Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-01-15
NO. 13.
Misfellanfons.
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
CARE OF SEEDS.

Seeds should be kept in a dry. airy
room or cupboard, and the more equal
the temperature the better. Seeds turn
mouldy in damp situation and the place
tor keeping had better be hot than damp.
nest of small drawers is the most CON
yenent place to keep seeds, and the name
OF each kind should be affixed. Arranged
in this manner they are readily obtainable
while there is less danger of waste, mix
ing and confusion, than when kept in pa
pers loosely bundled together in way
which necessitates the whole assortment
being looked over, when any particular
| sort is required.
SCALY LEGS IN Fowls.
Insert feather in the spout of coal
| oil can so that too large stream will not
run out; get some one to hold the fowls
| by the wings take hold of toe of one
foot at time, and pour a fine stream
| from the hook joint to the end of each
| toe, taking care that all parts of the foot
are wet with it. One application year
| is enough, if done to all, and at the time
| when they need it, say during January or
February. The scaly appearance is
| caused by an insect, which the oil most
eflectually kills, and leaves the legs clear
ana DflPnl loohlng.
Bones As Eco MATERIAL.
Bones should not be thrown away but
| saved for the hens. When fresh they
may be pounded into a fine powder and
| fed with dough or may be thrown into
| the hen house to be picked up as wanted.
But as they will not keep in good condi-
| ton very long it is sometimes best to
burn them. Then they can be kept for
any length OF time. Burning injuries the
| bones as it destroys all the organic mat
ter which they contain and leaves only
| the inorganic materials of which they
| were composed. But these materials are
valuable and hens which are supplied with
them will be better layers than those which
cannot obtain supply OF lime.
| TEA CULTURE IN AMERICA.
A pamphlet supplementary to the an
nual report of the Agricultural Bureau
| recommends the cultivation of the tea
plant in parts of this country. There is
force in the suggestion that while Ameri-
] can tea may never enter inter into COM
mercial competition with the products of
| Asia, there would be great satisfaction
in drinking a beverage from the product
of ones own tea-garden, though the leaves
cost few cents more per pound than the
imported. Much interest should attach to
the japanese colony's experiments on tea
culture in California. If successful, it may
point the way to an employment for the
| Chinese there, in which they would not in
terfere with other laborers. 1t might
solve the Chinese problem.
ILL-ADvIsED.
We see by the papers, says the Cultivator,
| that n party of twenty-five Boston men are
| about to start Tor Florida next week, for
the purpose of founding permanent set
| tlement there. They are wise enough to
rememberthatth they cannot safely 60 thither
until the frost has entirely driven away the
yellow fever now let them not forget that
| they are liable to have yellow Jack to
| contend with every returning summer. 1t
| is a country, also, where malarious fevers
prevail all the year round, and where fever
and ague are as common as mosquitoes
and tropical vermin. We wonder that
people will voluntarily leave wholesome
| New England climate, to encounter the
risks and and deprivations OF a frontier
| life, when not one material advantage is
to be gained by such determination.
| RooTs FOR Cows.
| Succulent food in the winter season (to-
gether with warm stables and good care)
is one of the most necessary agencies in
keeping up good flow OF milk; and in
no way can this food be so successfully
and economically furnished as by roots,
| fed raw SLICED or chopped. Meal or
shorts made into thin mush would fur
nish the moisture needed in connection
with the dry forage of winter, and would
no doubt give richer milk--but it would
be more costly, and not furnish so healthy
a food as early cut hay fed in connection
with roots. Moreover, it is evident that
cows will continue their milking qualities
for series of years better with this food,
than when led with the more stimulating
corn meal. Without doubt, some meal in
connection with the roots should be of adj
vantage, if the highest results were to be
reached, as the laxative nature of the
roots would counteract the heating ten
dency of the meal, while the meal would
serve to keep the COW in good flesh