Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-11-10
The Farm, Garden, Kitchen & Shop.

different seasons Of the year, require
different grain food. Corn is good
for winter nse, but too heating for
summer feeding. The staple grain
for horses among farmers and livery
men is oats, but those that have used
barley and rye ground together, prefer
it to corn or wheat, for the reason
that it is less liable to founder, and
contains nearly as much nutriment
as either.
An experienced horseman says: 81
have raised a great many colts, and
have made breeding trotting horses a
study, and in all my experience have
found nothing equal to barley meal to
make mare give milk. | have found
it to no disadvantage to mares get
ting with foal, and not any while she
was so. Oats are better food for
colts from weaving time until they 60
to work.
Rye is a dangerous grain to feed
alone; it is more liable to founder
than other grain; but to mix with
shorts, or grind with oats, and feed
with cut hay or straw, it makes an ex-
cellent feed. Instead of its being
preventive to pregnancy in mares, 1t
is an advantage. | own and keep for
service one OF the finest and most
promising young trotting stations in
Ohio. | always recommend feeding
the mare boiled rye, blood warm, to
get her in season. Three quarts,
three times a day, is good feeding.
This discovery may be of great value
to breeders, and save an enormous
sight of trouble.-OhiO Farmer.
AN EASY METHOD TO HAVE HEAL
THY FRUIT TREEs.-An experienced
fruit grower, who possessed a beauti-
full orchard near the Niagara river,
Western New York, has used one
simple method with great success.
He takes I've from leached ashes, mix
es little grease with it, heats it quite
warm, and with syringe throws it
up into all parts Of the tree, branches
and trunk. 1t will efectually kill all
caterpilers, and all kinds of worms
that are either infesting the tree in
nests or running over the bark
Trees treated in this manner were ex-
ceedingly healthy, beautiful and Wig
orous In appearance, possessed a
smooth, glossy bark, and bore the
best apples of the country. The rem.
edy is easy and cheap.
CARTING OUT MANURE IN THE FALL
Our springs are often so wet that
the planting season is crowded into a
very few days, and it greatly helps
the hurried labors of seed sowing to
have the manure upon the ground
Some of our best farmers cart out the
most Of their summer-made manure
in the fall and early winter, and if
the heaps are properly protected the
value of the manure will be increased
The advantage of making manure IN
der cover is not that it is kept from
moisture, but that the degree of mOis
ture can be regulated, there being nei
Their too much nor too little in any
part of the mass. The compost heap
needs water to regulate its fermenta
ton. If it can be so constructed that
it will receive just water enough, and
so that the surface will not dry, moth.
ing will be lost. The heaps should
have six or eight cords of manure
each, should be made four or five fee
high, well trodden down, with side:
sloping at an angle of As degrees, t
shed a part of the rain, and both tol
and sides should be covered with ;
few inches of surface soil or muck
The fermentation will go on throug
the winter, and when the compost i
forked over in the spring previous t
spreading, as it should be, it will b
found very "short," aud better tina
if it had lain in the yard all winter
Most farmers have not room enoug
in their cellars and yards to store a
the manure their stock is capable o
making, aud it is a great advantag
to clean out all their accumulation
in autumn, as we'll as spring, and flu
nish new supply of muck, loan, c
straw, for the winter. A much lar.
er quantity of manure is made by tn
course. If concentrated manures ar
used in addition to those made upo
the place, they may often be nike
with the yard manure in these con
post heaps with good results. Tt
danger of burning the seed, which S
often occurs when these artificial nj
nures are applied in the hill in tt
undilutod state, would be avoide,
and if the combined manure be use
for spring grain a more even distri6
ton is atfected.-American Agricul
urist.
WINTERNG BEEs.-The honey Sc
son may be said to be over, and tt
question arises as to the best methC
Of carrying the bees through the wi
ter. Some colonies, strong in nur
bers and flush of stores, will probab
take care of themselves without exte
nal aid, unless their location is grea
ly exposed to the sweeping winds {
winter. Generally, however, it is I
garded as essential in the Northel
States to transfer stocks to the C,
lar, to pits in the ground, or to ma
the hives in straw snoods on the sui
mer stands. The last method seer
the favorite with many, as involvil
less trouble on the whole, and bel
equally safe, especially if a boa
break-wind screens the hive sta
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