Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-03-08
DaiIp Kennehfr 3ournal.
Farm and Live Stock Notes.

Take inventory.
Neatness is its own reward.
Suppose you get up stoneboat now.
Hens are early risers; feed to CORE
spond.
The sweet vernal grass in pastures
gives fine flavor to dairy products.
Young hens lay the most eggs, but old
ones make the most careful mothers.
For a sure catch, we prefer to SOW clo-
yer seed in February to waiting later.
Eggs laid without shells come from
overlooking, and lack of lime in the food.
Hens eggs hatch in 20 days. turkeys
and ducks in % days, geese in 30 days.
If your farm doesn't pay consider
whether it owes you anything. You may
not have given to it the plant food and sub
stance that would entitle you to large re-
turns from its bosom.
Rats are pest about the chicken yards.
Cats sometimes are almost as bad when
there are Young chickens about. Do you
know how the former detest chloride OF
lime? If this is scattered about their runs
freely they will clear out.
AYork State farmer raised 100 bushels
of shelled corn to the acre. 1t was from
land that had been two years in clover.
Under each hill was placed handful OF
hen manure, busted with lime. This Is
fertilizer that will bring good returns every
time, but it must not come in direct con-
tact with seeds and roots.
Wind Breaks-After coming up through
81 ;pta hn ut
these fierce and biting gales, take enough
of your leisure by the warm fireslde to
plan for setting out some effective ever
green wind-screens this spring Don't know
what kinds to setp We tell YOU freely that
the White pine, Austrian pine, and the
Norway spruce are among the quickest
growing sorts, and they are not at all ex-
pensive Start with young trees, say
planting five feet apart, and not too regu-
lar; and the trees will be eight feet high
in few years. Then the addition to the
comfort and beauty of the home will be
worth hundred times more than the cost
amounted to- A word to the wise is SUI
ficient.
Exercise for Hens.-With laying begun
there will be an appetite for more food {;
ercse. But the weather is unfavorable to
this outside, so there should be gotten up
some kind of scratching box for chick
ems. Most any kind of light, dry material
in the box into which some grain has been
scattered and worked in little with the
foot will do. Remember now that hens.
more than any other five stock, naturally
exercise themselves in gathering food. Its
roam. roam, scratch, scratch and peck,
peck almost constantly, working the mus
cles of the body at great rate. 1t is pol
icy now to meet this natural want. How
easily done.
Hiring Help.-One objection often
raised to hiring help early is that you have
to pay more than by waiting some further
on. Admitted but then let us remember
that it is the best hands who find places
first and at the highest rates. Not near
enough distinction is made between the
best and merely fair help by farmers
When hiring the latter is always high
priced; the former seldom is paid enough
proportionately. Hiring is usually done
for the season of eight months or more
In such period of upwards of two hun
dred working days. there is vast differ
ence in the results accruing to ones inter
ests from the man who works faithfully
and industriously day after day through
out, or the man who is mere time serv
err. In point of fact. of two men who may
come along asking the same wages, one
may easily be worth twice as much as the
other. Let US discriminate with grea
care here and pick the best man.