Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-09-21

for the next twenty years
There is nothing superior to com
mon land plaster for absorbing an,
holding stable doors Dry and finel,
pulverized road dust is good.
No animal will thrive if overfed
1t will seem to gain rapidly for awhile
but, sooner or latter, the digestiv,
organs become impaired and diseas,
results.
Market gardeners dig up the rhu-
barb roots in the fall and place then
in cellar or greenhouse. The shoots
are forced and are ready to be mar
keted very carly.
The Massachusetts, Experiment Sta.
ton made an experiment in feeding
skim milk to calves and pigs. The re.
suit showed that it was equivalent tc
selling milk at thirty-fve cents hun
dred.
Raspberry canes may as well be cut
away as soon as the fruit is gone to
make room for the new shoots, Tc
make the raspberries branch out, tor
the young canes when about three
feet high.
The best way to checkmate low
prices for feed stuffs, says a writer, is
to keep good stock to eat them. 1t is
bad policy for the farmer to do the
hard work and let the commercial
feeder make all the profit.
If there are dogs about put wide
awake COW or two in the sheep pen
with the sheep at night. If the COW
has young calf she will do especially
faithful service. A billy goat would
do the business pretty well.
One dairyman has reached the CON
clusion that no self-respecting COW will
pay more for her feed and care than it
is worth. Her milk is her capital, and
if you get it you must pay for it, and
you get what you pay for and no more.
If you haven't raised corn enough
to fill that new silo--and it takes a LOT
of it-cider pumice can be packed in.
1t is well worth. the trouble of hauling
especially if made by the old process
which leaves behind some of the
juice.
The young steers are the ones that
pay. They should be well bred, SO as
to grow rapidly. There is no neces-
sity for keeping a steer longer than
when it is three years old. The great
est gain in weight is when they are
young.
Now is the time to think about what
you will do with your boys in the
way of education. If they are to re-
main on the farm and follow the call
ing Of their father, will they be any
worse off by reason of a scientific
training?
Our public roads, railroads, canals
and careless neighbors are the great
disseminators of weeds. But in spite
of them, we may keep our acres in a
presentable condition if we do not
trust too much to the moon or al
manac, but rely upon common sense
and hard work.
The question is sometimes raised
whether it is possible to keep wooden
dairy utensils always perfectly clean.
1t is not good policy to let milk stand
for any length of time in wooden
pals or receptacles, but wooden churns
and butter workers are all right, and
can be kept perfectly sweet and bac-
teria-proof by the use Of hot water.
When the cream foams and swells
in the churn don't pour hot water in.
to it, but warm it up to seventy de-
grees if need be, by warm water to
the outside, and mature it 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 up its butter.
1t is good practice to pick promptly
all the ripe or decayed fruit from the
cucumbers and tomatoes. Even when
seed is wanted, no more than one fruit
should be allowed to ripen on alant
from which continuous supply is ex-
pected. New fruits cease to set if the
old ones are allowed to ripen, and the
prompt removal of fruit before it ma.
lures will keep the plants growing
and yielding much longer.
For the striped beetle which feeds
on squash, pumpkin, melon and GU.
cumber vines, good remedy is Paris
green mixed with ground plaster as
for potato bugs Other preparations
used are air-slaked lime, plaster and
kerosene and tobacco dust. Apply in.
secticides when the dew is on, and
sprinkle the under side of the leaves
as well as possible. For the spotted
beetle the remedies are the same.
Dummies on the Track.
The boys of New York have dis.
covered very efficient method of for
menting the motorneers of tho L.