The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-01-10
Gull out the BOOSTERS.
Whitewash the stables.
Balance the hens ration.
Young pigs like vegetables.

manners as faulty ones.
| Desirable eggs are said to weigh
about "a ounces to the dozen.
If hens develop the feather-pulling
| habit send them to market at once.
Dairying is a cash business. The
good COW pays for her board every
day.
Alfalfa will grow on nearly all good,
well-drained soils, but best on rich,
sandy loan.
The first big need of the majority OF
the older corn belt soils is limestone
and legumes.
It is better and more profitable to
have a herd of five good cows than
ten that are inferior.
The green food problem in winter
isn't much of a problem if there is any
alfalfa hay on the place.
Muddy and unclean stable yards are
always sources of loss because OF
their insanitary condition.
There are but few horses that can
not be made gentle and quiet by the
proper kind Of treatment.
The kind of feed which the cows
eat often has an effect upon the fla
vor of milk and its products.
The farmer who makes an effort to
fill the corn crib and smokehouse
each year generally succeeds.
Swedish turnips grow well in the
northern states and provide a large
amount Of feed for the winter.
The best stock pea for grazing in
the field is the black. Everlasting,
Red and Red Ripper are also good.
The farmer who is not raising le-
gumes has his eyes closed to some Of
| luS UlSSSSI OppOl utilities Ala AH1 AAAAAAS'
The sand tvetch is smaller and more
recumbent than the common vetch,
and has been tested but little in this
country.
Hens, when they cease laying, fat
ten very seAsiiy and a fat hen is a
| ~ sc dofo al Kinds nf nnnl.
try diseases.
| Penning chickens is the best way
to get a fine flock, for it means that
you are getting eggs from the best
hens you have.
A hog fed on corn alone from the
time it is weaned from the SOW I'M
til butchered at Is months old, seldom
pays for his keep.
| The cows like the silage in the win
ter just as we'll as they do the grass
in the summer and it is good at any
season of the year.
Stout, livable chicks are obtained
only from sturdy parents, and pullets
that have been forced for winter eggs
are hardly in that class.
| Don't blame anyone but yourself
| If your farm won't grow legumes.
They will grow for the man who
knows how to make them.
It is poor economy to feed spoiled
food to the poultry. They may con-
tract disease or become poisoned.
once.
The day has forever passed when
the progressive dairyman allows his
cows to be brought, running or ex-
cited, into the barn, by dog or boy
with a whip.
Sheep in the summer are gross
feeders, rapidly cleaning the land of
brush and weeds, but in the barn and
! in the feed lot they are extremely
dainty in their eating.
The best family horses, as a rule,
are raised and trained on the farm.
Their dispositions are then thor
oughly understood, and it is known
j how far they can be trusted.
1t pays to whitewash, ventilate and
properly light the stables; to brush
and curry cows; to use clean and
well-coyered = utensils, to cool milk
quickly and to have a cool place for
the milk.
The fruit farmer can always find
something to do, either in the orchard
or around the buildings. This bust
ness like any other is ruined by too
much loafing.' Keep the loose ends
well in hand for the best results.
1t often is your fault that hens
get to eating eggs; but after they do
contract the habit, lay the ak at the
/ root Of the tree-in other words, stop
j the business, short off. Then change
your bill of fare. Something lacking
in the feed you have been giving.
| Balance CQ6 TdtlOu
1 colt should never stand on a wood
or other hard floor until past two
years, as this is liable to give. him
I ringbone, and stiffen his joints. The
man who makes horse-raising pay Is
the man who raises horses that suit
the customers of the best class OF
horses, and that means raising moth
ing but the best.
Keep litter in the scratching shed
for poultry, from eight to ten inches
deep in which scatter one gallon of
wheat or oats at morning and noon;
break two dozen ears. of corn to them
in the morning and during the day
give them plenty of green vegetables,
or if you haven't the vegetables, give