Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-04-28
FAEM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Notes for Farmers.


be warning to all farmers to keep both
horses and cattle in separate and distinct
apartments, and to have them so con-
structed that they will feel safe about
their horses and cattle night or day.
Maine Farmer.
The usual plan to prevent trees split
ting is to put an iron bolt through,
fastening it with nuts. Another plan,
and an ingenious one, can sometimes be
used. Select a small limb from each
fork and clean them of leaves and
branches. Then bring the split up to-
gether, twine the two small limbs to-
gether and secure them. The limbs will
grow together in time, and keep the split
from opening.
In transplanting forest trees, head
them back to within about eight feet of
their base, leaving, as it often does, SIM
ply bare pole above the roots. They
will soon make a good head. They
mulch heavily with straw as soon as
planted. Trees set in this manner sell
dom fail to thrive, and if desired, quite
large trees may be selected, say those
measuring one and half inches through.
We have found an old broom cut off
up near the tying" excellent for
grooming COWS while not harsh enough
to be painful, it will scratch nicely and
reach where the card will not. About
as much solid comfort as usually falls to
the lot of mortals in this wicked world
may be taken by the man who loves ami
mails in seeing them stretch themselves
under his brush, or follow him about
and poke their noses under his arm, or
hold down their heads to be Scratched
Green Mountain Freeman.
Mr.. Hitler remarked that as a rule he
would not plant potatoes early. Farm
ers, he maintained should not rest con-
tent with less than 400 to 500 bushels
per acre he himself had raised as high
as 700 believes in plowing in the fall,
plowing over again in spring, the land
to be we'll manured. By this process,
500 bushels would be sure result. Re-
CARDS Peerless as most productive, and
always plants early. The principal OBJ
lection to small potatoes for seed is the
number of sprouts. Exam
iner.
When To Prune Fruit-Trees.
Long experience shows that when it is
desirable to produce a free growth of
shoots and leaves, pruning should be
done when the trees are dormant, as in
the winter season, or early in the spring,
before the saps begins to flow. When
fruit-trees appear to grow too rapidly,
and to produce too much wood, they
may be pruned moderately in the
summer season, cutting away portion
of the wood by degrees; but shoot
growing in an improper place may be
cut away at any time. An experiment
made by pruning apple trees every
month in the year, for two seasons,
showed that the wounds of the branches
cut in February and March, at the end
of five years, when all had healed over,
were found to be the least decayed under
the healed surface. When trees are
pruned in winter, or [ may say at any
time, it is best to cover the wounds
with hot mixture of tar and pulverized
brick dust or fine sand A solution of
shellac in alcohol as thick as can be easily
applied with a brush, is considered by
many as the best preparation that can be
applied. During the mild days of
winter orchards may be pruned, while
little else can be done;. but good
Judgment should be exercised in regard
to selecting the branches to be cut away.
1t is ruinous to an orchard to cut and
slash away one-third to one-half the
limbs. All that should be done is to
give the trees good shape and only cut
away such limbs as are plainly in excess
of the natural requirements of the tree,
to conform to the extent of its roots. If
we take away too much of the top of a
tree, it is like taking blood from man
the more that is taken, the less vitality
remains in him; therefore in pruning,
only few unsightly branches, and those
improperly situated, should be cut away
Rural Ne'U YORKER.
How 10 Utilize Poor Land.
Those farmers who have fields of worn
out land-and who have not ?-and have
no means of adequately manuring them,
can make at least one profitable crop on
the same by adopting this course :
Tomatoes are most admirably adapted to
be grown on worn out land. For field
or garden crop, the plants should not be
set nearer than six feet apart. Put a
half -bushel of well rotted manure, thor
oughly mixed with the poor soil, in the
spots where the tomato plants are to be
set (the surface of these prepared spots
being about two and half feet in diam
teri, will insure just that healthy growth
which a cultivator is always so glad to
see. At first the roots of the plants will
luxuriate in the fertilized soil, but after
ward they will have travelled to the outer
limits of the rich earth and begin to
penetrate the thoroughly poor SOIL This
will check the luxuriant growth, and
tend to induce fruitfulness in the plant,
and afford large and profitable crop.
Besides that, the plants, put out in this
way, will completely cover the soil,
which also has highly beneficial effect,
so much so that the field may be plowed
shallow the succeeding fall and thor
oughly narrowed, and then, very early
in the spring, clover seed can be scat
tered over it with an almost positive GER
tainty that good set of clover will be
! the result. Besides, manuring poor
field in spots six feet apart each
way is q much easier task than thor.
oughly manuring the entire surface OF
such field. An acre set six feet apart
each way will contain 1,210 tomato
plants; they will be set in rich earth, and
! It will not be difficult to estimate the
yield that may be reasonably expected
from an acre thus presented. -Southerr
Farmer.
Domestic Recipes.
| CALVES FEET JELLY CHEAP. Get {
package of gelatine and follow the direc
tions given. You will find the Jelly
easy to make and delicious in quality.
FISH AND MEAT SAUCE. table
spoonfuls water, four of vinegar; pu
] into q snncenan and warm: thicken witt