Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-17
DaiIp Kennetrr 3curnaI.
Farm and Live Stock Notes.

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Fatten the old cow
Look out for travelling sharpers.
Queen bees live three or four years.
Horse power is cheaperthan man power.
A fat team costs less to keep than
lean team.
Thoroughly clean the hen house at least
once week.
The Ayrshires have been bred almost
exclusively to make great mixers.
Let the farm home be made attractive
| as well as comfortable.
Win the appearance of soft maple
blossoms, bees may be moved out from
the cellar.
Don't work your men into the night, if
YOU wish to get the most good out of
them.
Feed turnips or cabbage right after
milking, and they will not flavor the but
ter.
Improvement in the breed almost uni
tormly effects an improvement in DISPOSE
uon.i 3IE
There is no such thing as "worn OUT
farm. although there are many run
down" and which are as susceptible to
Improvement for raising large crops as
ever.
! On the whole, there is little injury ever
comes TO farm animals by the use OF barbed
wire fences. What little danger there is
may be lessened by keeping the wires
taut.
An extensive sheep raiser in England
says that the best time to castrate lambs,
where mutton is principal object, is
when they are month old. Thus treat
ed. there is better development OF flesh
IN the leg. for making desirable roasts,
besides more flesh on the back.
Plow and Sow the Hen Yard.-A chick
en- yard should be divided into two parts.
t. be used alternately. While one is in
use. spade or pillow up and sow the other
with peas, turnips, oats, or some other
quick growing crop, upon which latter
turn the fowl, for feeding and scratching.
Observe this course alternately. through
the season, and your fowls will come
through in health, and pay well for all the
trouble.
Cotton Seed Cake for Feeding We
would urge those who have never tried it
for milch cows to do so Both theoretically
and in practice cotton seed cake is found
10 be one of the best and cheapest OF
| foods Fed at the rate of two to four
quarts per cow each dav, il will greatly
increase the flow aud richness of the milk,
while the manure from it is richer in
available Nitrogen and other valuable
properties, than from any other article of
iced used. Decorlicated ell seed cake
can be bought for about 81 per hundred
pounds, or .ess by the ton.
How to Make the Farm Pay.-Wih the
present low prices Of all farm products.
we must uim to uniformly raise larger
crops. To do this the land must be treat,
ed for taking heavy crops from it, but not
on an exhaustive system. Wherever ma
nure can be bought at reasonable
prices, it should be done, with view
TO maintaining high fertility. The aver
age farmer can perhaps do better than to
buy manure by buying more live stock,
and feeding for iattening. or for other ami
nal products, but all with especial refer
ence to increasing the manure yield,
Those who live remote from markets, and
cannot handle cattle. sheep or pigs in this
particular way, as agents to enrich the
farm should depend largely on clover for
gaining the same end. 1t may be said
that among spring sown crops, barley is a
capital one with which to seed down clio.
yer. With the tree use of clover, both for
blowing under and feeding. and plenty of
live stock, any farm with fair soil and
we'll drained, can be gotten in condition
TO raise forty bushels of oats. fifty bushels
of barley, one hundred bushels OF shelled
corn and five bushels of clover seed per
acre. Farmers must aim to improve on
their systems of management in these
times.