The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-02-23


under good culture are most profitable.
A little pig loves sunshine and
needs it almost as much as he needs
food.
Ventilation is a good thing If proper
ly done but drafts are not good venti-
lation
Some feeders advise giving the
hogs medicated salt to drive out the
worms.
New South Wales is said to contain
more kinds of Towering plants than
all Europe.
The man who makes a success OF
poultry is the man who starts with
the right aim.
The duck raisers on Long Island use
large quantities of fish to feed their
breeding stock
With five or more cows hand sep
arator ought to pay for itself the first
year of its use.
The weak sheep should be kept in
separate pens and the lambs separate
from the old sheep
The hen that makes good record
for herself in eggs for the whole
year is the hen to keep.
One sign of a good mixer is large
milk veins on the underside of the
mody. 1t doesn't often fail,
A heavy covering of manure over
the outdoor vegetable pit will give
frost less of chance to get IN.
The COW should be studied individ-
ually, and food supplied according to
each animals consuming capacity.
With only three horses to every 100
person, Switzerland has the smallest
equine population of any country.
More bushels to the acre." Is an
exceedingly good motto for any farm
er, even If it should mean fewer acres.
Two Paris department stores use
storage battery driven electric tri-
cycles to deliver purchases to custom
erS.
Paint your tin wash basins on the
inside with a good white enamel paint
if you would prolong their useful
ness.
Many flock owners make a serious
mistake by disposing of the ewes that
are in a rundown condition at wean.
ing time.
Soft-shelled eggs can be caused by
one Of four conditions: Lack of suff1-
cient lime in the food; Indigestion;
overfat; fright.
Dairy farming is good business, but
Is exacting as the cows must be fed.
watered, MIXED and cared for every
day in the year.
The ability of the ewes to feed and
nourish the lambs after birth will de-
pend upon the care and feed given
them during the winter.
1t pays to have the farm fenced In
to small fields and to have plenty of
yards to keep hogs of different sizes
and ages separated.
Those who are feeding bundle corn
to their cattle must make arrange
ments to have hogs follow them or
the waste will be too great.
Breeding ewes and store sheep will
winter well on good, bright, wheat
straw and stubble grasses and half
pound Of corn given to each daily.
A spade with one edge sharpened
and turned up at a right angle has
been invented by Wisconsin man
for trimming walks and cutters.
Let every fancier resolve to show
some of his stock at some good win.
ter show this season. 1t is the only
way to make paying reputation.
No more simple or efficient method
for the improvement of the egg sup
ply of the country could be adopted
than the production of infertile eggs.
The best location for new peach
orchard in this latitude would be
north slope. There buds would be
later in starting and not so apt to be
caught by frost.
Sheep husbandry is branch of an.
imal feeding that will not run itself,
and only the man who gives his sheep
the best of care and feed will succeed
in the business.
Touch your tongue to piece OF
iron on a frosty morning. Thereafter
you'll remember not to put into
horses mouth a frosty bit until you
have warmed 1t.
Sheep properly fed and given dry.
roomy shed. with a hard clay floor
and a run of a grass pasture during
the mild days of winter. can be made
10 pay a good profit.
The number of pounds of food ele
ments we buy in ton of linseed meal
are: 5644 muscle makers; 65.8 fat
forming; 1920 pure fat In a like
quantity of bran we have 1924 muscle
makers; 1885 fat forming. and 70.4
pure fat.
The dairy farmer who has any re.
gard at all for his reputation ought
to be especially careful about his wa.
ter supply. for it is a matter of rec.