Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-10
DaiIu kennebfe 3ournal.
Farm and Live Stock Notes.
Fatten the old sheep.
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Fatten the old sheep.
Watch the feed trough.
Delay not the potato digging.
Don't pasture the hay lot close.
For early lambs couple the ewes this
month.
Hurry up the husking; it's slow work
for fingers numb with cold.
Harvest the carrots. mangolds and tur-
nips this month rutabagas may stay out
until next month.
In damp cellars all roots should 60 in
bins with slated bottoms in dry ones on
the floor, covering with sand or straw.
By commencing the fattening this
month in earnest you can save one peck OF
feed out of every FIVE, as against six weeks
later.
In selecting seed corn choose the ears
that are well tipped, and with regular
rows small cobbs are better than large,
as the corn on such is less liable to mould
If an animal was overfed, and some feed
remains in the manager. don't compel it to
consume the unsavory leavings, but clean
all out and start in fresh, with proper
allowance.
The farmer of the Eastern States, with
his ready market for poultry, eggs, live
stock, dairy products. fruit and the like,
gathers in money here little and there a
little, in way to astonish his Western
farmer-brother, who usually grows one
crop only, and that a big one.
Potato Harvesting When so tar into
the month, potatoes had better be dug at
once, even if the ground is net as dry as
one would like. In such an event spread
the crop out on barn or shed floor to dry
so thoroughly that no dirt will adhere to
them. Stored when they are wet, and
decay will be almost sure to follow; where
cellar room is wanting, storage in pits or
heaps out of doors will answer; but only
on the same principle as on stacks hay
for lack OF barn room, not because it is
better. In burylng. cover the heap first
with foot of straw, and on this three
inches of soil. afterwards increasing this
as the season advances.
Feed Poultry well now.-By feeding
the young hens and early pullets with
plenty of oats. buckwheat and scraps of
meat now they may be brought into lay
ing by month later. After that if the
winter quarters are warm, and the feed
ing and attention be properly bestowed,
there need be no dminution in the egg
yield during the winter season of high
prices. The old fowls, cockerels and
turkeys should now have plenty of good
corn that they may be fat and ready for
Thanksgiving day Feed often and with
regularity. Fretting for food costs a good
deal OF fat. During mild weather the
gain ought to be very rapid.
An Annual Cleaning Up. There should
be at least one thorough cleaning up of all
farm tools and machines in the year, and
that in the fall, not merely for the sake of
the looks. but for saving wear and early
wreckage. A good coating of kerosene
and lampblack. upon all the ironwork,
and coat of paint on wood is
what is needed after first thorough clean
ing. and these will put the tools through
to next spring about as good as new.
The same practice should apply to farm
carts and wagons, as well as to other i'm
pements. 1t should be remembered that
there is no better month in the twelve for
painting woodwork than this, for with
moderately warm weather like now, paint
become harder and better than if spread
previous to or during hot weather. In
these days the patent ready mixed paints
are so easily procured. and they are so
readily applied by even novice at the
business, that there can be no excuse for
not thus caring properly for the tools at
this season.