The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-03-04

With the poultry and eSg business
Of the country aggregating close to
$3.50. 100000 annually " viii have 70
BE- styled Is a pretty good sized side
issue.
The Japs seem To have caught o. &c
the benefits to country Of the dairy
business and are picking up some fine
dairy animals III this country for ship
ment to the Flowery Kingdom
All too often q breachy, runaway
team and an ancient, toggled up har-
ness belong to the same man. Either
one alone IS bad enough, but together
they are calculated to make a fellow
lose what little religion he may have
cultivated.
Many q colt is weak and wabbly at
birth because its dam has had little or
no exercise during pregnancy, cou-
pied with q diet I'm which corn has
formed too large a part. Moderate
work will keep the mare In the best
Of health, and this 10 also best for the
colt.
The young thfngs-the lambs and
little pigs-will be putting I'm appear
ance within few weeks now, and LII
suitable quarters, dry and clean, are
not already provided for lambing and
narrowing they should be before The
time arrives. Much young stuff is an
nually lost through neglect i'm this one
particular.
Ia localities where the winter wealth
er is cold and the snow SO deep as to
keep the fowls from having free range
4 scratching shed with south exposure
should be provided adjoining the poul-
try house. Here I'm the warmer hours
Of the day the hens will gather and
should be made to scratch for their
small grain ration.
Where the manure cannot be spread
mt once on accommodating It should be
10 handled that there will BE- the least
possible loss of Its fertiIizing elements
from rain and weather until the job
can be done. Careful tests which
have been made show that II left to
leach manure will lose half Of Its
value in the course or four Oh five
months.
I'm several states dogs are considered
property and are given nominal
value OF a dollar simply to establish
their legal status. In these states an
owner may recover damages X his dog
is killed without good excuse and is
also held responsible for damage that
the dog may be responsible for. be 1t
killing sheep. causing runaways or 9TH
er form OF trespass.
As ON rule the low, wet acres are the
richest In fertiliZing elements and will
be the most productive II properly
tiled. LIN the Inauguration of the more
intensive type OF agriculture which
must surely come with a steady in
crease in population and cheap lands
about all taken up. this redemption OF
the wet acres ought to receive an ever
attention.
In buying q sow for breeding pur-
poses 1t is well for the purchaser to
take account of the number of pigs
there were In the litter In which she
was born. There may have been
three, maybe eight, and possibly elev-
EN- or twelve. The young sow is quite
likely to follow the breeding habit of
her dam i'm respect of the number of
the litter, and IL a good producer is
wanted SOW from a large litter
should be selected.
I'm q recent address before a North
Dakota stock and grain growers asso-
citation we'll known writer on agricul-
tural subjects brought the charge
against the manure spreader that its
use means The distribution of large
quantities of weed seeds i'm the raw
and unfermputpd manureS which IL
handles There may be something in
this CD !; farm that IN badly fOuled
with weeds. but the way to remedy
the evil II not BY dispensing with the
use Of the manure spreader. but by
getting rid of the weeds. and to ac-
complish This a clean cultivation OF
titled crops and sensible system Of
crop rotation are the only methods
that need b. adopted.
s friend who has widea wake boy
sent him TO the state fair last fall. let
him attend the agricultural short
course at the county seat few weeks
ago and says he Is going to have him
attend the international live stock
show at Chicago next December. It Is
a fair assumption that this lad is be-
ing impressed with the Importance of
agriculture as business by these