Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-08-21
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Farm and Live Stock Notes

Farm and Live Stock Notes.
Clean the fence rows.
Spade over the hen-yard.
It pays to stack straw we'll.
Are the harvest tools housed?
Briers cut now will receive q severe
check.
Wet muck is usually about nine-tenths
water.
Wire worms are not the cause of scaley
potatoes.
Take time to decide what kind of wheat
you had letter SOW.
In the heat OF summer see that the fowls
have plenty of fresh water.
Have you bought the flock of sheep you
thought of fattening? Don't delay.
Nature manures on the surface-remem-
Der this and don't bury manure ten inches
deep.
We know one farmer who raises hun
dred acres OF timothy or more annually
tor seed. and it pays him we'll.
Keep the surface of the wheat field mel
low, to preserve the moisture and thus aid
the seed to vegetaie readily. Above all
else allow no weeds to foul the land BY
seeding.
Examine the second crop clover for
nudge; if these Larvae are present. make
hay of the crop, and thus add to your sup
ply of feed, instead OF harvesting for seed
when there can be none.
What becomes of all the over -praised
M nf ~
and other things that by scores are offered
every yearp The fact that not one in fifty
of them is heard of. ten years after their
introduction at high price. should lead
cultivatOrs to take little stock in novelties
The high price of all new things is at the
bottom of the business. Leave the costly
experiments to others, you may be sure if
new sort is really good it will not be lost
to the world, even if you are not one of
the first to invest. We advise this because
we want to save you money.
One days work now applied to weeds
in the corn or other hoed crops, may save
dozen days labor next year. 1t IS the
few plants that escaped the early cultivat-
ing, and now growing rankly towards
maturity and full crop of plump seeds,
that make most of the future trouble in
this line. Clean them out, and if any
plants are beyond Towering burn them.
Improving Polled or "Mooley" Cattle
The question is sometimes heard, lean
polled cattle be good milkers?" 1t is the
sheerest nonsense to suppose that horns
have anything to do with milk flow
Horns are neither useful or ornamental,
except from the force of habit. They are.
on the other hand, both troublesome and
dangerous, as the many cases every year
of accidents and even death resulting from
persons being hooked. go to prove Here
and there may now be found dairy com.
posed of hOrnless cattle; we have not been
able to learn that any such are less pro-
ductive than others. Were the breeds of
polled cattle to be further improved, by
selected animals only, tor a considerable
time. excellent milking or other qualities
might become established, and we believe
demand could easily be worked up for
such improved stock. An improved breed
of "Mooleys" would afford almost the
ideal family COW.
Preparing for Wheat -Where the soil
is lacking in fertility. the best way to ap-
ply manure is as atop-dressing after plow-
ing. A single coat of manure thus APP
piled has raised the yield per acre from
20 bushels on unmanured parts to 20
bushels on MANFRED parts, in the follow
ing crop. The gains to single field or
more at this rate can easily be reckoned,
and the figures will afford all the argu-
ment need in favor of manuring as many
acres as possible. The finer and older
the manure is tor this purpose the better
pains should be taken to divide it careful
ly in spreading and afterward with har-
row. That the wheels of the manure
wagon need not harden the plowed ground.
for delivering the manure properly, the
work of hauling should be done while the
blowing is going on, or else if the lands
are narrow. these may be started across
the field wide enough to accommodate a
row of manure piles. which may then be
deposited by driving along side the fresh
ly turned earth.