Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-10-20
LEACHED ASHES.

Tor years. Age does not injure but
improves it, absorbing ammonia from
the air. Leached ashes still contain
some potash, most of the phosphates, !
much lime, silica, &c. These ashes
are good on any dry soil needing these
elements. But operating as an absorb
ent of ammonia, they are an excel
lent application to sandy soil, which
does not possess the power OF holding
volatile manures. There is no doubt
but on a light soil these ashes are
worth even five dollars per ton or
load. Two loads of leached ashes
with three loads of barn yard manure
upon an acre of sandy soil will pro-
duce more effect upon crops than ten
loads of manure without the ashes.-
Rwal Nea0 Yorker.
To Stop CATTLE FROM JUMPING
| read a few years since that if we
would take pair of shears and cut
off the upper eyebrows it would stop
cattle from jumping. had young
OK that would jump most any fence,
and was obliged to keep him in the
barn. | cut off his eyebrows, and
turned him into the yard. He attemp-
ted to go over the bars, but only got
on to them-crushed them-and went
"heels over head" gathered himself up,
ran off into the pasture; and that was
the last day that knew him attempt
to jump. J. I. FL.
Charleston, Vt.
The CABBAGE WoRM.-Mr. Editor:
i notice in the papers an inquiry
in regard to the cabbage worm. set
out in my garden, early, some cabbage
stumps and cultivated them well, and
expected to have some large early
cabbages; but | noticed the leaves
were being eaten, and thong LIT at first
that it was the chickens, but on close
inspection found it to be a green worm.
| had never seen or heard of the kind
before. On inquiry | found that my
neighbours cabbages were similarly in
tested. The only thing l have found
to stop their ravages is salt and this
[ did not learn in season to save but a
few small ones on the old stumps and
but one from the seed. j. T. H.
Charleston.
wedding POTATOES WITH SHEEP. -
1t may not be known to farmers in
general, that it is a common practice
in some of the potatoe growing dis
trictS to turn hocks of sheep into the
pOtatoe fields for the purpose Of eat
ing down the weeds. The sheep will
not touch a potatoe vine; they cannot
be starved into eating them. This
pasturing with sheep is very advan-
tageous when the crop is late plant
ed one, so that the hoeing cannot be
completed before haying or harvest is
finished. At growing season it is the
planters aim to keep down the grass
and weeds SO that they may be cover
ed with dirt by the cuItivator and hoe
when they are used. Pasturing with
sheep will attain this end. Early plant
ed crops, the cultivation of which is
complete in the first half of the sum-
mer, frequently become grassy and
weedy before the time of digging
when the size of the tops precludeS
cultivation. In this stage the sheep
are economical weeders. 1t is hardly
necessary to mention that the food
thus given to the sheep make double
profit, inasmuch as it costs absolutely
nothing, while labor is saved and
weeds prevented from seeding in the
crop.-Western Rural.
SAVE THE DEAD LEAvEs.-If every
horticulturist and farmer would thinE
for a moment on the nature of falleI
leaves-which contain not only tn,
vegetable matter, but the earthly salts
lime, potash, ETC., needed for the mex
seasons growth and fertility-an'
that, too, exactly in the proportion re
quired by the very tree and plan
from which they fall; nay, more, il
they would consider that it is exactl
in this way, by the decomposition o
these very fallen leaves, that natur
; enriches the soil, year after year, i
her great forests, it would hardly b
) possible for such a rejecting horticu
turist or farmer to allow these leave
: to be swept away by every wind thu
: blows, and finally lost altogether
J. Nor would he give them away, q
: many now do. He would rather co
l. lect, from week to week, the leave
that fall under each tree. and by di
s ging them under the soil about tt
e roots, where they will decay, provid
in the cheapest manner the best poss
l. BILE food for that tree. Ii this pla
l. should be tried we should not see o.
; orchards dying out for want of nou
n ishment; but they would, in this sill
t. Pile manner, receive all the enrichir
1t they required. Pear trees, and doub
# less the peach. would be greatly be
Is Gifted by this procedure.
2. In certain vineyards in France ar
It Italy, the vines are kept in the hig
l. est condition by simply burying
f their roots every leaf and branch tn
d is pruned off, or falls from the vines
E. the close of the season. Will N
IS some of our farmers of inquiriI
IS minds give this simple process a tri
" this season?
ID 1t is a well known fact that no N
Of nure is more eagerly sought for by t
ut florist than leaf manure. 1t ente
G. largely into the compost prepared