Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-05
Keep Something Growing on the tasd.
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There is a crossing belief that it is almost
as bad TO have iani die 10 have human
being idle Thu. belief is being carried IN
to effect more esp cially in the communities
where land for tillaze il most valuable but
1t contains, ii correct. a principle that can
be applied in any farming community.
! In this manner successful farmers are
causing their land TO produce from the air
portion Of lis own fertilizers. In this
| connection the fol5xing interview with II
prominent farmer on ting reasons why he
raises rye to plo~ under his corn land viii
be found interesting
The reason !. that for number OF
wears have planned 10 maze these ex-
De riments. but when the time came TO bury
the rye my courage failed, and chose to
| harvest IT, Bur thought il over and over
1 again. ant 10 the fall had a good crop
of rye that could not get good price
for 40 thought woGli tx my courage
4 for the n.xi year. plahted all the
!, land had up. to rye; all that had 10 use
I for corn. found it quite Inc 1pensiye,
aud | kept the land from wasting 1t
, looked much better ia the spring 1t did
not require much courage to plough 1t IN
der; what manure the rye took went TO the
corn, and if I had not done it, the land
would have lain idle" ~ ~-.
you don't believe in idleness them
NO, sir But these were not the only
or main reasons. The question of nitrogen
Nc4me to mind. 1t is too expensive TO buy
Ills fertilizer. but then thought that four
ffths of the air was nitrogen and every
stalk of rye was tube filed with it, that
the crop under the soil would make it loose,
The ground would be porous and cause heat
md fermentation under the corn, and that
probably the laboratory Of Nature won d
york better results than either fertilizer
factories or experiment stations.
Mature is good chemist their"
Certainly. She knows that heat ard
fermt NATION are life and health under the
7 corn but death TO ensilage in the silo, 0p-
Grating something as carbonic acid does IN
case Of humanity, causing health in the
'ustomach but death in the lungs then de-
-rided to pillow under my rye. So that have
increasing faith in air nitrogen, heat, fer
~menta'on rye, corn, ensllage. and the twin
clio, if each is properly used. III.
Flies.
Where do all these flies come from? is Il
Iquestion " hch is asked many time in the
course of the SUNNI in nearly every farm
sehouse In answer il may be said that they
come from where they were bred by whole
sale il farm incuhators and reared in the
brooders which too many people maintain
sbecause they can do it so easily by simply
.jletting things alone. Flies have a work 10
DIDO. and are hound TO do it. Thy are nat
.ural .cavengers AMI the more filth
there is about the premises for III NJ
Ito hatch in the more need there
will be of their services and the supply vii
keep up with the demand But III doing
I. this work they are apt TO mix things in a
manner not approved by fastidious tastes
We think person is a little too notious
who THU ks that fly has injured piece Of
pie by aligLung on il but that fly has six
y great FIAT feet, and if we could see how thes
are smeared Nth the filth, poison or per
haps germs of dangerous disease from lns
last eling place, we should wonder thai
. 10 few people die in summer time H. 49,. +.
There are more horses kept in the stahl'
than formerly when they did less of til,
! farm work. II the droppings of the hors'
are lift Oh the floor tso days the mass Will
he alive with maggots which are the .larAN
of the common fly, which in few days
more will come forth as filthy and impudeut
"a their ancestors. If the loose manure l.
{ dumped into light cellar or thrown out ii
"a lie, the situation is but httle better
{ Co.s on most farms are stabbed q night
!, and alsothlpts used that ke' p the. manure
\ light and in good condition for flies to
ibrsed in. All stalls that are used for
ac,tle or horsts should be cleaned and the
efoor swept with stiff broom AMI the
manure put where pigs can WOrkIt Ovsr
eanI psck It down This will greatly redu
athe, number of flies about the buildings
sThen there is the mud around the sInkspout
which ia often too near the kitchen windos
anyway, and is neglected until flies breed
in it, ~.. T.. E.
Proper care of these things ard buryinQ
o all dead animals or foN Is about the farm
, should he insisted On not only by farmers
wives bat by board, Of health in all places
l. The plague of HES il btd enough to de
q manl that all b., done that can be. and th'
dtuxer of their sprea ilug disease should
enable ;he legal authoritl' to enforce this
demand Mirror AMI Farmer.
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