National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-01-20
Farm. Garden and Household.

Farm. Garden and Household.
SWEET BREADS make nice relish far
either tea or breakfast. They must be
first scaled in water in which little salt
has been dissolved, and the stringy parts
removed. Take them out and put them
in cold water five or ten minutes. Drain
them in a towel, dip in egg and bread
or cracker crumbs, and fry in butter Il
light brown. When they are done, if
wished, place on dish, pour ina little
cream, salt, and pepper, and very little
chopped parsley; sprinkle in little
flour, let it boil up, and pour over the
sweet-breads.
SALT FOR SWINE. Swine are such
greedy feeders that not "a few farmers
pay very little attention to their feeding.
The swill-barrel is often very little better
than sink, and the poor hogs are ex-
pected to eat any thing and every thing
which is refused by the other animals
human and brute alike. This short
sighted treatment, however, works its own
cure, or punishment rather, for swine
thus treated make poor pork, and often
die before killing time. Others who are
particular about feeding their pigs forget
to supply them with salt as they do
other animals. They require to be salt
ed, however, just rs much AS cattle,
horses, or sheep, and suffer rs much
when neglected as any of these animals.
II the food he not regularly salted there
should be trough or box in every sly,
IN which salt may be deposited regularly
for the use of the animals. Sailing the
food judiciously would be much the best
way.
SPREADING MANURE In going through
the country We see much of the manure
drawn out lying in heaps and it is apt
to lie there till spring. VIII people never
learn the great error of treating manure
in this way? Here is the principle =
Take lump of manure, apply it to the
soil What comes in contact with the
outside the only part that can come in
contact-will receive some benefit from
the manure but the rest, the greater
part by far, remains bound up in the
lump. II on the top of the ground
much of the strength goes off the at
mosphere gets it +; the rest goes into the
soil Immediately in contact with it, max
ing this part of the land too rich, the
other not rich enough. If the lump is
buried, much the same is the result, only
the ground gets all the strength, but only
that part coming i'll contact with it and
Immediately below it, thus giving the
subsoil part which should have gone into
the soil above.
1t will be clearly seen that this is an
evil. This same lump scattered, pulver-
lied thoroughly, mixed intimately, all
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the benefit to the soil, whether applied
at the toy and left there, as in meadows,
or narrowed in, as in the popular and
good way. At is lthe contact of all the
manure at once that is wanted Then
1t is secured then it is immediate in its
effect.
Now, to draw manure out and let it
remain in heaps, as is done, is to treat it
as the lump was treated, giving it
part to the soil that is in immediate con
tact with it, the rest all the while going
into the atmosphere, SO that these ma
nure heaps are but bigger Jumps" en-
riching too much what they come in con
tact with, showing lodged grain or lodged
grass where they were. The rest, faded
and deprived of its strength, goes to the
rest of the soil, but to do it little good
The way is, 10 spread as tce dralr, and
dra,c as IL is maote if possible. This is
the way to get its strength. If the fluid
parts in the stable have been secured
by absorbents, the full strength will thus
be obtained. Close to the soil, in fine
--pulverized> condition, the gruond will
hold what the atmosphere otherwise-in
lumps-might get The rains will ram
it into the soil and in the spring they
will be i'll fine condition. With the
heaps left until the spring, the ground
only i'll immediate contact with the ma
nure will be benefited the rest of the |
land receiving nothing during the winter. |
In the spring the heaps will be frozen ,
there will be difficulty of reducing them
finely, and it is piece of work we
never like to do then. The other land
manure spread in the fall-works up
mellow, and black, and rich, all of it !;
here'you get the benefit in the other
case You certainly do not.-Rmd Ne,r .
YORKER,