Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-10
FARM. GARpEX and HOUsEHOLp.
Ca,tInE Feed.

have Wiutared nineteen head stock
Chorses and cows), says VIM. H. May, of
Huntington, \. j., by cutting all my
hay, stalks, and straw. The stalks are
cut one and half inches, and the hay
and straw one inch long, by hand power;
horse power would pay better for a
larger number of stock. The stalks are
cut and fed out first, so that what might
berefused will answer for bedding, and
have a chance to rot by spring. Each
animal has bushel of stalks or hay, and
one quart of cornmeal morning and.
night, and a bushel of cut straw at noon
is put in each stall for bedding, where
the animal can reach and eat what It
wants of it. think the stock did as
well on stalks and meal as they do on
same quantity of hay and meal. Milking
cows have a peck of sliced turnips, and
working teams four quarts of oats per
day extra. A teaspoonful of sulphur is
given to each twice a week in the feed.
My stock all look well on this simple and
cheap mode of feeding. can certainly
feed one-third more stock by cuttingfod
der than by feeding corn in the ear, and
loose hay or stalks. 1 don't think it
pays to cook or steam feed for cattle
In mixing feed, the stalks or hay should
he put in a large box, the meal on top,
and wet with light brine, salt and wa
ter, with watering-pot. By putting
tho oil pf uolt Gov oil I,a
barrel for each feeding, and making a
brine, with the use of the watering-pot,
the salt is equally distributed to each
animal, and everything is eaten. 1t pays
to cut straw for bedding it makes a
cleaner stable, absorbing all the liquid !;
the manure handles with half the labor
in spring, and can be spread and plowed
under without the help of an extra
hand.
Farm Hints and Helps.
At the first appearance of ringbone on
horse apply poultices with one drachm
of camphor and opium. Afterward rub
with iodide of lead, one ounce in eight
ounces of any simple ointment. Con
tinue this treatment for fortnight after
all act i've symptoms have subsidized, and
allow liberal food and rest.
Wheat land should always be rolled it
makes much evener and better surface
for the seed bed.
The milk house must be clean and free
from all bad odors. 1t must also be well
ventilated, and ought to be so built that
the temperature can be regulated and
kept about sixty degrees.
Onions do best on old ground richly
MANFRED.
A good ordinary native sheep, with
somo mixture of merino blood, will
shear about four pounds of unwashed
wool yearly.
To cure scurf in pigs wash the parts
affected with buttermilk, leaving as wet
as possible or, if the buttermilk be
plenty, two or three applications by
pouring it on while they are eating will
remove it entirely.
A table gives the approximate number
of seeds in pound of clover seed at
249,600. There are two pounds to a
quart, SO that seeding of one peck per
acre would allow about one hundred
seeds per square foot. This would be
too much per acre if so much of the seed
were not wasted.
Corn Fodder,
A writer in the Vermont FARMER
gives his experience of raising fodder
corn as follows: He says: / had one
eighth of an acre of ground on which
wasr raised a large crop of potatoes. The
next spring, the Goth of May, the same
place was well MANFRED, plowed, and
narrowed thoroughly, and Immediately
after planted with mixed Western corn,
using one-half bushel of seed planted, or
rather sowed in drills fifteen inches
apart. When about one foot high went
through it with a hoe and pulled out
every weed. When fully grown it stood
from six and half to eleven and half
feet high, and it was said by those who
saw it that it was the best they had seen
in Orleans county. In just three
mouths after it was planted I commenced
cutting it, and cut about one-half of the
piece, leaving the remainder to be cut as
wanted for our COWS. Having little
curiosity to know more about it, [ meas
ured off one square rod, from which
cut nineteen bundles, average weight
twenty-four and half pounds, making
four hundred and sixtyfv pounds
equal to thirty-seven tons to the acre
Those nineteen bundles after being thor
oughly dried weighed one hundred ant
twenty pounds in November, making
one ton Of green fodder on about foul
and half square rods, and one ton O.
dly hay on about sixteen square rods
AS it was sown very thick, the stalks
were small, and L don't think there was
bushel-basketful of butts wasted from
the whole piece.