The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-02-02
Be gentle with all animals,

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| Be gentle with all animals,
The farmer must have a horse.
Examine the collars of your work
horses often.
With the better poultry is coming
better equipment.
A heated chicken house is a bad
thing for poultry.
The proper time to spray fruit trees
Is during the dormant season.
Well-bred, well-selected pigs, make
more profit on the food eaten.
| A horse in order to keep in gooo
condition should be we'll bedded every
night.
A machine in the shed is worth just
about two machines left in the fence
| corner.
The brood sows should have all the
bright clover or alfalfa hay that they
will eat.
The cleaner the feed and feeding
places, the better the quality of the
pork in all.
It is conducive to health to feed
hogs when they can have the range
of the pasture field.
Those seeds, like the elm and soft
maple, which ripen in May or June
belong to the sooner" class.
Never work team of colts togeth.
er until they are thoroughly broken,
as they will worry each ether.
Filling up the neglected holes about
the drinking tank is now in order.
Fill them up now and avoid trouble.
The man who calls improved stock
fancy stock" will have an account to
settle with his Maker on the judgment
day.
Garry your good care of the ewes
this fall as far as feeding plenty OF
nice bright oats to keep them in con-
dition.
The old troughs will soon have to
replace the fountain waterers or there
may be burst fountain some cold
morning.
After the strawberry bed has been
set and cared for through the sum
mer, it should be mulched through
the winter.
The milk should be strained through
one thickness of clean white flannel
and then should be quickly cooled
and we'll aired.
Wise turkey breeders will not
breed from the same tom more than
one year unless the same breeding
hens are retained
No matter how highly bred and care.
fully cultured a colt may be If it is
not carefully trained and properly de.
veloped it loses it's value.
tic or burnt lime or ground limestone
are employed almost exclusively for
the correction of soil abnormalities.
Wetting the hoofs with a sponge
and clean water every day, or simply
dipping each foot into a pail of wa.
ter, will keep the feet from becoming
dry.
II there are two kinds of roughness
for the cows this winter it will be bet.
ter to feed of both at the same time
rather than to feed out one then start
on the other.
Look out for a collar that rubs a
lap of flesh at every stride of the
horse. 1t Is liable to wear a gall on
his neck, and much sooner sometimes
than suspected.
The neck and shoulders OF a horse
are points that must not be over
looked when buying A weak neck ane
narrow breast do not go with the
most desirable horse.
It is a source of satisfaction to the
progressive dairyman to be able to
sum up at the end of the year just
exactly what every COW has done. The
milk record sheet is the key.
Anybody living near a good sized
town can do fine business in sweet
corn by delivering it fresh every
morning to customers direct and get
nearly twice the wholesale price.
Two or three shovelfuls of earth
about the trees will prevent water
from settling about them, which may
cause bark bursting near the surface
and possible injury to thin roots.
The Massachusetts experiment sta
ton says that lime is an aid to good
farming, but cannot take the place OF
fertilizers, stable manure, thorough
cultivation and proper crop rotation.
Farmers Don't begrudge the food q
good dairy cow consumes, and they
should not count the cost OF the chick
ems fcod so long as the chickens pay
for 1t and give them a profit besides.
DR.. F. S. Schoenleber. state veterin
srian at the Kansas Agricultural col
lege, is authority FOR the statement
that there is danger in feeding imma
ture forage crops which have beer
frosted
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