Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-16
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1 E0SAM onW 1.-Two CsOSA ~s~
| Replsnt missing hills.
Get the harvest tools ready.
Sow Is pecks buckwheat per acre.
Water young turkeys twice . day.
| A cock 10 10 his prime at two years old
Shelter the shorn sheep in chilly days
A little salt 10 the food benefits geese
| In Georgia new -four is made Is early
as May.
There is certain sign to tell wher
bees will swarm.
Corn for fodder may be sown any time
this month.
Feed teaspoonful of ground flaxseef
once a week to each fowl and see how nice
the feathers will come.
We like the practise Of running the
cultiyator through The corn rows once q
week. until IL is too large to admit horse
between the rows.
n ia a had notion. that because an in
diyidual fou is not worth much money.
| il Is not worth looking afer
when sick. Better than all. let the p"ul.
try be property tended and there will sell
dom be sickness.
Very few swarms of bees fly away to
the woods in a well-mansgrd apiary
Should any attempt to leave. don't make
an outlandish noise with kettles and panes.
hut throw a little water or dirt among
them. Once in the hive, by closing the
entrance so worker can only "squueze"
in and out. they will not leave it, for the
qneen cannot pass out
II pools of brown. colored manure water
stand in the barn yard or lane after rains.
apply it. to the last drop, to the garden or
field crops. Apple trees in not over-rich
soil are delighted with treat Of this kind.
What selfish, careless and awkward
thing a turkey-hen mother IS. When food
is furnished. she would tat everything if
she could, never having any care to get
her Young to eat. Young chicks tbauld
he watched at first. and il any do not eat,
feed by hand until they learn.
Remove the Potato Flowers.-The seed
is ordinarily not wanted, hence it is better
that no nourishment should 90 10 devel-
oping it. To give more Strength to the
tubers some cut off the tops of The haulms.
but this is wrong. as the leaves are all
needed for celebrating the sap. The alb
sence of leaves prevents that degree of
perfect maturity which causes mealiness
in potatoes. Taking off the flowers t.,
prevent seeds. on the contrary, can do no
harm, but only good.
Swine in the Summer.-FOr yielding
The largest profits at slaughiering time.
advantage must be taken of the summer
season To push the animals ahead. No
kind of feeding is so successful at this sea
son as that which combines moderate al
lowance of grain, with the freedom of
good pasture. By actual test it was found
hat of two lots Of pigs, equal in number
and weight and fed the same quantity OF
grain, but the one lot confined in pens and
given no green food. while the other
had the run Of a grass pasture.
he latter gained ia pounds in the
same time that the f'rmer requir-
ID to gain 70 pounds Then, to test this
result, the order OF feeal~s vas reversed
for period. those before without green
food were turned to pasture besides re-
ewing grain. and the others confined and
ed grain only. The difference in the re-
suits were quite as striking as before. The
ot without grass gained but 20 pounds in
he same period that the other. with pas
ure and grain, gained 103 pounds. Fed
IN grain alone there comes hardly pro-
liable gain during the summer, which is
also true of swine that are pastured and
10 grain. But with both the grass furnish
IS the nutriment for maintaining exis-
ence. and about all the grain goes to in-
,reasing the growth. To thus forward
pigs il il found that there is twice over
more profit in such as are ready 70 slaugh-
er at seven months old, than in those kept
.wO summers in the more common way.
Those who must. from any cause, confine
heir pigs constantly, may reach similar
good results BY the soiling system OF feed.
ing.