Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-30
Interesting Notes.

1t is never ont Of season to start a
compost heap, if YOU have not already
got one.
Give the berry canes manure and
mulch enough to make Il good growth
and cut out the old canes.
Farmers are the only general purpose
fellows we know anything about; they
are the fellows that the nation depends
upon
There is no better Indication of q good
butter COW than the quick separation of
The cream from her milk when set" in
the usual way: this is the result, gen
orally, of large fat globules.
''IIe's mean man who will pirate of
the small economies to his wife with -
cud of tobacco in his mouth or the stencil
of stale smoke upon his breath, says
| the Farm journal.
Men. as rule, will not put themselves
| to the trouble of experimenting in order
that they might find out the best meth
DDS of farming, but for the lack of inter
est and patience will follow right along
| in the Old methods.
/ There is some indication of tide of
immigration from the West. Now that
( a lot Of our New England boys have been
there and know how it is themselves, :"
a feeling Of disappointment and dissatis-
/ faction comes over them.
Sudden changes of the weather from
VAIN to cold and from cold to warm are
very irving to fowls that are accustomed
t, foraging, as the inactive condition
dnriug cold weather cau.cs them to take
,.a1i in,
houses.
1t docs not follow that boy should
BE- made 4 farmer simply because he was
born and reared on farm. Nor, on the
contrary, that y young man should be-
come a merchant or banker because he
was reared OF trained in a store or in the
office of bank
In the rush and turmoil of the com
petition it is the little savings that count
and often make business q success when
it would otherwise prove failure The
manufacturer knows to the fraction of
cent what it costs him to make yard OF
cloth.
| Butter makiug on the farm, If con-
| Quoted in bu.iness-like way. will Ger
tainly pay ne we'll. at past or present
prices, a. selling milk to cheese factor
les at sixty cents or sixtyiiye cents per
1 hundred, it being contracted for that
price the present season. If skim milk il
| worth twenty cents per hundred.
/ The ordinary sdisagreeabIe odor from
| stable manure is of no more manurial
value than the fragrance of flowers
/ The valuable gaseous element in manure
il ammonia, which is set free only when
| the manBre is in condition to be decom-
! posed by fermentation. Manure spread
| upon the surface does not ferment, con
| sequeutIy there can he no loss OF
ammonia.
/ The present census il the first that
1 has given special attention 10 the I'M
portant items in agricultural products
of poultry ard eggs. la the census of
1889 only two or three questions were
asked On each farm. yiz. BaTnyasti"
and ''other fowls on hand June |, 1850. IS
and eggs produced in 1879 In the
census of 1899 the questions are in.
creased to eight. aud separate columns
are given TO chickens. turkeys, geese
and ducks.
1.-THE demand for cheese says the
| Dairy World, "is affected hy the quality
more than almost any other article Of
| food. III this country il is as yeta COM
I parative IL xury, although in Europe it
| is as much staple necessity as meat I;
consequently the majority Of our people
pleased The average American will eat
l tea pounds Of choice cheese where he
would Tot eat one pound Of poor cheese. ="