Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-20
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Farm and Live Stock Notes.

Farm and Live Stock NOtes.
Card the oxen we'll.
A few potatoes will suit sheep.
Look after the live stock closely.
A shivering calf is pitiable object.
Large sized breeds of fowls should
have low roosts.
Throwing fodder on the ground is very
wasteful always.
Hens at just beyond two years old be-
gin to pass out of their prime.
When ice is six inches thick harvest;
delays are dang erous.
Give your fowls good care, and our
word for it you may laugh at most kinds
of diseases.
II is worse than nonsense to think that
exposure makes the animals hardy. The
act is cruelty.
Because farm horses now have quiet
time is no good reason for slackening up
in the care of them. Get few turns
ahead" for the extra strain OF spring work
by putting them in condition tor it now.
II mice are troublesome in the root Gel
lars or pits, clean them out by dose
made as follows take some peas, soak in
water till they swell. then roll in arsenic
and bury very shallow in light earth.
These they will deyour in preference to
plants and vegetables, to your gain.
Whenever there is any surplus honey
comb around at this season. it should be
exposed to hard cold in order that the
egg of the moth or miller may be frozen.
Comb should also be kept out of the way
of rats and mice, for these, when hard
pressed for TODD as they now are liable to
be, will devour the comb.
Cows-Those coming in soon should
have some special care. The dry feed of
the season il used alone. renders the ami,
mails very liable tie inhammatory diseases.
The blood needs cooling by laxative food.
One quart of OIL cake meal mixed with bran
scaded and given as drink once day.
will be useful. No corn should be given
for several weeks before calving. If
good hay is fed, very little grain of any
kind will be needed. AN overfed condi-
ton is liable to induce garget. milk fever.
abortion and such like troubles. When
the calf is expected the COW should be
kept in an open box-stall or else in quiet
stable alone.
Early Chickens.-No trouble is ever
found in turning early Matched chickens
to a very profitable account. For market
ing when weighing from two to four
pounds per pair, they 60 off readily at
high rates. sometimes retailing for 81 so
per pair in good markets. Then if the
prices are not too tempting to take you
beyond the cockerels. for early marketing.
by keeping the pullets through, they will
commence laying in September or there
abouts-sometimes earlier. and continue
to do so right through the winter with the
most ordinary fair treatment. But much
depends upon the care of the early chicks.
The best food tor these at the start ac-
cording to our experience, is stale bread
crumbs moistened very slightly in sweet
milk. But little cornmeal should be fed
until they have become fully feathered,
and that should be we'll cooled. We are
strong advocates of making sweet milk a
leading article offered for early chicks,
after they are some weeks old. In feed
ing this must not be allowed to sour, as
this would disturb the digestive, organs,
a thing to be scrupulously avoided. if we
would have broilers by asparagus time or
very soon after. For variety some cracked
wheat, rice. oaten grits, cottage cheese
etc, may occasionally be fed, with the
best of results.