National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-08-12
Farm Garden and Household.

uOTSeb. ne tulIhS gwen III tills way thS
horse will thrive better for this seasoning.
He says that generally pound OF rock
salt will last horse nearly month. He
has not found that the use of salt IN
crease the thirst, except when at first
given.
A DISTINGUISHED poulterer says 1T
is well known fact to owners of poultry
that the occasional Use of onions, mixed
and fed to poultry with their other food,
is one of the best ways of keeping yard
Of poultry in health. | am afraid it has
not received the attention and use that
it's merits really demand. | am well salts
fed that the use OF this vegetable would
prevent three-fourths of the disease that
spoultry yard is subject to.
MANY families about town and suburbs
of cities who have not pasture and con-
veniences for keeping COW, might keep
milking goat to great advantage; they
are easily cared for, and not costly to
keep may he fed on the slops of the
kitchen If MIXED regularly twice a day,
they Will yield a suficiency for "A small
family Goats milk is very healthy,
very nourishing, and is often prescribed
for the sick during convalescence.
EVERY farmer ought to have some few
tools, so that he will not waste so much
valuable time i'll going to town to get his
little jobs done, nor yet III going to his
neighbours to borrow. 1t costs more to
borrow than to bny A drawing knife,
couple of planes, two or three augers,
some bits, "A couple of files, gimlets, avis,
etc, will make an assortment of tools
with which farmer, with the least spark
of ingenuity, can manufacture various
articles of everyday use upon the farm, to
the saving of many dollars.
A GOOD barn, 30 by 40, fourtecn-foot
posts covered with matched stuff, and
painted two coats, with a ventilator on
its top, will cost not far from $3.50. When
second clear matched boards can be
bought for $40 per thousand, chestnut
plank for $25, and stuff in proportion,
reckoning the help at sS3 day, u barn of
the same size, of the very poorest material,
if the roof is shingled and the timber is
of suitable size, could scarcely be put up
for less than $500, with help at even the
lowest rates.
WRITER in the R,om lSo"th0wer
advises those who raise corn to commence
moment, taking the leaves from the corn
stalks below the ear, and as soon as 1t
will answer, cut the top and cover in the
shade. Lastly, house both, and STAG k
none in the field Try it once and by
spring you will see that the investment
has paid heavy per cent, Fodder il
stacks in spring is not worth much owe
half the value-weight and quality con
sidered-as if housed.
The Northwestern Farmer says that i
some half dozen sheep in IA flock of
hundred or more are permitted to wear
small bell each, dogs will give them
wide berth
1t mentions very simple instrumen
for relieving choked cattle, in the shap
of a stiff tarred rope wound at the en-
with piece of eotton-cloth, and smeare
with soft grease before using. 1t is limbo
enough to remove the obstruction.
This may do generally, but sometim,
it will not go down. and it only can /
brought mp by the most energetic man
pulation of strong man putting h
hand below it on the outside and forcin
it toward the head
The red turnip beet | have alwaS
found to be much sweeter than tn
French sugar beet it also stands til
drouth of summer better, and will yiel
quite as many pounds to the rod squur
us any other beet, the mangel-wurse
not excepted if the surface soil is onl
highly enriched. l have had turni
beets this season grow from Transplant,
to weigh four or five pounds EACH whe
set only one foot apart each way. Be,
sugar making on large scale has alread
commenced Mt the West Capt Wal
well known lumberman is plantin
many acres of pine lands with them,
Michigan and will put up Mills for ii
manufacture of sugar
The importance of grease to machil
cry. "Our clothes wringer work
hard that our Irish woman would N
use it. | touched the journals with
feather dipped in sweet oil, and it wei
like magic. My buck-saw stuck so la
M to lift me with the stick 1t was Ii,
rusty, could only attribute the stickir
TO want of setting, but greacs was ais
magical Hleover says well-greast
wagon wheels ran one-half easier to II
team than dry wheels. Grease II ma
and it will not bend if drove into Il
dryest locust post, which is ~ hard
hgnum vitae.
Cows afflicted with garget will eat pol
root with aviditv and it is certn
cure. 1t is tn diuretic tendency
pumpkin seed that decreases the milk
COWS that cat them.
A. G. CHAMBERLAIN, n florist of Broo
Ign, has been experimenting for n numb
of wears in GROWING lruit trees IN 4m
wire baskets, with n success which h
demonstrated that those who belle
trees must have an abundance of room
ensure health and life have been lab,
ing under n misapprehension. His pl
is to plant yearhng peach or other tr
trees in baskets holding four or six qua
of moss and concentrated fertilizers. I
baskets are hung up i'll the orchal
greenhouse or dnwingroom, rs may
preferred, and no more attention is ~
TO them further than to keep the ro,
well watered and the branches prope
pruned. A specimen was exhibited
few days ago grown in this manner, 4
bore on its branches u number of fl
size peaches, The tree was five V.
old, two and II half feet high, and
roots were contained in wire has
holding about four quarts.
SPEAKING or BUTTER. He1rH d. HJ
says, to keep butter good that is mad
the fall IL one thing, but to keep I
IL made in the early summer il q
another. Our best and richest butt,
made in May, june, and July, when
cows milk strong, and before the
trouble them too much. The beg
buttar may pusiIy lac KENT good fill A