The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-08-09
The silo makes feed cheap.
Keep only thoroughbred stock.
A dibble is a handy garden tool.

Curry the filth from the cows coat
before milking.
Late cabbage is good crop to fol-
low early potatoes.
Let nine milkings pass before using
! a fresh cows milk.
Cabbage Is one of the very best
| vegetables to feed to poultry.
High quality Of cream can be pro-
duced from clean, pure milk
Better use is made Of ground than
of whole grain by the dairy cows.
| Do not allow the stall where the
COW must stand or lie to get filthy.
| Comfortable shelter goes a long
way towards making dairying pay.
Never offer a poor pound Of butter
for sale; rather feed it to the pigs.
| Silage and alfalfa combined make
the foundation for the best dairy "a
ton.
| Woven wire fence is being bought
by the mile instead of by the rod
now.
The coming of the silo is developing
| ~ -I1 for foh Nod
| beef
The secret Of successful stack build
ing is to keep the middle full and we'll
tramped
The calf should have plenty Of wa
| ter to drink and it should always be
clean and pure.
Manure is one of the by-products
| of the dairy farmer and it represents
a decided profit.
Many practical hog raisers are now
| using artificial wallows, built Of either
cement or lumber.
II winter dairying is to be the most
| profitable 1t must be planned for def
| initely in advance.
Any man who will strike a horse
in the head should never be allowed
to touch one again.
Keep the laying hens working. To
| do this feed them at daybreak and
just before shutdown.
Hogs follow the rows and tramp
down less Of the rape II 1t Is drilled
instead Of broadcasted.
II you want a lasting cement use
melted alum. It hardens at once and
water does not affect 1t.
The poorer the cream the faster
should be the speed Of the churn
slower where cream is rich.
A man cannot work on boiled tur-
nips alone; neither can horse work
on a diet of straw and fodder.
Shelters separate from the ones pro- |
vided for the old fowls should be con-
structed for the use of the chicks.
Fine gravel is not the proper grit |
for poultry. They want sharp ma
terial with which to grind their food. |
The best location for the warm |
| weather chicks Is in the orchard, |
and the trees also protect them from
storms.
Forage crops added to the grain ia
ton cut the cost of pork making 20 |
to 80 per cent, says r. G. King, Pur-
due station.
On an average Great Britain yields |
80 bushels of wheat to the acre: New
South Wales, Is; the United States, IL,
and Russia, s.
Young fruit trees that we're planted
in the autumn of last year, or in the
spring Of this year, should be ex-
amined carefully.
Cowpeas sown in corn and the en- |
tire crop pastured down by hogs gives
one Of the very best returns that can
be secured from farm land.
A few trees in the poultry yard are
to be desired at this season, but IL the
yard is devoid of trees it Is easy to
arrange for artificial shade.
Breeding stock should never be
saved from litter of vicious old
| brood SOW which is always restless
and chasing about the pasture.
Only about one grape Seeding In
| 100 is worth further testing. A 1 to
100 shot offers enough chance to make
it interesting to grape enthusiasts.
Do not allow the stall where the
COW has to stand or lie to get filthy.
1t is not only uncomfortable for the.
cow, but unhealthy for her and the
family that drinks her milk.
Never let young chickens perch un-
til their breastbone can endure the
strain, as crooked breastbone de-
creases a fowls market as well as
breeding value considerably.
In swine raising, the capital invest
ed is small compared with other live
stock. the returns are quick and the
hog assimilates more of the food he
consumes than almost any other
animals.
The first two days Of chicks life
should be spent In brooiing and no
feed is required until the! are at least
| 4s hours old Nature has provided for