Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-18
Farm, Garden and Household,
Bran and Corn Meal for Cows,

Bran and Corn Meal for Cows.
1t is well settled in the opinion of all
our best dairymen that bran greatly
promotes the milk secretions in COWS.
and it is fed almost universally. About
equally mixed with corn meal is the
usual proportion. This mixture seems
to promote both quantity and quality
of milk. From several sources we hear
that buckwheat bran is a great pro-
Queer of milk, and it is being used con-
siderably among dairymen. A farmer
of Chester county, by repeated trials
with his own COWS, has fully satisfied
himself that they do as we'll with corn
and cob meal and bran as with pure
corn meal and bran. The amount of
nutriment IN corn cobs is so very small
that this result will have to be ex-
planned on the supposition of the
ground cob acting to promote digestion
by distending the stomach. The pres
ence of bulky material being necessary
to promote distension and fill up the
stomach of Eliminating animals before
digestion can be accomplished, is fire.
quently lost sight of. Hungarian grass
is also found for mich COWS to be rath-
er superior to the ordinary run of hay.
The last year or two Hungarian grass
has lOomed up wonderfully in the esti-
nation of our dairy farmers, and q very
large scope of land will be sowed with
1t the coming season. It natures for
cutting in about sixty days, and pro-
duces two to four tons per acre-the
latter OF course on good soils. Three
pecks to the acre is the usual allowance
of seed.
Lima Beans.
1t is strange more Lima beans are
not grown both for market and for do
nestle use, both in summer and winter.
They are now extensively and success
fully canned with corn, and make a
most relishable dish for the table as
well as an exceedingly nutritious one.
James Roberts, Horsham, Pa, is q sue
cessful grower, and is reported as de-
scribing his mode of growing the crop
as follows:
1.-The ground was low piece, which
is frequently overfown from q creek
close by. 1t was MANFRED broadcast
with stable manure, and ploughed in.
No manure of any kind was used in the
hills. Hills planted four feet apart
each way, with four beans to each hill :
which were made on the level surface,
and covered one inch deep. Planted
May 10, worked and kept clean with
horse and cultivator, poles not put in
till runners of beans were - to IS
inches long. No pinching process was
practlced, they being allowed to run at
Will, and made very large growth,
completely covering poles, and running
from one to another. When the frost
came and killed the vines they were
loaded down with beans quarter grown.
The beans were not started in hot-bed
ing" ''--
Pleasant Whitewash.
The season of the year has returned
when the inquiries for good whitewash
are raised. We give the following as
excellent: Take half bushel of excel
lent burned lime Stake it with boiling
water; cover it during the process, to
keep in the steam. Strain the LIQUID
through a fine sieve and add to it seven
pounds of salt previously well dissolved
in warm water, three pounds of ground
rice boiled to thin paste and stirred
In boiling hot, one-half pound of pow
dered Spanish whiting, and one pound
of clean glue; which has been previous.
~ dissolved by soaking it well, and then
hanging it over slow fire, in a small
kettle within large one filled with wa.
ter. Add five gallons of hot water tc
the mixture, stir it well, and let it stand
few days covered from dirt. For this
purpose it can be kept in kettle on q
portable furnace. About a pint of this
mixture will cover square yard.
Farming in the Grass Region.
A Maine farmer writes to the Depart
ment of Agriculture that farmers on
good grass lands keep their moving
lands in grass as long as they can keeT
them in good condition by top-dress.
ing without blowing. They find il
cheaper to harrow, re-seed and apply
ashes and plaster, than to break up anG
re-seed after rotating crop of grain
Ell. G. Abbott, of Vassalboro, had {
meadow of forty acres covered will
white daisy and yellow weed, the grass
killed out. He turned out ten acres O.
it to pasture fifty sheep for two years
In the spring of the third year he NOV
ed it and got the heaviest crop of hay
he had ever grown. Timothy and red
top came in, and in some places thu
clover was so heavy that the moving
machine could not be used. He is O
opinion that farmers who do not pas
tnre sheep sustain a great loss.
Cut and Steam Fodder for Cattle,
farmer who has tried the expert
ment says it does not pay to cut ant
steam first-rate we'll cured hay that ha
all its juices intact, but it pays we'll tt
cut and steam meadow hay that ha
been wet or badly cured, and for tn
same reason it pays to cut and steam
over-ripe cron- stalks and late-cut, over
ripe cut hay. Cooking potatoes add
to their nutriment, but beets fed ray
promote the digestion of the dry foot
and the health of the animal. TIL,
English farmers say they could no
raise their large mutton sheep withou
roots, and their sheep harvest the fla
turnips.
Early Day Linen.
The long linen bandaoes in which th