Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-23
Good Bite Cuiled Out.

Machinery ~ the United States does ihs
work for 900, 900 900 men
Of the 631 900 cattle slaughtered for
dressed beef trade last year, 100000 me
their death At Chicago.
Chicago now looks for total of 5000, 600
cattle for the year 1853. A year ago the
number received va. about 100000.
The total crop of Florida oranges for the
,ea.on just ended was 2 FOG, 900 boxes.
Give poultry milk al summer. 1t is .
healthy food and drink for them combined
A farmer is capitalist and laborer, and
therefore wants labor and capital bath justly
treated in the administration of laws.
The summer is the time to put the barn in
condition for winter Painting should be
done now aud the roof should be made tigh,
| and clo.e
| /, Is said thai repairs to Pennsylvania
| fences cost about 50, 900, 900 zach year. In
some cases the Enclosures are worth more
than the land they protect.
| Nothing like a good old-fashioned sum-
mer fallow to cleanse lands from noxious
weeds and fits them for undispued occupan-
cy by useful crops.
| Success in farming comes principally from
learning how to DO very thing and the exact
time when it should be done, adding the not
| tAfa'8Rdut presumption tEdt lle idTiutI IL
| industrious aid frugal
" is the hungry rigs that are always
queaing, and it is the non. progressive,
aninelligent, lazy farmers who insist thai
farming lont pay. DR.. Hoskins.
A resident of Terra Haute, Ind, where
hogs are p.rmi ted to run at large in ih'
streets, removed the fences around his house
and has begun ll9 lawsuits to recover dam
ages from trespassiBg hogs.
Sleep eat into the ground, it is said. bu
that Is great mt rit When they are engage,
II discriminating weeds, an office in which
they display great merit.
The importation of dairy breeds of cattle
mas been much better in the last few year
than tlst of the beef breeds Importation
of all kinds have fallen of, but of the latte
more largely than of the former.
| Like the belief in witches the cram il
cream fraud has to 20 snd tn cream patron
most De paid in proportion to the fat that i
contained in lh.ir cream. not according to th
bulk of t.-Professo, Watcher.
A total of 1000 600 acres is planted t
corn this year. an increase of 800 900 acre
over 1888 That is to LAY there is an area o
about one ana one fourth acres OF corn TO
every man, woman and child in the Unitet
States.
Ii you are going to raise early lambs nov
l. the time to select the sheep The,
7h9uid be OF gooi SIZE ard constitution. an
not ies- thAn two ears Old, and shouih d.
kept gaming tr)m now Til they are ready t.
sell for mutton, after th" lambs are sold II
the spfiHg.
Any method OF preparation that witt maxi
1ne acre OF compact soil capable of produc
ing three, four or five times as much rs be
fore, and the improvement continued. il
worthy OF adoption. even though first cos
be much more than for the land itself
1t is more dliiicu.l 10 procure fresh egg
IN summer than in winter in the market
During summer many eRgs found in out
of -the-~ay nests are added t. those i'll The
basket, with tue cha ces III favor of portion
Of them being sale. whie in winter the hen
are confined to wards and lay in the poultr,
house,