Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-10
Farm, Garden and Household.

earn 80 for each farmer in the vicinity.
A man in Dunleith, Ill, who cut off a
colts ears with his jack-knife, was fined
50 and costs. rs lr fr a.sa.. "a. s .-..
If wealthy business man loses mon
ey on farm it is all right-it goes back
where it came from. rra.rlr -. Id
One might as well skin horse and
expect IT to work for him, as to skin a
farm and expect it to grow crops. ~
1t is said thata great source of mis-
fortune to men springs from their not
knowing when they have good homes.
Labor saving implements give the
farmer power and time. Power to Gull
tlvate the soil--time to cultivate the
mind. --If-....E .-. --.f-...
1t is estimated that fully 200, 600 farm
ers in the Western States have organized
for mutual protection during the past
few months. f-s '''.t .--..
The prediction is made that corn will
be worth 30 cents bHshel in Central
Illinois next August, and year hence
twice that sum. ........
In a recent public address, a speaker
said that we are debtors to birds even
In the winter and early spring months,
for then they destroy insects. rf-
The Fairplay Colorado Sentinel
boasts that it is published at greater
altitude than any other paper in the
world-lO, 060 feet above the level of the
sea.
If the people of New England would
apply tenth part of the ingenuity to
farming that is bestowed on rnachinerv
they would have the first farms in the
world. NJ.
If hired mar will adopt good habits,
keep neat, ard spend his time in read
ing, he VIII be treated as an equal of
the family, or he will have q family of
his own that will be superior
An infant was recently ushered into
this perplexlng world in house, in
Lewiston, Me-, which holds as its ten
ants, the child's parents, two grand
mothers, two grandfathers, four of its
aunts and an uncle.
The last idea about fencing is to plant
treesfor posts, and when they are strong
enough, string wires from one to anoth-
er. The kind of tree is unimportant,
but OF course fruit, nut and maple trees
Will be more profitable than deciduous
trees. On the plains where fruit trees
Will not grow without shelter belts, cot
ton wood and white or golden willow
may DE planted.
The following plan proved perfect
cure for paving horse: Iprocured a
leather strap just long enough to buckle
around the fetlock joint, to which I at
tached a piece of small iron chain about
a foot long. After one or two applica-
tions the horse was entirely cured, the
whipping of the chain against his legs
proving so unpleasant he soon ceased
to indulge himself in his favorite pas
time.
To break COW of kicking, I hit upon
the following plan, which has worked
to charm upon two bad kickers, and
two that would step away from the
mixer from six to dozen times while
being MIXED I fastened them by the
head, so they could not run away then
every time a hind foot was raised, hit
with stick smart tap on the fore leg.
Two days lessons cured in each in
stance.
White clover is not at all adapted to
the manuring of lands. It's value is
principally for pasture and for helping
to fill up the bottom of timothy mea.
dows. The top is too small and the
roots do not go deep enough in the
ground to be of much value to pillow
into the soil. But red clover has mnci
top and long top roots, and is of all
known plants worth the most to pillow
into the soil for enriching it. Timothy
should be sown in connection with rec
clover in case the land is to be pastureC
or moved previous to blowing in rec
clover crop. .. ~
Early Potatoes.
A little care will secure early potatoes
two or three weeks before the time the,
will beready touse if planted the common
way in open ground. Cut the pieces o
the earliestsorts, and place them underal
inch or two of earth in hot-bed, s.
closely in drills that they will touch, 81
as to economic room. When the opel
ground is dry enough, set them out
They will come on rapidly. If fros
should occur after they are set out
they may be protected with newspaper
but we have never known them to b
materially injured, even if the tips wer
nipped little by frost. Next to he
bed, they may be easily sprouted in
warm room. Even when the sprout
grow accidentally, potatoes may be ha
some days earlier by carefully preser1
ing the sprouts in setting them OUT
country Gentleman. IS "a
Small Cabbage for Market.
The Cottage Gardener, in answer t
an inquiry, says: All the cabbage
grown for the usual supply of the Lor
don markets are of the common Batter
sea variety. Their size depends on til
time OF the seed being sown, and of til
cabbages being cut For autumn an
early winter use the seed is sown in til
spring of the same year. If you wis
for an especially sweet and small cal
bage, cultivate, either the Nonpareil {
the Little Pixie.
oliver Rot"
An English farmer who has kel
sheep for forty years, says he has foun
rock salt valuable adtidote for liv
rot, and that these animals cannot
too literally supplied with this savir
substance. He further declares that
cases of congestion of the liver or r.
he has found two tablespoonsfuls
turpentine shaken up in half pint
water and given to the sufferer fir
quent cure, unless the disease has mac
very great progress. 81 nH
MAGIC YEAsT.-1 cupful of good he
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