The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-06-28
HOGS like fresh water.

Hogs like fresh water.
Lookout for currant worms.
Too much sun iS bad for chicks.
Give the cows pure, fresh water
Do not allow too many pigs to run
together.
Let your horses take their time the
| first hour.
Soft shelled eggs indicate lack Of
lime in the feed.
Poor fences soon breed and train up
herd of breachy stock.
More silos and less rotten corn
shocks will increase profits.
Cut up dandelions and the tender
young shoots of grass for the chicks.
| ADOVS Ill LuIuSS give tHc valves
clean, dry pens with plenty Of SUM-
shine.
In trimming raspberry and black
berry bushes, look out for the gall
beetle.
Faults in a herd can be eliminated
most quickly by careful breeding and
selection.
A hot sweat-collar is apt to soften
not look out.
A concrete tank will not spring a
leak and at the same time 1t will al.
ways be ready for use.
II possible keep the ewes with twin
lambs separate from other sheep for
a week or so at least
Provided your COW Is a good one,
the more she is fed along right lines.
the more she will give.
It has been found advantageous to
wash the inside of the silo with
q mixture of cement and water.
Put bull ring in the nose of the
chronic self-sucking COW and you have
a humane, effective remedy.
Dairy work Is Just like any kind Of
work. If it is going to be done profit
ably 1t requires thought and care.
Silo users assert that they have
found a way to cut down the cost of
handling cows at least one-third.
| Lack of charcoal, grit and green
food together with animal rations in
insufficient quantities means failure.
| The dairyman, II he will use the
means that are at hand, can build up
his soil better than any other far
mer.
There Is no animal on the farm
that turns larger profit in proper
ton to the money invested than a
sheep.
Old sheep sometimes make good |
money for experienced sheepmen, but |
young sheepmen should start with
young sheep.
Some cows begin to Ego back"
when they reach the age of eight but !
many others are still profitable at
twelve to fifteen.
It is no little labor to keep a stall i
where several calves run clean and |
dry, but there is no other way If you
want to raise god calves.
| Don't expect the team to do a hard !
days work in the field and then |
trot a half dozen miles to town and |,
back again after supper.
The profit in keeping cows comes
from the extra amount Of milk that |
they give above the ordinary yield on
common pasture or coarse feed.
|
at all times, and running water Is to |
be preferred, unless it flows through |
farms where other hogs are kept.
1t costs money to fnclose the chick
en- yard, Of course, but 1t costs less
than the toll exacted by cats, dogs and |
rats helping themselves to the young
chickens.
meat, in order to produce the vigor
that will aid them to resist all kinds
Of disease and even the attacks Of lice
and mites.
Good care consists in doing every
thing from milking and caring for the |
cows to marketing the butter or cream
as If your whole life success depend
ed upon it.
| Hog cholera can be readily pre- |
vented by keeping the source of con-
tamination away from the herd by |
protecting the we'll animals from all
carriers Of the infection.
Nothing is more delicious than |
sweet corn. and If planted at intervals,
perhaps by making two or three plant
ings of it, succession can be kept up
| all summer and late in fall.
Every time a toad is killed one OF
the best friends of the garden is de.
stroyed. 1t Is estimated that
healthy toad four years old will kill
10000 insects during the season.
If several spraying machines are to
be used, 1t is a great convenience in
making repairs to have all of the
machines of the same make. Broken
| narts then intornh a ooo hlo