer
is good advice; "Get barrel of lime
and let it air slack; scatter OCCASION
ally about the foul house and runs. 1t
is great absorbent of dampnass, re-
moves odors, keep off vermin, tends
to keep everything sweet and clean,
and is very healthful for the fowls.
1t is recommended to dip the fingers
in vaseline or little grease, just be-
fore starting to work among the bees,
and the fingers will be kept clean of
propolis, which at this time of the
year has a way of sticking to every
thing. When going back to replen-
ish the smoker dip the fingers again,
and the stains will be kept off.
Slaughter of potato bags may be
far more economically conducted than
in the past years. Henry Willard of
the town of Ripon, Wis. says that bugs
may be killed as surely with salt as
paris green. M Ike a saturated solu-
ton, that is, all the salt the water will
dissolve pour it off clear and reduce
with water one-third to one-half. The
bugs cannot stand the dose.
He osene emulsion can most easily
be applied to stock to destroy lice and
prevent the attacks of the born fly by
using the sprayer, which is designed
originally for applying spraying mix
lures to fruit trees A hand sprayer
is most convenient, and with small
nozzle very small quantity will be
sufficient, whereas by hand and sponge
application the work will require much
more liquid, and take much more time