Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14
Farm. Garden aud Household.

SALT all animals at least once a week.
Get rock salt, and let them have access
to it at all times.
MANURE. Cart to the orchard when
ever convenient and place in small heaps,
but not in piles around the trunks of
the trees, as it does no good there, and
often serves as harbor for mice, espe-
cially if it is coarse and littery
INJURED TREES that have had their
branches broken by winds or storms,
should have the wounded surface smooth
ly pared and then covered with coating
of shellac varmish or melted grating
wax, to prevent the water penetrating
and causing decay.
YEARI1NG SHEEP should be kept in n
flock by themselves and be fed more
literally than the older store sheep If
fed principally on straw they should
have from half to three-quarters pound
of grain per day, and if of the long
wooded or South Down breed, pound
per day will be none too much.
Mich Cows. -Farrow COWS that are
being MIXED and fattened at the same
time, must have an abundance of rich
food-say four or five quarts of corn.
meal per day, with cut stalks or hay.
Beef is now low, but so are milch-cows,
and it will probably be letter to dispose
of farrow COWS that are fat than to keep
them another season.
EARLY LAMBS for the butcher must
have warm, dry quarters, and the ewes
must be well fed. Nothing is better
than clover hay and bran, with say half
a pound of grain per day Roots, of
course, would be a great help Water
regularly. The lambs should have a
place, into which they can run through
a small opening, separate from the ewes,
and be fed in small trough all the corn
meal and bran they will eat.
PICS should have warm, dry, well-ven-
tilated pens. Where straw is abundant
let them have enough to bury themselves
in, aud change it frequently. Clean out
the pens every day. 1t is little trouble
if done regularly. Let the young, grow
ing pigs have all the food they can eat
Feed three times day. See that they
do not suffer from want of water. There
is no cheaper food for pigs than oat-
meal and mangold wurzel-and nothing
that will push them forward more rap
idly.
INsEcTs,-Now is the time to prevent
canker-worms from ascending the trees,
the warm days which often occur this
month being favorable for their move
ments. Their ascent can be partially
prevented by placing around the trunks
bands of paper which are to be kept
coated with tar, taking care to renew
the coating every few days, or as often
as it hardens. A great many Tent-cater-
pillars eggs can be destroyed by care
fully searching the trees before they
commence to develop their leaves the
eggs are attached in rings to the branches
near their extremities.
How TO PRODUCE MILK.-At a meet
ing of the Massachusetts, and New Hamp-
shire Milk Producers Association recent
ly, different milk producers gave then
practice in answer to the question
"What is the best method of raising
milk ?" We quote: Reed, of Licking
ton, feeds his COWS three times day, dry
feed including hay, four quarts of shorts
two quarts of oil meal, and one peck OF
oats for each COW daily. He milks at {
A. NJ, and 5 P. M, giving the cows water
after every feeding. Hills, of Groton
got all the water he could into his COWS,
as he had learned the more water the
more milk. One COW will now drink o
tub OF water at once with little meal put
into the same. Men cannot make money
in raising milk at present prices if the
COWS are fed on good hay. Wood, o.
Groton, makes more milk than he car
sell, and is diminishing the quantity
Of meal, giving his COWS about one-half
and if the prices of milk are net better
than at present, he shall not give his COWS
any meal. 1t costs him 60 cents can tc
raise milk, while he is selling it for less
than 40 cents a can. Bartlett, of Mil
ford, n. H., said it is not all in feeding
cows to have them give large flow o.
milk, but much depends upon the care
and treatment of them-regularity o
feeding and milking. They should be
MIXED regularly, quickly and quietly
There should be a very free use of sail
in feeding, since the more salt the more
water, and the more water the more milk
He had taught his own COWS to eat az
much salt as possible, and that was very
large quantity. Stone, of Marlborough
feeds his cows only twice day, steamins
all the food given to his herd e; has tn,
milking done regularly and by the sam,
person. Hutchinson, of Milford, n. H.
steams all the feed given to his own COWS
most thoroughly sailing the same, so tina
one COW will drink from one to tire,
pals of water, three times per day, or afte
eating each of their three meals. ON
COW some times gives twenty quarts o
milk day. Gaut, of Groton, finds hi
cows to increase in flesh and flow of mill
byfeeding them on cotton seed and Indial
meal.