Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-04-11
Farm, Garden and Household.

someWnaI reduced quanllty OF flcher
milk for some years, when they gradually
fatten and dry up.
PEAS should be sown carly. If on
scotland, we should pillow as soon as the
frost is out of tho ground, and drill
in the seed, 3 bushels per acre, as fast as
the land is plowed and narrowed. After
drilling roll the land smooth.
OATS do not require as careful culture
and nice Judgment as barley, but they
will repay far better treatment than they
generally receive. They will grow well
on nd too mucby for barley, and
great crop is sometimes obtained on
heavy clays,
Cows. - Treat them gently. Card
freely, water regularly, and feed liberal
ly. Nothing is better for COW at caly-
ing than good hay and warm bran-mash-
es. Give all the water the COW will
drink, but for week after calving take
the chill off it.
NARROWING MEADOWS AND PASTURES
Ia often very beneficial, and we are sur
prised that the practice is so generally
hGSlCCltu. L NV IhlCp DOlDCo w a. Ilt1N
row, and get on and ride. Harrow the
field both ways, and lap, if necessary
The result will justify the trial.
OATS AND PEAS sown together is q ia
vorite crop with some. If the land is
rich enough and in good order, and the
crop is sown early, great amount Of
valuable fodder and grain may be OBJ
tanned per acre. We would SOW two and
a half bushels of peas and and oTe and
half bushels of oats per acre.
HORSES that haze little to do during
the winter, and have been kept princi-
pally on straw, should now be fed more
literally and gradually accustomed to
work. Let them be well groomed
When brought in heated, rub them dry.
Do not suffer them to be blanketed in
the stable, unless very much exhausted
from hard driving. In this case put on
a blanket, and iub the legs, ears, etc.
BARLEY, taking one year after another
is a well-paying crop on good land and
in the hands of those who know how to
manage it. But it is a poor crop on
poor land. Oats will pay better-or
rather, lose less. AS rule, the earlier
barley can be sown, the better. On very
rich, mellow soil, sown early, one and
half bushels per acre, drilled in, is suf
ticient seed but on average good land
two bushels is not too much.
To CURE CoLDs.-To cure colds, and
slight catarrhal affections, drink freely
OF hot composition tea, on retiring, which
should be made as follows: Add one
half teaspoonful OF composition to one
pint of boiling water, and cream and
sugar to suit the taste; to be drank
while hot. If the cold is in the head, a
teaspoonful of pine tar should be poured
upon some hot Goals, and the smoke
allowed to remain in the sleeping room
and inhaled during the night. Arepeti-
ton OF this treatment for one or two
nights is usually efectual.
MAKING Corn WITHOUT HoENG. Al
ter twenty years experience in the cul-
ture of corn, L am prepared TO say that
the hoe can be set aside as soon as re-
planting and thinning is oyer.' In order
to do this, the land mast be well broken
and pulverized before the corn is plan
ted. The distance between rows should
be from five to six and a-half feet in the
drill, according to productiveness of the
land. The corn should be dropped, af- !
ter going twice in the same furrow, with
an eight-inch shovel. Whom the corn is |
covered, it should he four inches below
the surface. The first blowing, put Just
enough dirtto the corn to FIJI the furrow
half full second blowing, the fulrow
can be filed. This leaves the corn level, |
and the ground is not too high for you
to dirt the corn while blowing the third or
last time, Be careful not to break or dis
turb the corn roots the last two plowings.
Corn planted and cultivated in this way
will stand a drouth much better, and
the blades will not turn yellow, as they
always will do when the roots are broken.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FARMERS CLUB.
A VICTIMS. G. Fargo, Yankton, d.
T., wrote to caution the public against
sending dollars to n certain party in
Minnesota for Pricllley Ash seed. He
had done so, but he had neither seen his
dollar again nor received his Prickley
Ash seed.
LEAcHED AsHEs.-J. W. Gustin, CAN
ocho, Mich, asked if leachcd ashes
were good for grain, and how they
should be used. A farmer present said
they were, and could be used with bene-
tit in quantities of twenty to one hun
dred bushels per acre. He had never
known them to burn the land.
USE OF PLASTER. "A man without
name wrote to say that applying plaster
was robbing Peter to pay Paul, for what
one field gained another lost by it, Mr..
Bragdon said be had found his crops
much improved by using plaster, but his
neighbors who did not use it got poorer
as he got richer. He had found winter
grain and oats much improved, as well
as clover. DR.. Sylvester said his neigh
bors used it with good effect on their
corn.
SHOULD HE RAISE WHEAT OR MAKE
BR1cKs?-Albert Force, Tyrone, n. Y,
had piece of clay land, and wanted the
advice of the club as to whether he
should put it into wheat, or make bricks
or drain-tiles on it. The Chairman
thought if this man was rightly named
he would be able to determine that ques-
ton himself. If he could dispose of
bricks or tiles to good advantage, and
his clay was of the proper kind for
them, he could learn by using his own
proper judgment which was best for him
to do.
SUNDRrEs--A new mole-trap, adapted
also to rats, was exhibited, which was de-
clared to be worthy of advertising for