Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-19
FARM CHIPS.

How much we owe to that sweet laugh
1t turns prose into poetry it brings sunshine
to flowers, over the darkness of the wood in
which we are travelling it touches with light
even our sleep, which is no more than the
image Of death, but is consumed with beams
that are shadows Of immoraiiy.-CO'emGn'S
Rural
At this season of the year there is greater
leisure than ut most others not only TO lay
out plans, but to make careful calculations
in regard to oil practical processes that W
soon occupy our attention. The amount f
seed that will be required for any given lot
can be accurately estimated, aud it ought TO
be got 10 readiness before the actual noces.
sity for it -MaSSdchusetts Plough
man.
Last year. at the dairymers conveu ion,
reported the yield for 1873, having to es-
innate the yield for December, | statel the
yield at PAS pounds of butter per cow. When
the year was completed found that my
dairy slightly exceeded my estimate. The
actual average product was a little over 25l
pounds per COW, counting every COW, good and
poor, thoroughbred, grade aud native in my
dairy.-IfOH Harris LeiClS.
Now it would seem. in state like our
own, where for six months of the year we
have such cold winds, aud so great an
amount of snow, where protection to dwell
ings, iarm.yards and outbuildings makes so
great change in the warmth, enjoyment
aud comfort OF the inhabitants Of the house
aud barn, aud where we have so many hardy
and beautiful evergroens which may be
transpanted into hedges and wind breaks
that the farmer who does not employ them
for this purpose, is improvideBt, and neglects
one Of the surcst means of securing warmth
and comfort to his family his cattle, aud his
hocks.-Maine Farmer.
Many farmers have been annoyed, when
selling their wool to find that the acute and
practiced eye Of the wool-buyer had detected
the fact that his sheep had been allowed to
run down in condition ut some time during
the growth OF the fleece. They are inclined
to think that the buyer is merely trying to
deprecate the price. As matter of fact
nothing renders wool so useless for certain
classes of manufacture as unevenness or
broak OF continuity Of thickness Of fibre
| huu lucTG Is w hoIO bOhlllout uuu
nothing that, year after year, touches the
sheep.grower more severely on that tender
part of his anatomy-the pocket.-Er
change.
Ashes are among the best fertilizers for
onions. For this crop they should be strewed
along the rows, lengthWise, aud the cultivat-
or then run between them, or hoed by hand
Applied to Indian corn, a handful to each
hill, Immediately before rain.storm or just
before crop Is hOed ashes give good re-
turns For vines in the garden they arc
also desirable. Ashes applied to grass lands
Just after the FIRST crop Of hay has been
taken of is said to have 6ne effect.-N, Y
World.
A quality that is we'll fixed in an ANNA
by long breeding is quite sure to be trans
mittod. The argument Of the thoroughbred
against the native is that the one insures US
success in obtaining the object sought, while
the other Is quite likely to show the impcr-
feciiOns Of bad crosses or poor ancestry
Mirror aud Farmer.