Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-21
Fruit Farm and Stock Notes.

Next sprins, do not allow single sucker
70 grow up around your fruit trees.
The losses Of cattle At sea reported for
the month Of January foot up nearly 1000
head.
Peter Henderson grew cabbage on the
sane field. year after year. BY freely using
common land plaster.
Varieties Of vegetables produced BY
crossing are spsto strike back to the stronger
Of the two varieties crossed.
The accumulation Of . number Of dogs
in any community 10 only evil. and that
continually .-Csinss's Rural World.
Thousands Of ambitious orchsrdists. says
The Massachusetts Ploaghman. have failed
BY planting TOO many Improbable varieties.
Any product having . neat and attractive
appearance 10 half sold. Bee that your
goods are invitingly prepared for the mar
ket-
Keep the soil we'll cultivated and MANFRED
10 young orchaYd-not merely around the
stems Of the rees, but over the whole sur
face.
Do not allow your young fruit trees to
be brovsed BY stock. Keep animals away
from them. or else give them complete pro-
lection.
Professor ". A. Henry Of Wisconsin,
finds oats very 6ne feed for mich cows.
They have value beyond that shown BY
any analytic.
A farmer vrites from Thsyer county.
Neb., that the prairies there are dotted With
heaps of corn, for the lumber to build cribs
costs more than the crop 10 worth.
One Of our agricultural exchanges gives
this sensible advice: I'm milking always
cit on the side furthest from the COW and
near soft spot in the pasture"
Asa rule, raise your stock instead Of
buying il. You can generally have better
stock. and you do not run the risk Of intro
ducing disease into your herds or nocks.
1.-THE nervous COW, observes the Western
Rural. Twill attend to chewing her cud, if
you will shoot the dog. and lick the boy
that goes for her like bulldog after cat :"
Farm, Stock and Home quoses thought
full agriculturalist - laying that nothing
else $50 strongly commssds . man Who ap-
plies for work - the fact that he 10 .
reader"
II Trustworthy statistics could be had Of
the number Of persons who die every year.
or become permanently diseased. from
sleeping in damp or cold beds, they would
probably be astonishing and appalling.
The Penobscot County Farmers Club
will meet At Pine Grove Hall, Brewer.
Wednesday. March 9th, ct 10 O'Clock A. N.
The topic for discussion 10 "What Crops 10
IL Advisable to Rate the Coming Season"
Boston gardener says the best cabbage
he ever grew vas on land that had grown
cabbage the previous year and had the
stamps ploughed under. He recommends
lime and potash - . preventive Of stump
root.
Have Q warm, clean, well-ventilated
house for your hens. and zee that they do
not roost on the sides Of the cattle stalls or
IN other improper places. The big beam
Of the barn 10 not the most suitable roost-
Ing place. BY any mesns.
The exports from the port Of Boston
for the week ending February l, 1890, in
cluded 81 $3.50 pounds butter and 5s4, 1874
pounds cheese. For the came week last
year the exports included Al 900 pounds
butter, 5000 pounds cheese and ICE 200
pounds oieo.
Black knot on the plum, according to
the statement Of Prof. 8. T. Maynard,
may be destroyed with . mixture of hnseed
oil. tuFpentine and kerosene. The kefo-
sene must be used With care, for II a.
lowed 70 spread over the branch it will de-
stroy it.
II is better to prune little every year
than TO let the limbs grow Wild for sue
nxs - nd = l~,~
amount Of wood which il has taken pro-
portionate amount Of the vital energy Of
the tree to produce. Annual trimming 10
mnch lees exhaustive.
There 10 much In the breed, there 10
much in the feed. and there 10 more in the
feeder than 10 either. A good feeder will
do fairly we'll with good breed and poor
feed, or with good feed and poor breed.
But good feeder putting good feed into
good breed 10 the acme Of perfection in
daifying.
The American Aericultofist announces
1855 bushels Of shelled corn to the acre,
green weight. grown last year, and 239
bashels when kiln dried. How many ave.
sore delds were there in New England that
turned out more eorns 1t also announces
1855 bushels Of oats, and 90 bushels Of wheat
to the acre. Such ylelds hold up 70 view
what 10 possible.
The following votes were cast for favor
iss varieties Of apples bv member Of the
American Pathological Society: 40 for
Red Astrachan, 50 for Early Harvest, So
for Nsiden's Blush. 30 fer Oldenbufg, ~
for Northern Spy. FaDeuse. Ben Davis and
Caroline Jane. 81 for GPsvenssein. 50 for
Fall Pippin. and ~ for Baldwin, Jonathan
and Roxbu4y Rassss.