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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-17
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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-17
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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-17

LARGER STOCK THAN EVER,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-17

Would take this opportunity to thank his Gus
toners for their liberal patronage for the past
twenty years, and informs them that he has just
returned from market with
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-16
Exhaustion Of Soils.


The life Of a vegetable consists in a chem
ical action by which certain portions Of the
soil that are soluble in water are absorbed
and assimilated by the plant and changed
into its own substance The exact manner
of this growth is as yet unknown to us. We
know, however, that every plant contains
certain mineral elements which it has ab-
stracted from the soil. In the ash of any
plant we find all these elements, and can
readily separate and identify them. In
course Of time it is possible that all the SOL
uble matter may be abstracted from the soil
by the long. g.continued growth of crops after
which the soil refuses to support vegetable
life, and it becomes barren. No fact is bet
ter known to farmers than that soils can be
exhausted. The unskilful farmer soon dis.
covers that his crops grow yearly less and
less until they no longer pay for the labor
he bestows upon them. He finds, then, that
his soil has become exhausted. 1t may not
be that every portion of it that is required
to support vegetable life has been removed,
but that some indispensable substance has
been used up, and for want Of that he can
no longer produce crops. There may be in
the soil every element needed but one nev-
ertheless, for want of that one the soil is
barren. The phosphoric acid or the potash
may have been appropriated by repeated
crops of wheat, corn or tobacco; and though
there may still be abundance Of lime, sui
phur, or magnesia left, yet plants cannot
thrive or live on these alone.
The quantity of soil to depth of nine
inches on an acre of ground is about 1885,
600 pounds. If there is one per cent Of
lime in the soil, there are on every acre, to
depth Of nine inches, which is the extreme
depth to which soils are cultivated, about
twenty-five tons (43,560 pounds), If there
is .O6 per cent Of phosphoric acid, or 01 per
cent Of potash, there are Of these substances
26,l36 and 1855 pounds respectively.
These, which are some of the most important
substances upon which plants depend for
their growth, are largely in excess of the
needs of great many crops, as, indeed, in
almost all soils are all the elements necessa-
ry to plant growth. The four crops Of
which our rotation usually consists, wheat,
grass, corn, and oats, need for their growth,
and abstract from the soil, the following
mineral matters in pounds:
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-16
The Deterioration of the Greening
Apple.

A subscriber in the PLoughman Of March
20, mentioned the deterioration Of the Bald
win apple. We can make the same com.
plant in regard to the Rhode Island Green.
ing We have noticed the fact and have
talked with old fruit growers, aud they have
all told me that any apple Of standard merit
will run out by continually grating it upon
inferior stock. The Rhode Island Greening
has been an apple Of great merit, and has
been grated upen every variety of stock,
and the consequence is that Greetings can
be found in Rhode Island of every flavor.
We know an orchard where the Green
iugs will not keep beyond January lst. We
know another orchard close by where the
apples will keep until May. 1t excited my
curiosity so much that inquired into the
matter, aud learned that the nurseryman
who raised the trees of the last mentioned
orchard, was very particular to raise his
stock of late varieties of apples from the
latest keeping fruit he could procure that
whenever he grated the Greening upon any
other stock, he was sure 70 put it upon u
late keeping variety aud Of sour order; he
said it kept up the favor; he worked sweet
apples the same way. The result has been
that his fruit is unexceled for keeping quail
tiles.
Another nurseryman raises his stock from
an apple between sweet aud sour. and poor
keeping one ut that. You have no idea,
Mr.. Editor, what 4 difference there Is in the
favor of his apples of the same name with
those Of the other nurseryman. The keep
ing qualities are as remarkable.
Now It is well known fact in grating.
that sour apple upon sweet stock will
reduce the sour flavor. If this is repeated
three times, sour apple will become quite
sweet; reverse the order and 3 sweet apple
will become sour.
Nov take late apple and work it upon
an early one, and fall apple is the result
after three or more removals. We have a
fall Greening brought about by these means.
Now it is well known that our fall apples in
varieties outnumber all the others, and it is
very easy to account for il. We hope that
nurserymen hereafter will look into this
matter, and that in the future this grating
upon unknown stocks will be discarded. We
admit the fact that Greenings planted will
not produce greening fruit as large as the
original, but it will produce stock that will
produce sour fruit; the same truth holds
good with sweet fruit.
We think tree is worth as much as a
COW, taking the lifetime of each for stand
ard. Certainly then it stands to reason that
we should be more careful in our selection,
and we hope the subject in future will re-
ceive the attention that we think is its due.
Cor. Plou0hntan.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-16

hemlock timber on most farms, the design Of
this article is to call attention TO this fact,
and refer to different ways in which il may
be probably employed, instead We heard
farmer state the other day about hemlock
scantling, three by four inches in size, being
used in fences for twenty years and we're
now apparently as sound as ever, with the
exception of those pieces having sap-wood
upon them, which was decayed. This farm
er uses this kind Of material quite extensive
ly for fences, laying them up in the same
way as cedar rails and finds them convenient
and durable. Being straight and uniform
in size, these scantlings make better looking
fence than the common rails, and would ap.
parently keep in place better. A crooked
or zigzag fence of rail is generally stronger
than a straight one, yet it would seem that
these scantliugs might be laid up straight,
with strong stakes, and wired at top, at a
saving Of material, and save the numerous
unhandy and unsightly corners Of the crook
ed fence.
On dry ground we should prefer post and
board fence to one made Of scautlings, but
on wet land, and where there is much troub-
lie with frost, the latter would be better
With cedar posts and hemlock boards a
good fence can be made, and for some parts
of the farm is better than any other. With
board ten inches wide at the bottom, and
three six inches wide, taking about forty
feet 70 the rod, q good fence can be made.
These should not be over fourteen feet long,
where two posts are used for one length Of
boards. Where strong board fence is re-
quired, as between pastures, it will be better
TO have the boards about an inch and
quarter thick, and if each alternate post is
on the opposite side of the fence, the strength
will be increased. A few years since we
read Of feature connected with board fence
which may be of use. 1t was to have the
bottom board raised foot or more from the
ground, and then turn two or three burrows
with plow up next to the fence, forming a
shallow ditch on either side. The object Of
this was to save lumber, form ditch TO
turn and keep the water from the posts, pre-
venting decay and the action of the frost,
and also as an obstacle in the way of stock
in their attempts to tear down the fences, as
they sometimes undertake to do. We omit
ted to mention, when speaking of fence made
from scantliug, another form we have some
times seen. The pieces were six inches wide
aud one and halt thick. These we're laid
upon edge, crooked like rail fence, with
the stakes driven straight drown into the
ground instead of q slant, as usually prac-
ticed. This method would require less lum.
Der than with the common scantliug, as few
er pieces are needed for length of fence
E. X. Tolcle, in Messenger.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-16
Bringing the Landlord in Debt.

"What do you charge for board?" asked
tall Green Mountain boy, as he walked up
to the bar of a second-rate hotel in New
York; what do you ask week for board
and lodging?" ." Five dollars Five dol
lars that's too much; but l s'pose you'll
allow for time l am absent from dinner and
supper ?"
Certainly; thirty-seven and half cents
each" Here the conversation ended, and
the Yankee took up his quarters for two
weeks. During this time he lodged aud
breakfasted at the hotel, but did not take
either dinner or supper, saying his business
detained him in another portion Of the town.
At the expiration of the two weeks he again
walked up to the bar, and said "S'pose
we settle that account; I'm going in few
minutes" The landlord handed him his ac-
count " Two weeks board at FIVE dollars
ten dollars" Here, stranger" said the
Yankee, "t this is wrong; you've made a
mistake; you've not deducted the time L
was absent from dinner and supper-l4 days,
2 meals per day; % meals at 81 cents each
10 dollars and so cents. If you've not
got the so cents that's due me, Iii take a
drink and the balance in cigars"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-16
Fixing for the Fair.

4" | could tale unfold" says Tribune
correspondent, how Jones's ram, or Smiths
COW, or Robinson's bull took that premium,
that would make Brown open his eyes in
astonishment. Brown wondered why his
Cotswold's fleece was so raw and harsh after
it had been washed with soap and warm wa
ter, but he did not dream as he snoozed in
the next pen upon the straw, that long be-
fore daylight Jones had rubbed his rams
fleece with yellow ochre and so gave it q
rich color, a soft greasy feel, and a lustre
that charmed the judges and took them by
storm in a moment. And he does not know
to this day that Smiths COW was fed quart
Of linseed oil daily week before the milk
ing trial was made, and her cream measured
thirty per cent Of the milk, or that her tail
was bound up every night in hay bands to
make it thin, nor that her skin was sponged
down early in the morning with mixture
of COW dung and water, which was allowed
to dry upon it and give it the rich orange
color that was so much admired by every
body. Nor did he see the cows owner sand
papering her horns aud polishing them with
beeswax, and carefully going over her switch
with feather and bottle of ink. And in
this way the innocent man would have found
the premiums were flched from poor but
honest exhibitors who relied on merit only.
and that by a course of such breeding the
reputation of certain pedigree stock was
built up and then he might have repeated
with the poet, truly things are not what
they SEEM"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-16

promising lands. Fields that have been cul-
tivated exhaustedly for twenty and even
forty years have been restored TO original
productiveness, not by guanos and superphos.
phatCs, at $50 to $50 per ton, but by mex
pensive local resources, the cheapest and
most reliable Of which is found in clover
In one case in Butler County, Pennsylvania,
a section of thin, gravelly land, on which it
was thought no one could secure a decent
living, came into the possession of German
immigrants at nominal rates. They cleared
off the brush, plowed cultivated, turned
under green crops saved every fertilizing
material available; never duplicated crop
in five or six years rotation, and that tract
is now garden, aud from worthlessnes has
advanced to the value Of 500 per acre, aud
is yearly becoming more productive. These
owners, in some cases, have raised and edu-
Gated families, lived comfortably, ride in
carriages, and have money at interest. In
other instances in which the aid OF clover
has been invoked, swine feeding in the clover
fields has been made a valuable means Of
soil-improvemeut. In the South, region
which many northern writer's on agriculture
assume most enormously to be unsuited to
grass culture, aud which southern farmers
have strangely neglected as a meat-producing
section for obvious reasons, new era is
dawning, aud clover and orchard-grass are
in many places found to be sources of imme-
diate and heavy profit, and of greatly in-
creased fertility. In high lands of more
torrid temperature the cow-pea preforms
quickly and inexpensiyely the work of
amelioratiou assigned to red clover in argyll
laceous soils. 1t is plant literally worth
millions to the South possibly as good an
ammouia-gathere as clover perhaps equal
ly as good for fattening swine, and grown
with greater facility in proper soils. lnves-
tigation presents prominently three suggest
i've points First, the use of fertilizers is
becoming more general and more discrimi-
mating; second, few, if any, soils in the
country are so rich that they cannot he made
more productive By judicious fertilization
third, farm-yard manures are the best for
general use; green-manuring is the cheapest
means Of soil renovation, and commercial
fertilizers are useful for quick results and for
specific purposes.-Departmea Report.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-16
Glover Turned Under.

Mr. J. Gregory, few years ago, moved
from Tennessee and bought plantation in
Murray County, Georgia. The land at the
time he purchased it, with a good season,
would produce ten bushels of wheat per acre.
In October, Mr.. Gregory sowed broadcast
fifteen acres of white Boughton wheat, one
bushel to the acre, aud in February follow
ing he sowed the same ground in red clover,
sowing broadcast in two ways, one bushel to
eight acres. He harvested ten bushels of
wheat per acre, and cut fue crop of hay
the same season. The next year he moved
two crops of good clover hay, averaging two
tons per acre. The third crop grew up from
four to eight inches high, and in October he
plowed the clover under, plowing deep and
subsoiling; sowed one bushel Of white
Boughton wheat per acre. The result was
an average of thirty and one-half bushels OF
choice wheat per acre. Thus you will see,
that the only manure used to improve the
land and get thirty and one.half bushels Of
wheat where he could only raise ten, was to
plow under deep good crop of clover, and
subsoil. .-RuraL Southland.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-16

Mr.. Boutelle insists that the grain must be
allowed to get perfectly ripe before cutting
or It cannot be threshed. Even when ripe,
he says It threshes harder than the common
oat, and that the cylinder Of machine has
to be set as for threshing wheat. This We
judge from our examination TO be true, for,
shaking the sample of matured grain shown
us, we were scarcely able to shake out q
kernel. But tkese Boutelle Oats that is
what they should be called, for " Hulless is
a misuomer) are difFeredt from any common
oat, in that thresher iciU clear them from
the sheath or hull as It will wheat from the
chat. 1t is just as improper to call them
hulless as it would be to call Mediterranean
wheat "chaffless."
So far in justice to Mr.. Boutele aud his
oats. After they are threshed there is moth
ing to distinguish the grain from the old
Hulless or Skinless oat. As to their pro.
ductiyeness and value, as compared with any
other oat, we have only the statement Of Mr..
Boutelle and others who have grown them,
to establish their superiority as field crop.
We propose to test them for our own salts.
faction, aud il they prove all that they are
recommended TO be we shall say so, and uice
verSd. If Mr.. Boutelle sells as Hulless "
oats what he showed us in the bundle we ex.
amined, he is not selling hulless oat at all,
hence is not selling an old variety as new
one, and therefore is not perpetrating a
swinde upon the public IN that respect; but
he is selling an oat which the thresher will
clean from the hull as wheat is separated
from its chaf by the thresher. 1t is, in this
respect, unlike any variety we ever before
saw.-Rurdl Ne,0 Yorker.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-16
Routelle's "Hulless" Oats.
MiddleJury, April, 1875.

We have, during the present and past
years, denounced the attempts made by diff
ferent parties to palm off as something new
the old variety OF oats known variously as
"Sknless," A." Hulless," Bohemian" =" Max
ed" &c. 1t has appeared during the past
30 years under various names, some Of which
are given above and some of which we have
forgotten and, as we have repeatedly shown
in the RuraL Nelc Yorker, these oats have
long been known in Europe as well as in
this country, but never sufficiently highly
regarded to become generally cultivated.
Not long siLce we received copy of a cir
cular advertising 4" Huless " oats, from w.
A. Boutelle, in which it was claimed that
the advertiser had produced new variety
of "hulless oats. Soon after, we received
a sample of the grain, and on comparing it
with samples of hulless oats in our possess
sion, we found no perceptibe difference sx-
cept that the grain was inferior to size to
samples previously received. OF course, we
classed MIR. Boutelle's "huless oats with
the others and denounced what we believed
to be another attempt to palm off upon
farmers as new, what was really an old and
hOlhulOao NallSbJ VI klolu.
Not long after the RuraL containing this
exposure got into the hands of its readers,
Mr.. Boutelle heard from it through bis
agents, distributed through the country.
He says they informed him that his trade
was gone unless he could contradict our as
sertions in positive manner. He wrote US,
but fnally, like sensible man, came to see
us, asserting that he could convince us we
were mistaken in identifying his "hulless
oats with any other-that they were quite
distinct from those which had been previ-
ously grown in this country, and that his
statement that they are cross of the wild
California with the common English oat is a
true one. We were willing to be convinced
if he could convince us.
He brought to US not only sumples Of the
threshed grain--which we had seen before
but bundles Of the ripened oats as they were
taken from the field, unthreshed. We very
quickly discovered that Mr.. Boutelle's oats
mere not hulLesS at aH--that he had mis-
named them, unfortunately for himself, and
thus we had been msled into identifying
them with the old, well-known hulless Oat.
We have asserted what is trus-that the
hulless oat shells badly. But these oats do
not shell out in handling, because they are
not hulless. Each kernel of grain has as
complete hull or sheath inclosing it as has
the common white oat of our farms but
this hull, or sheath, differs from that Of the
common oat in that it is loose, instead of
hard and close-6tting. In faot--and what
may bo deemed corroboratiVe of Mr.. Bou.
telle's statement as to the origin of these
oats-we found several kernels inclosed in a
hull in every respect similar 10 that which
incases the common oat. But these wero
exceptional. Most of the kernels are in
closed in a lOOse-not an opeu-sheath,
which, when the grain is perfectly mature,
prevents the kernels shelling out. Indeed
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-16
sowed Corn as a Substitute for Hay.

AS you will suon see, have had no ex-
perience in writing for paper, but have
had some in raising sowed corn. have
frequently done 50 for twenty years if ex-
pected to be short Of feed, and have found it
profitable crop from four to six tons can
be grown to an acre, on soil that is in con-
dition to bring good wheat or corn crop.
My plan is to drill or SOW in furrows two
and half feet apart; cultivate once, which
is sufficient if your land is not very foul.
Put in thus, two and a half bushels seed is
enough. cure it thus: If it grows heavy
l cut by hand and set in shock, as you do
other corn, giving little mere slope; round
up your shocks well, make them fair size,
aud tie just so as to keep the shock together
until after it has dried out Then draw up
your bands tight, and it will be bright and
nice inside. and remain so. If you cut with
machinery and the weather permits, you can
let it wilt some, but if 80, do not tie your
shocks tight at first. would not tie in
small bundles in any case. 1 never take it
into the barn until the weather is cold, if at
all, as it is apt to mold where there is a
large body packed together. One of my
neighbOrs has been sowing Hungarian grass
for some years, which makes very good feed
if well got up, but l am satisfied that l can
grow twice the amount of feed from the same
area Of land in corn. No better feed can be
made for horses or COWS, it being far superior
to hay for milch cows, if properly cured
Cor. Ohio Farmer.