Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-09-21
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Farm and Live Stock Notes.
Sow rye for soiling.
Don't let the tools rust.
Harvest sunhower seed.
Kill feather. eating hens.
Fix up the stables tor winter.
Short horns are on the ascendant.
Take your vacation after harvest.
Store potatoes in cool, dry cellar.
Productiveness depends on the food.
Pet cat and YOU spoil her for NOUS
er.
One years seeding makes seven years.
wedding.
Start with a good calf and feed it we'll,
and sou will have good COW cheap.
Fowls in Chicago market are said to
be dressed when handful of feathers
have been taken of.
A COW that will not yield 400 pounds of
cheese year isn't worth keeping. Many
are kept that yield less.
Shingles may be made fire proof by set
ting the butts into trough of water. in
which half bushel each of lime and salt.
and six pounds of potash have been dis
solved.
Potatoes not wanted before spring. may
90 into pits, where they will keep with
less shrinkage than in the cellar In bury
ing, the only secrets are dry ground and
plenty of cover.
Don't be deceived in feeding corn meal
to mich cows. Fed freely, it at first IN
creases the milk flow. but soon goes to tat
and lessons the milk. Many valuable COW
has been injured by overlooking in this
way.
Home. Sickness in Animals.-Many a
COW that has been bought as first class
mixer has disappointed the buyer so woe
fully. by her small yield in the new home.
that the owner has felt cheated. Such re-
suits may often be attributed to the cows
being homesick. A friend who moved one
of his best cows from his farm to his home
in the city, said the milk Weld fell off one
half in two weeks The best time to re-
move COW is just when she has had a
calf. The calf will occupy her attention,
so she will mind the change less, and by
the time it must be weaned. she is likely
to be sufficiently accustomed to the new
quarters, not to be further affected.
Plan to Sow More Clover.-Asa fodder
1t is unequalled, while its effects in light
ening heavy soil, and adding fertility to
any kind of land, is one of its chief recon
mends. Take heavy compact or tena
cious soil for example. and the fan reach
ING roots of clover have an amelioraing
effect most remarkable. Any one who
has noticed inverted sward land of this
character. on which timothy or other grass
has Stood and then a field of clover SINH
larly turned under, must have observed
how the soil of the latter is filled with a
dense mass of clover roots, penetrating
every part, while the same are compare
lively absent from the former. It's max
ing no mistake to calculate on sowing
good breadths of clover, with a view of
reaping such advantages.
Fattening Live Stock 1T is not good
plan to defer the tattening until the cold
chilling winds whistle around the corners
The corn and other grain may then all be
in shape for the business, but it will take
enough more to produce every pound OF
fat in cold weather than it did in warm. to
pay for laying in feed early tor this pur-
pose. even it it must be bought. Animals
will gain almost twice as fast in warm
weather. Usually. too, when they are
fattenng early, they sell as WELL if not
better than when coming in late. for de-
pend upon it, the great bulk of farmers
may still be counted upon to blunder
along in the old way, and send in late
meat all in heap.