Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-07-31

Apples about equal to potatoes. good feed I
with bagas, for fatting hogs, both need
boiling. Bagas may be fed raw to cattle,
and store hogs.
Jersey Sweeting and Harrison apple,
preferred for feeding, about equal quantl-
ties of each. About 100 bushels of APP
Piles, picked by the hand from the trees
last fall, and laid into bins, say foot deep, |
have kept without any picking over. till
this time, June | lth.
Gen. H. keeps $50 sheep, Merinoes
and Saxony, have produced, for three
years past, 8 lbs. IL ounces of wool,
per head. Turns off about 20 fat sheep
annually, consisting of old ewes and
wethers, years old. Lambs all come
in May; rams altered when month old.
Horses preferred for most kinds of
work, especially ploughing; keeps one
pair of oxen, four cows, and from four to
young cattle. Uses for these horses and
cattle and $50 sheep, 90 tons of hay. an
nually. Keeps cattle principally on straw
corn stalks, and ruta baga. Horses which
work, grained, others lie in the yard
Cows and oxen stalled, make more ma
naure and require less food.
Has six hives of bees called the " Cham.
:, Der HiYe," having two chambers or small
boxes, which slide in and out, and can be
1 removed when filled with honey. Thinks
:, them preferable to any other kind of hive
q within his knowledge.
i Stable manure better to be housed -
7 coarse, long straw, if in considerable
Quantities, better to be exposed to rain anc
y snow. Manure always best to be plough
" in Immediately after spreading, and a
a soon as practicable after it is carried int,
Dr. the field. When thus treated, toadstool
n often appear on the burrows few DAYS al
Oh ter they are turned, especially if succeed
m ed by rain. Uses about five tons of plas
~ ter annually.
KS His barn, rather two barns with she
VS. on the west side, on N. and S. line,
4 l86 feet. Northern end, on an E. an
LIST W. line 90 feet. Sheds sufficient for a
O. his sheep and cattle, not stabbed. Celia
as in the barn, sufficient for 500 bushels
ne roots. Wheel way in the barn in the z
'r- story.
I'M Keeps two hired men through the sun
OF mer; for three months, help averag
lot three men; during the winter, one-
Harvesting, embracing grading, rakin
ne and carting, sometimes done by one day
Q" work to the acre, upon an average su
,ay poses it 1 Ia days.
lax Wheat is the great object with Ge
10 Harmon, as it is with most or all the ia
Is mers in Wheatland and the adioinir
oil country; but he, in common with most
pm all others, supposes, that as much whe
ytn can be raised with the amount Of stock
lm' keeps, or in that proportion, as with
ats more than would be necessary for the b
siness and family use. 1t is general
cry supposed that the wheat crop may be CT
ne sidered as clear profit as the wool, m
eat ton, pork, and occasionally some beef
live cattle, may pay, on farm of two
VI three hundred acres, all the expenses
oe- the business and of the family.
Tx, In the reports of the farms visited
cut, shall pay no regard to their comparat
and value, either in soil or management,
uiry prefxing the numbers, and OF those VIII
licn may succeed, may be unable to give
De- names of the owners, unless, in the me
ncn time, should hear from them, as sho
Ilng deem it an improper liberty, to use il
aeat public Journal the name of an individl
ned, without his his consent, or substan
APP reason to believe that he would not w
the hold it. Respectfully yours.
the JOSIAH HoLBRooK
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