Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
U.efai Hats for NIea.arinx Land,

t'scfni Hats for Measuring Land.
Almost every farmer has some way
measuring land, and the most commo
is TO step of five PAGES for a rod, an
call sixty by sixty-iive PAGES an acr'
For ordinary purposes this mode wi
nswer, but when the exact measure
ment of a piece of land in desired,
cannot be depended upon as being ae
curate.
A light pole, just sixteen and hal
feet long, is cheap and convenien
measure, but four-rod tape line il mucl
better.
An exact acre can be found by the fol
lowing table of distances
A plot of ground five yards wide b,
96S yards long. contains one acre.
A plot of ground ten yards wide b,
asa yards long. contains one acre.
A plot of ground twenty yards wide
by 242 yards long, contains one acre
A plot of ground forty yards wide by
121 yards long, contains one acre.
A plot of ground eighty yards wide by
60B yards long. contains one acre.
A plot of ground seventy yards wide
.by 60 IL yards long, contains one acre.
A plot of ground 220 feet long by 1913
feet wide, contains one acre.
A plot of ground 440 feet long by
ninety-nine feet wide, contains one acre.
A plot of ground 10 feet wide by 1863
feet long, contains one acre.
A plot of ground $40 feet long by 1871
feet wide, contains one acre.
One acre contains 100 square rods;
4,S40 square yards 43, $50 square feet
One rod contains 1925 square yards,
272. 20 square feet.
One square yard contains nine square
feet.
To measure corn in the crib. Multiply
the length, breadth and height together,
in feet, to obtain the cubic feet; multiply
this product by four and strike off the
right figure, and the result will be
shelled bushels, nearly.
Farm Notes.
ScURFY LEG IN CHICKENS kerosene
oil is n sure cure for scurfy leg in chick
ems. Apply the oil every alternate day
for week. Common tar will also cure
this disease; and kerosene oil and sui
phur will cure any case of itch or mango
on horses.
Cow HORN MOLE TRAPs.-A cows
horn is the cheapest trap for that pest,
the ground mole. Place the horn in the
burrow, or, what is better, two horns,
one facing each way. The first time the
mole comes along he will go into the
horn, and cannot back out on account of
the peculiar structure of his feet.
CURE FOR GAPEs IN CHICKENS. Not
long since I accidentally discovered
remedy for gapes in chickens, which may
be of service to your readers. 1t is
Condition Powders, such as are gene
rally used for horses. Mix Il little with
the food given the chicks daily. Before
used this my chicks were dying at the
rate of half dozen day, but since |
tried the powder not one has died.
ANOTHER WAY TO KILL POTATO Bee
TLEs.-l give my experience in mana
ging the potato beetle. Plant in rows
running north and south, and about four
feet apart, and the hills in rows two feet
or less apart. Hill up carly, and leave the
ridges quite steep. Now, when the grub
make their appearance, brush them off
on to the ground, and if the weather is
hot, the greater part Of the soft grubs
will be killed. If farmers will try this
way of killing, 1 am quite sure there will
be little need of using paris green.
Fall Flowing.
Mr.. Harris says, in the american
Agrjculturist: / am convinced that we
shall find it to our interest to work our
land more and more in the fall-and the
earlier the better. Our springs are
short, and we are in hurry to get in
the seed the land is wet, and if plowed
in this condition, we do more than good.
If we wait until it gets dry, it is apt to
turn up lumpy, and much narrowing,
and rolling is required, to
get it in anything like good condition.
And as everything is crowding us, we
are often obliged to put in the crop with
some of the land SO hard that, unless we
have an unusually wet spring, the seed
is long time in coming up, and the
crops are "spotty." And it is these
poor spots that pull down the "average
yield to such a low figure. have in
my own barley field to-day portions that
will probably give fifty bushels per
acre, and spots where the yield will not
be ten bushels. And yet these latter
spots are naturally the strongest and
richest land in the field.
Turing New Grounds.
When turf is to be laid, the ground
should be permitted, after being dug,
o lie and settle during one or two good
aims before the turf is put on, other
wise it will settle unevenly and the turf
will be full Of holes. After the ground
las become well settled, make it over
new and level again then roll and
gain rake MS you lay the turf. Laying
he turf irregularly, or rather with in
ervening spaces of one to two inches
vide, and filling with soil, then seeding
With grass seed, and rolling all down to-
gether, is now practiced pretty gener-
lily, and with great success in it's re-
ults. No beating is given to the sod,
he roller doing all the pressure needed
o form good surface.
An AnaclAfn of Henry Glnu