The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-11-01

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Chickens enjoy free range
Keep all sleeping places dry.
Mulch the rhubarb with manure.
Clipping horses legs is not a good
practice.
As distributors Of fertility on the
farm, sheep have no equal.
The wolf is noted enemy to sheep;
SO is the tired" shepherd.
1t is time now to prepare the ewes
for the next mating season.
Give your boy flock of lambs and
make business man of him.
Sheep prefer short fresh grass to
! that which Is tall and coarse
Indiscriminate crossing leads to
| failure; make a line and hew to it.
| Salt the weeds in the sheep pasture
and watch the sheep clean them up.
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suddenly and put them on cows skim
milk.
Sheep ought to be kept because of
the influence which they exert upon
fertility.
Try to arrange to give each horse
on the farm a three weeks vacation
on grass.
The time spent in company Of the
sheep will pay and success will
crown your labors.
II winter dairyirg Is to be the most
profitable it must be planned for def
nitely in advance.
The young pig wants to be got out
into the sunshine and on to the dirt
as early in life as possible.
Sheep at six years of age lose their
teeth; hence they should be fattened
and sold before this period
Feed your rams generously but not
too well. An oyerfed pampered ram
is of no earthly use anywhere.
Have you considered how impossi
BILE 1t is for the half starved eve to
properly nourish her offspring?
This is good time to put square
Of tar paper in the bottom of each
nest box for the benefit of lice.
Do not neglect to provide clean
water for the poultry. Dirty water is
dirty at any season of the year.
If the strawberries have been picked
two seasons, spade up the beds and
SOW the land for some late-planted |
crop.
Know whether plant requires q |
situation dry or moist, hot or cool, |
sunny or shady to know where to put |
that plant.
The faGv-hUrC t1dv-hirdS I
small turtle-shaped beetles which feed
upon plant life in both the larval and
adult stages
Some plants cannot be thoroughly |
weeded with the hoe In these cases |
every weed should be carefully
plucked by hand.
Plant cover crop in the orchard.
Rye, barley, wheat and oats are good
non-leguminous plants. but the le-
gumes are better.
The farmers and fruit growers of
this country are losing over one bill
lion dollars annually by reason of the
ravages of insects.
A dense fleece is valuable not alone
for the increase in quantity of WOOL
but for the protection that it affords
the animal from the elements
II lice and mites fail to pay enough
attention to other treatments, try
burning them out with a torch. But
don't burn down the house in order
to get the vermin.
AS a rule. 1t will not pay to hold
the pig crop for prices to rise, un-
less they are being held. While a
few feeders win out in playing the
market game, many more lose.
Corn and alfalfa usually can be at
tended to when the wheat needs no
care, thus distributing the labor more
eluitabiy throughout the season.
Mushrooms, on account OF the
amount of nitrogen they contain. an
proach nearer to animal food than apy
other vegetable product An ANALYSIS
made by Prof Atwood shows that
mushrooms contain 35 per cent. pro.
teids.
Anything that will destroy weeds is
worthy of the farmers attention; any,
thing that will maintain the fertility
of the land demands his attention.
Sheep will do both. and are therefore
entitled to the attention of every
farmer.
II has been demonstrated to be an
almost universal fact that topping
cotton does not do the work it is in
tended-to check The growth of the
leafy upper portion of the plant. In
stead, in most cases, it has a tendency