The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-10-18

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Q cry is for hogs.
Sc only pure-bred sires.
Turn the sheep in the orchard.
Scrub COWS appear in every herd.
Excessive sweating in a horse indi-
Gates weakness.
A pasture arranged to include few
shade trees is 25 per cent. better.
II the potatoes are beginning to
sprout In the ground, dig them at
once.
Exposure to dampness makes the
wool harsh and brittle and the fiber
weak
The growth and feeding value of
the soy bean is quite like that of the
cowpea-
Get die and stamp your initials
on the cream or milk cans. Paint will
rub off in time.
If you want a lasting cement use
melted alum. 1t hardens at once and
water does not affect 1t.
The pigs will eat up slick and clean
the corn and stalks of that field which
is soft and not fit to crib
OIL meal is greatly relished by
lambs, and helps greatly in obtaining
a fine finish for the market.
The work of lice is often mistaken
for disease. When a fowl seems to
be ailing look for lice first.
The development Of the young
horse requires the exercise of the
best judgment in handling him,
One advantage in keeping feed al
ways before poultry Is that they do
not have to hurry to get their meals.
Fruit growing and poultry raising
go well together. Anyone following
either will do well to consider the
ether.
Got harness punch? 1t costs only
a quarter and with a package of
copper rivets breaks can be mended
in jiffy.
The silo today furnishes the most
economical, the safest and the best
means Of storing the corn crop for
IccuiuS purpose.
Wheat bran Is an excellent feed
for dairy cows and calves, but at $50
per ton or more, it is a little rich
for most feeders.
Although certain pessimists claim
that the dairy market will soon be
overstocked, present prices give no in
dication of the sign.
AS result Of the activities of the
reclamation bureau, $4,000 farms are
now being watered and a million acres
are being put in crops.
Cabbage will sometimes cure sIob-
Der in horses caused by eating white
clover; but 1t is better to keep the
clover away from the horses.
Try putting pinch OF copperas in
the watering trough once or twice
. month. Better still, scrub out the
trough and spray thoroughly with a
copperas solution
The Iowa experiment station has
discovered that feeding mangles and
sugar beets to cows is dangerous.
and If continued for any considerable
period will prove fatal.
Will you feed the hogs in the mud
this winter, or build feeding floor
which may cost $40 or 500, accord
ing to the size of your herd, but it
will pay for itself every time.
Red raspberries do not thrive in the
west as well as we could wish. Thew
seem to like a moister, cooler climate
better. They are also more likely to
winter-kilf in the west than the black
varieties.
The best care for a well-developed
case of roup is the ak. Better lose
the individual bird than endanser the
entire flock. If we nip the slight colds
in the bud, we need not fear the an
pearance of roup.
The dairyman may have plenty of
chores to do, but he is getting an in
come every day in the year. He isn't
like the exclusive grain raiser, mil
lonaire three months in the year and
o pauper the rest of the time.
Although summer will soon be over
there still remain 80 days in which
summer heat will at times prevail
While this weather continues remem-
Der that the hotter the water the
cleaner the milk things can be kept.
The feed now in sight will give you
q pretty good idea as to how much
stock you can carry over winter 1t is
the best policy to have a little too
much feed than to be little short; it