Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-25
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Farm and Live Stock Notes

Farm and Live Stock Notes.
Have good hy-nets.
Early roosting is bad.
Work off the scrub stock.
Milk in any form suits hens.
Keep the calves growing rapidly.
Insufficient water may cause hens to
stop laying.
Bad smells in the stable effect the milk
and butter.
Morning milk is superior in quality to
evening milk.
Every man may keep bees to forage
where they will.
1t paws best not to keep steers be-
yond two wears old.
In most cases self. sucking cow should
go to the butcher.
The hay crop Of this country in 1882
was estimated to be worth twenty-three
million dollars.
BOYS don't leave the farm so often from
distaste of the work as from forced re-
straints placed upon them.
The finest honey is secured by remov-
ing the boxes as fast as the combs are
filed and capped over.
One of the heaviest losses from forest
fires is the burning of the vegetable mould
OF the earth. This matter that greatly
affects the future value of the land for the
farmer. Less carelessness on the part of
smokers and brush burners. would save
some heavy losses from forest fires.
Whether honey is extracted or kept in
combs for marketing better prices may be
obtained by keeping the different grades
separate. This is not necessary with
clover, raspberry and Eastwood honey,
which are nearly alike, in their light col
or. but il important as concerns the later
kinds when run darker.
Weeds in the Hoed Crops.-It is the
late weeds which escaped the last hoeing
that makes the most trouble in fouling the
land for future crops. Such weeds have
chance to grow strong, and perfect
full crop of seeds Even il standing wide
" apart. enough seeds may be scattered
to occupy the entire surface next year
The field of hoed crops should be gone
over several times after the last hoeing,
to render them perfectly clean OF the late
rank weeds.
Hams in the Summer.-Well cured
hams are not difficult to guard from the
flies if only they are properly covered.
Hams that are bought covered with cloth,
need no other protection or care than to
be hung in dry cool place. Home cured
hams can be similarly covered with cloth
at trifllng cost to ensure freedom from
flies Even placing them in bags of
heavy paper and lying these securely
with a piece of Irvine by which they may
be suspended. answers we'll. A dry at
mosphere is important to their well doing.
Subsoil blowing No tller OF the earth
who has ever tried the subsoil pillow fairly.
can esteem its value lightly. Through
loosening the compact soil which lies be
low the reach of the common pillow. it ex-
tends the range of the roots of plants thus
enSuring additional safeguards against the
suffering of crops from drouth. The tex
ture of the soil is improved throughout,
and to IA greater depth by the admission
of air more freely TO it. and the reader
escape of surplus water that falls upon the
surface. 1t is not care thing tor the d.
rect benefit to the crops from subsoiling
to be equivalent to an increase of from
80 to so per cent. The most thorough
subscilng is that in which a subsoil pillow
is made to follow in each furrow of the
ordinary pillow. Should the farmer find
himself short of hel p or teams. by subsoil
ing in every alternate or even every third
furrow. results not distantly approximate
ing the most thorough work would follow
Still the best kind of work in this line
should be the aim.