Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-02
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The daily consumption Of eggs la the
United Stsfes Ia estimated AZ 45.Usl.Vgt.
II foxis have pierty Of ashes or dGs,
10 saiiew in, they will dispose Of the
lice and keep then Of
Nox II the time to lock after the milk
| dow by supplementary feeds SEE that
the water In the pasture il all right also.
| Aan Will manage to live and be shift
less on farm longer than 10 any other
place, unless ie be- the almStioa-e.
Farmers cannot BE- too careful how
for the destruction OF rats, Insects, and
other pests
Wick says. .Don't fuss too much over
yc1r plants. They like TO be LET alone
wheA they are doing their best, and ~
DO goa.T
uIf farmers had 10 buy eyerythil <
they can raise On the farm. same As city
people, or go without them, then they
might cry hard times
\ high authority has said, and il Is
truth. that 30 department Of science j.
incapable of welding Instruction 10 the
tilier of the sol.
In Michigan. several farmers are rails
iDg potatoes under a simple covering OF
straw some laid the potatoes on the
.od, without blowing.
Think OF r Eufotisama's live weight
was $40 pounds. ard she yielded 81
pounds . ounces Of butter In year. or
III per cent more than her live weight.
Sixty million pounds of bogus butter
1 a
of those who paironize public places
for eating, and crowd our just 40 many
pounds Uf honest butter.
Possibly this may be a better time for
sowing grass seed than later. We be
lieye ia late fall seeding, but clover can
cot be sowu then and it can now with a
fair prospect Of winrering.
Dairymen are slow to go into winter.
dairying, or alI-the- year-round dairyiDg
They labor under the impression that 1t
l. necessarily very expensive. In this
they are mistaken
As weed destroyer sheep are unex-
eelled. They are fond OF browse aud
many kinds Of weeds which other stock
will not not touch. ard as they gnaw
closely, the effect on most weeds is ratal.
| The son and successors Of the late
George Campbell of Westminster. Vt
great sheep husbandmen. say that they
never had their ewes give a. much
milk for their lambs Is by the use OF
easilage.
| Let the farmer, If he wants his chill
| dren to live easier than their parents
give them a liberal agricultural educa
ton, 50 that they may manage the farm
better and get along with less physical
drudgery.
! No other occupation offers greater al
vaDtages for Il practical education. The
| farmer becomes at the start producer
| "A manufacturer, chemist and mer
chant His opportunities for self-eultur,
are superior To those of any class.
| There can be no reason for u farmer
working himself, or making his met
work. sixteen hours a day, and thel
spend an hour ut night in doing chore,
about the barn, stable and yards. There
is no economy ia wearing ourselves GU
! young.
l. has become necessary to become
specialist in certain lines. A farmer
should not undertake to do everything
Some will not take advantage Of the re
suits of experience OF Others, and con
sequently are driven 10 the wall in tn
struggle for existence.
It Is no easier to keep poultry than t,
keep other stock, as labor aud prope
management must be used to NEE; sue
cess. Les capita may be required il
poultry, hut it must he iudiciously eX
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