Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-09-14
EARN AND GARDEN NOTES.

Growing pigs require wholesome
food like other stock, and it will pay
to take pains to supply it.
Great as is the cattle industry, the
value of poultry AMI eggs produced
in the UniteI States annually is but
little less.
1t is said that horse will not bite a
crib made of hemlock lumber and
that rats and mice will not eat through
that kind of lumber.
Beet pulp is extensively used in
California us a cattle feed. Pulp-feed
is said to he as tender and juicy as the
best eastern stall fed.
English farmers prefer the unhulled
cottonseed cake because it is cheaper
and because it has medicinal value
that also aids digestion.
1t is better farming to grow pigs on
grass than on grain. Roots aud clover
hay in the winter will greatly reduce
the cost Of keeping them.
When the market reports say there
has been an over production of lambs,
rest assured that they are of an infe-
rior kind, unsuited to the market.
Sometimes the weight of the shoe
has much to do with making our
young horses weary soon. They step
too long and out of their natural gait.
\ Canada fruit growor says that he
found Il rc'aely far the cngeulio in
merely hanging cedar branches in his
plum and cherry trees at blossoming
time.
Good beef cattle are not plentiful,
and farmers who have courage and
foresight to breed high grades will be
rewarded with better prices when they
mature, $50
ti-i s..t.sh'sv F..
A little oil meal with the chopped
straw, fodder or hay will enrich it,
and will increase the appetite and i'm
prove the health and yigor of all
classes of stock.
The sheep crops a greater variety of
plants than any other animal, except
the goat. They eat mustard, bur
docks, thistles, marsh mallows and
about every other weed
Most farmers could keep at least a
few sheep. The expense would he
hardly noticeable. The income from
the spring lambs aud the annual fleece
would be very welcome.
One often wonders when horsemep
will awaken to the fact that the fast
walker Is the valuable animal-for the
farm, the road, and for every descrip.
ton of work of practical kind.
One of the secrets Of profitable
porkraising consists in pushing nm
animal when young so that it is ready |
for market early. and giving food
adapted to the wants and condition of /
the animal.
For the white grub that is so do
structive to young cabbage some one
says; "Mix one pound flour sulnbur
thoroughly through bushel of hard.
wood ashes and give three spoonfuls
10 eaah p,eal.
Pos waa ~h3 vii co'et a COW in
hot weather with canvas COVERING
to keep the flies off, as we receri,,
saw one do, is cruel in his kipdpos.
He would not like to wear a tbicl,
overcoat himself.
Here is the list of food with which
British muttOn-growers vary the 70.
TONS OF sheep on pasture: Turnip,
rutabagas, mangolds, vetcb, rape. oab.
bage' beans, peas, linseei cake, b.,.
ley and wheat bran.
Attempting to mend a balf.worn
ont orchard by filling in vacant snot.
with trees, is largely labor lost Son.
times, however, vigorous root snraH.
from broken-down tree can w.
grated with good results.
1t is not too late to amend tbo ~.
taken policy of Withholding MANS.
from the garden to enrich the forn
on the former the most labor Is nrt
and the most m ,nure is needed ~
chemicals in the garden; thew -.
q, and do not add weeds to tbo |