The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-03-28
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

The Utica Herald says dealers are now
offering 20c. for good late ends of dairy
cheese.
Osier twigs are extensively used as
fruit-tree ties by French gardeners.
Some of the European Gardeners pro-
pose to call the faculty by which plants
climb ''Clematism.
Twenty-three hOcks. containing 1913
sheep have been attacked by the cattle
plague in England.
An exceedingly fine crop of the North
ern Spy apple was raised this past season
in Western Michigan.
From the experiments of past seasons,
correspondent of the Mirror and Farmer
deluces the average of Al gallons of ma
pie sap to the pound of sugar.
A pound of coppcras dissolved in Il
pailfuI of soft soap and applied to onions
has been found not only to protect them
from the masgot, but to promote their
growth.
1t is estimated that 1900 sheep can be
kept through the year as clIeapl;- on the
plains of Buenos Ayrcs as can 3GO in the
Norliicin Stotos of this En;on.
Descendants of DR.. j. b. Smiths i'm
portation Of Cashmere Goats" of l849,
can be had of the Caslimere Company,
Gallatin, Tenn, at $1,000 each, for pure
bloods, and Sl00 to $500 for grades
Mr. Thompson Geaunga, Ohio, has
kept record of the weight of milk in a
private dairy, and has not been able to
obtain more than pound of cheese from
a gallon Of milk, beer measure.
The number of attacks of the cattle
disease is still increasing in England ;
there being Is, 00l reported, Feb IL, an
increase OF 400 over the previous week
1t is stated that the disease seems to be
even more virulent in herds in the open
fields, than in sheltered yards.
One quart Of cider vinegar, eight on
nitric acids, one and one half ounces white
vitrio', well mixed and applied after par
ing the foot thoroughly, is recommended
by the RaydL New Yorker as remedy for
foot rot in sheep
1t is stated by the Western Rm'al that
in Fulton and Schuyler counties illinois,
where there is plenty of coal; woolen and
cotton factories are about to be establish
ed. Plow, mower, and reaper manufac-
tories are already established
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer.
thinks that in most barnyards pools or
wells might be dug so that the stock
could walk down TO the water and help
themselves. lie describes one seven feet
deep, sixty feet long on top, and ten feet
wide, made with plow and scraper.
MArLE SUGAR To keep everything
clean is this whole secret of making good
white maple sugar. And in order TO do
that, you must skim the pans every time
you fill up; and also wash out the pans
every time you syrup off; as well as to
scald out the tubs before tapping, and
gather the sap before it begins to sour
Sugar made in this manner, and stirred
off dry, took the first premiun at the W.
State Fair. AT the United States Fair
held at St, Louis, the premium was
awarded to maple sugar, which, instead
of being stirred off dry, was poured into
a can, and stirred enough TO make it
hard, so that there wonid not be any mo-
lasses There were 100 pounds OF the
| last.
sPoUTs.
When sumac or elder can be obtained
| they are easiest made from these. They
should be from six to twelve inches in
length, not shaved off on the top, but
whole and burned out the whole length
this will so far exclude the air as to render
it unnecessary TO bore over the trees
The spouts should be turned in lathe
and Of Il true taper.
TAPPING.
A scant half.inch bit is every way pre-
ferable to larger one. The hole should
be carefully enlarged with tsper-bit to
tho inner side only of the bark, and on no
account touch the bark with a hatchet,
for that will injure the tree, Tap as
near the ground as possible, and let the
bucket stand on the ground where it is
practicable. Never put more than one
spout TO a bucket, nor more than two
buckets to tree, Most of my buckets
hold four gallons-a few of them eight
and they are sometimes filled in twenty
four hours from a single spout