The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-09-20

Kerosene kills onion maggotS.
The unframed dog is nuisance.
The use of hooded pals means
cleaner milk.
The horse should be given food
free from dust
The Importance of the sorghums 10
often overlooked
Line fences we'll kept up help to
| make good neighbors.
Alfalfa should ordinarily be cut
when it is coming into blossom.
! There is no grass that will stand
| flooding for any considerable time.
A crop of potatoes should be spray
ed at least twice with Bordeaux mix
ture.
Hogs should be fed as near as pos,
sible at the same hours, morning and
evening.
One of the cheapest root crops to
grow for stock Is turnips. Plant early
this month.
No animal that gets only feed
enough to support life can make
gain or profit.
Sometimes weeks chill rains or
cold weather will set the pigs back
month in their growth
In selecting the brood SOW remem-
Der that the size of the litter is an
important factor in her profit.
When building that dairy barn be
sure to make it large enough to ac-
commodate the growth of your busi-
ness.
It is the amount of food over and
above the quantity required to sus
tain the life of the animal that counts
for profit
1t is just as important that every
horse should have his own collar all
the time as that the man should wear
his own shoes
/ Where young orchards are kept per.
fectly clean by cultivation, there is
seldom much injury sustained from
mice during the winter,
Young hens should not be set after
their first laying Of eggs. BY the time
they want to set the second time they
will make good mothers.
The greatest crop the farmers of
the world have raised has been Lib
erty and Freedom. The oppressed far
mer is never good farmer.
With a good corn crop almost ready
to crib and plenty of other feed ev
cry farmer should prepare to raise
and fatten a few hogs THE year.
II you have had a crop fail for you
two or three times it will pay to look
deeper than mere climatic conditions
Probably there are other causes which
you can remove
"In the shade of the old apple tree"
is mighty good place to spend a few
minutes at noon these hot days.
little rest at noon gives speed to ths
work Of the afternoon.
It costs just as much in soil fertility
to raise weed as to raise q wheat OF
oat stalk Land is not resting If 1t is
raising weeds. Even they ought to be
plowed down for fertility.
Now is the time to swat the mites,
and be sure that 1t Is mighty swat
because the pesky mite is a mighty
mean mite of an insect that is the
bugaboo of egg production.
A whole lot of farmers would bet
ter sell their cows and buy their milk
and butter It would be cheaper than
the price they are now paying, al
though they do not realize 1t.
Constant care is one of the secrets
of success in the breeding or feeding
of stock of all kinds. 1t is only the
man who likes such work that VIII
measure up to the greatest success.
Some crops have root systems which
go much deeper than the soil Is
plowed or broken up. 1t takes strength
to send down the roots which might
be used in sending up stalk DeeT
blowing pays.
Beet growing Is beginning to be-
come a very profitable as well as
popular crop in many sections. The
general price is $50 per ton and this
general yield in many sections runs up
to 20 tons and better.
A well-known scotsman states that
maggots can be prevented from de.
stroying onions by sprinkling along
the rows Of onion plants sand scented
with kerosene Stir half pint Of oil
into ten quarts of sand.
/ Cement is being used in the con
structipn of many things on the farm
and is proving to be very serviceable
for feed lots, tanks, cribs and stable
floors, fence posts, building founda
ton, etc Better look into cemen'
constructions little.
IF we cultivate deep after the corn
a., fco+ or so high we simply com.
pei It to stop and repair damages
when if it were cultivated shallow
after the first time or two, the corn
roots can devote all their time to fore
ing along big crop. Remember that
corn roots meet in the row but little
below the surface before corn Is tep