The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-02-17

A bull in service may be fed silage
in limited amounts.
Cowpox is a conta gious disease and
it's origin Is an uncertainty.
The food for the pig should be as
lean as for any other farm animal.
There Is hardly any expense in
raising squads as compared to chick
ems
Egg production depends upon three
things, the bird, the house and the
feed.
You cannot expect success in the
poultry line and have a dozen mixed
breeds.
The first thing to do in the line of
active garden work Is the spading of
the beds.
Roots of all kinds can be fed cook
ed or raw, but they should be chop
ped up fine.
Hens need a very liberal supply of
water in order to make eggs and d.
gest their food
Fowls do little, If any. injury to
either bloom or fruit if trees are
in poultry yard.
The blackberry is an important
fruit, and every farm home should
grow an ample supply.
See to 1t that all nest boxes and
laying places are perfectly clean that
eggs cannot become soiled.
Good seed, like a we'll bred animal,
Is very essential, but that alone will
not produce a crop Of corn.
Farm names may be said to stand
for superiority rather than for slov.
enliness; for science, not sloth.
Every soiled egg should be cleaned
as soon as gathered, SO as to prevent
the shell from absorbing the stain.
To certain extent, it Is a matter
of personal taste whether corn should
be planted in rows or hills for the silo.
Success in pork production Is large
ly affected by the attention given to
the health and comfort of the brood
SOW.
One ton of average fresh manure
contains 10 pounds of nitrogen; one
ton Of clover hay, 40 pounds of nj
trogen.
The term ripe cream" means a
cream that has sufficient Tactic acid
from which the best quality of butter
can be made.
Perhaps no calling In life brings
man In close contact with such a
class of men as does the breeding of
high-class animals
Not only Is the hog the most fas-
tidious as regards his living quarters,
but he is also one of the most profit
able sources of revenue on farm.
Beauty has various forms. What
may be beauty to one is not to an
other, but one will go far to find a
person who will say mo Jersey for
me-"
The storage of squash requires
fairly well constructed wooden build
ing, and temperature above As de-
grees, the squash being stored on
shelves.
Dairy cows of excellence can only
be assured by breeding sires and
dams possessing the milking quail
ties essential to the production Of
heavy, persistent mixers.
Set common hens on goose eggs at
the same time you do your goose. and
then let the mother goose care for
all the youngsters, being careful to
give them a warm, dry place at night
1t Is better to warm the water on
the cook stove in the morning than
to leave 1t cold, for the hen will con-
sumo the heat of her body in warm
ing up cold water after she drinks If
/ Almost all of the swine that are
kept, fed and provided for are those
brood sows which are fed and so car.
| ried through the winter. The feeders
will have been sold about the bolt.
days.
| The draft horse trade has grown to
astonishing proportions all over the
country, indicative of the fact that our
expanding agriculture has realized
keenly the need of an increase in num-
Der and weight of it's draft stock.
The great value of systematically
recording the return given by each
cow in herd Is admitted by all ex-
perts, and without this simple me-
thod of testing the individual value
of each cow it seems to be impossible
to avoid losing money on certain ami
mails which 1t Is improbable to keen
and feed.
Young bees up to fourteen to sew
enteen days old do the hive work. and
the older bees the field work, so that
one should time the rearing of brood
to have the hive overlooking with
field workers as the honey flow comes
on.
1t is law of nature that the ex.
crement of all animals is poisonous
to themselves and while pigs may
profitably follow cattle it is of vital
Importance that their food must not
| he contaminated with .their own or