Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1919-01-17
FARMER BROWN A
PRACTICAL MAN
Knows He Must Keep in Touch
With Agricultural Publications
to Be Up-to- Date.
DOES NOT NEGLECT ANIMALS
Takes Advantage Of Advice and Help
offered by Federal and State Az
rieultural Aeeneies-lnstrue
tons to His Son.

Old man Brown is known as a man
Of ripe experience and sound judg-
ment. He is a successful farmer of
the practical rather than the book"
type, yet he knows the value of books
in his business and that to be up to
date he must keep in touch with agri-
cultural publications. He is also wide
awake enough to know that the Uni
ted States department of agriculture
and the state and county agricultural
agencies are not mere academic insti-
buttons, but are in the business pri-
marily TO help the practical farmer.
Hence he keeps himself informed of
what they are doing and frequently
takes advantage of the advice and
help they offer.
At this particular time the old
mans thoughts had been running on
the health Of his live stock, and none
knows better than he the Importance
Of having such matters strictly attend
ed to. So 1t happened that one morn
ing after breakfast he gave the fol-
lowing instructions to his son who was
about to motor into town to do batch
Of errands. The incident is here men
toned because there may be others
who might get a profitable hint or two
from Farmer Browns directions. His
directions we're:
~ First of all, fix that leaky car
buretor in the machine so you won't
lose more gasoline before you start
than 1t takes to carry you to town and
back. You might get stalled on the
way, and that would put you in a nice
fix.
(2) Don't forget to stop at the post
office for my department of agricuI-
ture Farmers Bulletin 957, as / am
anxious to learn what causes those
little warts on the heads Of our pull
lets; they are not just right and, be-
sides, the bulletin contains much other
information about chicken diseases.
(S) "Stop at the drug store and get
new needles and washers for your
old backlog vaccine syringe, or buy
new syringe, and don't wait for the
county agent to do your vacclnating
work for you, even though he is kind
enough to offer to do the Job; you
know how to do the injecting as well
as he, and, besides. that is not his
work, he is only supposed to demon
strate how the work should be done.
And while you are at the druggists it
wouldn't be bad idea to get that
prescription filled for our eollcky
stock, as Veterinarian Spath told you
to do, then you wouldn't be obliged to
call him away out here in the middle
of the night to treat simple case of
bellyache.
(4) IF you should happen to meet
VIII Simmons in town and he says
anything to you about your shooting
at his sheep-hlling dog, tell him, Yes,
l shot at it and if the act is re-
peated 1t will be done again.
(5) ''By the way, you might stop
to see Doctor Spath and find out
whether the microscopic examination
Of the muscle sample which he took
from the dead Hereford calf proved it
to be just olackleg or that anthrax
disease, as he said it was impossible
to say definitely which disease 1t Vas
and guess our naked eyes are no bet
ter than his own; moreover, he ought
to know better than we.
l6) AUST one more thing, If Doctor
I Spath says the disease is anthrax or
anything other than blackleg, you
better tell him TO come out here and
take charge of the doctoring, as we