The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-01-24
FARMER BROWNA
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
rieulturaI Aeencies-Instrue-
tionS 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-
tutions, 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
ed to. So it 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 profitable hint or two
from Farmer Browns directions. His
directions were:
O "First Of all, fix that leaky car
buretor in the machine so you won't
lose more gasoline before you start
than it takes to carry you to town and
back. You might get stalled on the
way, and that would put you in nice
fix.
(2) Don't forget to stop at the post
Office for my department of agricul-
ture Farmers Bulletin 957, as I am
anxious to learn what causes those
little warts on the heads Of our pull
let's; they are not just right and, be-
sides, the bulletin contains much other
information about chicken diseases.
(3) "Stop at the drug store and get
new needles and washers for your
old blackleg vaccine syringe, or buy
a new syringe, and don't wait for the
county agent to do your vaccinating
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 a bad idea to get that
prescription filled for our colicky
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) eff you should happen to meet
Will Simmons in town and he says
anything to you about your shooting
at his sheep-killing dog, tell him, Yes,
I shot at it and if the act is re-
peated it will be done again.
60 "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 1t
to be just blackleg or that anthrax
disease, as he said it was impossible
to say definitely which disease it was
and guess our naked eyes are no bet.
ter than his own; moreover, he ought
| to know better than we.
(6) "Just one more thing, if Doctor
Spath says the disease is anthrax OF
anything other than blackleg, you
better tell him to come out here and
take charge of the doctoring as We