Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-11-23
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Look out for well bred heifer
calves
Too much hay makes horse rough
and pot-bellied.
Too much bran fed to very young
calves is not desirable.
We have too much quantity and not
enough quality in our horses.
A full and unfailing supply of pure
water is of great money value in the
dairy.
Fall calves constitute one of the
chief sources of profit to the butter
dairyman, who has his skim milk and
raises his own cows finely bred.
A little vaseline and carbolic acid
applied to parts of the horse that he
cannot touch with tail or head will
give him much relief by keeping flies
away.
The health of horse depends on
the soundness and proper adjustment
of his teeth. They are the milestones
that grind his food, and frequently
need attention.
Bees starye because they do not
have plenty of food in the right place,
which is above the cluster. In cold
climate they cannot be kept warm by
packing a little straw or chaff about
them.
Breeders of grade draft horses have
made very serious mistake in selling
their draft mares to shippers and thus
reducing their number much below
the producing capacity necessary to
supply the current demand for heavy
horses for the business Of the coun-
try.
Samenes3 of diet may lead to consti-
patton of the bowels. This results
when cottonseed meal, or cornmeal
nre fed continually without change.
The remedyis variety of food, giving
linseed meal, ground oats, and green
food. Medicine is unnecessary if the
animals have diet.
In feeding common molasses or sor-
8hum, Mrs. Atchley has said that she
could not get the bees to take hold of
it, except in case of some colonies
which were starving to death. If they
can be made to store enough in their
combs they will probably winter sue
cessfully on it. 1t depends on the
latitude.
Every field should "stand upon its
own bottom. " Let each crop be
charged with Just what it cost to raise
1.-THE seed, the manure and the lab
or. No true business man should be
willing to sell his goods without know
ing what they cost him. Such care
fulness will soon become a pleasure;
it is certainly part Of husbandry.
Experiments bearing on the two
methods of tilling and check rowing
corn We're made in 1892 at the
Utah station. Corn checked, titled
both ways and not titled, yielded 80. Ga
bushels per acre; checked and hilled
both ways, thirty-six bushels checked,
then titled and hilled one way, 1924
and 43.5 bushels; drilled and titled
one way, 49,.
Bees should be obtained about for
ty or forty-fve days before the begin
ming of the honey flow, SO the second
brood will be ready for the harvest.
After the egg is laid, it takes three
days for it to hatch into larva, and
after this is fed six days it is grown SO
as to fill the cell The cell is then
capped, and in twelve more DAYS the
perfect bee energies.
Flaxseed boiled for twenty minutes,
or TILL it makes Jelly, in six times its
bulk Of water, makes a good substi-
tute for the butter fat tax en- off of the
milk in cream, if the milk is to be fed
to calves. Two tablespoonfuls of this
Jelly placed in each gallon of milk fed
the calves, with handful or two of
bran, according to the age of the calf,
will produce good results
A belief prevails quite generally |
that horses which have broken into
grain bins or grain fields and have |
eaten a surfcit of grain, should no |
be given water. This is all wrong
says the Breeders Gazette. The,
should have free access to water in Of.
der to moisten and soften the excess a .
grain in the stomach. Instead of al
injury water is positive benefit
If the bride is taken off young
horse quietly, so that the bits cone
out of his mouth easily, it will not 30
long before he will assist in taking il
off, but if he is hurt b, the operation
he will throw his head to one side or
jerk back every time the bride is re.
moved. There should not be the slight.
est hitch about taking the bit from tba
mouth of colt. BY the process n,,oy
colt has been ruined. IA