The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-06-09
There Is nothing like leather.

Leave 1t to the old hen to PICK out
the best nest to lay In.
To improve live stock requires In
telligence and thought.
Among all dwarf growing trees the
Japanese naples stand first.
If possible grow potatoes on clover
sod; this saves buying fertilizers.
Oats is the standard grain for the
healthy development of young ami
mails.
In the fattening pen give the pigs
all they will readily clean up but no
more.
Many farmers use a boar of differ
ent breed of that of their sows to pro-
duce a cross.
Sound, healthy COWS can only be
had by good stabling, careful feeding
and good water.
When the chicks can get away from
it at will, plenty of heat under the
hover Is a good thing.
After the calf has learned to drink,
a little fine hay should be tied up in
the pen for the calf to nibble.
Almost all flower seeds terminate
more quickly if soaked in warm
water for a few hours before planting
Do not plant trees with bunch OF
spreading roots. Trim them off to
within four or five inches of the root
stock.
Don't forget to give the little ducks
plenty of drinking water, and after
one week old they want 1t to swim
in, too.
Horses that are clipped dry off
fast at night This Is better than
having them stand around in a heavy
wet coat.
A once lively faith in the existence
and possibilities of strains of hens
which would produce 800 eggs year
has decayed.
At the end of five to eight days re-
move the calf to roomy, clean box
stall and give a clean dry bed OF
wheat or oat straw.
The feeding and management Of the
young calves should be in the hands
of a competent hand and not left to
the boys or careless help.
Many a man has been surprised at
the effect of one load of barnyard ma
nure scattered about under tree.
1t gives new life and fruitfulness.
The only way to make profit with
poultry is to attend closely to bust
ness and not leave the feeding and
management of the flock to hired
help.
Extreme care must be taken of the
tiny seedlings, for If allowed to get
dry they will almost surely die and
If kept too moist they incline to
damp off,"
The great secret in successful root
culture is clean, mellow deep soil,
liberal fertilizing, early sowing and
early culture as soon as the plants
can be distinctly seen.
A light sandy soil will be rather
benefited by working it when moist.
as such will have tendency to make
it more compact and consequently
more retentive of moisture.
Rhubarb is of easy cultivation, and
when once planted, the ground kept
clean, mellow and heavily MANFRED,
will furnish a generous supply of juicy
stalks for eight to ten years without
removal.
The horse can be made to masticate
his food by putting finely cut hay with
the grain. A ration of half prairie
grass hay and half alfalfa will give
almost as good gains as a ration of
alfalfa alone.
A Virginia man writes that for
years he has sown a small patch of
buckwheat for his hens and he says
he Is quite certain that they thrive
better and lay more eggs than they
did without this grain.
Since the cost of growing an acre
of roots is two or three times as great
as that Of growing an acre of corn,
the yield of dry matter being little
more, it seems poor farm practice to
abandon the silage in favor of roots.
Sell fresh eggs or none at all. Get
Just as far as possible from the gen.
eral lot dumped on the corner grocery.
Seek for regular customers and get
retail prices. Stop crying about low
rates and cheap goods by rising
above them. Herein is the secret of
successful poultry keeping.
He who gets the finest product in
the market reaps the richest harvest.
Eggs are refined wheat, corn, grass
and contain much that on the farm
would go to waste. In winter bas-
ket of 30 dozen will bring more money
than a load of hay 1t took a large
patch of land to grow, team to cut,
horse and man to rake, two men to
stack, and a team, wagon and man to
market.
In Austria and Germany kohlrabi Is
a great favorite and there is no rea-
son why it should not be better
known in this country. 1t is some
times referred to as the turnip-rooted
cabbage, which is apt, as 1t is inter
mediate between the turntp and the