Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-12-11
Pickings from Various Cribs.

There seems to be some good in agr-
cultural colleges which even the blind can
see. The Agricultural College OF Missis-
slppl established creamery, the fiji ST in
The State. and put up siOs tor the use of
the college farm. Now there are twenty
or more creameries in the State and no
end OF sllos.-Anertcdn DatrVman.
In political elections, farmers should re-
member the men who have stood bv them,
and return such men to the law making
bodies of the country irrespective of polit
ical faith. Keep out those whose record
shows them to be opposed TO agriculture.
Then we shall hear less complaint OF the
neglect of farmers interests in our Legis.
latures.-Ne,O England Homestead.
We must not fail to bear in mind, if we
desire and expect to have supply of eggs
from the hens now to be limited for so
long period almost exclusively within
doors. that they must be kept comparative
ly warm and out of reach of harsh winds
and rough weather. If this provision is
neglected, we get few or no eggs from The
bes: of layers in winter.-1he Poultru
World.
| Winter gives pleasing diversity to the
seasons in latitudes where its rigors sus-
pend active labor in the fields. 1t gives
opportunity for study, for social pleas
ures, for development that tends to higher
enlightenment. With plans wisely formed
and carried into effect it may add largely
to enioyments that reward useful effort
The Husbandnan
Thirty years ago the daily receipts of
Strawberries in the city of Cnicago-now
the second greatest fruit market in the
world-could have been carried in one
wagon at one load, and it would not have
been large load either. Now whole |
railway trains are engaged to carry the |
daily supply of that market, which often |
amounts to three hundred tons and some
times to twice that quan'tv.-Dr PARKER
EARLE, President american horticultural |
Society.
There is wonderfully comfortable and |
satisfied feeling in the grange, feeling
have never experienced anywhere else
Farmers are combining for their own ad-
vancement. thus trampling self under foot.
and standing up unitedly for the good of |
each other. Our teachings are progress
sive, and elevating. Having a tendency
to make the farmer more independent in
politics. it enables him more easily to step
over party lines and cast his vote for the |
men who best represent his interests Our
bond of union is fraternal affection "A
Patron IN Farm and Home.
Some of the new things of the past four
Years are silos. centrifugal separation.
estimating the value of milk by its total |
solids. granular and brine-salted butter.
Those are all worth thinking about and of
adopting, if ones circumstances and
surroundings admit of doing So No one
has vet reached that deg rec of knowledge
about either OF these topics that he can
say he knows all about it, so, in ADOPT
ing them in practice, there is abundant
room to experiment and develop new facts
for the good OF the countrv-Amertcan
Dairyman.
There is very light demand for dried
apples at this time OF the year. Green
fruit can be obtained too readily and At
too low price, so that the demand is not
sufficient to advance the price. But later
on at least by the middle of winter, the
demand will increase considerably. So
with good sound winter apples that can be
stored so that they can be kept with but
little risk. the fall and damaged winter
apples will be gone. and we can then re-
CtlNt a idiT prize lpT WluIeN ITult.-IHe
american Horttculturist.
Despite low prices for products it is
true that the same quantity will purchase
more OF all the necessares and Injuries
of life than it would twenty, forty or sixtv
years ago. Only labor is dearer now than
then, which shows neither farmers nor
working men as a class are worse affected
by the depression in business than other
classes. Only so far as farmers attempt
more than they can themselves do. and
then become employers of the labors of
others, are they sufferers The farmer
who does his work without hiring help
can live better and save more money now
than he could on the same land sixty
years ago. Few. however, are willing to
endure many privations then considered
inevitable. nor is 1t right that they should.
american Cultirdtor.