Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-13
DatIu Kennehrr 3nurnal.
Farm and Live Stock Notes
Shade the bee hives.

A dirty pen cannot be healthy.
Give the boys day off occasionally.
Hungarian grass may still be sown for
hay.
Filth, and not nature accounts for
''cowy" smelling milk.
Have the walk between the house and
barn raised little.
Strong swarms of bees require ample
ventilation during hot weather.
The water from barn 40x50 feet. con-
Quoted to cisterns will answer for twenty
cows.
Don't stop the corn cultivator when the
horse can reach the leaves, but muzZle
the animal and keep at it several weeks
| vet.
From road-making see if you canno,
turn to the barn-yard, and by grading ii
with pillow and scraper, make it dryer
! Young turkeys should, from the first. be
fed daily near the night quarters. so that
they will care to return for food from their
rowing quarters.
There is prejudice in the minds of
some against the Essex and other breeds
of black pigs, on account of their color.
| The arguments raised are not even skin
deep, for the blacklist pig will dress as
white as the whitest. These pigs are, as
a class. rapid growers when Young, and
can advantageously be worked into pork
in their first year. Whether raised for
market or for home use there is certainly
more profit in young than III old pork.
| Cows in Summer.-When the pastures
begin to fail some green fodder should be
ted. Allowing the milk flow to run down
however slightly, it is difficult to restore
| it again. Much suffering to mich cows,
and consequent loss of milk often comes
| from exposing them to intense heat in
pastures where there are no trees or other
provisions for shade. No animal can
yield large degree of profit to its owner
if il suffers discomfort from any cause
Where there are no trees a rude sun shell.
ter may be easily made. if OF nothing more
than loose rails or boards.
Cheap Manure of the cheapest
ways of increasing manure is to lay in a
end OF the growing season, to use for alb
sorbing liquid manure. Where an abun-
dance of straw is lacking, leaves from the
WOOuS anu SIoNeS VIII answer as well ,dnu
cost only the gathering. Straw can often
be bought of unwise farmers cheap, and
where there is chance for this, let it be
made the most of. Where swamp muck
Is attainable, nothing can be found better
than this, when dry, as an absorbent
Sawdust, refuse bark from tanneries, and
other wastes have some value for this
purpose, if nothing better is available
Use the absorbents freely about the stables,
hog pens and barn-yards, and a vast
amount of fertllizing matter, that too Of
ten goes to waste, may be retained to the
benefit OF the crops.
Foul Brood IN Bee es.-This disease
is believed to be due to fungoid growth.
1t affects the immature brood before reach
ing chrysalis state, causing the Larvae to
turn dark, following with death and
| putrehcatlon. Its presence where some
progress mas been made by the disease is
manifest from an unpleasant odor arising
from the hive. A remedy has been found
in salicylc acid and in soda borax dis
solved either in alcohol or in water, in the
proportion OF one hundred and twenty
eight grains of the former to sixteen fluid
ounces of the latter. This fluid is thrown
in fine spray over the comb. the brood
being previously uncapped This remedy,
while it is harmless to the bees, serves
completely to destroy the fungi.