Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-07-15

! Irasbl4rgh, w., June / g., 1868
The Hagerstown, Nd, Free Press states
that in that place the locusts which are about
emerging from the ground, causing sad
devastation among the swine, the hog,
eagerly devour them. large number OF
.osses Of this kind are already reported.
Equal parts by weight of white lead and
dry sand, mixed with linseed oil to the CON
sistence of putty, makes good cement for
leaks around chimneys.
4 New Brunswick correspondent of the
Country Gentleman furnishes the following
account of a strange freak of a swarm of bees
- Last fall one of my neighbors discovered,
while moving his oats, colony of bees,
which had taken up a Judgment on two this
ties stalks, and built comb, and bred there
till they had a somewhat globular dwelling
conta ming about cubic foot Of comb, they
had no shelter whatever except the thistle
and standing grain.
To sort potatoes or apples, stand upright
and save the backache 1t is more healthy
Make platform 3x3 feet with sides four To
SIX inches high. Leave gap at one corner,
to pour out from. Set the form on barrel
or other support, and pour a bushel at a time
of apples on 1t, and sort them standing 1t
The Hahfar Poutrg Chronicle says that
chickens may be relieved of lice by making
them sleep on pine shavings. The turpentine
in the pine does the work. If this is so, We
should infer that grown fowls might be cured
of them by applying spirits turpentine to their
roosting poles. But fowls that have plenty
of fresh ashes to walow in are not usually
troubled with vermin.
Mr. Vanmeter, of Salem, New Jersey, says
50 Most of our farms along the Delaware river
and inland creeks, have meadows. Some oil
| these meadows are classed as number one foI
grazing purposes. The portions called inferi
or are noted for producing herdsgrass. The
cattle will not eat the hay; it is thrown after
threshing into the barn yard for manure bu
the seed is in great demand, worth at the
present time 81. so per bushel Some farm
ers the past season have received from SlOnt
to $4,000 for the seed, according to the mum
Der of acres in meadow Here is proof o
the importance of cutting herdsgrass earl
for hay. If allowed to ripen its seed, it i.
nearly worthless for hay.
The BEST STRAwBERRIEs.-A. b. Butler
of Columbus, Ohio, gives in the Farmer ,
Chronicle, his experience on the culture o.
the strawberry in Central Ohio For largr
plantation for market purposes. he recon
mends the Wilson for the first half, and tn,
LUCINDA for the last half of the season. The
Wilson comes in nearly early as any of tn,
valuable sorts, and gives it's best fruit il
about two weeks. When it begins to fa
the LUCINDA comes well into bearing, anc
continues to produce its uniformly larg,
sized berries to the close of the season
Mr.. j. Harris says, in the American Agri
cuhurist, that 9 clover is unques tioaably The
great renovating crop of American agricul
ture. crop of clover, equal to two tons o
hay when plough.d under, will furnish moe
ammonia to the soil than twenty loads of straw
made manure, drawn out fresh and wet in tho
spring, or than twelve tons of our ordinary
barn yard manure" He, however, thinks
it nearly as we'll to make the clover into hav
| feed it out, and care ully save the manure, :
that is there viii be little loss in the value o
the fertilizer, and may be profit from the
feeding.