Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-11-18
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
8Ints Aboat Work.

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WHAT To DO WITH TIE CoRN STUMBLE.
Fields that have been cleared in time
should be plowed in readiness for early
sowing of oats in spring. Ii roots are to
follow the corn, the stubble may be
plowed at once aud sown with rye.
Tires or four bushels should be sown to
the acre. This rye will furnish a heavy
crop OF green fodder next May, or an
excellent early pasture in the spring, or
mas be plowed under as a gree n mabur-
ing. Ia el her case the expense of the
seed, which Is the only outlay, will be
many times repaid in the increase OF the
following crop.
Potatoes that are already dug should
be secured in pits or cellars at once, be-
re sharp trOsts occur. If pitted, do
not neglect to amply veutilate the pits.
A one inch drain tile, placed chimney
like in the top of the pit for every six
feet in length, will be sufficient; instead
Of the tiles, wisps of straight wheat
straw, four or five inches thick, may be
used. Any potatoes still in the ground
should Ice dug, and secured without
delay. What are intended for sale are
best sold from the field; it rarely ever
pays to store potatoes for sale until
spring. 1t is well to remember that po-
tatoe', when boiled, are worth at least
twenty-five cents bushel for feed.
OATS AFTER CoRN.-There is no ques-
tion of the desirability of avoiding this
rotation if possible, when wheat follows
the oats. In most cases it is better to
take root crop after corn, and then
cats may follow the roots, and clover be
sown down with the oats. With very
favorable experience in seeding down
with oats, we never hesitate to do it,
and wheat may follow the clover. a
longer rotation is made necessary, and
this is advantageous. If this change is
made, it necessitates change in the
fall work, and thorough blowing of the
corn stubble. Here is q point worth
close study.
Storms may now be looked for, and
everything should be put under cover
that needs protection, and the cover be
made weather-proof. Stacks should be
completed and matched; sheds be tight
ened, the windows made good, and
board roofs well nailed down to prevent
leaking. Yards should be drained, and
all the litter gathered in where it will
be kept dry. Every arrangement for
economy in the use of material, and for
the comfort of live stock of all kinds,
should be made now, when it will cost
less in time and labor than if done later.
Roof CRoPs.-Mangels and sugar
beets should be harvested without de-
lay. Later and harder roots may be
left to mature as long as growing wealth
er holds out. but not SO late as to be in
jured by heavy frosts. Parsnips may
be left il the ground all winter, and will
be improved in quality.
Uows.-As soon as COWS are put on
dry feed, the milk falls off, but if they
are well fed, what is lost in quantity is
gained in quality. A COW that is milk
ing should have at least two quarts OF
mixed corn meal and bran daily, with as
much chaffed hay as she will eat. A COW
will usually eat two bushels of the chat
in day. Some roots in addition would
be useful. Dry COWS should have one
quart daily; it will not hurt q COW tc
take on o little fat at this season, MOI
make her milk any less when she comes
II.
Calves and yearlings should be KEEP
growing. A check at this season cannot
be made up through the winter.-Agri
cUlturjst.
Stable Floors.
The Germantown (Ga.) Telegraph
says: The long debated question as tC
the best material for stable floors il
being revived. A clay floor was hel(
ont for years, and such was the earnest
ness of its advocates and the many ar
guments brought to bear upon it, tina
we were induced some fifteen or twent,
years ago to try it. In three or fou
months we had the planks back again
being severely satisfied of the disadvan
tages of clay for horses. Our presen
floor of plank is simply inclined ittl'
from front to rear, where the usual gut
ter is made to carry off the liquid void
iDgs. We do not believe in sand, Goa
ashes, sawdust, asphaltum, flags, cob
bic stones, or any of these modern de
vices to iniure horses. Thus far w
have never noticed that this little inclin
alton was in any way injurious and W
doubt whether the wooden grating
placed over the planking would be ad
visable on the ground that the anima
would be no more comfortable. Will
this movable grating or second foo
might lead to accidents. When a pei
son can keep horses in a good, sound
healthy condition for from five to seve
years, as we have done on q CAREFUL
constructed plank flooring inclining
little to the rear, it is just as well to b
satisfied with it.