The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-09-06
. Milk the cows clean.

Milk the cows clean.
Every farm needs a silo.
Give all farm animals pure water.
Stunted calves don't make good
COWS.
II you can raise a good steer why
raise poor one?
The pig eating SOW is usually the
result of bad feeding
Learn to handle harnes fast, on and
off, it saves so much time.
The world keeps finding new uses
for corn and corn products.
A roadside filled with tall weeds is
a great harboring place for flies.
Get the old hens started for market
as soon as they have laid their litter
out.
The most eloquent friends the silo
silage.
One good thing about the incuba'
tor, it never leaves the nest before the
job is done.
A little salt daily for the cows is
better than the weekly sailing on Sun.
day morning.
The breeding boar should not only
be good individual, but be backed by
good ancestors.
Sunshine is natures best disinfect-
ant and the pens and houses cannot
have too much of it.
Glover is an exceptionally gooo
cattle roughage, but at present prices
it's use is quite prohibitive.
BOOSTERS of all breeds should be
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It takes them longer than hens.
| Pigs allowed to make their beds on
manure piles soon become scuffy and
affected with a dry hacking cough.
| If the heifer doesn't show up we'll
with her first calf and give promise Of
being a profitable cow better get rid
Of her.
There is no question but what the
thin blanket keeps the flies off, but
however thin it may be it makes the
horse warm.
If one of your hogs gets grudge
against another, put them In sep
arate pens. They will do better and
grow faster.
If hog dies on the farm, no matter
from what cause, take no chances, but
remove the body long distance from
| the feeding lots and burn it.
Removing stumps certainly pays.
They not only occupy space which is
valuable but they also cause all sorts
| of trouble and inconvenience.
In punching, alfalfa should be
handled by hand, as punching with a
rake loses many of the leaves. Rain
is very injurious to the cut hay.
Provide shade and shelter for calves.
| Keep salt and fresh water before
| them all the time. Dehorn before fly
time Halter break every calf while
young.
When one growth of alfalfa is re-
moved, another one comes on i'm
mediately. But if the first growth re-
mains while the second one starts,
then the second suffers.
When the pigs are taken out OF
the pasture this fall they should not be
turned suddenly into the cornf1elds or
fed all the new corn they can eat.
Make the change gradually.
When strawberries are through
| fruiting, remove the mulch and give
cultivation. If the plants have made
a rank growth, NOV off the tops of
the plants with the mower.
1t is the very poorest sort Of policy
to store potatoes intended for seed In
a basement in which there Is a fur
mace as it usually results in lower
| ing of the vitality of the seed.
To in any way skrimp the food OF
growing animal chicken, pig, lamb.
calf or colt, is to invite sure loss. A
thrifty, growing young animal, If
kept thrifty and growing, is always a
money maker.
| A low down. handy-wagon is of
| great value in orchard and garden
work Such wagons are easily loaded.
| The tires are wide and they can be
taken into fields where the ground Is
| too soft to use narrow tired wagons.
Ducks kept entirely on land, must
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| can get their heads under water.
Where shallow vessels or troughs are
used they gum up about the eyes, be-
come listless, sit about, lose their ap-
petite, and eventually die.
The three sizes of roasting fowls
small. medium and large-can best be
secured by the Wyandottes, Ply
mouth Rocks and Brahmas, respec-
lively The Rhode Island Reds can
be substituted for the Plymouth Rocks
If desired.
The fellow who thinks that the
crossing of beef animal on a dairy
animal or vice versa will unite the
I good qualities of both in the offspring