Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-29

DIR. Sturtevant concludes that some creams
produce three times as mnch butter as others
of the same bulk.
Husband the few good potatoes that you
have as there is no doubt of q short crop
everywhere this side of the provinces.
Over 100. 900, 900 forest trees were planted
on the prairies of the Northwest last year.
Nebraska planted the largest number, Kan
sas second, Dakota third, and Minnesota
fourth.
Perhaps the best remedy that can be used
to keep chicks in good condition is pulver-
lied charcoal mixed with the cooked feed.
A daily ration of it can do them no great
harm.
Look out for chance to strike some pay
ing line of production. Many farmer has
made his way to . comfortable fortune by
supplying some little especial demand of his
market that his neshbor had overlooked.
More butter is injured by keeping the
cream too long before churning, than in any
other manner. The churning should be per
formed as soon as the cream is ripe, even if
there is only small quantity to churn.
The Rural New-Yorker says that perhaps
the best argument against the selling of hay
can be found by looking at the land of the
man who practices this method of farming.
And the Rural hits the nail square, as usual.
Hurry the early chick to market as soon
as may be. Growing the carcass and then
putting on the meat is played out with all
varieties of farm stock designed for food
Grow and fat at the same, the growing time
being the time for profit.
The new building at the Massachusetts
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ing will be devoted to the investigation of
the growth and diseases of plants. All mod
ern appliances will be adopted for work when
the building is completed.
II it were not for the vast wheat fields of
India, which are abundantly irrigated, wheat
grown in the United States would be worth a
quarter more in the markets of the world
than it now is. India partially breads Great
Britain and furnishes more than half of what
is eaten on the Continent.
dispatch from Chicago announces that
arrangements have been made to ship large
numbers of Kentucky cattle to Europe dur
ing four months. All the room on the steam
ers of the Warren line from Boston has been
engaged for July, August, September and
October.
Farmers have better opportunities for
identifying their homes than am other class
of laboring people. "A few dollars invested
in trees, flowers and shrubbery, and days
time in planting them, will enhance the
value of many farms an hundred dollars in
few years.
The Mt. Mansfield Creamery at Stowe,
Vt, has received an order from Montreal
for one hundred and fifty packages of butter
to be shipped to England according to
samples previously sent. This may be of
great Importance to the future of the Cream
cry.
DIR. Hoskins in the Vermont Watchman''
discloses the cause of good many failures
to have good gardens in the following -
You can not have good garden in the
neighbo hood of many large trees. The
tree roots rob the ground of moisture and
manure and retard the crops by shade
"There is no telling what the grange can
do if it will only go to work and do it," says
the New England Farmer Aye, there's the
rub Too many farmers have gone into the
grange 10 the hope of getting something out
of it, without putting anything into it; and
too many run their farms on the same plan.
The greatest general prosperity to-day is
with farmers who own. occupy and till small
farms Here 10 the source of present and
promise of future permanent prosperity, not
only to the farmers. but to the country. We
are peculiarly an agricultural people, and
prosperity of the whole people rests finally
upon the prosperity of the farmers.
Dairying, sheep breeding and hog raising
all pay living prof! if con- ucted in q bust
ness-like manner All the above mentioned
branches OF farming consume the products
OF the farm ar'i return to it nearly all the
plant food. This gives an increase of in
come. because the productive powers Of the
farm increase from the method thus making
the keeping Of more stock practicable.
To prove how Widespread is the interest in
silos and en.ilage it is but necessary to say
that 2 500 copies of pamphlet on this sub
ject- gotten out by Professor A. J. Cook, Of
the State Agricultural College. Lansing,
Mich. have sold in less than three months.
The free pamphlets on the subjec, issued by
the manufacturers of ensilage cutters have to
be printed in editions of 10000 to $4,000
to supply the demand.