The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-08-26
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Plenty of shade is essential.
Keep the peppers picked clean at
least every other day.
A few trees in the sheep pasture
will turn it into a paradise.
Cement or concrete silos, when well
built, are practically everlasting.
Allowing weeds to go to seed now
means increased labor next season.
The best method to determine ii
your hens are good layers is the trap
nest.
A strong swarm of bees will furnish
a hundred pounds of honey aside from
what they themselves consume.
If you grow late-maturing crops in
the orchard they will keep the wood
growing too late to make them safe for
winter.
Cowpea vine hay has a feeding value
practically equal to that of Whea
bran, which is worth now more than
$50 per ton.
" 1t is folly to raise hogs, feed them
high-priced feeds, get them in good
shape and then let them die on their
way to market.
Early potato blight is liable to at
tack the potato crop at any time from
June until the crop is ripe, but is
most seriously destructive in July and
August.
Farmers must learn to feed the
colts better to get the size and early
development of draft horses as the
French and English breeders do.
The calf should always have the
first or colostrum milk of the COW and
be allowed to nurse the cow until the
eighth or ninth milking, when the
milk is suitable for human food.
A heifer becomes a COW after she
drops her first calf and begins Civ
ing milk-no matter at what age, and
she remains a heifer until these ma
ternal obligations are assumed.
Spraying for early blight on late va
rieties Of the Rural New Yorker type
OF potatoes has proved profitable the
past two years at the Minnesota sta
ton.
Young pigs may be taken from the
sow at any time and fed by hand, yet
it is better to allow them to remain
with the sow If possible for two or
three weeks.
In the care of the breeding ewes du-
ring the late summer and fall it is
very important to make provisions for
some kind of green fodder to supple
ment the pastures.
Keep up the cultivation as long as
possible, even though the corn Is tas-
selling. Shallow cultivation will still
be found worth while should the
ground surface harden up.
In dairying, there are special breeds
enough and reliable Information
enough, so there is no excuse for a
man who goes it blind and blames
luck and the weather for his failure.
With dairying, as with other lines
of farming, the dairyman should ia
miliarize himself as much as possible
with every fact which a be brought
to bear upon the quality of his pro-
duct.
Bacon is only the intermingling of
fat and lean meat, and if the meat is
grown along rapidly it will be more
tender and palatable than If it is
pinched until the lean is dry and taste
less.
In all those portions of the coun-
try where dairying is a leading and
distinctive feature, and other grains
than corn are used as a growing and
fattening ration the bacon hogs can be
raised to advantage and profit.
AS the days wax warmer and warm
er ones efforts are apt to relax, but
the young fowls destined to take their
places in the show room must not be
neglected. They must have their feed
regularly, and water in abundance.
Cultivation as the plants develop re-
quires not only care and skill, but
forethought also. If heavy rains have
beaten the soil into a hard mass and
it is water soaked 1t may be neces-
sary to go as deeply as possible with
out injuring the roots in order to
aerate the ground properly.
Once the calf is we'll started toward
an early and profitable marketable
maturity by liberal feeding and good
care at this season of the year, there
is little need OF advising with regard
to his future feeding care, as the
owners good sense will tell him that
1t will pay to continue to feed and
care 70: him we'll. :
Fowls will lay occasionally in win
ter If they are not cared for other than
having a few ~scoopfuls Of corn tossed
to them in a filthy house, but they will
make a profit over and above the feed
and housing if they are well sheltered
and fed a variety OF clean and whole
some grains and have a bit of green
food and cut bone every day. The day
of keeping chickens III the haphazard
WAY Is about over,