The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-02-02
Rape is popular with hogs.

Teach the colt to eat mixture OF
oats, wheat bran and linseod meal
There is something in the first milk
that the calf needs, and should have.
| Remember to treat your cow with
consideration in these days and nights.
The demands on the foals diges-
tive system for nourishment is very
great.
A flock of ewes rightly handled
should produce 125 per cent. OF
lambs.
It is the income from each sheep
that should determine the value OF
the flock.
Every progressive keeper separates
the light-colored honey from the dark
fall honey.
Unless the bird is extremely valu-
able the AK is the best remedy for
sick chicken.
The COW that is allowed to fall of
gain it at profit.
Skimp your sheep on good pasture
and they will skimp you on mutton.
Works both ways.
Rabbits do great damage to yonrg
trees during winter. especially when
snow covers the ground.
The use of fruit is a great help
toward keeping in good health, and
more Of 1t should be grown.
It's a mistake to expect the miracu-
lous or abnormal from your cows. Bet
| ter make them work naturally.
If sows are expected to raise fall
litter, it is best to wean the spring
pigs at from to 10 weeks old.
| When there is good stuff in the feed
box the heifer soon learns to be
good barn COW when night comes.
/ Do not try to winter the cows with
out grain. Wheat bran, corn-meal
and oil-meal will be found valuable.
| Sheep are comfort lovers and the
man who neglects to provide them
with good, dry shelter makes a costly
error.
Irregularity in feeding-that Is, a
good ration one day and poor one
the next, will play havoc with the best
Of cows.
Peach trees can be planted any time
between last and first frost: the
earlier in the winter they are planted
the better
A queen bee lives from two to FIVE
years. workers from forty-f1ve days to
six months, and drones seldom more
than five weeks.
Some breeders claim that six or
seven weeks is long enough for the
pigs to remain with the SOW, but
this, I think, Is extreme
The pig Is merely meat-prOducfng
machine and the more he is fed
with good judgment, of course-the
| more meat he will turn over.
All living plants have definite needs
every day during their growth. and II
these needs are not supplied fully or
regularly bad results must follow.
While the orchard is coming into
bearing try vegetable growing as a
side line This makes one of the
surest and best resources of income.
It will pay to buy wheat bran to
mix with the barley or corn meal for
| feeding cows Bran and barley meal
half and half makes good meal for
milk.
The best roosting place for young
turkeys Is on branches of trees. They
will not suffer from exposure, and
the open life will make them strong
| and healthy.
Some mixers handle the teats as IL
they were made of rubber and devoid
of all feeling; but. strange to say.
there are nerves in the udder which
are very sensitive.
Flaxseed meal, also known under
the name of linseed and oil meal. is
one and the same thing. 1t is the resi-
due left after crushing and pressing
the oil out of faxseed.
We like to see the cows approach
their master in the yard to be
scratched and petted 1t shows that
they are used to kind treatment and
are not afraid of him.
Marshy places along stream fur
nish many beetles and shell fish and
if the young ducks are allowed a run
of yard like that the cost of feeding
them will be greatly reduced.
Sometimes when a horses feet are
so tender that he Is liable to be lame
after shooting, a thin layer of calfskin
placed between the hoof and shoe be.
fore mailing 1t on does lot Of good.
The turkey industry will WELD
greater net profit on investment than
almost any other industry, but, il
conducted on a large scale, calls for
a high degree of skill and constant
application.
If person wants to dairy. he
should get the kind OF cattle that con-
vert the feed they eat into the highest
possible percentage OF milk and but
terfat, instead of flesh. in order to be