The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-06-07

than ten days or two weeks at most.
Milk at 90 degrees is about the tern-
perature at which it separates best
Oats should form the basis of all
grain mixtures for fattening poultry.
Got the silo fever yet? It's spread
ing over the country In great shape.
If rabbits have gnawed only the
outer bark, wrap the wound with
cloth.
Barley and oats. as we'll as wheat,
are usually improved in quality on
fax land.
Working the soil when it is wet
will make it coarse and lumpy the
whole season.
AS soon as your lettuce is large
enough. feed it to those chickens you
are fattening.
/
the corn crop can be used than
through the silo.
You can not make as good silage
from dry cornstalks as you can from
mature green corn.
The real value of an egg for food
| eho1 10
Gated by color of shell.
Plant a row of the large. tame sun
flowers along the fence for hen feed at
moulting time next fall.
The strawberry is one of the small
fruits which apparently thrive better
in acid than in alkaline soils.
The fleece of the ram should be
dense, even in quality, and of strong.
clear, white fiber throughout.
A pure-bred bull is often a poor
bred bull. Pedigree and performance
are not interchangeable words.
It is to the poultryman's interest to
keep his stock to the best type,
healthy and vigorous all the time.
You will appreciate the difference
between low-headed and high-headed
trees when you are picking the crop.
A half days work in the orchard
with the manure spreader will show
up when apples are ripe next sum-
mer.
You should know the working quail
ties of your sows; watch them from
the time they farrow and see how they
treat the little fellows.
The average COW ought to have four
to six weeks rest each year. A good
time to dry them off is just as they be-
gin to make an udder
Coal oil will soften the old paint
brushes used last year. Place them
in a can of the oil and wash them
| we'll IN warm SOapSuQS.
Feather pulling may be checked by
dissolving powdered aloes in water
and washing the feathers of the birds
that have been plucked.
To keep up a heavy milk flow cow
must have all the water she can drink
for every 100 pounds of her milk con-
tains 81 pounds of water.
Every garden for the home should
have. grapes and many market gar
dens could be made more profitable
by growing this splendid fruit.
Many people have the idea that
brown shelled eggs are the richer but
the difference between white and
brown eggs is only in the color.
AS the ducklings hatch they should
be put in a warm place, preferably
near the kitchen stove, and kept warm
Just as little chicks are managed.
The best milking pail is the one so
constructed that 1t will reduce to a
minimum the amount of dirt falling
into the milk during the process of
milking.
Feed your hens regularly. and when
you have found a set of ratiOns, prop
erly balanced and varied, that give
good results. make no sudden or radf
cal changes.
One of the most general methods
adopted for cooling milk is to place
the cans in a vat containing water
which reaches point slightly above
surface of milk
Cleanliness in handling, in straining
and in separating the milk Is a thing
that cannot be too religiously adhered
to. for prevention Is the key word to
quality in all dairy work
The COW is fertilizer factory, a
butter factory and a skim milk fac.
tory; yet many farmers feed her as
little grain as they dare In the winter
and none at all in the rlmmer
Plan to have a good, uig patch OF
strawberries for home use, and Sc
cure your plants early in the season
The big crop of berries is from vines
that have long season uf cultivation
and growth.