Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-25

Anoeg your f4rIs duties i the duty
Of taking care Of yuur hesith. No other
| is more pressing
Separator milk Is generally fres&y.
being flied with air. add does not keep
a well a. failk ereame By grIyi-aticns
Ammonia is the best saggested remedy
for tee-stings. a. it neut ralizes the acid
injected by the sting
II you want TO make good reputation
81 breeder. donr sell poor animals II
you do. you will b: judged by them
Connecticut has queer Law whi-h
makes il inizdemeapor - set up an
empty beehive oct In the woods or
waste plsees-
Remember that the food of young
animals should Away. be about blood
heat " hen fed 10 them. This will NOT
only prevent, or fher avoid, bowel
troubles, but better promote the growth
Of the animal.
The Orange County Farmer declares
that no fowl that gets its living By for
aging around the stables and dunghIiis
IL fix for human food.
Corn growing or wheat growing
either, Is not played out In any locality
in the tnited States where skiilfai aud
enterprising farmers are 10 be found
The law declares the mission of the
agricultural colleges h b. the teaching of
..sach branches Of le .rning as relate to
agriculture and the mechanic arts
The statement that hay from the quick
grown grass Ut an excessively wet season
won't weigh more'n fourteen hundred
TO the ton has truth Ia it, though per
haps not ENTHUSIASTICALLY exact.
The Boston Post declares the modern
strawberry ''is nothing more than mag
nified phantom of the ambrosi4l berry
that existed before the gardeners took it
in hand for Improvement
Dr. Lawes. England, found that un
manured land averaged u ! bushels of
wheat per acre FOR thirty six years,
about the average annual yield OF the
wheat crop of the United States.
If you want money, earn it, If you
wish for confidence, prove yourself
worthy of IL. it takes longer to skin
An elephant than a mouse, but the skin
is worth something
Horace Greeley recommended deep
blowing to turn up the second farm. A
friend followed the advice and found he
had buried the first. 1t took the second
farm several years 90 become productive.
Mr.. \. W. Cheever of the New England
Farmer, referring to the Crescent, says
he never found any other strawberry
from which he could fill so large a dish
without moving In the bed.
By turning over hive of bees, Il
farmer caused sudden change of base
on the part of a gang of tramps who
took possession Of his yard and impu
IDENTIFY refused to move on"
1t is mistake to think that man who
has never been able to make Il living at
anything else--who has failed in every
thing else-can go into the poultry busi-
ness and make grand success" of it
When the chicks are droopy you may
be sure that something is wrong with
the hens. Lice and diseases do not come
spontaneously, but from causes. The
chicks come out of the shells free from
lice or any ailment.
Prof. j. W Sanborn says of the agri
cultural colleges These colleges which
seek to extend knowledge OF the applied
sciences may be looked upon in their be-
nign influence upon humanity As the
most important higher educational
of all time
A writer in the New York Tribune
says michael Angelo could pose the
human form in LOO different positions,
which makes it clear to my mind that he
was not only genius of high order, but
an extensive onion-grower as we'll"
Very happily, agriculture deals with
more Of the sciences than any other in
tlustry, thereby causing agricultural ed
ucation to become more nearly liberal
education than that necessary to any
other industry. or, as it is often called,
profession. Very nearly the round of
natural sciences is involved.
Food creates heat, consequently We do
not need as much in summer as in win
ter, nor should it be of the same nature
Most digestive difficulties so prevalent
now are caused by eating too much or
the wrong kind of food. The best diet
therefore for hot weather is milk, fish,
fruit and the vegetables, it being always
understood that these last are to be
freshly gathered. t
Better cultivation and fertilization of
the soil Increase production and ought
to save labor This should reduce the
cost and give cheaper food to the con
sumer. In this way, by increasing the
purchasing power of the consumers
money-for we are all consumers-rath
than by an increase of prices and profits
should we look for the increased re
wards of toll. There * too much effort
made to put up prices instead of to put
down cost.-Mirror and FatHser.