Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-01
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the grass. and make surface drains, or
raise wide sloping mound around the
well to carry off all the water to distance
before 1t can soak down. The soil ar )und
the buildings is continually being saturat-
ed with impurities, which will naturally
follow the course of the water and will in
time find their way into the WELL From
there it goes into family use in many ways.
1t is used as a beverage; it is used for
bathing. so the skin absorbs it it is boiled
in the kitchen, and the vapor continually
inhaled. Pure water is one of the most
valuable articles OF household use.
Keep your stables clean. Sweep out the
dust and cobwebs that have been absorb
ing the foul odors for years. Clean out
the musty chaff in all the cracks and cor
ners about the hangers. Take down the
inside lining when it is filled with straw
or chaff and put in fresh supply. Take
a garden syringe and sprinkle the whole
with lime water. Take up that double
floor in the stable and clean out that sheet
of rank filth which has workedin between
the planks. BY going into close, warm,
COW stable with your clean clothes on for
a few minutes and noticing how long you
will carry the odor of it you will learn
how penetrating it is. No animal enjoys
the odor of its own excrement. and when
this odor is all about the managers and
feeding places their health is effected.
Ascertain the cost OF wire netting that is
fine enough to keep out mice, and see if it
would not be cheaper to make corn crib
out OF this material, with cover of the
same. than to have the whole crop be-
smeared. and part of it destroyed.
If there is lot of foul seed in your
grain. sift it out before using. Most of
the machines are claimed to separate the
grain from everything else; but the most
of them fail to do it. Oats should be tree
from sand before they are fed to horses.
and all grain should be clean before it is
ted or ground. Nearly all seeds are valu-
able feed for chickens, but sometimes
they are killed by eating smartweed seeds
when they are small.
Arrange now for next years garden.
Have it in long strips so that it can be
plowed with as little turning at the ends
rs possible. Have the fence around it
tight enough to stop poultry, and far
enough from the plowed part so you can
turn the team on the grass, which will
leave a good place for the women folks to
spread the clothes in the summer, where
they will be safe. Plow it this fall and
put a coat of good manure on the fresh
burrows and let it soak in. Beets and
parsnips may be planted IN the fall Just
before the ground freezes and will come
up when it gets warm enough in the spring.
II there is not grange in your town
start out at once and get farmers club.
No about 10 III
ing constitution and bylaws :" but club
together and talk over matters, have an
entertainment and get acquainted with
your neighbors. Now is the time to be-
gin. Don't wait till the roads get so bad
that you cannot go anywhere and then
wish that you had started earlier.
Pick up the rocks by the roadside and
top out and s:raighten up the walls Such
work will save more valuable time in the
spring,
Get your ice house ready and then you
can handle the "cold comfort" when it
gets thick enough and before the deep
SHOWS come on it. Ice is a sure crop in
New England, and there is no more reason
for farmers going without ice in the sum
mer than there would be in going without
potatoes in winter.
Look to the drains before the ground
freezes. Clear the rubbish away from the
outlets.
1t you have young wood lot, you can
add to its value by cutting out the useless
bushes and trees that are broken or in
iured, to give the rest better chance to
grow.
Look at the windows in all your build
ings. Fasten in the glass with putty, if it
is loose, and wedge the sash into the frames
so they will not rattle and keep you awake
nights and jar the putty off. If there are
any loose saddle boards or shingles on the
roof, fasten them at once. See it the
chimneys are safe, and if not build them
over and plaster them inside and out
Clear up the orchard. Pick up all limbs
that were broken off in gathering fruit or
otherwise. While you are about it clean
the eggs of caterpillars off the limbs
Put fresh horse manure over rhubarb
plants and let it remain in pile through
the winter to be spread around in the
spring. Bend down the stems of holly
hooks and such plants instead of cutting
them off. II they are cut the water runs
into the stump and freezes and rots the
roots.
Set out all the small fruits this fall. Get
everything done now that can be as well
done in the fall. and then you can start in
the spring without going back to finish up
the fall Jobs
Look over your pastures and see if you
cannot plan to divide them into three parts
so as to have one part for sheep and two
for cattle.
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or shrubs from the swamp or forest and
set them about your grounds. You enjoy
these things while you are working in
sight of them, but your wife. shut up in
the house, cannot see them. Provide for
her pleasure.