Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-19
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Miseellaneons.
AGRICULTURE, &c.
a LOAD OF FARM PRODUCE.


Richard P. Hubbard, one of the best
farmers in the town of Chill, recently
drew to market with single team of
horses, load OF clover-seed that sold for
S722. Has any other farmer sold load
OF farm produce this year that amounted
to so much money ?-RuraI Home.
WATER ON WHEAT. sa@ NkE
Any amount of water standing on wheat
in spring is sure to destroy it. Farmers
are quite apt to neglect this work in spring
when it has been left undone in fall, think
ing that if it settles away before the plant
is killed it will do no damage, but 1t is a
mistake. Standing water If it does not
kill the plant is almost sure to greatly
damage it, not only weakening its vitality,
but causing the crop to ripen late, which
is sure to produce shrunken grain.
SMALL FRUITS IN THE GARDEN.
The value of small fruits in connection
with the vegetable and flower garden is
not half appreciated. TO have an abun-
dance of strawberries, raspberries,, cur
rents, gooseberries, blackberries, and
grapes, in their season. is very pleasant
and enjoyable, and besides it saves many
dollar in the butchers and DOCTORS bills.
BY planting the above kinds of fruits Ito
gether with pears, apples, plums, cherries.
&c.) they can be had all the year round.
The first cost Of these plants and trees is
but trifle, while the pleasure to be de-
rived from them is very great. I 9si -
MANURE .if lob.a7ys3
When properly Uttered, one COW or OK
will make ton of manure every month, if
the liquid as well as the solid portion is
saved. hTen head would thus make 100 tons
or 60 two-horse wagon loads in year. A
pair of horse will make as much manure as
one COW, or twelve tons year. A hundred
sheep, if yarded every night and well lit
tered, will make 100 tons of manure in the
year, and ten pigs will work up wagon
load in month. if supplied with sufficient
coarse material. The stock of 100-acre
farm, which should consist of at least 10
head Of steers, heifers, and calves, pair
OF horses, 100 sheep. and 10 pigs, would
then make in the aggregate, 3l2 tons OF
manure every year, or sufficient to give
twelve tons per acre every fourth year.
Ii this were well cared for, it would
be. in effect. equal to double the guam
tity of ordinary yard manure; and
il plenty of swamp muck could be pro-
cured, at least six hundred tons of the
best manure could be made on 100 acre
farm. If this were the rule instead of
rare exception, or only possibility, what
change would appear upon the face of
the country, and what an addition would
be made to the wealth of the nation
american AgrtculturiSt.
TOO MUCH LAND.
Many farmer is ruined by his greed
for land. He wants all the land adion.
ing him, and bis poverty is the result of
his not possessing the quaint wisdom of
the man who was trying to hoe some corn
on fearfully stony patch, when one rid
ing by remarked that he should think a
man must be very poor with such land as
that. 90, sir. replied the farmer, II am
not SO poor as you think am; don't
own all this land" Many farmer is actu-
ally poor-or always in straitened circum-
stances, which, is quite as bad-because
of his mania for land A farm is not re-
garded by such as sufficiently large un-
less it contains two or three hundred acres
OF land. But there are very few farmers
with sufficient capital to own and work
TO advantage such a farm. A business
man is only wise to measure the size of
his business by the amount of his capital.
farm which requires, for the proper
management, at least two or three thou
sand dollars capital is run on quarter of
that amount. Much of the land is neg
lected. Buildings get out OF repair. Mar
keting is not properly attended to. Prod
duce has TO be sold at forced prices, and
leanness is marked on everything except
the circumference of the farm. .-Sc0tch
Ear1uer