Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1897-01-01

On your manure, hauling to the field /.
dumping in piles and scattering with u
fork when there IL q way to load ON and
scatter MS YOU 20
Some farmers still stick to the method
OF sowing clover by hand. You must
ecOnomiZe Now MS to the house. i'he
spring is 200 feet away. That spring Is
visited times days times tor water,
twice for milk, three timea for cre+ 10
and butter-in 40 years S,S4S miles are
travelled in going TO the spring. The
wooi-pl . is 40 feet from the houses
trips to it daily, in 40 wears make 1853
miles. The kitchen stove is 10 feet from
The sink, the journey is made times
each meal and you get n Total ot ll46
miles. This illustrates how much We
lose by not considering trities. We
must stad everything that enters into
our lie and act with reference tu such
matters Alta intelligence and u spirit Of
progress.
DAIRYING.
Mr.. s. F. Barber, who has made
conspicuous success of Dairying. was
next on the program and his talk was
exceedingly interesting. He began by
saying that this first mo4t essential thing
in the prosecution Of this business was
the selection OF cows. | aim when
buying cows to get one whose milk IS OF
lair tiow all quality like the Jersey.
but buy all K inds and test rs soon as
buy l select COW oil good dairy form.
Every farmer knows what this means,
OF course, this test does not always hold
good, but II is sIte rule 10 proceed by
As soon AS get the cow in the stable l
proceed to find nut whether che is prof
itable 10 keep weigh every ounce of
| 81, l,aH nd .llS upIfE hnp rrNilk
feed by the pound test the milk by
the BaDcocK .Liik test and See what per
cent N fat il contains. feed her scien-
ttically, that is take the ration which is
milk making, and ii she yields 10 IT, l
follow It for several days, aud knowing
what her food costs, what her milk
yIelds can tell to u quarter OF cent
whether she pays OF not 1t She does
not pay prunt, gel rid ot her. This Ia
the important thin for dairyinan TO
| observe. rlie ordinary farmer Will have
10 ouws--3 OF them ny tei will he found
10 be- prof able, a pay EXPENSES and are
boardeIs, by keeping such herd you
are losing money. Get rid OF those pay
ing expenses and the borders. L; Is not
guess work this fading out whether a
COW yields profit AS u the care vi
COWS you want good sta0ling dhnt
llSdu u fancy bthUle, oub yOu "Hht Nv
warm, light aud well ventilated. IL
must Ds kept clean. 1t pays to care for
COW. iney should be led and water.
I'll regularly both Us 70 time and quAnti-
ly. they should be watered oftener
tlan fed and 1t is good thing to have
water where they can get it when they
want Tit should not be too cold. Ii
the water Is W or about 81 temperature
warm 1t little. Feed them plenty Of
corn or corn chUp, u little oats or nay.
Feed COWS ior their special purpose
Understand The chemical analysis Vi The
different rations Seek food for its
disestible uattrT The tables furnished
ny The Experimental StaJioils are inval-
liable To u wide.awake dairynlan like
the slO III feeding cattle, II ID u great
saving and produces splendid results,
The fodder shredder will save you 20
per GEM over the cutter. As I milking
LIme-it should be done nt Regular times.
on the minute ii posi- BILE, AMI 10y good
mixer | mover permit any one 10
learn the ant Oi milking III my stables |
want my man - learn II some place else
Under NO circumstances permit rough
ness with your cows. 1t cow IL
kicked and knocked about she will with
hold her milk aud rob you. l would say
AS 10 caring Tor milk that before milk
ing wipe utf the udder with II damp
| cloth, then with Il dry one; strain the
milk la the can Immediately and take
out OF the stable. MIX will not absorb
Oh prs while cooling. Then the milk
should I've aeteated, tins Ia To Keep IL
/ sweet. find that with this process
cuu krep milk sweet from "a TO 70 hours
lUtRer than wlthonC A. 10 sume ih-
| ours MI Barber Replied fillt ha Used q
I tliaIl -LluSbiUn rs 10 allowed the COW Lp
move he's head aud reach her body, &c;
he us al gfides oil cattle Keeping none
thut do NOT pay. tie leeds ms cows, IN
creas;ng the ration until her limit 10
reached, that Is wnen she reaches the
point that her yield does not increase
with in iucre 80 OF ration. The life OF
IA COW IS about 10 yeats Careless feed
INK is absolute squandering of money. l
follow the soIIing system spoken of by
Prof Hamilton, aud keep about 200
cows
a committee Of three persons from
each election district, TO forward the in
lcrpsts OF the Institute was appoin cd as
follows
LIST DisLrict-Otho Is. Williams, Nc
Cubbin Waters, q +. Snouffer.
End District-C. + Purdum, Joseph
HenuersOn. Eugene McAtee.
Bird Dlstrict-Aithur Williams, d. j.
Willard, Norman NoOttOn.
4th Dislrict-John w. Horner, John
e Wilson, CHARLES Veirs.
9th DistricJ-A. q. TJlson. Bentley
Thomas, f. l.. Fawoett.
9th DIstrict-James ii. Ofutt, Brooke
Vinson, Charles j. Lyddane.
eth District Horace s Jones, Louis
E. Shoemaker, Charles Bohrer.
9th DistrIct--James Hallowell, John
Ii. Januey, Charles r. Kirk.
9Th Disirict-.-J. Wesley Walker, Rob
ert Plummer, VIM. Mussor.
10th district Frank Jones, Henry
Bradley, Darius Clagett.
llth Distiict-.-J. W. Brown, q. q.
Mainhart, ]. L. Sellman.
l2tb District Columbus Purdum, VIM
E Watkins, L. N. Beall.
18th District.--Wm Il Weller, o. II.
p. Clarke, Alfred Ray.
Not few who read what Mr.. Rob't Rowls,
of Hollands, Va, has TO say below, will re-
member their own experience under like cir
cumstances "Last winter I had Ia grippe
which left me 10 low state of health. !
tried numerous remedies, none of which did
me any good, until was induced to try q
bottle Of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The
first bottle of it 90 far relieved me that was
Il To md tba uaaonh