Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-09
Farm and Live Stock Notes.

Farm ana Live otOCh NOVCo'
Dip the lambs.
Ventilate the stables.
Keep the horse collars clean.
Corn is not bone forming feed.
Don't burn old straw; turn it into ma
nure.
Grass loses three-fourths In weight by
drying.
Kill the potato bugs; each female lays
1000 eggs.
Buckwheat often pays well, besides
serving to loosen the soil.
| Swing churns cannot be beaten on any
account, and they are easily kept clean.
A steamer for cooking food will pay for
itself in two seasons on any stock farm.
Pigs squealing for food should not be
heard If profit or good meat are desired
| Cheaplv-ied pig meat boils away in the
pot and lacks quality.
Just as the first potato sprouts show
through the soil, run over the patch with
smoothing harrow. and you'll save much
work with the weeds later.
If hens must be confined at this season,
be sure of four things: that they have
clean quarters. good shade. plenty of dry
feed. and as much sand and gravel as they
can use.
Those who raise early lambs for market
ought to know that tns can he done much
more proftablv by the help of good root
patch. than without How this is to come
in is by furnishing roots, for feeding, freely
to the ewes next spring. to promote an
abundance of rich milk tor the sucking
lambs. Mangle wurtzels because of their
excellent keeping qualities, are the best
for the purpose.
Bee Wells Worn by the aparian, one
of these insures GOODNESS of movement
about the hives. which is always desirable.
A veil to protect the face may he made of a
few cents worth of material Take coarse
netting three feet bv one and one half feet,
made in the form of bottonless bag. A
wide hem should be turned in at top and
bottom. Through the upper one a
piece OF elastic is to be drawn for
fitting around the hat. The hat should
have broad brim to keep the veil away
from the face. The lower part of the net.
ting is to be tucked under the coat or other
outer garment at the neck. Instead OF
netting. finely woven wire may be used
1t is little more expensive. but it has the
advantage that in windy weather it can
not possibly blow against the face.
= Have Compost Heap - On many
farms carelessness in the matter of ma
nure saving Is allowed to prevail during
the summer season above all others. The
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droppings allowed to be wasted in a large
measure, through the rains washing them
away. The horse manure is thrown out
in heap of such shape that it suffers
greatly by active heating. Other manures
are no better provided Tor Compost heaps
should be formed for aiding the keeping
of both solid and liquid manures, besides
other fertilizing materials. during summer
Quite coarse materials, such as road
scrapings, muck. coal ashes, turf. leaves,
weeds. potato tops and such unpromising
materials may be used for the body of the
heap along with manure. 1t should be
built up squarely, with the material dis
posed in layers. Always have basin
like depression in the top, at all stages
When the pileis upwards of a foot high, il
should daily receive enough house slops
or other liquids, to cause some fermenta.
| ton to take place. If there is pool OF
liquid manure anywhere after rain, the
contents should be freely contributed. The
manure from the stables and pens and
droppings in yards and lanes, should dali
| " find their way to the heap. After sew
eral months the pile may be worked ovel
to aid further decomposition, new one
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ing the daily accumulations. BY whea
sowing time there will be a large lot O
first class fertilizing matter. to put on tn,
land, provided this work is rightly under
taken and kept up. :