Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-23
Calls aud Skttthes.
Farm and Live Stock Notes.

Farm and Live Stock Notes.
Burnt earth is very fertile.
Roughing it won't do for hens.
Put brass knobs on COWS horns.
Potatoes are advancing in price.
II beans must be sorted do it on an in
clined board.
Cheese is more nourishing food than
meat.
Many great trotter. was, as a colt, OF
little promise.
Notice how fowls will fret when food
comes late.
After all Germany's fuss over American
trichina, it turns out that their own swine
are worse affected than any other on the
globe.
| Have YOU ever observed how much one
tasty looking, well painted structure be-
sides the house. even if it be only the
! poultry house adds to the appearance of a
place?
China nest eggs are real economy at
this season. First OF all they never break
! from frost. By their use, the hens il at
large, may be attracted to familiar spot,
to lay, when il the nest-egg were there,
the nest might go to new place and not
be found.
Only sheep take to beans naturally and
even they may require some urging. But
beans are very nutritious, and II there are
more refuse or stained ones than the sheep
will consume, BY boiling them. or mixing
with oats and grinding hogs may be in
duccd to eat some.
Farmers can have back the old horse
shoes again, about now. This usetu!
equipment to the horse has been idealized
and fixed up and initiated, and dragged
into fine parors, however rusty or stained
they may have been, for long time, but
at last the spell is broken, fashion says
they may 90 back to the stalls and the
roadways.
The wet season of the past year or two
in many places have raised a new dread
against weeds, which we trust may lead to
still more effective warfare against them.
We refer to their hlndering the drying of
grain, by beng themselves loaded with
moisture which nothing but long exposure
to sun and wind can remove. By their
presence grain is often kept from drying
in wet spells, when without them it would
soon be in order for the barn Sometimes
the loss thus entailed has amounted to
nearly the full value of the crop.
Chambers in Horses If this disease is
known to be anywhere around, keep up
sharp lookout for it. If either of these
indications should be discovered in any
animal such an one should be at once
separated from the others, and every pre-
caution be taken to prevent its further
spread. The diseased animals should be
carefully handled, for the CHAMBERS have
been known to communicate to human
beings, and in such cases are almost sure
to prove fatal.
Cleanliness in the Hen House There
is good deal of talk about this, but what
does it mean? 1t means move all the ex-
crement every day, not hat of it, renew
the nests often, using clean material each
time; to keep the walls nice and sweet
by the application of a coat of whitewash
occasionally; to aim at having the fowls
clean of insects by dosing the roots with
some vermin killer, as well as the nest
boxes, corners, etc. to provide a suitable
bathing place, using as the material for a
bath natures strange choice for fowls,
dry dust. All these things are wanted
before we can call the hen-house in
clean. healthy state. Frequently brush
ing up the floor of scattered dust and filth
is also necessary.