Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-09-07
DaiIu Ktnnebsr Jpurnal.
Farm and Live Stock Notes

Farm and Live Stock Notes
Oil the brittle hoofs.
For more milk. feed more.
Build we'll when you build.
Pigs also need cool fresh water.
It's mistake to be overstocked.
Save seed oats from cool. moist soil.
Travelling painters are usually rogues.
Fast walkers are more needed than fast
trotters.
Hired labor is costly; pump your water
by wind power.
A steer of 1000 pounds needs IS pounds
of hay daily.
Don't encourage the horse racing prin-
ciple TOO far at the fairs.
Skillful understanding will be repaid
in two years. on most land that needs it.
Meadows should never be grazed short.
but above al! other times. not in the tall.
By carefully selecting his seed from
year to year it is possible for any farmer
to greatly improve the quality OF his pro-
duct.
An increase of 20 per cent. in the milk
Is sure to follow in cutting the feed, over
feeding it uncut. This has been tried
often enough to be depended upon.
Corn fed to pigs when in its thickening
milk state will put more weight into them
in given time, than at any other stage of
its development.
The extra labor required to work
through mud, clods and water-soaked
land year after year, on undrained soil, is
in short time equivalent to the labor
needed to put down perfect system of
drains. This is point to figure on.
1t should be known that young animals
return less value to the land in manure,
tor the feed they consume than older ones.
They retain large share of the potash,
phosphoric acid and nitrogen of the food
to build up their bodies. much of which
in the case of old animals goes back to
the land.
Wheat must Advance in Price.-Accord-
ing to the best estimates the surplus wheat
carried over from last year is put at 1OO.-
900. 900 bushels. The crop of this year,
it is believed, will yield 100000, 900
bushels. The annual home consumption
of wheat for all uses in the United States,
amounts to about 365,000,000 bushels.
This would leave about $4,000. 900 BUSH
els on hand for export. But, in recent
years. we have exported yearly from &c.,
00O, 900 to $4,000. 900 bushels more than
our present surplus for export If, there-
fore, the foreign demand for wheat will be
as low as the lowest amount exported in
recent years, the supply will be INADEQUATE
by some millions of bushels and prices
must 60 up. Farmers will risk little by
holding on to their wheat.
Weeds. "A traveller from the west. who
recently visited his bovhooh home in Gen.
trail New York, remarked that one dot of
thistles. no bigger than barrel head, in
the middle of a field thirty years ago, has
bv this wear extended over the entire field
MANY other visitors to their early homes of
score or more years ago, could testify to
similar extensions easily noticed in the
breadth of land occupied by weeds. The
truth is we as farmers are all too indiffer.
ent to the subject of weeds. their increase.
and the damage they do. Their extension
is so gradual from year to year that we
fail to appreciate how certainly it IS going
on Where it will end we may we'll be-
gin to ask The damage done to crops by
WccuS tlllOuSucut tIc olutI soCLiOuS VI tlt
country is appalling now. Ifno positive
steps are taken in their destruction, things
will go on from bad to worse until some
farms we fear. will positively have to be
given up to them. We need to practice
thorough culture on an increased scale,
and to do this 90 over fewer acres. Give
weeds set back by the most thorough
tillage. following up with heavy crops
that will choke them. and we have lead
ing remedial agent. More attention must
also be paid to their destruction in grow.
ing crops, whether in grain or hoed ones.
Allowing weeds to seed unmolested in
pastures is another prolific means of their
spreading. Here they should be cut if
they cannot be dug out. just as they are
about to seed. The entire subject is one
that farmers must give more thought to.
We pity them in years to come if they