Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-04

Especial to Kennehec JournaD
Orono, Me, April 3.-The closing
day Of Farmers Week was we'll at
tended and was one of much inter-
est as have been those which proceed =
ed it. and the usual good was deriv-
| ed by those in attendance at the lee
lures. This last days work is sum-
| med up briefly as follows:
THE Small Fruit Garden for the
Home. by II. L. Sweetser, Professor
of horticulture. L. of NJ: mo home
owner has yet appeared who cannot
be tempted by the satisfaction of
fresh berries right from the garden
or by some of the products manufac-
tured from the surplus of small
fruits and brought from the stored
supplies in mid winter. The variety
of fruits which can be produced in
these small gardens located near the
1 kitchen. is sufficiently wide in range
so that the most faStidious may Sc
lcct combination certain to appeal
to the appetites of the family. Prob
ably most individuals in planning n
supply of small fruits for the family
will think first of strawberries as the
quickest berry to grow and ripen in
the spring. Raspberries. currants and
EooseberrieS will follow along in
| close order and it is not out of place
to include some of the domesticated
blueberries to give variety to the as
sortment thru July and early August.
Every lover of strawberries will
want few everbearing plants to
supply this berry again after the
middle of August on until freezing
weather. Blackberries will come al
so i'll this period and the fall bearing
raspberry will continue to produce
fine fruits even after many frosty
nights. Thus it is that a supply of
fresh fruits may he available almost
constantly from the middle of June
sometimes earlier) until Jack Frost
appears with his supply of ice crys-
tails to announce that winter is al
most here again."
The Wood Problem" by Professor
b. c. Helmick, L. of NJ: Even with
the prevalence of witch grass, orange
hawk weed and charlock, in our
fields it is almost impossible to be-
lieve that the weed loss to the Amer
lean farmer amounts to several mill
lions of dollars year. However,
when the most of us think of weeds
we think only Of the worst of our
common weeds and are sometimes
much surprised to find that some
plant we have considered a beneficial
plant is, to someone else, a bad weed.
As an example of this, | was told a
few years ago that in truck gardens
our common white clover was bad
weed; and in several states the po-
tato becomes a weed in the grain
fields following potatoes. For a weed
is not weed by virtue of its being
certain kind of plant but because
it is growing where it is not wanted.
In other words, a weed is a plant out
of place
Poultry Conveniences and Labor
Saving Devices" by o. NJ. Wilbur,
Poultry Specialist. Extension Serv-
ice. L. of NJ, delivered at Poultry
School: The amount of time and
labor required in taking care of any
given number of hens depends to a
large extent upon the arrangement
of the houses and upon conVenienceS
and labor saving devices used in do
ing the daily routine of chores. The
size of the pen itself has an import
ant bearing upon the amount of time
required in taking care of hens. \
study made from the results Of a
large number of poultry accounts
kept by poultrymcn in Maine in CO.
operation with the Extension Service
of tile University of Maine showed