Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-08-11
Agricultural.

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most four stalks in the bill, than it will
with five--that is, il the hills are at usu-
al distance from each other. "Crowding
plants is like overstocking pasture, or
endeavoring to make fat animals from half
rations of food. 1t is dividing among
many that food which is required TO per>
feet one. It, moreover, tends to exclude
light, heat, and a free circulation of air,
essential TO the development of yegeta-
bles, and perfection of their growth
Hence, moderate number of plants will
give better product than great many,
upon the same ground, in crowded sit>
uation."
Turnips usually stand too thickly.-
Carrots should be six inches apart, beets
eight or ten; parsnips about the same,
and mango!d wurtzels one foot. Cab
bages are often much crowded, and so are
tomatoes and many other plants. Better
thin them out at late season than not at
all. Feed out the fresh plants to the
various kinds of stock.
CLEANLINESS FOR PIGs.-In discus
sing the diseases Of swine, the Scottish
Farmer sensibly says:
We remember once hearing an old
woman remark, that "sows just required
"a much care and attention as bodies"
and the truth Of the observation is con-
firmed by the experiences Of all the larg>
est and most successful breeders of pigs
in the kingdom. Without cleanliness and
comfort the human species cannot thrive /;
it is rendered more liable to all kinds OF
disorders and kept in dirty styes, with
little room and bad ventilation, and fed
out of filthy troughs, swine languish, or,
at the best, take on fat much less rapidly,
and are more likely to fall prey to the
first epidemic reaching them, than il they
had met with kind and liberal treatment.
LET Your DOMESTIC ANIMALS HAVE
SALT.-Animals that are permitted to )
roam in the salt marshes are generally
the most healthy; they consume large I
amount of saline material. The antisep- j
tic property Of salt is too well known and =
by most husbandmen, and
the farmer might as well think of entire. .,
ly dispensing with food as to fail in sea- u
soning food with salt. No animal can
long exist without salt; in the stomach :
it operates favorably, and has a healthy I
action on the liver; it also prevents the Sc
God from running into fermentation and IN N
s death on intestinal parasites. &C
To KEEP RATS FROM HARNEssEs.- an
Take about tablespoonful of o d wi
syenne pepper, and mix thoroughly DC
With every quart of oil used. This will an
revent the rats and mice from gnawing ed
be harness, and also prevent horses and ca,
otis from chewing their halter. Another thu
gning himself "Sadler" writes: Aloes low
in oil, will prevent rats and erI
lice from iujuring harnesses OF. to ty,
ne gallon of oil will suffice. en-
, the
PREVENTION OF THE HoovE.--When Z
eat cattle and sheep eat too much red en-
lover, their stomachs soon become so inc
luch inflated with gas, that without inn thu
,ediate relief they often die in few 90
ours. We have known neat cattle to dill
e hoven aud die, in defiance OF all ef- or
orts to save them, even after they had or
een grazing in clover field more tiian We
wo weeks. Where they can have ac- SO
ess to other grass, they will seldom eat
'nough clover to make the bloat but, as nc
Don as they are required to subsist en- t tu
rely on red clover, unless they have free to
ccess to an abundance Of salt, there is u, 10
,reat danger that they will eat too much. IF
We have always been accustomed to =
;eep salt in tub in the field, where the
took were grazing on red clover; and z
he animals would eat freely of it many 1t
lines day j.; and we never had an animal a.
Affected with the hoove, as long as the OF
alt tub contained good supply. tn
BUDDING FRUIT Budding
ian be commenced on the first of July,
md may be continued until the first week
IN September, though it is not go certain
after August. Downing, who is good
authority, says that budding may be COM
nenced in the following order, as they n
come into season: Pums, cherries ap. ~
ricois on plums, apricots, pears, apples, -
lectariues, and peaches. Trees of con-
siderable size will require budding earlier a
han the goung Seeding stocks, but the tn tn
operation is ways and only performed 'O'
when the bark Of the stock or parts sep
'raies freely from the wood, and when
he buds Of the current years growth
ire somewhat plump, and the young wood
$ growing firm. Young stock in the =
nursery, if thrifty, are usually planted
'ut in rows in the spring, and budded the
anne summer or autumn. We prefer TO
raft apples, pears, and plums, They
10 better--in fact, never fail if we'll done
and grow twice as much the same sea.
on than If budded. Cherries, peaches. n
&C., are much more certain to grow il u
udded. III
KEROSENE FOR SQUASH BUGs.-A zle
writer in an exchange says: 81 took t eS
ONE of the oil, and with feather passed Pr
lightly over and under the plants, suf. vii
ciently to diffuse the odor among them /; \
hen took up position, at suitable dis.
lnce, to observe the result and soon
iscovered that the operation was a com
lete success; the bugs would light down
the plants and Immediately fly off. /
assed through all my vines twice in -
70 days with the feather, giving the
Ills general odor, and the bugs troubled N
o no more" NE
get
The object of hoeing corn and root by