Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-24

Farm and Live Stock Notes.

F8fm anu AISc StOCA NOVOo'
Never frighten sheep.
Introduce better males.
Don't winter the poor hens.
Soiling crops should have rich land.
Defer rolling the wheat field until
spring.
Use small potatoes for feed, not for
seed.
Young stock needs separate feeding
place.
Filthiness of stables is the root of many
disorders.
Different animals do better for ming
ling together somewhat.
Swine uneasy over dirty, wet bed do
not afford pleasing sight.
Sell pork when butchered; there is
always some risk in curing it.
Flowing under clover sod is only
another name tor manuring the land.
To clear out rats put crystals ofcopperas
in every rat hole and scatter some about
the corners of the places where they
trouble. This is greatly preferable to
poison, which often leaves them dead be-
tween walls and in their holes.
Good farmers rarely sell off straw; it
paws better to turn it into manure. There
is big difference in the size of the ma
nure pile. by spring. whether bedding is
freely used or otherwise. Besides the in
crease in manures, the matter of greater
comfort and warmth to the animals by the
use of pleantv of warm. clean bedding is
n hau nhanruad
that sick animal that cannot be induced
to lie down in any other way, will take to
a bed OF clean. bright straw. This shows
that good bedding is appreciated by dumb
animals.
Egg Yields.-There is a greater differ
ence in the yield in favor of the free-laying
breeds over others than many think for,
this often being as three or tour to one.
The Hambergs. for example, may be
counted upon to produce 200 eggs per hen
in each year, and often the yield will ex-
coed this by 80. If the eggs are some
what smaller. the fowls also are not large
and consume less food comparatively. In
average collections of good hens. a yield
of l40 eggs per annum from each is con-
sidered very creditable, while this often
falls to 100 eggs, which most persons
would call very fair. 1t may be hardly
necessary'to add. that care has almost as
much to do with this matter. as the breed
has.
Pure bred Bulls.-We would like to
help that large class of farmers who see m
contented with scrub males, to figure on
the advantages of blooded animals instead.
A good Shorthorn or Hereford may be
counted on to sire fifty calves a year for
ten years total 500. Steers of scrub ORR
gin may make 1000 pounds live weight at
four years old, worth 3 cents a pound, or
$50. As compared with this. your i'm
proved half-breed will reach 400 by three
years old. or $42. 1t costs some less for
one year less of feeding, say Sc, which
added to the $42. makes $48 on this side
of the account. The difference in the
value then is $l8 on single steer; let US
multiply this by the annual progeny of
fifty and we get 5000 as the yearly gain.
or 5000 in ten years, as showing the in
creased value of such a bull. But the
farmer NAV not be large enough stock
man to warrant the buying of pure bred
bull for his own use. The figures are
quite as significant, were the animal to be
owned by several farmers of neighbor-
hood. BY this course the improvement
would extend throughout neighborhood.