Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-08-08
NO. 1877.
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WHAT l DON'T KNOW ABOUT FARMING

In selling stock by live weight, it is
good plan to feed each one about three
pals of water, and what other stuff can be
got down 'em just before driving on the
scales. If the buyer has ever invested
much money on Change, he will know
what 'waiered stock means
In holding the plow, / always prefer to
hold it in the house, seated in a rocking
chair, with my family clustered around me.
In planting hay, always plant the long
est can find, as short hay bends per-
sons back too much in cutting it.
In the matter of wheat. always raise it
! by the barrel, at a mill not far away, as it
saves buying seed, blowing, sowing. Grad
ling and threshing. generally raise it on
a note.
In travelling through the country, / have
often noticed that farmers do not sufficient
| ly regard the health of their animals. My
barn is arranged ON a plan of my own. 1t
is open on all sides, SO that no creature
may have to stand out in storm because
| am asleep OF away. This also saves lum-
ber. All around the barn are benches on
which any animal can sit down when tired
of standing, or when waiting for some
thing or other to turn up. The sheriff says
my cattle always sell when my neighbors'
don't and he thinks it is all owing to my
economy, and do not doubt it.
In subsoiling piece of ground, l al
ways plant mortgage on it the WIN
ter previous. 1t raises the biggest kind of
a crop, especially when you let the inter-
est 60 behind. l hardly ever knew such
a sowing that didn't turn out full as well as
the holder expected.
In raising hogs think that many farm
altorat fnn sla oh fcr hai f,yrn in
er ests. Now suppose that | want to raise
a hog with the first club that comes handy.
but this has a tendency to make the animal
discouraged and dscontented.
| have my own ideas about training
horses. If | ever get hold of a horse in
clined to run away, l always borrow bug
gy of some of my neighbors, put him in it,
turn him into a lot, and let him run. He
generally gets sick of the fun by the time
the buggy is gone. but if he don't hitch
him to any of the wheels that may be left,
and keep him travelling. The owner OF
the buggy always expresses astonishment
at my system, but the evidence of its sue
cess is there before him, and he cannot dis
pute the pieces.
If ever get hold of kicking COW l
always let Mrs. Quad sit down first to milk,
and | take my station near by, to see what
foot the animal kicks with and how hard
she hits. My wife has remarkably clear
memory, and after coming to, she can gen.
orally give me any little particulars which
failed to note owing to distance. / then
get the COW into the stable, draw her up
r with windlass, until she is just evenly
balanced. Then get bag and fill it with
bricks, hang it within easy kicking dis
tance, and stand off for developments.
Every time she comes down she hits the
bricks, and when she goes up, / have
y another thing to apply to her in front,
and after she has gone through with this
oscillation two or three times, she never
kicks any worse, at least not until she
looks around for bricks.-M. quad, Detroit
Press.