Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-31
DaiIp Kfnnehfr 3ournal.
Farm and Live Stock Notes


Dig wells in dry weather.
Clean the harrow teeth.
Nail up the loose fence boards.
Poorly fed help wont work we'll.
Clean tilage makes the root crop pay.
Scald and sun the milk pans every day.
Water isn't apt to hinder ditching work
/ in the summer.
Save all of both the coal and wood ashes
| for the land.
In packing butter sprinkle little clean
white sugar between the layers.
To dry off COW quickly. milk only
enough to relieve painfully full bag.
Now is the time to coat cave troughs in
/ the inside. with mixture of coal tar and
land plaster.
Swine and sheep in the apple orchard
will consume the wormy fruit as it falls.
before the larva escapes, with gain all
around.
! Farrow cows to be fattened this fall
should not be MIXED much longer, but by
drying off. give them chance to get in
condition before cool weather.
| Bucks often have bruises and sores
about the horns which become infested
with maggots, IN hot weather They
should be examined, and when any are
found, tar as hot as it can be and not burn,
should be applied; also, wherever the
skin may be broken.
White clover is in many districts chief
source of honey in the summer. the
amount gathered from this plant being in
favorable weather very great. 1t is dur
ing the glut Of such crop, that the great
advantage of extracting honey from the
combs, and returning these for refilling
again and again is best seen. No time or
material being expended on comb build
ing. all the work applies to storing honey.
with great gains as to the result.
WEAVING Colts and Calves August is
the weaving month with many stockmen
The weaving of any young animal must
be gradual, or the animals health and con-
dltion will suffer. During its progress
there should be for colts and calves no
stint of good grass or fine hay clean, fresh
water and salt. COnfine in clean, small
sized ward, where there will be no induce
ment to run At first let them suck twice
dav for few days, then once day for
week then several times at two days
apart then extend the intervals still more
for few times. after which let sucking be
stopped for good. BY this course neither
the mother nor her offspring are much
disturbed by the weaving. and the latter
will not run poor. as by abrupt weaving.
Composing Bone Dust Bone dust,
like barn yard manure, does not yield up
its essential qualities of nitrogen and phos
phoric acid to the roots of plants at once
after applying to the land. 1t must be de-
composed before it is available. Decompo-
sition occurs more or less rapidly, accord
ing to the degree of fneness of the bones,
and the prevailing moisture. and heat with
which it comes in contact. Often many
of the particles of bone in commercial
bone manures are so coarse. that months
pass after its application before the crop
derives any great benefit from it. Such or
any bone manures may be rendered more
quickly of use to plants by mixing them
with barn-yard manure. sometime before
they are to be applied, letting both fer
ment together in a heap. The bone dust
aids rapid decomposition in the manure
and this in return softens and dissolves
the former. Both the manure of the stable
and the bones are rendered richer as well
As more directly available, Tor being thus
brought together. Where these fertilizers
are both to be applied to the land just be-
fore wheat sowing, by adopting this pro-
cess at once. the intervening time will aid
along the design sufficiently to make a
much better showing for the wheat by
winter than otherwise would be the case