Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-06-05
Agricultural Items.

The largest milk pan on record has inst
| been made for an Iowa creamery. 1t will
mold 600 gallons.
| Don't select a side hill for garden. Such
location is apt to wash during heavy show
ers destroying manv young and tender plants.
| Elmira, N. Y, farmers are troubled in
| their clover fields by grub which bores out
the roots of the plant. full second crop
seems impossible.
| A road machine has been known To repair
| 10 rods of road in one day at an expense of
| only $3.50. The job would have required
| so men at cost of SO 80.
There is nothing better for potatoes than
wood ashes. They should be spread on the
plowed ground and narrowed in. or they may
| be sown just before planting or after it.
! President Brown of the New Hampshire
Agricultural College, well says that neg
lected school-house ''indicates community
not desirable to live in"
The Dover, n. H., Republican tells of u
man who has an educated crow which he has
| taught to say several words, such as "father,'
good boy" chow do" and ''good by"
The advantages of good neighborhood are
more importunt to farmers than to anv other
class of citizens. This is fact not sufficient
ly considered.
Do not follow corn with oats 1t is not a
| desirable rotation. If possible take root
crop after the corn and let the oats follow the
roots. Clover may be seeded down with the
oats.
A horse-stable is generally cleaned out once
a day, but hen-roost sometimes gets no at
tenton for six months or a year, and then the
owner is surprised if the cholera breaks out
| and sweeps away nearly all his flock.
Mrs. Scott Howe, East Wilton, Maine, has
three-fourths Jersey heifer from whose milk
were made six pounds of butter in one week.
besides furnishing the milk for family Of
five.
Basswooa trees are urged for planting by
the roadside, as they serve for the double
purpose of attractive shade and abundant for
age for bees. They also make excellent timber
whenever it becomes desirable to fell them.
Farmers and gardeners should look well to
the seed Sweet corn growers often expert
ence trouble in not having the seed of good
quality If the germ or chit of the kernel
looks dark-colored it is probably worthless.
Good bright. light-colored corn is the only
safe seed to plant.
An eminent horseman gives it as his expe-
rience, after 20 years of trial, that tired
horse can be best refreshed and strengthened
by giving him quart of oat meal stirred in
pail of water. This fits its stomach for a
stronger food, slakes its thirst, and is infinite
ly better than pure water.
Cows, when first turned to grass, will eat
and need considerable dry feed daily. Even
straw will be eaten at this time, the grass
not having substance enough to it to satisfy
the animal. If the COW is giving milk the
meal ration should be continued well into
June or longer, if readily eaten.
II is quite certain that those farmers do
not make pork growing pay who are obliged
to winter and summer hog to make il dress
what spring pig should in December.
There is no advantage in anything but
thrifty growing condition for pigs from birth
till they are killed, and in winter it is not al
ways easy to maintain this condition. 1t
takes half the summer with most winter kept
pigs to recover from the check to their
growth given by the cold season.