The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-17


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Screen alfalfa seed.
Destroy the little weeds.
Good dairymen keep no.dogs.
Horses can be pastured on alfalfa
The right kind of seed Is half the
crop.
Kill the small weeds and there will
be no big ones.
Chicks raised in brooders are no,
bothered with lice.
Grass was never more welcome to
cows than this spring.
Broiler prices are somewhat better
than they were last month.
It ia well to assume when chickens
are dying that the disease is conta'
gious.
Put a Slated frame over the drink.
ing trough and the water will be kept
cleaner.
The early spring chicken catches
the good price. Raise early spring
chickens.
Plant good seeds. Poor seeds are
dear. no difference what price you pay
for them.
Get the incubator at work on the
broiler crop as early as possible. De
lay means loss.
No incubator can make good
matches from poor eggs, that is, those
lacking in fertility.
More incubator matches are spoiled
by the anxiety Of the operator than
from any other one cause.
Lard, vaseline and enough sulphur
to make a paste makes a good rem.
edy for sorehead in chicks.
Vegetables delight in having a warm
deep, rich and mellow soil, and will
pay generously for the privilege.
Lice feed on the young chickens
that is one great reason that they fail
to make the growth they should.
Carefulness in dressing poultry
pays for the extra pains taken. The
pin feathers must all be removed.
There is genuine satisfaction in OWL
ing thoroughbred stock and they cost
no more to feed. Go in for the best.
Worry along without trap nest,
but keep your eyes open for the best
layers, and set their eggs next spring
A little ground charcoal mixed
with the chicks feed now and then
will help keep away digestive troubles
Three rules for success in garden.
ing are: Freedom from weeds, thin
ming out, and keeping the ground mel
low.
With reasonably good seed and g
fairly well prepared seed bed, about 20
pounds of alfalfa seed is required pei
acre.
If the breeders are in poor condi
ton you will get many eggs that dc
not hatch we'll or that produce puny
chickens.
A box of lime, earth and ashes is
welcomed by the fowls. They need a
dust bath even when the snow is still
in the yards.
It Is claimed by some onion grow
ers that carbolic acid emulsion gives
satisfactory results in fighting the
onion maggot.
Nitrate of soda is the most quickly
available source of nitrogen for plants
but buyers should steer clear Of low
grade nitrate.
Crimson clover makes fairly good
ensilage, but, like all plants rich in pro
tein, it develops a strong and rather
Objectionable odor.
A tight wire fence around your gar.
den will do more to promote harmony
between neighbors who keep chickens
than anything else.
Strongly fertile eggs from good
healthy stock will often hatch well
and produce good chickens under I'M
favorable conditions.
Government reports state that more
up-to-date agricultural machinery has
been sold the last ten years than dur
ing any previous ten years.
1t is not safe to pasture either cat
tie or sheep on alfalfa, as they are Ii
able to bloat when 1t is fed green
Feed them the hay or practice soiling
AS the price Of land increases the
condition of the manner Of farming
must change, provided, Of course. one
has to make interest on the money
value of the land.
Cotton seed meal used in small
amounts with bunch of feeding cattle
almost invariable serves to make bet
ter gain at a smaller cost than the
straight cora feeding.
A bone cutter will surely pay fol
ttcaIf Green cut hone sUDDIies this