Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-01-15
Farm and Live Stock Notes.

Save up manufes.
Corn is warming food
Bone dust suits potatoes.
Heat of 2l2 degrees kills trichina.
Clear the paths after each storm.
Manure-the farmers KEY to success.
Save out the seed grain before selling
off close.
Indiana stands first among wheat-grow-
ing States.
Are the cellars, cisterns and root pits
safe from frost?
Overcrowdng and filth are the destruc-
ton of sheep and pigs.
Now. after butchering. let the fowls
have plenty of spare milk and they will
thrive.
One of the things that can't be proven ::
that animals winter better without shell
ter than with.
A place for everything and everything
in its place may be an old saw, but we
can suggest no improvement on it for the
farmers use.
Let those who are near the markets
count on raising early chickens for sale.
Fairly managed, this becomes one of the
most profitable branches of poultry rails
ing. Young broilers usually bring from
% to 40 cents per pound at two or three
months old.
The waste that falls TO this country
through the liquids Of the stables not be-
ing properly saved and utilized is equiva-
lent to millions of dollars every wear. No
system of animal stables is complete with
out an arrangement of cutters and ma
nure cisterns to save all the liquids voded
The only fair substitute is absorption, by
the use of dry earth in connection with
other bedding.
Hen House Floors.-These are, in many
cases, very defective and yet may often
be very easily remedied. No kind
of floor is better than one of ground,
but if such one is so low that
it will be damp from receiving moisture
from the root water, it is in bad shape for
the fowls. In such case bring in enough
earth to make bottom some inches
higher than the outside surface, and let it
be slightly browning in the center.
Prune the Hedge Roots. Most kinds of
hedge plants, under natural conditions.
grow to be large trees. BY crowding
them closely in a row and frequently
pruning the heads they become dwarfed,
and with branching low, serve valuable
purpose as barriers. The practice of root
pruning hedges is not as common as it
should be. 1t is another means of check
ing the growth of the shrubs, which. in
whatever way it is done, is very desirable
so long as health is not impaired.
This may be accomplished by max
ing neat ditch about fifteen
inches deep and close up on each side
of the row, cutting off all the roots that
are met. Afterwards the ditch is filled
up again A gain also comes by this plan
from the crops near the hedge not being
interfered with by the hedge roots.
Feeding the Cow Where choice is had
between good timothy and clover hay,
| feed the latter always. If of good quality,
not too coarse, and not smoky. it may be
fed long. Unless it is first rate, it will be
eaten up cleaner by being cut, but will be
no better for the cow. Our choice in such
a case. ii the supply is ample, would be
not to cut, and let her reject the poorer
parts. For meal, ground oats is to be
preferred above any other kind. A mix
ture half and half of ground oats and corn
is excellent. as is also good wheat bran.
Half a pint of linseed oil cake or cotton
seed cake gwen per day will help the milk
flow wonderfully, but more than this will
tend to give the butter a tallowy charac-
ter.