Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-11-24


IMPROVEMENT OF SANDY AND GRAvELLv
SoILs.-Mr Adam Anthony, of North
Providence, furnishes the officers of the
Rhode Island Society for the Encourage
ment of Domestic Industry, an account of
the mode in which he has very successfully
improved his farm The farm consists OF
$50 acres, hut deduciing so acres Of the
wood, 10 in "na,ural pasture" and 10
in wet meadow, there is but ~ acres suita-
BILE for tllage or hoed crops. The princi-
pal portion Of these 70 acres, is very
sandy, with subsoil Of sand and gravel, y
and was originally very poor Mr. A. took
possession Of the farm in 1926. "Tbe
crops Of that year, were 5 tons of English
hay, 0 Of bog hay, 3 Of oats, 200 bushels
of potatoes. 300 of turneps, some fruit, and
a supply of garden vegetables for home
consumpiion-worih including pasture feed
1886. The produce of the farm last year
(ls47) was by estimation, 200 tons o
green fodder for soilng, 100 of hay, % o
millei, II of dry corn fodder, GAO bushel
Of potatoes, $50 bushels Indian corn, 81
bushels apples, with other fruit aud gardeI
yegetabes-the value Of which, inclusive
of pasture feed, is 1855. Nearly ten-fol'
increase in the products Of the farm"
Previous TO 1926, the sandy portion o
the farm had been put to Indian corn ant
rye, at intervals of about six years, aD'
had yielded about eight bushels Of corn
and about FIVE bushels Of rye per acre
The rye was sown on the corn hills--n
grass seed being ever sown. II was of S
little value for grazing, that 70 acres, hal
in wood and half in pasture, rented i
1926 for Sl5. This same pasture produC
ed last year, more than half the crop
above named.
, The basis Of Mr. Anthony's improve
ment, has been the application of tedehe
ashes. The products obtained by the Us
OF ashes, afforded The means oil keeping
larger stock and increasing the quantity
, manure the manure permitted the intr'
duclion of other crops, which being col
! sumed on the farm, laid the foundation L
\ larger yields and more extended culiivatlo
|. To TRAIN 4 Shy or SKITTIsH HoRsE.-
e Never strike him for swervng, as this W
/. increase his fears but gently rub him
the face, and walk by the side Of his he'
" 10 tne CAUSE Oi dlhiini anu lct hiH OAohh
= il then go back and let him slowly a
proach the object again repeat If necess
ry. We were once training high spir
ed aud skiiiish colt, and he stopped wi
alright at lock Of hay in The road \
gently led him 10 The frghtlul object. al
allowed him to eat il to show him his fol
a. Notwithstanding his spirit aud shyness,
y taught him to stop short or lie still at I
r I. word icha, (long a, that he might dist
L gush from the word gO) on any emerge
cy, even il lying uncomfortably in sn'
, re bank; aud we taught him 10 stop sudd'
ly, Whenever the harness broke or hal
fell, even when travelling rapidly in ds
night.
:, Lead horse carefully over bridges
III his shyness abaies but il he contin'
shy always lead him over bridges that
not well rallied, when you have any per'
mr.. in the carriage, as lives have been lost
IS, horses springing suddenly from Bird
nd and plunging into the stream,
Ms Cole on Diseases of Anim'
~ To CLEAN on PAiNT.-The best III
= for cleaning oil paint is sponge, dip
in ammonia, which has been coplonsly
on luied with water. Soap dissolyes the
les, pentine as well as the linseed oil. aud