Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-20
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Farm and Live Stock Notes.

Farm and Live Stock Notes.
Pillow deep.
| Keep out of debt.
Clean the implements.
| Scrub out the water trough.
Pluck is more needed than capital.
Sprinkle some sulphur in the hens
nests.
| Dried blood is an excellent manure for
wheat.
| For late hatchers, let cool. shady place
be provided.
| Don't neglect salt, and as much as they
want OF it, for the animals.
Calves fatten quicker on cows milk up
to six weeks old, than on any other feed.
Feed regularly the loss from one hours
| fretting for food, cannot be made up oy
one feeding.
Ouiet sitters and careful mothers among
hens are good property, and well worth
sparing until they are old.
Cows with calf should have the sys-
tenn well kept up during the spring
months by feeding grain literally. ex-
cepting Just before parturition. 100
much grain then might cause fever
| ish condition and caked bag. Following
on calving after all feverish symptoms
have disappeared, more liberal grain
diet may be resumed again.
Feeding Bees to Promote Activity
Even il bees come through the winter
with plenty of stores,it is good plan now
to feed them little to promote activity,
and stimulate to breeding. For this pur-
pose, when there is no lack of food, half a
pound of honey daily to hive will be
enough. 1t should be so placed for feed
ing as not to attract other bees to robbing.
A good position for the feeder is inside
the hive. lust above the brood nest, and
80 covered that no bees can escape that
wav. Feed at night-fall in preference to
earlier in the day. to guard effectually
against robbing.
Kinds of Fowls for the Farm.-lm-
proved breeds. of course. but let it be
remembered that such are only better
than common ones, with having bet
ter care also, and then they are far
more satisfactory. One of the first re-
quisites for keeping improved breeds Of
poultry is a warm house in winter. With
this provided, we would place Silver Gray
DorkiDgs among the best for the farmer.
especially where roaming can be allowed.
They are fine table fowls. aud lay well
until eight or nine years old. They are
handsome, and good sitters and mothers.
White-faced Black Spanish are the most
profitable, where eggs are the chief OBJ
ject. They lay very large, white eggs, in
great numbers. An objection to them is
that they are subject to loose feathering in
the summer.
Save Up the Manure-lt is farm capital.
All admit this, vet all do not act as if they
believed it. We refer to the loss allowed
on many farms through a waste of liquid
manures. Many farmers who would long
mourn over having fifty, or hundred dol
lars stolen, suffer the loss of fifty or a
hundred dollars every year through the es-
cape of animal liquids. and think
nothing of It, This could just as we'll be
saved. Because you have not the means
to invest in system of cement cutters
and manure cisterns, don't persuade your
self that nothing can be done. Use enough
absOrbents and the same end may be ac-
complished. And the best absorbent,
namely dry earth or muck. is at the same
time the cheapest. Straw and other litter
will answer but not as we'll alone as if
used with the dry earth. Every farmer
should make his plans for accommodating a
large store of this article during the COM
ing summer, and keeping it under tight
roof until it is used. A drying patch
should be provided by having some loads
or earth or muck alongside of it, and then
one person to make it his business to at
tend to the work. until the material can
be thoroughly dried. Let enough of the
muck or soil be scattered over the patch
each morning to dry, in the evening gath
ering it up and wheeling to the store bins.