The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-11-14

Summer is the time to put in the
drains.
Trust in providence. but keep the
cultivator tools bright
For the dairy COWS clover hay is
far preferable to timothy hay
The man who does not like cows has
no business trying to run a dairy
Take time to look up good sire for
your flock. Improve your breed as
much as possible
MY, how good the vegetables are from
that garden now. Pays for all the
trouble it cost, now doesn't it.
It's the little foxes that spoil the
vines and it is the little leaks on the
farm that spoil the farmers profits
Have you been putting in to prac-
| tice this year the new ideas and les
sons you gained at the institute last
winter,
Better seed, better soil preparation,
better cultivation will give better corn
crop next year Try this triple extract
| of good farming.
The National Dairy show and the
National Corn exposition at Chicago
in October. Don't fail to plan to at
! tend these two great shows
The increasing demand for mules
and the better prices are making
them a most profitable animal to
| some.
Finer, larger berries will be grown
on your strawberry vines if you keep
! the runners cut off after two or three
plants have formed from parent
| plant
To be sure, breeding sows do not
cost so much at weaving time. but
who is keen enough to detect the ami
mails with specially good points?
Don't make a practice of it.
Wounds upon sheep which get fly
blown should be treated with kero-
sene or turpentine, being sure that
every maggot is destroyed, after
which the wound may be coated over
with tar.
Have you ever noticed how quickly
you become accustomed to disordered
| conditions when you make no effort
to pick things up? Never look twice
at the thing out of order. Pick it up
the first time your eyes light on it.
If there is one who would ask. What
are the advantages of the silo? let him
think on these things: The silo pro
vidcs fresh, succulent feed the year
round; storage of a large amount of
feed in small space, and immediate re
moval of crop from land to make way
for other crops.
Though the value of milk, either
whole or skinned, is generally recog-
nized for chickon-rearing and chicken
fattening, it is not so much used as it
ought to be. On many farms the
skim milk all goes to the pigs, and the
chickens get none; yet, as expert
ments have often shown, a brood
given all the skim milk shows more
rapid gains than upon any other feed.
Farming as Life sees it: Farmers
are most prosperous in the temperate
| regions, quite as one would expect to
find them. For in the temperate re-
gions the farming season is only about
three months long, leaving the farmer
nine months during which to engage
in ether pursuits and thus earn money
to keep his farm going. Very cbvious-
ly the farmer in the tropics. where
the farming season is six, seven, eight
or even ten months long, is at a seri-
GUS disadvantage. Who can blame
him ii he becomes discouraged and
sinks at length into apathy? If you
are absut to take up farming, with a
view to becoming wealthy, by all
means secure land in the temperate
| regions
| IL is said that the laurel and the
sunfower have been found to be of
the greatest use in damp situations.
People who live in such spots-espe-
cially near undraiaed laRd-think
there is no help for them but by re-
moval. Successful experiments have
shown that it is possible to materially
improve the atmosphere in such neigh.
borhsods by the planting Of laurels
and sunaovers. The former gives off
an abundance of ozone, while the lat
l ter is potent in destroying the malar-
ial conditions These two, if planted
even On the most restricted scale in
a garden or any ground close to the
house, will be found to speedily in
crease the dryness and saiubrity of
the atmosphere. The experiment is
well worth trying in badly-drained To-