Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-24
miscellaneous.
Farm and Live Stock Notes
Wash the horses.
Beware of ice water.

Farm and Live Stock Notes.
Wash the horses.
Beware of ice water.
Insist on clean milking.
Keep the cultivator going.
Rich food makes rich manure.
Flies are plenty in a dirty stable.
In the soiling system corn can follow
rye.
A female potato bug lays about 1.2OU
eggs.
Be sure the insect poisons are out of the
reach of children.
Thorough tillage now in the corn field
will count the season through.
Because the kernel ofsweet corn is rich
er than that of field corn, is no sign that
the former is better than the latter for
fodder, as some claim.
Poultry frequently gets a start with d.
arrhea, from feeding on un.ipe grain.
such as wheat rye, oats and the like.
which may in warm weather. lead to bad
results.
Without pure water to drink. good food
and cream from the time the former is
drawn until the butter is packed for sale,
it is impossible to make first class butter.
To even slightly disregard any one of these
points. soon tells largely on price and
profits.
For main crop, Swedish turnips should
now be sown. The soil should be mellow
and rich to start with. It is best to put in
seed freely in drills thirty inches apart,
say not less than one and One-halt pounds
to the acre. and then resort to thinning
where they may stand close. It is better
to count on thinning out the plants some
what than have gaps in the rows.
The Potato Beetle-No other remedy
has yet been discovered to equal Paris
green or London purple for killing these
pests and their progeny. Whichever kind
is used, it should be pure in quality, a
thing assured by buying from reliable
dealers. Mix with land plaster or finely
sifted ashes in the proportion of twenty to
one. tomato can punctured with holes
in the bottom and attached to four foot
pole, will answer well for applying this
mixture. which should be done when the
plants are wet from dew or after rain.
Dogs and Sheep.-Besides the almost
incalculable loss of sheep by vicious dogs,
there is another part which dogs more in
nccently play in causing death to sheep
The bladder worm, which finds its way
into the brain of sheep. there to develop
and produce certain death, is placed within
the reach of the fiocks by dogs. These
worms in mature state inhabit the in.
testines of the dog. Their eggs pass on,
with the dung, and are present whereve,
this is dropped; along fences. about stones
trees or tufts OF grass. The dung cause.
the grass to start up tender; the sheer
| like to nibble it in this state, and bv this
means take some of the eggs into the
system Being very minute they are alb
sorbed by the tactical vessels, and thence
through the veins find their way to the
brain. Here they develop and in time
produce slow death to the animal. Any
dog not infested with worms at once be
comes so from eating of the carcass of 4
sheep that has died from this cause. Or
the whole the loss Of sheep from the brair
bladder-worm is very serious one.
Chicken Cholera-Under slightly varina
forms, but one uniform symptom of 4
violent diarrh Ga. many fowls are carried
away every year bv this disease. The
administration of iron in some form-ths