Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-20

Farm and Live STOCK NOteS-
Now for the manure crop.
Narrow lands for wet ground.
Put fences and gates in order.
Dry leaves make good bedding.
Hens don't pay stiagy feeders.
A smooth coat marks healthy animal.
Keep only as much stock as you can
winter well.
Let neatness adorn all parts of the home
surroundings before winter comes in.
Fall blowing is done at little more than
one-half the cost Of spring blowing.
Charcoal possesses great value when
added to the rations of fattening animals,
swine, poultry, and cattle especially.
For calves and yearling cows bran and
oat meal are the best grain food. The OBJ
iect with these animals should be to keep
them thrifty without forcing.
There ought to be time now for cutting
brush. Cut close to the ground, or just a
little below the surface. Then the new
shoots that will start up in the spring can
be kept down with scythe.
A little work and calculation should not
be allowed to stand between you and get
ting the stables fitted up for animal com
fort during the winter. A DAYS work
with hammer, nails, strips, straw and So
on will soon accomplish sights here.
Pasture Lots. These need manuring as
well as anv other land from which crops
are taken. November is the best month
to apply top dressings here. The manure
should be old and fine if fresh it will not
have so good an effect, besides, this will
render the grass distasteful 10 the animals
when next turned out.
Wintering Bees.-If they are to be given
the protection of the cellar, this month
should see them in the quarters. They
should be disturbed as little as possible in
the moving. Once in place the cover should
be taken off the hive and piece of carpet
or other coarse cloth, that will admit
OF the escape of moisture be thrown,
over instead. If the cellar can be kept
dark, is we'll ventilated, and of temper
ature within five degrees of forty-two, the
bees will need very little care until April.
So long as they are quiet they are all
right; il restless and loud buzzing pro-
ceeds from the hive, allowing them to fly
on the first warm day is desirable.
To get Eggs in Winter.-This rests
chiefly but not wholly with the feeding
The staple food of Indian corn is une-
qualed for furnishing heat and fat. but
lacks in albumen and phosphates. Wheat
is a more perfect food, as it is also pre-
ferred by fowls when they have the
choice of both. A mixture of the two is
desirable. with some oats added for a
change. Besides the grain, there must be
animal TODD. Milk in any shape is valua-
BILE. Refuse from the butchers. scrap
cake and otfal from the fish market furnish
a material that induces free laying The
writer once had access to slaughter
house where hogs lungs could be had for
almost nothing. A string was tied around
each one and it was hung to nail There
the hens could eat it readily, and this
TODD told well on egg returns. Thrown in
loose and they could hardly devour the
lungs. Vegetable food is also needed.
Potatoes and turnips boiled and mashed
with Indian meal can hardly be equaled.
Cabbage is always acceptable. In the
absence of every kind of green food,
sweet clover hay affords not bad substi-
tute. As material needed for the forma-
ton of egg shells, and also to aid in the
grinding OF the food that is going on in
the gizZard. it must not be forgotten to
provide laying hens with small gravel and
grit. broken bones. shells and the like.
Properly ted, and kept in warm, we'll
lighted and well ventilated house during
the winter. hens will not fail to lay well.