Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-11-26
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AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
FATTENING HOGS.

Farmers usually commence fattening
their hogs early in September, or as 500 N
as the new corn is ripe enough to feed out.
This year September was unusually warm.
And this leads US to say that when hogs are
being fed all they will eat, and the wealth
er is at the same time very warm, no corn
should be fed at all excepting early in the
morning and in the evening. After the
| sun is down, bountiful feed should be
given them. They should also be we'll fed
in the morning, but the heaviest feed
should always be in the evening. In this
way the process OF digestion can be going
| on in the cool OF the night. In the middle
of the day potatoes, artichokes, apples, or
pumpkins, should be given, and also a
plenty of water. Water should be given,
too, morning and night. after the hogs
have consumed their feed.
OVERRIDING THINGS.
This is the temptation and the besetting
sin OF large class of farmers. A man
who can manage eighty acres intelligent
ly and snugly, spreads himself, out over
two hundred, and fails-because he is ''toO
thin" for the surface. Another manages
to pay the interest on five hundred dollars,
and so slaps on another mortgage of
thousand. 1t bites like a black FROST in
stead of returning him profit. The war
between capital and labor is real one
when it has for its field a farm whose
profits all 90 to pay taxes and interest.
Some writer has said that half the failures
In life arises from pulling up ones horse
Just as he is going to jump. But that ap-
plies chiefly to the so-called great careers.
In common life, half the failures arise
from trying to force gallon into quart
measure-to make sixteen ounces lift
twenty y-four-to stretch two feet into u
yard, and from the policy of burning the
| candle at both ends. OVERRIDING and
over-reaching are as disastrous In their
| way as sloth and shiitlessness are in theirs.
This is true OF all kinds OF business, but
we are just now considering farming. A
man finds that twenty cows, or q hum
dred sheep, or two hundred fowls. pay
him a good return for his investment aud
care, and SO he concludes to double the
number. As result, half and perhaps all
of them are poorly cared for. His barn.
room is inadequate in winter, and the sea.
son is not halt through before he has 10
begin stinting his stock in feed or buying
| it at prices that will make them "eat their
| heads Off" The acreage of the farm and
its production, the shelter, the time and
| neID required LOT care, ana tne relatlV0
cost of stocking to former prices or pros
| pective sales, are all to be considered be-
| fore prudent farmer launches out.
Whether two times two makes four, in
business management, or swallow each
| other up and leave 0, depends upon some-
thing besides the multiplication table. The
same thing is true OF cropping farm.
whether with grains, grass or fruits. The
| mans combined inward and outward ca
| pacity, and the means at his command,
measure his ability to extend his business
successfully. The things which the average
farmer is not likely to overdo, are the fore
cast. the system, and the business princi-
pies which he brings to bear in the con-
duct of his affairs. And at this time of
year, for the next two months. he is not
| likely to overdo the matter of care for his
stoek-especially the young and growing
| animals, and those that are fattening.
Comfortable quarters, cleanliness, good
| thick bed. the most nutritious and accept
| able food, plenty of water, regular care,
these and such things will bear little
OVERRIDING.