Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-06-08

ale made money as Il farmer, at good, old, honest
But be wished to make 1t faster, and so began to
He sold hia farm and pu. the cash into mining
scheme,
And now he runs An ash car, behind q one horse
team"
Making "skim cheese" is going to ruin
American sales in foreign markets and in
our own.
Cheese is the most nutritious Of all
foods. One pound is worth more than
two Of flesh meat.
The coarse woods are not s'rustlers"
like Merinos and cannot withstand so
much Indictment weather.
Vaseline is excellent for removing
warts from cows teats. 1t must be APP
piled several times during week.
In any enterprise it pays to get an
early start. We never regret, as time
passes, having done our work in season.
The Western Rural" advises against
employment OF any help uugentlenanly
before children or cruel to stock.
England. Scotland and Wales have
40, 005 gardens of less than an acre,
being nearly double the number of the
same size seventeen years ago. Britain
is land of gardens.
Every sheep keeping farmer should
select, at starting out. suitable plot
for dog burying ground. Plant deep
whenever you have spare time and don't
be afraid of overseeing.
According to the commissioner of
agriculture. the poultry products Of the
[ nited States last year had farm value
Of at least $500, 000,0 900, and no less than
II, o00, 900 dozen eggs were imported
The duration of raspberry planta.
ton depends upon the variety cultivated
rs well as upon the nature Of the soil
and care given the plants. Ten to four
teen years is about the average under
good culture.
This ripening process makes cheese
more digestible and nutritious. The
curing (refining the French call it,
develops fat in the cheese. A well cured
kim milk cheese contains more digest
bile nutriment than a fresh whole milk
cheese,
Professor Hunt Of the Illinois Expert
ment Station, in an address on the value
Of corn-fodder. gave the results of exper-
imeuts covering two years; the verdict
of those experiments being that corn
fodder, which includes the corn on the
Ear, was equal in value to the best timo-
thy hay.
1t is astonishing to see so many farm
implements and machines left out around
rhe barn and in the fields, exposed to the
weather. these tools cost considerable
money, and they receive more injury
while thus lying idle, but exposed to
bn ba, hat Il 30
use on the farm.
The American Agriculturalist advises
when the oat crop does not promise
well to be harvested in the usual way by
reaping and binding to cut it earlier the
same as grass, rake up in light wind
rows, and as soon as dry, stow away in
the NOW. This makes first-rste hay for
cows and calves.
l am very happy to state we are,
believe, through with boarding hired
help. And what a deliverauce! We
have built house and now hire man
and family, who board the extra hands,
which makes a vast difference for the
better. Corr. Nebraska Farmer.
The overhead checkrein is refined and
steady torture, not only for the strain
backward of the neck, but because the
horse cannot see the ground on which
he is stepping The swayjng of his
head from side to side Is evidence of his
trying to find relief.-Boston Transcript.
In the good judgment of one reviewer,
BLACK Beauty" bids fair to surpass
every other single visible agency in
awakening popular repugnance to the
cruel abuse of the horse" It is public
service TO mention that this admirable
little book is sent, post paid, for 10 cts,
to any address by the Humane Society
10 Milk street, Boston.