Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-27
EaiIp Kfnnehsr :Jnurnal.
Farm and Live Stock Notes.

Raise the good cows calf.
Breeding animals need exercise.
Buyers have liking for brown eggs.
Cleaning helps COW as well as horse.
See to keeping early dropped lambs in
shelter.
Rasping the outside of the hoof makes
it dry and brittle.
Poultry does better if the run is changed
once year.
The new variety of oats known as Well
come turns out to be one of the best in
cultivation.
To be remembered: There is the most
money in the first years growth. Give
the lamb. and calves a good start. then
push them.
Perches that have the bark on are better
for fowls than any others. The claws
cling to such more readily, with comfort
to the bird.
In operating an incubator, the most
common error, perhaps, is the handling
of the eggs too much. and the meddling
of curious people. Let business-like con-
duct prevail.
The principle that it don't pay to bother
so much about making manure, has driven
more than one farmer "out West" The
same principle, if inherited, will send his
children still further toward the setting
sun. or out OF farm life.
How Farms Pav:-A New York paper
takes a sensible view of the worth and
profit of farms. 1t says that if the owner
of a 100 acre farm worth $4,000 were to
sell it off at this figure he could not posi-
bly, invest the money near so well as it
was in the farm, for the interest at five
per cent on the capital would not begin
to provide him with house, provisions.
comforts and luxuries which he enjoyed
on the farm, but which he took little ac
count of in his book keeping.
Lath Fences for Hen Yards If lath
fence is properly made, and when com
pleted is given coat of crude petroleum,
thickened somewhat with mineral paint,
it makes good, nice and cheap enclosure
to the hen yard. A height of six or seven
feet should be aimed for. Set posts along
the line at eight feet apart. To these nail
three strips lengthwse for holding the
lath. or the lower one might be gotten
along with without mailing the lath direct
ly on the bottom board. The middle
strips should be raised three feet above
the lower strip or the board, and the
upper one two feet higher vet. For lath
use ordinary tour foot ones in whole and
half lengths. The former one to be
nailed from the middle strip upwards, and
the latter are to fill out the lower space
between the horizontals. AS these are
but two feet long, if placed close together.
say an inch apart and we'll nailed, the
bottom of the fence will be strong enough
TO resist dogs and even larger animals.
The upper section may have the lath two
inches apart. A well made lath fence
will last for upwards of five years.
Calf raising.-They should be taught to
drink very early, at the age of two or three
days. The milk used at the start must of
course be sweet milk warm from the COW,
but this may soon be lessened, making up
with skim-milk of the same temperature
At ten days old there may be added to the
milk a Cruel made thus: Boil half-pint
of flax seed or pint of oil meal in ten or
twelve quarts of water. Of this add four
quarts to one or two quarts of skim-milk
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such a diet the calf will thrive we'll for
some weeks, but should soon be led Cd
to eat oat or corn meal. The latter is pre-
terable at first, and with this food and
warm quarters the calf will grow as rap
idly as if following the cow. The early
calves are the best to raise for dairy pur-
poses; we prefer to have them dropped
even in winter than in April or May.
Then when pasturing opens they can be
turned out to take care of themselves, and
by tall ought to be a good ways ahead of
the late Corners