Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-16
DaiIu Hfnnebrr 3nurnal.
Farm and Live Stock Notes.

Corn is warming feed.
Cold air is not always pure.
Offer little clover hay to the pigs.
Cruelty to animals; driving horses with
smooth shoes on icy roads.
This inactive season on the farm is
goodtime to plan improvements.
The women have no business with milk
ing in the winter time.
The health of animals, as we'll as human
beings. is easier retained by good care
than regained when lost.
1t costs nothing to strew the icy walks
lightly with ashes; the act may save doc
tors bills for setting broken limbs.
There is but little doubt that fully one
quarter of the corn fed to tatting hogs Is
wasted by feeding it in muddy yards or
lots or open pens.
The Water Supply.-This is always an
important matter everywhere, and no less
on farms than in cities. No doubt the
very best way of securing pure water on
the average farm is to gather it from the
house roofs into capaclous clsterns, first
filtering it to remove impurities. In some
parts OF the west the practice OF storing
rain water tor general use in cisterns IS
quite common, and the cisterns are made
large and deep to insure cold water in
summer.
A Great Waste Cone cannot but won
der at the stupidity of some men who.
while lamenting the smallness of the
manure yield. will vet allow streams of
liquid manure-tO pass from the stables
.. Thn los
through this kind of management must be
equivalent to millions OF dollars every
year. No system of stables is complete
without an arrangement of cutters and
manure cisterns to save all the liquids
voided. The only fair substitute is abb
sorption by the use Of dry earth in con-
nection with other bidding.
Fowls in winter When the ground is
frozen or covered with ice and snow
chickens do not like the prospect of quit
ting their sheltered quarters. 1t is very
important, therefore, that these be suffi-
ciently ventilated in the day time in mild
weather, and closely secured at night and
in stormy days. Over crowding is often
fault also; fowls can stand more of this
now than at some other seasons, but we
should never 50 limit them that they will
be obliged to hudde together too closely
either by day or by nj ht. Keen the house
clean. Supply one warm meal at least
once day, with some green food as often.
Have good dust bath, if it's nothing
more Than coal ashes. adding a little
powered sulphur. Such treatment will
reward you with eggs, when there are
eggs.
70 the Men Folks.-Now that the try
inc winter season is on, and with an in
crease Of labor, to the housekeeper. usu-
ally. while your work may be less, will
YOU not help along some in their depart
ment See to it that the heating is well
furnished in fuel and klndling right along
let the wife be relieved Of any cares in
this matter. Provide good utensils, and
if need be, muscle. sometimes, for keep
ing draughts clear of clinkerS. and the
pipes and chimneys in order. Free burn
ing fires are wonderfully cheering to home
life in winter, and promotive of happiness
all around. Then the snow shovel is out
of place in woman's hands if there be
man about who has the time to handle
it, as there usually is; few men are so sit
uated but that thew can keep the walks
and steps clean of snow every day in the
winter. This suggestion might be un-
called for were 1t not that the writer knows
cases where women clean the walks and
the men are idle. One man in particular
we know of. keeps his lazy bones to bed
mornings now a-dayS, while his wife
rousts about tending tle fires, carrying
| fuel. and shoveling off walks. Such men
we however believe are, as they ought to
no scarce in this civilized land