The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-04-11


1t will be but little loss if they do not
prove satisfactory.
Don't buy bag of cheap fertilizer that
you may not want. Where phosphates are
the principal ingredients in Il bag the fer
tilizer will sell at a low price because phos-
pilates or potash may be much cheaper than
nitrogen. Your land may require but
small proportion of phosphates hence the
price paid may be reasonable, bat the
investment unwise. Farmers have much
to learn in regard to buying fertilizers, and
they should endeavor to become more
familiar with the substances entering into
their composition.
Here is point on asparagus. A great
many person who grows it do so with fiat
culture. The proper mode for the best
results is to hill up the rows. Apply fer
tllizer on the rows now while they are flat,
and then turn furrow on the row from
each side. If the row is hilled up two fes t
high it is all the better. Cut the stalks
Just as they are peeeping out of the ground
lhey Will then be tender from the tips to
the butts, and as white us celery. If
allowed to grow out of the ground the tips
will be tender and the butts tough.
Farmers may make mistake in over
looking their local markets. When articles
are shipped to the large cities, owing to
inducements in the shape of better prices,
the commissions and cost of transportation
may leave less profit than could be secured
nearer home. Butter and eggs can always
find good market and ready sale, being
in demand everywhere.
1t should not be satisfactory that the
farm pays. Make every portion of it give
profit If there is field that is not as
fertile as the remaining portions of the
farm it should receive extra attention.
Never be satisfied, with what the farm does.
but endeavor to still further improve it.
The farmer who concludes that he has
reached the best that can be obtained from
MS Will Ihtt illii"tlL f~oiiS Itth NdIu.
Successful farmers are those who are striv-
Jag to obtain more.
Farmers who buy feed to be used on the
farm not only derive a certain profit from
it by converting it into milk and butter,
hut more and hetter manure is made, ,spec
lily when cottonseed is used. No farm
will lose its fertility as long as there is
something being brought on it as well as
sold off, as the land receives back III the
manure the fertility given up to the crops.
1t is perhaps as cheap to buy cottonseed
meal, to be applied directly on the soil, as
to purchase some fertilizers that are mixed
Cotton>ecd meal enters largely into the
composition of fertilizers intended for
tobacco, and if the hulls are also used the
land will receive potash, phosphoric acid
and nitrogen i'll fair proportion.
The stagnant water OF pond is not suit
able for any kind of stock. If there is no
running water the use Of il windmill should
be resorted to.
The way that hogs have been goirg in
the face of the low rates for cattle, sheep
and horses has been very cheering to swine
producers. The price compared with the
price OF gram is one OF profitable ploduc-
ton.
The average cost Of drawing Il ton of
produce to MAJ ket over good roads Is stated
by the Good Roads Committee in the
report to the New York Legislature to be
- CENTS per mile and only cents mile
over GOOD macadam road.
Farm, Stock and Home holds that under
present conditions the sum paid for hired
help must he the smallest possible, and
only concentrated products-butter, beef,
por wool, poultry, etc.-snould be ship
ped by rail. Along these lines lay large
doses of agricultural salvation
a writer in an English paper asserts thai
one steer out of every 200 shipped from thu
United States is lost, while from the Rivel
Platte is l to %, and from Australia l tt
over 7. Whether the statistics warrant tht
assertion we are not aware.
The peach can be and frequently is bud
ded on the plum. 1t makes a good com
bination where the trees are planted OF
heavy soils, the plum stock doing mucf
better on these than the peach.