Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-06-13
Farm, Garden and Household,


sulphur.
There is no remedy and assistant so
easily and cheaply obtained, so harm
less TO the fowls, nor so satisfactory in
its results as sulphur. 1t being in the
system Of animals TO small degree,
there is greater affinity for it than
there otherwise would be. 1t can be
administered to the fowls by having it
IN q small box, so that they can help
themselves, or by mixing it with their
food once n week, or as often as there
are indications of vermin. Penetrating,
as 1t does, to every part of the system,
all parasites are quickly and surely de-
stroyed. Also, gapes are said to be
prevented in chickens. Fowls need it
more than most animals, their feathers
containing between four and five per
cent. of sulphur. Their eggs also have
a small quantity, which is noticed by
the discoloring of a silver spoon when
1t comes in contact with boiled egg.
Applied externally to thefowls when on
the nest, to the nest itself, or mixed
with the soil in the dusting-box, it is
equally eficacious in destroying YER
min. a -.
To be used as a fumigator of build
lngs, 1T is necessary to remove the
fowls, close the room or house, mix a
little saltpetre with the sulphur in an
iron vessel, and apply a match to the
mixture. This should be done in the
morning and the doors and windows
opened in the afternoon for a thorough
ventilation.
Lard mixed with sulphur in proper
proportions and applied as often as is
necessary to the feathers on the neck
and back of young and old turkeys is a
very good safeguard against the ravages
of foxes.
For our own profit, and the comfort
of the fowls, let us then use sulphur
or remedies of like nature. Poultry
World.
How to Treat House Plants.
l. Give them a good compost or soil
in which to luxuriate and find food suf-
fcient to enable them to send forth Wig
orous branches, leaves and flowers. 2.
Get good, healthy plants to start with
plants that have been blooming long
time will not do well new ones are
best; plants that were used the pre-
vious winter, and have rested during
the summer may answer. 3. Do not
attempt to keep too many plants-they
don't do well crowded pots should
never be piled in as thick as they can
sit, and two or three deep. 4. Give the
plants plenty of light during the day,
and darkness, with q cooler tempera-
ture, at night. s. Give them a good
supply of fresh air when the sun shines
brightest and warmest; on mild days
the upper sashes of the windows may
be lowered little, letting the cool air
blow over the plants, instead of direct
ly upon them. 6. Give them a proper
amount of moisture-an atmosphere en-
tirely dry is fatal 7. Try to keep the
temperature as uniform as possible-at
60 or 70 through the day, and 40 or 45
through the night. s. Perfect cleanli
ness is of the first Importance, for if the
plants are covered with dust they can
not grow, and will generally die thei1
leaves are their lungs frequent syring-
ing will keep the leaves moist and
clean. 8. Different localities should be
provided for. different plants. Roses,
geraniums, etc., like sunny window
begonias, coleus and cissus want but
little sunlight, though they enjoy q
higher temperature than. the others
holiotropes and bonvardis want all the
sunlight you can give them, and the
highest temperature of the room.
Cut Your Hay EARLY.
The practice of waiting until grass is
fhnroJ1o,b1x1 haforn aI1ffIpn md
after cutting, allowing it to- remain in
the field until the little juice that is left
is dried out before it is put into the
stack or bale, is simply relief of agri
cultural barbarism. This system of hay
making was evidently founded on the
mistaken notion that more growth was
secured by allowing the grass to stand
until it was thoroughly ripened and
from a fear that it would heat and mold
if put away before being thoroughly
dry but the first superstition is now
proven to be false, and the fears in re
gard to the latter point have vanished
before the light of experience.
One of the most sound and orthodoz
tenets of agricultural faith is the belief
that If grain is not cut even before it is
perfectly matured, tloses in substance
Our Oldest and most experienced farm
era, those whose Judgment has not beer
biased by book farming, will assure III
that if wheat is not cut before it hal
thoroughly ripened, a portion of i
g goes back into the ground. And 81
it does-that is, portion of this por
ton /; the rest of it going abroad upon
the wings of the wind from whence i
came. In growing Indian corn also, i
the stalks are not cut before the ear
are perfectly ripened, there is the SAM
loss of substance This loss is not con
fined to the stalks which, as we al
know, are rendered almost worthless b,
remaining uncut through the ripenin
season, but the ear loses also in weigh
and richness.
Wooden Artillery.