Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-09-13
Farm, Garden and Household.


organization by which the price OF farm
produce may be controlled.
A Wisconsin man has recently pa
tented machine for picking cranberries
by horse power.
The Milwaukee Chamber of Com
merce are already alarmed about their
capacity to store the 40, 900, 600 bushels
of surplus grain they calculate upon
seeking a market there. A special COM
mittee have had the matter under adj
visement.
Mr.. Dougherty, the keeper of a hotel
In Greensboro, Ca, sold last year S114
worth of Bermuda grass hay, from a
measured acre of land in the outskirts
of the village. This year he has sold
the first cutting for $50, and he thinks
the second cutting will yield larger
amount.
The latest prescription for the potato
bug is gas lime, sprinkled over the
vines when they are wet with dew or
rain. One who tried this cure IN gar
den "where the leaves were almost COW
cred, says the effect was wonderful,
and the next day not a DOTylOhOrG was
to be seen, " the last solitary straggler
having quietly stole away"
The flesh of the best goat in the
world is inferior to that of sheepas NUT
ton, and goats are subject to diseases of
as troublesome character as those pc
cullar to sheep. A sheep can be raised
as easily as goat, and wool is a vast
staple for which there is a worldwide
market Sheep are more docile than
goats, and more manageable.
F. G. McCauley, West Salem, Ohio.
writes to The Western Rur0L: [ saw a
beetle attack Colorado slug and kill it.
The beetle was of the genus COleoptera,
sheath wings, steel blue; thorax dia-
mond shape and flesh color; head flesh
color; slx-legged, antenn@ about one
third the length of the body; nimble
IN action; it was not as large as the
slug, but much stronger; it killed the
slug for its juices.
A NetU England Farmer correspond
ent tells the boys that the way to get a
woodchuck out of a stone wall without
tearing it down is to take q piece of
wire about three feet long, place both
ends in one hand, and put the curve at
the creatures nose. He will usually
lay hold, and being unable to let go
when there is steady pull, he is speedily
brought to daylight and destruction.
When horse coughs as soon as he
commences to eat his hay or grain, it
may be taken to be a case of inhamma-
ton of the bronchial tubes, which, if
not corrected, will soon result in diff
Guilty of breathing, known as heaves.
Feeding dusty or moldy hay has fire.
quently caused bronchitis, or chronic
cough which has ended in case of
heaVes impossible of cure, and only re-
heVed by total change of feeding.
1t has hitherto been the custom in
France to use in the harvest field for
sheaves bands prepared from rye straw.
and sold at 30 francs per 1000. But
these rarely served beyond single sea-
son, and suffered also from the attacks
OF rats and mice. The plan at present
coming into favor is to use bands made
OF tarred cord, with light wire hook
at one end and series of knots at the
other to bite into it. These sell at the
rate OF 80 to so francs per /, 900, hold
good for four years, and, after binding
the sheaves, are used to bundle the
straw when threshed. A binder, it is
said, executes three times more work
by having the bands prepared. The
hook end is kept under the left foot
when the sheaf is to be tied, the binder,
by means of q hand crook in light iron,
draws the knotted end under the band
Itself and home to the hook.
The County Fair.
1t seems to us that no farmer of any
intelligence can afford to ipnora his
county fair. It is proper to saw this
here and now, since the fall fairs are
soon to open. When we say "1gnore, -
we do not mean that it is enough that
the farmer shall attend the fair as evi-
dence OF recognition. He should show
something thereat. Why? Because.
theoretically, at least, the county exhi-
bition is an index of the county's agri-
cultural condition, of the enterprise of
its farmers, of their skill and care as
cultlvators, of the character of their
live stock, of the elements of wealth,
natural and acquired, with which thew
operate. The stimulus of local pride
alone ought to be sufficient to load the
tables with field, orchard, garden, dairy.
and household products. Local pride
is a good thing. 1t should be cult.
waited. Its demonstrations are ALWAYS
1h'Soul1Shuo, SluC6 Uu6 reputation
OF locality depends in large degree
thereupon. County and township fairs
are excellent places whereat to make
such demonstrations. The stranger
looks upon the fair as means of form
ing judgment; but he often errs. be-
cause 1t is too often the fact that the
best farms and farmers are in no sense
represented at the local fairs. They Law
back and growl and grumble because
the fair management is in bad hands,
or is not managed con the square," OF
because fairs are "played out" I'm
fortunately, fairs are playing out be-
cause the best men hold themselves
aloOf from them.
Fresh Butter in Winter,
AS a general thing, butter is scarce
during the winter season. and fresh
butter bears high price. By taking
proper measures, which include having
the COWS to come in from October to
January a warm, comfortable stable.
frost-proof dairy, clover hay cut in
blossom and we'll saved, supply of
carrots, perfect cleanliness in the sta
BILE, and plentiful supply of water free
from ice or snow, with daily drinks Of
bran or oatmeal slop slightly warmed,
the dairy may be made as prolific and
far more profitable than in the summer.
The butter will be yellow, hard. and
will keep fresh longer, and from it's
scarcity at that season, would bring a