Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-03-20
Farm Notes and Items.

In Southern Florida the crops are re-
ported as being utterly ruined BY frost.
Did you ever know Of an overproduction
Of the best quality of any kind of farm
products!
Be an honor to your occupation and not
expect your occupation to confer honors
upon you.
The testimony is universal that it pays
every family that owns garden 70 raise its
own small fruits.
Wheat 10 now carried for half = cent a
ton per mile on land, and from half cent
to three cents 4 bushel on the ocean.
All animals are benefited by change of
food occasionally, and every one is injured
that 10 allowed to stand on cold, wet floor.
We plead for shade in the pastures. If
there are no trees erect q temporary shed.
profitable.
The exports of farm implements during
last year amounted to %, 625 900. This is
gain of almost 81 900, 900 over the pre-
ceding year.
Every poultryman should hatch his hens
Instead of buying them; for then he can
breed for what he wants, and will know
what kind Of hens he has
Whatever influence the grange may exert
in public affairs. its fraternal relations
should never be lost sight Of These should
be kept sacred and inviolate.
What is "clipped" oat? 1t 10 one that
has had its sharp. bearded point taken off
by a machine designed for the purpose, and
is rendered much more valuable thereby.
A ffteen-mile journey 10 an average days
work for horse. How far does the COW
travel in q poor pasture, nipping penney
weight of grass here and there, to get her
daily ration?
II. C. Adams, president of the Wisconsin
State Dairymen's Assoc alton, says that
since that society was formed twenty years
ago the average butter yield per COW has
increased sixty per cent.
It is not the loss Of sap, but the wound
that Injuries the maple tree. One spout to
q bucket is enough, and it 10 the opinion of
good judges that ~ much sap is obtained
from one spout ~ from two.
Water is 4 very important article in but
ter making. Doubtless much bad butter 10
traceable to the use of bad water. The
water ought to be pure. or at least free from
all organic matter and from all deleterious
minerals.
The excellence of the COW. Whatever else
may contribute toward it, depends largely
upoa we'll developed digestive organs; and
plenty of feed, of good quality and Of suf-
a,;o k,,lL h, tk< !.
velop these organs.
There is no one calling which Of itself
gives 90 good . chance for acquiring useful
knowledge as the farm. The farmer at
every step comes face to face with the
secrets Of nature, and has the opportunity
to acquire knowledge from the fountain
head.
There 10 a growing demand among buy
ers of dairy cows for q record of produc.
ton ss we'll A. q pedigree. Nor is it enough
to know that large quantity of milk has
been given. Buyers want also to know
how much butter fat and other solids there
10 in the milk.
Prepare the seed for spring use, mend
the harness, FIX the wagons and the plows,
repair the stables, barns and all outbuildings
get paint and brushes for woodwork and use
it thoroughly. There is lots to be done in
doors when it 10 vet or knowing outside,
and the hand Of the dilgenr maketh rich.
If you grow vegetables for market, profit
will depend upon getting them into the mar
ket early; and if you grow them only for
home consumption, you do not care to wait
all summer before you can have mess"
So the hot bed or cold frame is useful for
the early starting Of plants in either case
Professor Sanborn SAYS 1.-THE world
is to-day one market, and our farmers are
working in . commercial sense right along
side Of the four-cent labor of India. Of the
miserable Russian peasant who lives q
dogs life, and by the side of the fresh fields
of Australia and South America, where
life 10 much simpler than here
About eight sheep will eat a. much a.
one cov-but often eat what COW will not
touch. 1t 10 best in pssturing to give the
COW pasture to the sheep, when the cows
are turned out. They will clean it up.
With three pastures. sheep and cows may
be rotated in this way and one pasture be
all the while recuperatng preparatory to
turning the cows into it,
What is horse good for without nerv-
Gus enereyf What is COW good for with
out nervous energy! What is q man good
for without nervous energy7 But must
any Of these have a nervous and sensitive
that constantly requires sooth-
ingS There 10 . vide difference betwix,
nerve and nervousness The one means
strength, the other weakness.