Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-06-20
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Mr. Compton, author of a prize essay
/ on the potato, states that very remark
able results are obtained by using plas-
ter, busted on the vines as they show
above the ground, and then at intervals
/ through the season. He mentions a case
/ where half a field, receiving no plaster.
/ gave crop of G5 bushels per acre the
/ others half, which had plaster applied,
/ gave a crop of 800 bushels per acre.
/ Noviccs common allow weeds to get
| several inches high before they think of
! clearing them out and DESTROYING them.
| Now, the great secret of cheap and sue
cessful culture is to kill all weeds before
/ they come up. Go over the bare surface
! of earth as often as once a week, and
/ pulverize 1t thoroughly with a rake or
skim-hoe. This will kill every weed
/ Just as it is starting, with less than one
tenth the labor required to kill them
when several inches high. Do it often
and thoroughly,
Mr.. Laws, of England, made expert
mcnts with soil owned in one family a
thousand years. lie sowed piece con-
/ tinuously to wheat for 81 years, with an
average crop Of 153 bushels per acre. A
piece in barley 10 years gave 20 bushels
per acre, and piece in grass ii years
gave $500 pounds year. This yield
consequently represented the condition
of the soil with ordinary cultivation and
rotation as practiced but similar land of
the same farm to which IA tons of man
ure were applied, produced So bushels of
wheat and 36 bushels of barley; and
with 200 pounds of phosphate, it pro-
lucp1 AZ buShplS of harley
In the publications of the Acclimatiza-
ton Society of Palermo, we are inform
ed that radishes may be obtained at any
season, and very quickly in the follow
ing manners The seeds are to be first
soaked for twenty four hours and then
placed in bags and exposed to the sun.
They will begin to germinate in about
twenty-four hours, and are then to be set
in box filled with well-manured earth,
and moistened from time to time with
lukewarm water. In five or six days the
radishes will attain the size of a small
onion. To grow radishes in winter the
box is to be placed in q warm cellar,
covered with top, and the earth moist
ened from day to day with lukewarm
water.
Young housekeepers need to learn the
art of spending well. A dollar invested
in a nice covered dish for the table, a
useful mat for the hall, beautiful tree
for the front door yard, viii give hum
dred fold the pleasure that it would in a
strip of trimming about the hem of
dress, or fat chicken for the table,
which leaves you no better satisfied
than if you had dinedoff an inexpensive
chop.
Dissolve bushel of salt in barrel of
water, and with the salt water slack
barrel of lime, which should be wet
enough to form kind of paste. For
the purpose of disinfectant, this home
made chloride of lime is nearly as good
as that purchased at the shops and drug
stores Use it freely about sinks, eel
lars, cutters and out-houses and, in this
way, prevent sickness, suffering and ex-
pense.
1t is said some farmers, in some parts
of the country, have introduced the cul-
tivation of couch grass, or quick grass,
ON their farms, for hay, because it will
grow on poor land and in dry soil.
This grass is generally regarded as of
no value and as a troublesome weed.
An Indiana farmer, after trying to