Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-01
Dailp Kennsher 3nurnaI.

Farm and Live Stock Notes.
Make no debts.
Clean the cellars.
Plan the work carefully.
Milking is the mems work.
Select sound potatoes for seed.
If hay is musty, cut and steam it.
Liberal culture means liberal crops.
A rail put in place may save a raid.
A gravelly soil suits beans the best.
Gear the windmill to turn the grind
stone.
Don't raise crops of weeds to worse
than impoverish the soil.
In measuring bay in the NOW, allow at
least. 500 cubit feet to the TN.
Prevent thin egg shells by giving the
fowls access to plenty of old mortar or
pulverized SHELLS.
Drainage, deep culture. and the use OF
unfermeDted manure, is one OF the best
representatives. for wire worms.
Farmers, club together for many things.
why not buy valuable, thoroughbred
males. for improving their live stock.
Cockerels. even at five months old, will
be tough and of inferior quality for the
table. if allowed to run with the hens.
horse may be broken OF pulling at the
halter in his stall by, instead of fastening
him to the manager direct, slipping the
strap end through the tie ring or hole and
back to his front leg. fastening it here
just above the knee joint By this course
he'll never do much nulljno
Plant potatoes as far as possible on new
soil, for manure's vegetable substances.
such as are a part of old meadow or
clover sod turned under, are better than
fresh stable manure. Plow deep for this
crop, to encourage the growth of tuber
rather than top.
A Few Hens.-Those who start out to
keep few hens in confinement, usually
give up the job after year or so. in dis
gust. Failure in such cases might
often be averted by attention to a few
easily attained points. The run.
however small, we would have
raised a little above the common sur
face. say six inches or one foot. This can
be done by filling in, first defining the
outline with boards set upright and kept
in place by stakes. The surface of the
ran should consist of loose gravel several
over occasionally. Feed literally, but
never over feed. Give fresh water in a
clean trough daily. There should be a
warm, well ventilated enclosure.
About Trees and Wire Fences A good
deal is said in the papers about planting
trees to take the places of posts for max
ing wire fences, with which we cannot
agree. The roots from continuous lines
of trees in time are great detriment to
the crops in the fields, while more shade
also is created than is desirable Plant
ing hedges and running several lines OF
wire through them is IA much better
course. In hedges, the plants are grown
on dwariing principle. being
set close. and then clipped, This
treatment prevents rank and injurious
extension of the roots. Two wires put up
over the hedge plants when these are
young, will, with the plants serve as a
barrier al once.
Sowing Grass Seed Without grain
A meadow can be made in this way as
ter practice is very common. Sown early
in the spring, there is little chance o.
failure to cut a large crop of grass the
same season. Even in after years the
hay yield is larger where grass is sown
alone than where it is sown with whea,
or oats, and the plants Kept crowded al
the first. But the sowing should be done
carefully and with good Judgment
FIRST it must be done early tn secure the
benefit of cool growing weather and the
spring rains. 1t must not be done SC
early, however, but that the ground will
work up mellow enough to cover the
grass seed with being rolled. A brush
harrow sent ahead of the roller would be
Il good move.