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

SAVE The DEAD LEAvEs.-If every horti-
culturist and farmer would think for . mo-
nent on the nature of fallen leaves-which
contain not only the vegetable matter, but
the earthly salts, lime, potash, etc, needed
for the next seasons growth and fertility
and that, too, exactly IN the proportion re-
CURED By the very tree and plant from which
they fall nay. more, if they would consider
that it is exactly IN this way, by the decom-
position of these very fallen leaves that
nature enriches the soil, year after year, in
her great forests, it would hardly be possible
for such rejecting horticulturist CT farmer
to allow these leaSes TO be swept away by
every wind that blows, and finally lost alto
gether. Nor would he give them away IS
many now do. He would rather collect from
week TO week. the leaves that fall under each
tree, and by digging them under the soil
about the roots, where they will decay. pro-
vide in the cheapest manner the best posi-
bic food for the tree. If this plan should be
tried we should not see old orchards dying
out for want of nourishment but they would
in this simple manner. receive all the enrich
ing they required. Pear trees, and doubtless
the peach, would be greatly benefited by this
procedure
In certain vineyards in France and Italy,
the vines are kept in the highest condition by
simply burying at their roots, every leaf and
branch that is pruned off, or falls from the
vines at the close of the season. VIII not
some Of our farmers of inquiring minds give
this simple process a trial this season?
1t is well known fact that no manure is
more eagerly sought for by the florist than
leaf manure. 1t enters largely into the COM
post prepared for potting- Leaves, collected
and mixed with barnyard manure, greatly en-
nance its value. Therefore gather up the
leaves that nothing be lost.
KEErlSo CoRa-We find the following
article. uncredited, in an exchange
| A great deal Of corn is wofully wasted
| after all the trouble and expense of plough
| ing, planting and harvesting This waste is
absolutely wicked. and with triiing extra
care may be remeded. In the first place. in
! husking, vigilant look out ought to be kept
that no unripe, unsound ear or half made
80 nubbin . goes in with the pile that is to go
into the crib. The pig pen is the better
place for all such material. One unsOund
ear may, and often does. damage bushel OF
sound corn.
| Next, wherever you are going to-put corn
to keep, put coal or gas tar about the prem
Uses pretty literally at first. It is an utter
abomination to rats and mice. They will not
board in corn crib favored pretty strongly
with gass tar. Half dollars worth viii
Very many people seem TO suppose that corr
may De kept in any sort of . crib, as open al
Jack Straw's house-neither wind nor water
! tight so that it is housed under tOlerablt
roof. So it can-but never long in market
able condition. While corn cribs ought al
ways to afford free ventilation, they should b,
80 constructed as to shut out all storms, eli
ther rain or snow. Better grow less corr
and keep it sound than prize crops and sell i
spoiled.
SHEEP HUsBANDRY.-The mania to get rio
of sheep is about as great as the mania to pro
cure them was when wool was bearing heayy
prices. Good fat wethers are bringing abou
So per head, and the butchers tell they
can get all they want at that price. But il
it not ruinous to pay large prices for stock
and then. when there seems to be depres
sion IN the market, run it off and get intC
something else more remunerative for the
present; and then by the time man get.
fairly started in something else, there is q
depression In that branch Of business Sheer
will pay. The actual benefit to farm j.
enough to pay for their grass and hay, and
grain is small item. With US, when some
thing must be done to raise the fertility Of
the eoil, nothing is so valuable as GOOD
flock Of sheep. To be sure they are a great
care in the winter they must be housed and
kept from the severe storms, and not hall
fed, as we have seen many focks wintered
1t seems to be a general impression that WOO
has reached bottom, and will not rise till j,
attains healthy price. If we can expec,
from forty to fifty cents in our Western mar.
kets, we can grow wool with fair remuner.
alton to the farmer, and with good prospect
for the manufacturer, at the present price o.
goods in the West.-Counfry Gentleman.
J. The Ohio Farmer specifies, among things
1 to be observed. the marking ont of the spotf