The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-02-03
Notes of the Farm,

A hog raiser who considers sorghum
seed first class for fattening animals says
the seed for this purpose will almost pay
for producing the crop.
American Consuls in Europe have been
instructed by the. Government to ascsr-
tain how the foreign markets for Amer
lean wheat can be improved.
The apple crop is short and the quail
ity is not verylgood. Apples, it would
seem, would bring a good price before
spring.
If you have only limited amount to
invest, and are about buying sheep it
will be far better to buy few good ones
than many culls. 1t is the quality of
your flock more than its size upon which
your profit will depend.
Generally when h orse balks it is due
to one of three things-overloading, bad
fitting harness, especially the collar, and
a bad tempered driver. A good horse
may be spoiled by being worked with a
balky one.
Sheep fed very highly on grain, to be
fattened, will consumer with relish an
occasional feed of straw, weedy hry, rag
weeds, or the like; and it will be better
for them than steady, uubroken regi-
men of any one feed stuff, however excel
lent in itself.
Overlooking Is costly and cruel, and
has ruined thousands of horses No load
should be too heavy to haul easily over
the hardest places on the trip. Steady
hard pulling causes great pain, so give
your team frequent rests, especially dur
ing the early part of the trip.
Four horses, belonging to Mr.. John
Tracey, ex-Sheritf of Carroll county,
Md, hauled load. from Arlington to
Baltimore, a distance of nine miles; the
load consisting of $50 pounds (nearly
eight tons) of hay. Such loads save no
expense 10 hauling, unless over very good
roads, as one of the horses died from
over-exertion.
A thoroug hly docile animal, no matter
what it is, is more easily managed than
one that is wild and fractions. aud it is
also more profitable. for 1t will prove a
better grower on the same amount of
food and better pro iucer than the
fractions one.
The collar is tho most important part
of the harness. If collar is TOO large i.
will chafe; if too small it will choke. 1t
costs no more to get a collar that fits
than to get one too small Or too large.
Don't torture horse with misfit collar
A farmer said at an institute that his
yield of corn last year running from 100
bushels per acre down to so was exactly
proportional to the time the manure had
lain on the surface before being turned
under, and his experience with last years
crop was the same.
A difference of ten degrees temper
ature in poultry house may be the
turning point between laying and non
laying. If the heat derived from the
food must be used for sustaining lite
against the danger of severe cold there
will be nothing left from which eggs can
be prod ced. When the house is made
warm there is saving of food and when
the hens are comfortable they will take
more exercise and keep in condition for
laying. A pound of nails, few laths
and roll of heavy paper, costing but
little, will greatly aid in making the
poultry house warm.
One acre, says the Indiana Farmer,
will supply fifty hens. at less cost for
extra feed than a COW, and the profit, if
we'll N anaged, will be greater than from
the cow Fowls need land for forage,
and hens on range will lay NOR ann,
and fatten more quickly for mark
in confinement. tot tnan
Unless farm machinery is TAXI
Of, it will be found that large por Va,e
OF W sefe IN the farm p pnf''p na
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