The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-04-03
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sold every year that would have been saa-
bic if properly made. Although farmers
have made butter for centuries, yet at the
present day there are many of them who
cgnnot put good article on the market,
even with modern appliances to assist
them The creameries produce better
butter than farmers because of having skill
aud experience in the business. The far
mer need have no fear of competition if he
knows how to make butter Of superior
quality.
\ great many persons take an interest in
pure-bred poultry, probably because it
costs but little to enjoy a small flock, while
the numerous annual poultry shows stimu-
late competition for the prizes 1t is a
fact, also, that the farmers boy who is
given flock of pure-bred fowls for plea
sure is induced to take greater interest in
purr-bred stock of all kinds. lie learns
the value of breeding, and gains sufficient
knowledge in the management of fowls to
convince him that success can be hest at
tanned by using the best in every depart
ment of the farm.
1t Is not rare occurrence to find far
mer with Il COW that gives from Is to 20
quarts OF milk Il day with other cows on
his farm that do not produce one-half as
much. He makes profit because the
good cows must supply the loss from the
others.
The day has passed when excessively fat
hogs commanded the best prices, and when
large hogs were in demand. The hogs that
bring the highest prices at the present time
are those that do not exceed $50 pounds
and which have the fat and lean well inter
spersed.
In former times every hoy was expected
to learn a trade unless he intended to be a
farmer. Now it is known that there is
more to learn at the trade of farming than
at any other occupation owing to the many
details entering into the cultivation of the
farm. There are now dairy schools, where
pupils are given scientific knowledge of
cattle, the handling of milk, butter and
cheese making and feeding and every year
hundreds of students leave the agricultural
colleges after having taken courses in agri-
culture. More discoveries have been made
in behalf Of agriculture than of mechanics,
and the systems of farming are being
rapidly revoutionzed.
Farmers must makea distinction between
warm and cold weather in the feeding of
grain. Too much grain in warm weather
is heating, and unless fat is desired the
farmer should feed but little grain
Animals can better endure the heat of sum-
mer when they have no grain at all. 1t is
not advisable to make sudden changes,
however, but gradually reduce the grain
ration as the weather becomes warmer.
No other instrument is so we'll adapted
to pulverzing small cods as the plank
drag.
Feed up the cornfodder, millet and other
cheap forage as closely as may be, and save
the timothy hay, which is a cash article,
while the others are not.
If people were more generally given to
keeping an account with the COW, the pig
and the orchard, there would soon come a
different order of farming.
For the average farm, 80 apple trees
are planted about 30 feet apart each way
they will occupy about an acre OF ground.
Combine bee keeping with fruit growing,
and you can more easily procure two crops
from the same land; and this double crop.
ping requires no additional fertilizing, is
not exhaustive, demands no extra blowing
or cultivation. Few crops ask so little out
lay as the honey crop.
The real good mixer is made the first