Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-19
DaiIp lkernebsr JeurnaI.
Farm and Live stock Notes.

okM 0A1O 1.-Two SWIM XsOVOOs
Poor stock pays poorly.
The nut trees are worth preserving.
Ducks lay their eggs wherever it hap
pens.
Save up coal ashes for the clover field.
Sprinkle little lime on the bins Of pc.
tat0es.
Cspons grow almost third larger thar
cockerels.
Winter weather is not enjoyed with lota
Of work on hand yet.
Never allow brewers grains to become
putrid before feeding.
The culture of rye for grain and straw
is gradually on the increase.
More than one generation is needed to
establish breed or strain in live stock.
The water from refuse meat boiled fol
fowls should be used on bran or meal tc
scald it.
Is ever anything sufficiently definite to
be learned about gapes in chickens to pre-
vent the destruction of millions of fowls
annually by it in our country?
Because fruit trees may sometimes be
root p.uned to advantage. some claim that
the same principal may be applied ia
grain crops. To our mind there is nc
sense in this idea.
Killing Quack Grass.-Here is how we
would manage to do 1t: First, we would
in the spring, not too early. turn over the
piece that is troubled. nine inches deep to
bury roots and plants deeply. Then
should follow sowed corn put in thickly.
With the check received by the blowing
and the shade of the corn, there would be
little quack afterwards.
Rye Grown Two Years before the Har-
st-PennsylvaniaG Germans, who devote
much attention to growing rye, and who
are well posted, say that the crop NAV be
cut at short intervals all through the sum-
mer following sowing, and then be al
lowed to pass through second winter be-
fore seeding. In such case care must be
taken to keep the growth young and sue
culent in the first summer after sowing.
Farm Experiment Stations.-These un-
dertake work in the field of experiment,
that farmers as a rule could not afford to
do. In other countries they are better de-
veloped than with us, Germany alone tor
one having about thirty such stations. In
the United States there are but six stations,
sachusetts, New York. New Jersey, Ohio
and North Carolina. From this beginning
it is predicted that many perhaps hundreds,
may in time be established to be sup
ported as at present, mostly by taxation.
The idea is practical, eminently so. and so
far as valuable experiments on crops, live
stock. fertility, ETC., are concerned, one Of
incalculable benefit to farmers; and not
only to farmers, but to all classes, for
whatever benefits agriculture as whole.
benefits everybody. Farmers begin to see
in this day. better than ever before, that
their business has not advanced as rapidly
as other pursuits have. and better still,
that it never can, but for such associated
action. The cost to State at large for
supporting such station is as mere moth.
ing compared With the gain involved.
Improving Wheat.-Maj. Hallett has
years with excellent results. His plan is
to simply find the best plant in a certain
area OF wheat, then its best head, and fin
ally the largest kernel in the head. With
this unit he starts out. and from the pro-
duct he chooses the best again, year by
year. It has long been held that to pick
out the middle grains of an ear would lead
to better results than to take any others.
The Majors experiments have failed to
confirm this theory. At one time he plant
ed all the kernels of 10 ears in such a
manner that each one, after sowing, occu-
pied the same relative position to the 9TH
ers that it did in the head. When the
crop matured no relation could be found
between the finest plants and the position
of the plant seeds in the ear which bore
them