Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-10

other. The barns are nearly empty. They
must be prepared for the new crops OF nay
and grain. If a barn should need shinglIng,
this ought to be done when it is empty, 80
that the nails which fall may be cleaned up
We know case of a cow which dieo from
swallowing nails in the hay. these were
| found in a large mass in the animal stomach
! Hay lofts and BAYS should be cleaned, and all
the hav seed and rubbish removed before any
hav is placed in them. Old hay is good, but
! It is best not to allow it to accumulate from
year to year.
Working Animals must be well fed If one
| expects them to work well. Oxen worked
all dav and turned into the pasture tor the
, night, without grain of any kind, cannot be
expected to do much work. Give horses
| thorough daily grooming. A gill OF OIL
meal mixed with the feed at each meal, Will
give glossy coat, and is excellent ingred-
lent in any mixed feed given to them, or
other animals.
Cows are now at pasture, and the fresh
grass adds greatly to the flow of milk and to
its richness and color but this should not
lead us to withhold all grain. A small
quantity Of oil-meal or corn meal, or the two
mixed, say one quart divided between the
morning and evening. should be given.
| HA.URE-If cows are yarded or stabbed,
very large quantity of manure is saved.
! We are too apt to look upon the manure
crop as the harvest of the winter. With
reasonable forcthought and diligence the
I manure heaps will grow quite as fast IN sum-
mer. We have one great advantage-fer
mentati0n takes place much more rapidly );
hence ccumulations Of vegetable matter,
! fresh, or in form Of muck and peat, if com
/ posted with stable manure, ashes, or lime,
very rapidly ferment, and ripen into homo
! raaHyr fAr ms n the aUrnmD
| Swine are widely employed as the snmmer
manure makers, and they are worth SO much
more as rooters than 50 tanned, that 1t Is not
| worth while % ring or - tame them.
until they are penned to fatten. Conflne
them where they may have conveniently,
scds, weeds and all sorts Of green rubbish
thrown to them to work over. If upon the
manure of other stock, encourage diligence
| by scattering occasionally handfuls OF corn
about the heap. If muck or sods are used
| in the COMPOST, swine Will often tread 1t 50
! hard to arrest fermentation
! SnEEP.-A few days ftcr the ewes have
been sleared all the ticks and most of the
lice Will prefer lamb to mutton. and be found
upon the lambs This Is therefore just the
light time to dip the entire flock. We have
great faith in the carbOlic and cresylIc soap
dips for sheep and when this article can be
obtained, there Is need of having any
thing 10 do with either vegetable or min
eraI poisOns such as tobacco, arsenic, or
mercury in any form. If sores, from too
close sheaTing or sun scalds, occur, smear the
wounds with an ointment of tallow and pine
tar.
/ BUrTER.--June butter is considered tie
best made during the year. Good butter
makers pack it to keep the whole year. There
is no difficulty about it if the buttermilk be
I ,HcrourxIlv tr,rl-aJ rho bnttar ita1
ounce to the pound, and worked again after
standing II - 81 hours. 1t is packed in
LAYERS IN firkins. with thin layer Of salt on
the bottom, and salt between each layer
The butter must be packed air-tight, if pos
sible-t that is, without holes-and pounded
down fiat and solid. The less butter is
handled, the better, and the lower the tenn
! perature at which it is worked, provided it
! be soft enough to work thoroughly, the more
waxy and firm will it be. If the tub cannot
/ be filled at once, cover the butter with a
strong brine.
| GREEN FODDER CRoPs.-Sow corn in drills,
81 10 go inches apart, for succession OF
green fodder. This Will keep up the flow of
milk, and add greatly to the butter and cheese
returns of the summer, especially if the pas
lures are a little Overstocked, or the season is
drv. Millet may tie sown any time this
month. for seed as well as for green fodder.
Hungarian grass, a variety of millet. sown
Tor hay, on land in fair condition only, Will
ordinarily yield crop of two tons of good
hay per acre.
7 Pastures may be benefited by top-dressings
at any time. especially if close cropped.
/ They respond at once if wash from the high
ways be turned upon them. Never overstock,
tut provide early green fodder crops to feed
out BET re the fields 50 far denuded as tC
be liable to injury from drouth.
Mow1NG LANDS Glover which is clean
enough for seed should be cut early. when
first c)ming into bloom. Top-dress with fin.
manure, ashes and plaster, or guano and
plaster, and good crop of seed will be a:
sure as crop of corn Cut mixed grasses
for hay, beginning when clover is in full bloom
before the heads brown, and cutting those
fields first which have the most clover Cur,
as much as possible in the shade-that is il
the cock, after thoroughly willing in the sun
If the Or-eye Daisy abounds in the grass, i
i most important To cut it for hay before thu
stalks harden, and for the future welfare o
the farm it is more important to cut it befor
the seeds 80 nearly mature that they vii
10 ripcn in the curing of the hay.
RooT-CRoPs.-C arrots and Rutabagas ma
he sown to as good advantage between the Is
, and Goth of June, as earlier, considering tn
! pressure Of other work and the slight diffel
o ence a few weeks make to these crops. ST
gar Beets and Parsnips will make fair croE
q also if put in as late the first, but sowin
. should not be delayed after that time.
n FIELD BEANs.-This crop is generally plar
It ted before the Goth, if possible. Use oni
fresh, tender seed. Two years-old seed wi
: surely disappoint-
:. CABBAGgs can hardly be oycrrated as a
o economical article of cattle food. The onl
4 objection to raising cabbages as a dependenc
It for green fodder in winter is, that their mai
G ket price Is usually great that we came
n afford to feel them out but the same objet
n ton holds with regard to many other article
n of human food Set out the Flat Dutch
n Drumhead Mason. or other large varieties
|, after the middle of the month"; in good sol
e well manfred with fine compost and toy
dressed with lime.
HOEING Corn AND PoTAToEs.-All tillag
L Of these crops goes by the name of hoeina
= though done with harrows. cultivators, Q
= plOws- The two-horse cultivatOrs are fas
u taking the place of hOrse-hoes Of the old pa
: terms, and greatly ri plify the operation {
= hoeing corn, by leaving SO little for the han
: hoes to do. The harrow should be used VI
on potatoes until they are fairly up, and tn
. field is green After this, light plows an
cultivat0rs do the work. There is no Gro
which requires more thorough wedding tina
potatoes, and none more generally neg ecte
and more damaged by them. Agricuturis
E MUTToN SHEEP.-An English correspondent
e of the Country Gentleman, after abiding
t the fact that from six to eight thousand hoJ
/ gest ,''-yearlings sheep-are sold every Sat
a urday at Norwich market, at from S12 I
: el4 80 per head, remarks that these She
4 are nearly all what is called half breed, j. e