Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-04-29
AGRI ILTtRAL BULLETIN.
Interesting Letters From Hancock
County Farmers.

/ OF agriculture last y eek contains the fol-
lowing letters from Hancock county:
BLUEHILl.-In regard to stock feeding,
l do not knox A. | hive learned very
much this winter TINT would h- OF inter
est to the readers OF the BUiietin. 1t has
been my experience 20 fer TINT Mulch
cows viii do better when fed fifteen
pounds or more OF hay or fodder with
talr amount of gram, than when fed ten
or twelve pounds OF hay with an in
creased grain ration. YoIug stock seems
10 do rs well on coarse f0odrr with roots
and small amount OF gram, rs when fed
good hay ana more ETuin. ! think We
should raise more grain Hud more roots.
j prefer turntps tSWede~) to nangoids
fhsy may not he quite 50 valuable, but 1t
requires less work to raise turuips and
they do not need so much dressing. In
answer to the scCrctarN's other quest ions,
would say, briefly, that believe We
should select he KIND of stock that VIII
yield the most III the long run Then
keep all the stock the farm VIII carry,
save every ounce of fertilizer that can be
made, and then buy ali the commercial
| fertilizer we can use profitably. We
should study to reduce the cost of pro-
duction to the lowest figure, and keep
strict account OF all business carried on.
IL. b. GRAY.
AURORA find less stock but it is worth
more. There is not nearly 80 much
fodder on hand. | have fed moved oats
the past winter with good results, to both
COWS and sheep. think oats much more
valuable cut for fodder than hen left to
ripen and threshed. Also the ground, II
you are seeding down, is in much better
condition il the fodder is cut early than
when it is left to lodge, which will kill
ont the young roots. l do not work on
| the land until the frost is out, not even
to haul manure, then | spread manure
aud pIow it in-not too deep-then furrow
shoal and use a small quantity OF ferti-
Iizer in the hill. cultivate often and
never failed to get good results. / have
| raised four hundred bushels OF potatoes
to the acre. like dressing and blowing
in in the fall for potatoes the following
| year-but most farmers are compelled to
use barn dressing too green. l think
barn dressing should be kept over one
season il best results are obtained.
A. f. MACE.
SOUTH PENoBsCoT-The ground was SO
wet last fall that people could not do
their fall blowing, so 1t will have to be
done this spring. There is not as much
stock in this section as last year. In one
neig Dor hood four yoke of oxen have
been sold hat girted over seven feet each,
and they have not been replaced. Sheep
are doing well, lambs coming strong; one
man has twenty one from thirteen sheep.
| In regard to feeding, have always been
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! twice. feed three times day all they
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+ that | now report my success with the
/ sllu about which wrote you last fall. |
have " iutered eleven COWS Two YEAR
llugs, and two horses. anG have used 50
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