Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-29

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begin to rub against everything they can
rub against, they will rub their hair off,
Their skin will have red and dry appear
ance A dry, black scurf will begin to form
on them; and the more of the corn and
meal they eat, the poorer they will get
The best thing that can be done Tor pig
in this condition is to give him thorough
washing In warm rain water, or sour milk
is best.
Coarse flour or middlings from rye or
wheat, when made into thin drinkable
slop with milk, is the best feed for young
pigs, except bread and milk. Bread is
good for young pigs because it is leavened.
Food has to ferment before it will digest,
and if fed to a young pig before fermented,
it will over task his stomach and spoil him.
Lettuce is good for young pigs. 1t will
stop the scOurs in them. The middlings
should be put with the milk at night, after
the feeding has been done, and allowed to
be in the milk through the night, never
allowing the swill tub to get quite empty,
always leaving a little in the bottom for
yeast. The swill should never be permit
ted to get stale.
! To CURE KICKING IN A STABLE.-The
best plan to adopt, and one successfully
pursued in racing and hunting stables is
to nail or tie up securely the travist post,
or other parts against which the horse kicks
a thick, finn coating Of white furze. The,
! decided inconvenience occasioned by COM
| ing into sharp contact with the sharp prick
les will speedily quiet the most vicious
stable kicker But the furze must be kept
up for considerable time, as when remov-
ed, the determined kicker is apt to return
to its bad habits Many horses rub and
even kick in the stable from itching as
much rs from service. This, of course, is
dry and stimulating, as is apt to be the case
with hard worked horses during winter. Ii
such itching is suspected, give the animal
IA small dose of aloes, allow an ounce Ofni-
tire every week or ten days in a mash. sup
ply daily few roots or some bran, and in
cold frosty weather avoid wetting the horses
limbs, which can be kept perfectly clean
with the use Of the wisp and dandy brush.
-North BRITISH AgricuAurist.
! A NEW CLASS OF SHEEP-Mr. n. NJ.
COLDS Of Franklin, made US call this
morning, with some specimens of wool from
a new grade of sheep, produced by a union
Of the Cotswold and the Leicester blood.
With Mr.. ). w. Fellows, Mr.. Colby pur-
chased in Canada thirty head last year,
which have now come to shearing. The
specimens presented are from several flee
ces that he has exhibited and which he
will take to Lawrence Lowell and other
manufacturing places. The feeces weigh
from to 10 pounds, unwashed and bring,
even in this depressed state of the market,
from 43 cents pound upward to 90, ac-
cOrding to the condition OF the fleece. The
wool Is long, but is also quite fine and CLOS
lsy, for wool OF its length. The sheep are
Iof good size, the carcasses weighing, on the
leverage, about 100 pounds. We have pre-
viously mentioned these animals i'll our
columns.-1BirrOr.
USE WOOD ASHES. If the cabbage flea
attacks your plants, scatter fresh dry wood
ashes over them in the morning while the
dew is on. If one application does not suf-
flee to keep them of, give another, and re-
peat 1t, because these ashes are excellent
as fertilizer, to say nothing about keeping
off insects. We scatter wood ashes over
tomatoes, beets, parsnlps, and in fact all
lover our garden vegetables, not in heavy
doses, but merely light sprinkling from
time to time.
The ash barrel should be keptin a handy
place where it can be visited often while
the vegetables are young
In many sections of the country. wood
ashes can be procured for fifty cents per
barrel, but we pay one dollar and fifty cents
and consider them cheap at that price to
use in the garden. All of our old and long
used soils are deficient in potash, and by
applying ashes we restore this most valua-
bic ingredient, besides destroying many in
/. furious insects.
TREES GIRDLED BY MICE.-The past whit
err has been one Of unusual damage to fruit
trees, especially young apple trees, by the
bark being gnawed off by mice. Those who
took the precaution to hill up their trees
with soil, or in case of deep snow to tread
1t well around the trees, have escaped in
jury. But il Is not too late to repair dam
ages to young trees that have not been bad
ly girdled. suppose the bark has been en-
tirely skinned for the space of six or eight
a inches. Take some gratis and insert them
nicely under the bark on both sides Of the
j gap claying or cementing them so as to
, exclude the air, and they will form 50 many
5 conduits, by which the sap will pass, and
thus saving the life of the tree, and in time
e overgrowing and filling up the gap, We
have seen apple trees that have been thus
{ saved, rs thriving and productive, years
D afterwards, as if they had never been in
I jured.
D BEGIN HAVING EARLY.-The great SUI
- periority Of early cut hay is almost univer
, sally admitted. No one argues in favor O
0 ate cut hay except as an excuse for his
T. own shiftless practice Of cutting over ripe
lgrass
r. The goth, to the 25th of this month il
Is quite late enough to begin except on cold
k late farms. The haying machinery and inn
rI,,,an+, lLD,,IJ oil bn ro,Do; ,,I "a ,,,+ :,
Is order now. If new ones are to be procured
Il not a moment should be lost in doing so
7. Other work should be disposed Of and al
o things put in readiness, 50 that when thu
/, lproper time comes, all hands can strik
l.. this most important work oft the year with
l. out delay.
- WHEAT CROPS IN MAINE AND YER
MONT.-In your paper of April 10, motto
ed a statement by Mr. NJ. +. Rice of Stet
= lsOn, Me, that he raised ia bushels Scotcl
- Fife wheat from 81 acres, using II bushel
II seed and sOwed 1900 pounds of superphOs
- phate of lime on the land. | raised on sew
! en- rods less than two acres, SO bushels OF
4, Bald wheat from four bushels of seed. II
!, the fall | spread twenty one horse loads o.
/" muck manure to the acre, sowed April q
and harvested the last of July. The Ian,
= the previous year was cropped with Oat:
- without manure. Our rich Vermont hills
- with a sprinkling of muck manure, vii
~ give Us thirty bushels per acre. Try it.
y Crattsbury, May 10, 1869. E. HATCH.
N A GOOD PUDDING.-One pint Of -four
II one half cup of sugar; three tablespoonful
IL Of melted butter; one half pint of swee
Is milk; one egg; one teaspoonful of soda
r two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar; stir we
together. Place the above on round ii
ny and steam just one hour over a lively steam
~ Serve with the following sauce: Half
a cup of butter; half cup of sugar; half
't cup of vinegar; half pint of hot water
or let it just come to boil, remove from tn
or fire, and stir in well beaten egg immed
ne ately. The above quantity will make
n desert sufficient for six persons.
70 GOOD MILK.-The following rules wei
be unanimously adopted by the Illinois an
Il, Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, ''tO il
m sure the delivery ofpure, sweet milk"
l. That no milk is good which is mac
TO from filthy, sinking water, or sloughs an
I'd frog ponds.
ne ,. That no milk is good that comes fro
e. cows logged, or overdriven in hot weathe