Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-11-12
From Many Corners.

At the recent Eastern Maine fair at Ban
gor. Me-. nearly all the prizes for JERSEY
cattle went to Maine breeders. The breed
is highly priced in Maine. which is rapid
" becoming dairy state Vermont
| Waterman.
The farmer should take an interest in
| the establishment of all kinds of new in
dustries at points close by him, both to
give him a higher value of his land. a
higher price for his products and at the
same time give him profit in holding
shares in all these industrial enterprises
Chicago Journal of Commerce.
Every horse kept on the farm beyond
the number required for use makes a
drain upon income-a tax that amounts in
year to more than the cost of clothing
for any member of the family, to say
nothing of labor, care and risk attendant
upon the keeping The Hus6andman.
The cost of growing strawberries, ac-
cording to an eastern contemporary, is
$50 an acre, and itemized as follows:
Land rent, Sc; blowing and narrowing,
"a; manure, $50; plants, 500; summer
cultivation, $50; mulching material tor
winter, 500. In amount for fertilizers,
S35 is allowed for one ton of pure ground
bone and SIS for muriate of potash,
which are considered the cheapest and
most effective manures.-Prairie Farmer
We have no preferences to express in
politics in these columns, though we are
always pleased to note the choice by the
people for their rulers of those interested
in agriculture. We congratulate our read
ers upon the election in Massachusetts OF
two representative agriculturalists as con-
gressmen, Edward Burnett and John E.
Russell. We only wish every State in
the Union would follow suit and do as
well for the farmers cause.-American
Cultioator.
The Rural New Yorker SAYS, 1--WE shall
have large importations of English pota-
toes this year, in spite of the import duty
OF - cents bnshel." The potato crop
in England is unprecdentedly large.
The crop West is small. 1t is lucky the
city of New York has cheap ocean trans
portation with England with her large
crop. But potatoes grown in England are
not of the quality of those of Nova Scotia
and Maine or of the North western States.
- This from the Farm, Field and Stock.
man, Chicago. accords the merited praise
to one of the leading farm products of
Maine ED. X. j.
No better time in the whole year for
trimming fruit trees than this month, and
by the way. what horrible work is made
by many in trimming,-no judgment as
to how or what to trim no knowledge as
TO the growth of different sorts, the same
kind of TRIMMING being given to the
Rhode Island Greening, with its broad
spreading branches, as to the Northern
Spy, with its close top, or the Tompkins
County King, with its long upright limbs.
While the Northern Spy needs thinning
out in the center, the Rhode Island Green
ing requires cutting back and not too
many limbs allowed to grow.-A. M.
PURDY, IN Popular Gardening.
Don't put the apples in the cellar too
soon. Three or four weeks hence, or at
the first hard freezing weather, is early
enough. Indeed a good many successful
fruit growers are of the opinion that the
apples should be on the verge of being
frozen when put away, while some 90 so
far as to have them frozen. Stored too
early the tendency to rot is greatly accel-
Grated Apples and potatoes should
never be kept in the same cellar, says an
agriculturist. since apples need ventilat-
ed, cool room, and potatoes a warmer
place. american St0cknaan and Farmer.
= Good advice. Here in Maine apples
keep better to keep them out of the cellar
just as late as it will do, avoiding risk of
freezing .-ED. X. j.
The best use to which manure can be
put which has accumulated through the
summer at the stables and in the yards is
as top dressing on the meadows and
now is good time to do it. The ground
is firm and will not be cut bv the wheels
of the loaded wagons. The manure
spread over the meadow will not only act
as a mulch protecting the roots of the
grass, but its soluble parts will
be washed down among them by
the winter rains just where it is
needed to do the most good Such use
of manures insures big hay crop next
year; more bay permits more stock to be
kept, and more stock means a larger ma
nure pile, and still larger hay crops and a
further increase of stock. Few farmers
have as yet begun to find out how much
stock their farms can be made to carry
under system of liberal feeding to the
crops.-Farmer' ReUiew.