Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-10-26
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Sell off all surplus cockerels.
Wyandotte fowls have legs free
from feathers.
Hens that are too fat sometimes lay
small eggs without yolks.
Give the fowls plenty of water even
though they have milk to drink.
The average cost of feed for rear
ing chicks to three months of age is
fifteen cents.
To graft or bud, only young, Wig
orols stocks should be used. Many
trees are injured by iniudicious prun-
ing.
1t is not only waste of grain to
feed fowls designed for layers too
heavily, but it often produces leg
weakness.
Though there is a difference in hens,
it is generally considered that hens are
in their prime for laying before they
are three years old.
For broilers Indian Game and
Brahma make good cross. Ply
mouth Rock and Brahma make a hardy,
rapid growing chick.
Have dry, comfortable quarters for
all fowls; even ducks should have a
dry floor to roost on. A little straw
sprinkled on the floor will help in
cleanliness.
When you house the chickens for
winter, do not put too many in one
house. Eight or ten feet floor space
for each one is none too much for
health and vigor.
The safest bank in which farmer
can invest his money is the land. Not
necessarily more land, but in making
richer and deeper and better in every
way that which he now has.
Strange as it may seem, all the black
breeds of fowls are pavtly white when
Matched. If all understood this there
would be less fault-fnding with those
who sell eggs for Matching. II the
chicks do not suit when they hatch,
wait while and see how they de-
velop.
If you expect to buy any fowls for
winter laying buy them now. 1t takes
a hen about so long to be "at home"
in new place before getting down to
work. So the sooner you get the
flock into their winter quarters, the
sooner, other things being equal, they
will begin to lay.
Do not pasture too closely in the
autumn, for the reason that the tops
are protection to the roots, in sum
mer as well as in winter. The little
food which may be found will not
compensate for the loss of protection
and the mulch which saves the crop
through the season of frost.
Breeders in our country do not place
breed higher than individual excel
lence, for they know that it is not al
ways a guar lntee that the animals are
up to high standard. 1t is character
istic of America that pedigree has had
little to do with the value of our herds,
while in the old world pedigree is all
ways considered.
When your cream foams and swells
in the churn don't pour hot water in
to it, but warm it up to 70 degrees, if
need be, by warm water to the out
side, and mature it more before YOU
attempt again to churn. Maturity and
warmth within certain safe limits will
generally knock the obstinacy all out
of winter cream that does not want to
yield mp its butter.
Says the manager of large stable
eve enforce kindness by stringent
discipline. When we hire man vel
tell him that horses cay be manage.
better by kindness than harsh meth
DDS, and that striking, kicking, or an
abuse of horse will insure his promo
discharge Horses are anxious to ODE
and it is better to convey our wishE
by words or gestures than by blows
1t takes about two per cent of
live weight in food to support a h
each day. A hog weighing $50 poun
requires about three pounds of ID
to support it without making any ga
while 200 pound hog will need I
pounds and 800 pound hog
pounds. Keep these facts in view
feeding. Do not feed all sorts.
and conditions together, but sort a
feed in accordance with the object y
have in view,