The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-09-27
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Mules are becoming popular.
If possible. grow the pigs on pas
ture.
Flies and hot weather cut down
dairy profits
Alfalfa pasture and hogs is a great
combination.
Rape is one Of the best crops for
temporary hog pasture.
It is as easy to teach a colt good
manners as faulty ones.
The quack. grass problem is largely
a matter of poor drainage.
The separator shoud never be al
lowed in the barn or near it.
Never raise colts from a vicious
mare. Like often produces like.
The horses should be given at least
one feed of mixed hay once day.
Many stations are used too much
to produce large per cent. of colts.
Trees should not be planted on a
high slope, for the soil is likely to be
too thin.
Never attempt to keep summer
butter for early fall prices because it
will not keep.
The horses cannot rest while fight
ing flies. Better shade or screen the
barn windows.
1t is a mistake to keep young tur-
key hens every year, particularly
those Matched late.
Do away with binders on the horse.
Their use is a cruel practice and
cause many eye defects.
See that your brood sows get plenty
of exercise, SO that they may produce
large, healthy filters.
The hens simply cannot. and will
not fill the egg basket and feed lice
and mites on their bodies.
The man who is trying to keep hogs
without pastures and forage crops is
fifty years behind the times.
Don't expect an old horse that has
worked all his lifetime to do as much
as he Gid when he was young.
/ A man should be kept in the silo,
spreading and packing the corn as
fast as it comes from the cutter
In training mules for use on the
farm it is best to begin by using them,
'or light work during the third year.
Corn Stage is just as valuable for
carrying over stockers and feeders as
it IS for fattening and finishing the
beeves.
Sell your wool on rising market
Nine times out of ten you will miss it
if you try to keep it for something
better
Demand for good. productive farm
property IS steadily Increasing. Some
very high prices are paid for we'll
improved farms.
Sheep will live and thrive on much
feed that is Of little value for other
stock, but that does not imply that
they can do without.
Frequently put little cayenne pep
per "A the ayy mash. 1t will serve to
keep them in condition. A little salt
should also be given.
Tie sooner manure is spread in the
field the smaller the loss of fertility
incurred and the smaller the amount
of labor required to handle it.
The common disk harrow is more
generally used than any other nipple
ment to cultivate alhii2a, and when
properly adjusted does good work
Cowpeas have value in crop ro-
tation because they serve the double
purpose Of producing crop of feed
and fertilizing the soil at the same
time.
The great majority of diseases are
due to bad management and housing,
including cold. damp and ill-venti-
lated houses; rich feeding, impure
water and lack of exercise
It requires three months or more to
grow 4 broiler. much depending upon
the weight desired, the stock and the
care. Broilers shrink about half q
pound each when dressed.
Che beginner who has nice ac7r
OF pullets 70 winter over Will find it
more profitable to avoid. forcing for
h.gh-priced winter eggs if such birds
are 10 be used as breeders EeXt
spring.
It does not pay to doctor a fowl
that is hopelessly i'll or suffering from
q contagious disease. The latter are
never permanently cured, and will
transmit their weakness to their off
spring.
Don't slam the three-days-old calf
around because he doesn't drink
readily. TO get a kick in the ribs for
something he cant understand is
',if tough On him.
Insects Gail Means Death.
There is a superstition connected
vith the death watch which like most
guperstitfons. is based upon the the