Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-06-12
Fact, Note and Suggestion.

The stock of cheese in New York on NAV
!. was 26,Sll boxes, against 10, LOG boScs
one year previous.
Deeply titled sol-that which will bear
deep tillage-helps to hold back water from
supersbundant rains, and is, therefore,
safeguard against floods.
Keep the nuts on the mower screwed up
snug to their places, and oil the bearings
often. More than half the wear and tear of
machines comes from neglect
Buck~heat is in order now, thousands of
acres inviting the crop as a substitute for
wheat. oats barley and corn, destroyed by
the food -Nem FORK Has5dadman.
American live cattle are selling at eleven
cents, estimated dressed weight, in English
markets. Dressed beef is worth : "a
cents. Ocean freghts are about $3.50 per
bullock.
BY many June is considered one of the
very best months for pruning, as the wounds
heal quickly; and As the trees are grosing
better opportunity is afforded for securing
good shape.
farmer who keeps his pig in a filthy pen
all its life here it must breathe the foul
odors At Il live in the reeking nastiness of
he eats his hog
In addition to the fine quality of their flesh
the Southdoens have the great merit of early
maturity. Rams Of this breed cross well
with all the long wooled classes, producing
excellent lambs.
Early maturity is desirable quality in
hogs, and so is thin ear and graceful out
line but good constitution inherited from
its ancc stry, and strengthene' by its rearing
is worth more than all these combined.
An agricultural expert says it is better to
have a COW give three hundred pounds of
butter for FIVE years and die on vopr hands
than to give two hundred pounds for ten
wears and then make 1900 pounds of old COW
beef.
An experimenter says that if milk is to be
kept sweet for a considerable time, no regard
being had to its creaming in the future, it is
advisable to heat it at once to 1870 to 40 de
grees and then to cool it at least ifv de
grees.
| The Independence of farmers. so much
| landed. is a condition that follows a full har-
vest and good market. but before these,
are frosts floods. bugs, nail, fuogi. milhew,
/ insects blight, and long string Of etc,
| etc, etc.
| With a large class Of fruits it will often
be advisable to sell at home at little less
price than to pack and ship to market and
run the risk Of selling in a well stocked mar
ket Properly mana zed, fruit can be sold al
a very low price and yet return good mar
gin Of profit.
In the 1883 corn crop we're loaded on two
-. l.. al.
load and the wagons were placed twenty-si,
feet apart, or ss nearly n possible IN a strins
the string Of wagons would reach twelve
times around the globe, three hUndred thou
sand miles.
I'VE are too often apt to tire ourselves b.
thinking about what must be done, .ays tb'
Mirror and Farmer Instead Of CONSTANT,
fretting with the fear of being behind viii
our work. We should do fair Says vori
each day and do it az we'll as We can II i
: hard for some people TO understand that hur
rying and sighting the work is waste o
time and labor.
Floriculturists have given us fifty kinds o
roses. ami evolved chry.snthe eigh
inches across the bloom. There is no end {
the resources or triunphs Of the gentleme
who make a busines. Of Matchmaking be
. tween horsl stamen. and pis'ils. But vhs
this flower be.prinkied world is yearning 70
every DAY at this season Of the year, is a
asparagus rith two green ends
One of the things most neglected by fat
, mer. at thI. season. is the feet Of their hori
e. If farmers can be ssiisfed 70 sweat !
rubber boots until after planting, We haV
3 nothing to say. for they are capable Of SPEAK
7 ing out and shifting for themselves, but il
= too bad TO neglect the horses foot and kee
: on the shoes that we're nailed on by an hor
est blacksmith last February, shen the hoS
I needs pairing the worst kind.
= Everyone who ha. anything TO do With
. COW should learn thoroughly this fact Tn
, every annoyance and thing tina, e1cites {
/. fret, her takes proportion from both Il
amount and richness Of her yield and in jn
30 much takes money from her owners poci
q ct. man , ho will permit il TO be dom
: much less himself dog the cows bone fro
a the pasture or kick or club them about u
. barn or yards. Is not fit person To own
= have charge of cows. II is not only cruel
I. the defsnceless COW, bot is rui1ogs to b
, own fnancss, 3 reason that ought 70 apps'
Il strongly enough to hi. avsrice to comp
! ~broper treatment Of his property If human
a will not.