Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-11-18


large hogsheads. 1t would be quite useful if
farmers would be a little moro specific as to
the amount of manure applied.-Er.
PRoDUcrs SUITED TO THE SoIL.-This re-
quires judgment If your farm is best suit |
ed to ain, cultivate the cereals; if for stock
and grasses, make that your business if for
fruit and wine, make that your choice, and
SO on to the end Of the chapter. But it is
always best not to ''run thing into the
ground While it is we'll enough to have
speciality. it is also well to have some reser-
we'd forces It is perfectly consistent with
good farming to raise some stock, some grain,
some fruit &c. go that If one fails the farmer
will have other resources to fall back upon.
Suppose your wheat crop fails, if you have
lot of steers or mules to dispose of you are
not crippled in your farming operations.
This is called mixed husbandry, the kind that
generally succeeds best in the West.
Dos'r Try TO WINTER TOO Much SrocK.
Let every farmer now prepare, either to get
rid of his surplus stock, or to store enough
feed to keep it ell through the winter. 1t Is
astonishing how many farmers there who
habitually undertake to get through the win
ter with more stock than they can properly
feed till grass grows again. IF you have ten,
fifteen, twenty, or thirty head Of horses and
cattle, and are not positively certain that
you have enough hay, straw. stalks, e c, to
keep them all in good order till spring, dis
pose of them before cold weather sets in
Make arrangements now, SO that you will not
be caught with barnyards full of lean cattle
and empty mows in the months OF February
and March.
L. T. W. writes the Geauga Democrat
concerning chokeo cattle. The smashing
process Of cure is objected to as barbarous.
and better pointed out. Thus :. Hold
the animal firmly by the horn and nose,
standing on the left SIDE place the right
hand over the neck on the swallow pipe down
close to the brisket, the left hand on the
opposite side Press the hands against the
PIPE and move them up toward the mouth
until the obstruction is found. Then twist
the foreinger Of both hands into the hair. and
crowd I'D with the thumbs and the obs.ruc-
ton will be thrown into the mouth. :
Hops are coming into the New York mar
ket very freely, and business is active. The
weekly exports amount TO about 600 bales.
1t is said that one-th1rd Of the English crop
is prime, one-tbird good and useful, and the
remaining third inferior. Il IS said that for
eign hops to the amount of 40 900 TO $4,000
bales will be needed.
At the Colorado fair, four cabbaces weighed
an average Of forty-fve pounds each; twelve
turnips and fifty potatoes made each bar
rel, and there were squashes five and one
half feet in circumference.
4 Charleston paper says - Some little has
been done during the present year TO encour-
age the small farming system in the state,
10 baC al ,rt-
duction in different localities will. it is hoped,
stimulate those who. from constitutional in
trinity, remain It's persistent opponents"
In England and France, dried fern leaves
are used very extensively for packing fresh
fruit, grapes especially; they seeming to
possess, to an unusual degree, the property
Of preserving vegetable and even animal sub
stance for long time.
Hardy shrubs are easily propagated from
cuttings of the present years wood. They
should be planted in a cold frame and shaded
and watered until they have formed roots.
In the absence Of a cold frame, a box without
bottom and furnished with 2 movable lid
may be turned down over the cuttings. They
should have air and water. but do better
without light until the roots are formed.
Alderman Mechi, the great scientific far
mer Of England, is challenged to farm IN
competition with undrained upland, acre by
acre. and at any expense he may name
Thorough draining, deep blowing, liberal
use of manure with fertilizers, and good
cultivation, cannot fail to produce renuner-
alive, bountiful harvests Let farmers heed
these hints and suggestions
In selecting sheep for fattening, the Wes-
tern Raral SAYS take those in good condition.
they should be over two years. and not to
exceed six years old. Have good shelter
we'll Uttered, and not more than fifty sheep
in \ lot.
The New York State Fair ct Rochester
closed October 8. he total receipts were
500 .543. So At the Fair of last year, held
at Buffalo. the receipts amounted to $50 ,23S.-
40. The Fair just closed has been the most
successful, pecuniarily, ever held By the
State Agricultural Society
The Ohio Farmer recommends that the
managers for feeding cattle be divided by board
partitions, to prevent the strong and greedy
from obtaining more than their share, and to
enable farmers to give to those animals that
need it an occasional extra feed.
In Chatsvorth, Livingston Co., Illinois. is
beet sugar factory in full operation. working
up about forty tons of beets daily. They ex-
pect soon to work up fifty tons. The per-
centage of sugar is quite satisfactory and the
sugar of good quality. The Reporter says
the beets are daily growing better. Beets
continue TO improve BY ripening till they
have been kept about four months.
Hamburg, n. Y, farmer. who has had
large experience in feeding cabbage and tur-
nips to COWS. says his practice is to feed
Immediately after milking-never before
and he has never been troubled with the
milk being favored. He also says he feeds
turnips whole, with the tops on, there is
no danger from choking when fed in this way.
For Young man who is thoroughly in
earnest, farming offers grand field for eff
fort but the man who is only half in earn
at who thinks that costly barns and
;mnorted stock, and nicely rolled lawn.
are the great objects of attainment, may
accomplish pretty results. but they will be
small ones
SorreI. which is pest to any field may
he eradicated by the judicious application Of
lime or ashes The souring principle of sor-
rel ia oxalic acid ; if this is removed from
the soil. sorrel cannot grow. Lime or potash
mite with the oxalic acid, forming oxalate
~ lime or potash. These substances are
some ti,ues called sweeteners of the soil, from
their ability to remove acids from it. Sorrel
ill never grow on lime soils.
Farming is trade; and man has to
learn it, however much he may know the
knowledre must be applied, and made the
man . business. He cannot learn it in day.
Int must expect to improve constantly. A
GOOD understanding is very good basis to
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