Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-04
Bully Asnusbet Sonrnal.


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ges 70 have the manure applied as fast a
e it is made. q
Lands that are overstocked not OIL.
yield less food. but the animals pastures
upon them make a less yield in beef o
:. milk than when, the stock is in proportion
- to the capacity of lands for producing it
Stagnant or foul water is injurious to al
animals It causes blood poisoning, ane
y this leads to many febrile complaints, ane
is one of the great causes OF abortion in
. COWS and other animals.
A faithful following of well selected
plan of general farming will always be
followed by larger profits, at the close Of
long series Of years, than will the fol-
lowing of that system which attempts to
change from one speciality to another, as
the prices Of different products vary
Nature, in providing grass as the food
for domestic animals. seemed to have de-
signed it for frequent clipping. Can we
not, therefore, make our hay Of better
quality, and at the same time give greater
permanence to the crop, by cutting the
grass oftener than we dop
To keep up the fertility of our pastures,
Lit Is evident that we must do our best to
check the growth of such vegetation as
is rejected by stock. But it is not enough
to destroy the useless and injurious plants
we must encourage the growth of the val
liable ones. How shall these objects be
completed?
1t is impossible to imagine any occupa-
ton more suited to a lady living in the
country, than that of poultry rearing. If
she has any superfuous affection to be-
stow, let it be on her chicken-kind, and it
will be returned cent per cent.
v A few dollars expended in procuring
new varieties of good grain will nearly al
ways in the end pay from one hundred to
five hundred per cent. When farmers
cannot conveniently get these varieties in
dividually, they can club together and
thus effect their object. This is good
u time for them to be gin some clubbing ar
q rangement to procure Winter wheat and
a Fall barley from distance. ssfa
"a Wheat, to produce the largest yield and
:. best -four, should be cut as soon as the
grain is out of its milky state. For seed,
it should not be cut unless fully ripe.
There are numerous varieties of wheat
that will produce good crops, with reason
able certainty, if the soil be SO cultivated
that the plant can gather what food it
needs, and mature. The Board of Agri-
culture of Ohio offers the magnificent pre-
MUM Of 81 eco; and the standard of forty
bushels to an acre is not SO high as to make
It impossible to reach it. 1t can be done,
and the competition should be great.
New and old varieties of wheat should
both have fair trial.
After the wheat has been rendered as
clean as tanning mill will clean, the
wheat should then be placed in weak I've,
all the floating grains skinned off, and
these floating grains used for some pur-
pose other than seed; but all the grains
which sink in the I've should be sown.
The first runners from any plant are the
weakest, the second but little stronger,
while the third are best of all Cut off the
first and second growth of runners after
the fruit, but leave the third root, aud they
win invariably make good, strong, healthy
plants. 4 81 CIV
"a Many pastures are so oyerstocked that
the roots of the grass and the whole plant
are kept so small, that its growth is feeble,
and not half the feed is afforded that the
land would produce if stocked lightly a
year or two. and the grass allowed to get
a good thrifty start.
Farmers often cure their hay too much,
and to guard againts this mistake, some
writers urge us to put it into the barn be-
fore it Is cured half as much as it ought to
he. Better dry it too much than not dry
it enough. And so in cutting grain.
There is undoubtedly loss in letting it
get dead ripe. But there is a still greater
loss in cutting it before the grain becomes
firm. $3.50 is1a8
We are apt to crop our land until the
soil is exhausted or greatly reduced--in-
deed, crop it 50 long as any profit can be
realized This is very wrong; it is kill
ing land. and its complete restoration
thereafter is impossible. 1t can only be
brought up to profitable point by manure
and labor, but never to the original fer
tility, if that fertility was large. The way
is to seed down before the soil is reduced.
Then there win be better catch and a
more certain crop. Land should be kept
up. That is the great secret.
The Marshal Neil," beautiful climb
ing rose introduced about four years ago,
is now foremost among the few that have
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