The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-09-13
A farm shop Is handy.

A farm shop is handy.
Prepare for hog marketing time.
1t Is time to get the machinery I'M
der cover.
A hog cannot help being dirty In
wet, filthy pen.
Try to have the water tanks under
some sort of shade.
In milking 1t is the last few pulls
that produce the profits.
;; A dog that worries stock has no
| business on the dairy farm.
A good shade goes long way
| toward thrift in the hog pens.
To get the best results the cow
must be kept quiet and treated kindly.
Oil Is cheaper than harvesters.
Good oil is cheaper than thin cheap
stuff
4 screen fly trap setting near the
| back kitchen door rids the house OF
many flies.
There is going to be lot of alfalfa
sown this fall How much of it will be
on your farm?
1t pays to get out and do as much
| work as possible in the early part
of these hot days.
| One thing that keeps the hired man
on the farm is a neat, well-kept, and
we'll arranged farm.
A disk from an old pulverizer
makes good anchor for holding the
end post of wire fence.
Milking the COWS clean and care
fully has tendency to develop a per
sistent habit of yielding milk.
II uOeSH COSt any HlOIe W De cream
ly than otherwise. And there's more
profit and satisfaction in it too.
Silage is highly relished by both
cattle and sheep, and is fed with
profit to these classes of animals.
Our advertising columns are inter
| osfiro fhfc month T,nnty fhotn
carefully May find something you
| want.
Three tablespoonful of fcrmalin to
pint of half water and half milk is
an efficient poison to set where flies
congregate.
The silo should be placed where it
will not interfere with the sunlight en-
tering the barn, or interfere with the
entrance or exits.
Supplement the short pastures with
those green crops you planted last
spring Didn't do It? Too bad. Re-
member next time.
A little gunny sacking over that
poor cows or calls back, when 1t is
picketed near swarms of flies, will
help out the feed surprisingly.
Flies can't hatch without a manure
or dump pile to incubate in. Keep
| everything clean and there will be a
few million less of these flies.
Sheep and poultry go we'll to geth-
er, and when once the buildings and
fields are ready for them. how little
work, compared with other stock, 1t
takes to care for them.
Many dairymen are giving their
| cows simply maintenance ration.
and then complain because there ia
no profit in dairying Such dairying
don't deserve to succeed.
Don't neglect to cultivate the grape
| vineyard up to fruiting time. The
surface of the soil in the vineyard
must be kept mellow throughout the
hot July and August days.
Skim the milk clean. The milk
containing quite a little butter fat
| may be most excellent for the pigs,
| but butter fat at 20 to % cents 8
| pound is expensive pig feed.
We saved up some of our profits
| from farming and invested in some
| farm land a few years ago. The re-
| suit may surprise you, but we made
| 80 per cent on our investment.
The coal ash mulch is certainly
good for gooseberries and also for to
matoes. Tomatoes mulched with
sifted coal ashes will resist blight
and keep green and fourishing longer
than without 1t.
Linseed meal is made by grinding
fiaxseed from which the oil has been
more or less completely extracted.
"O1d process" contains more fat and
somewhat less protein than New pre-
cess" linseed meal.
AS a matter Of fact the farmer owes
it to himself, personally, to be a close
student Of advanced agriculture and
Of public questions. This Is the way
to keep the mind alert and active and
to keep mentally young.
The cows and the pigs, etc, are the
farmers customers. They take his
feed and roughage. The farmer
needs to know what he gets in return
in the way of pounds of milk. butter
fat, pork, etc. No successful business
was ever built on guessing-farm.
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