Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-04-07
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Questions and Answers.

How long time is required to make
a good hay crop of Hungarian grass?
Farmers generally make mistake in
seeding too soon; it needs but seventy
days of good weather to make satisfac-
tory crop of hay.
How about top dressing grass lands
this month?
A better time may not be chosen. Use
all the barnyard manure that can be
spared. Put goodly supply of ashes
on moving and pasture lands try bone
dust on clover fields, and later apply
plaster. When bare, thin spots show
themselves, after applying ashes and
other dressing, harrow and reseed them.
What is the disease denominated
"yaws ?"
Geo. P. Burnham says it is nothing
more nor less than a violent attack of
Group" to which has been given this
novel name Nurse the fowls affected
the same as for Group" and they can be
saved.
What food should be given to lambs
that have to be raised by hand?
Fresh cows milk, sweetencd q little
with the best refined sugar, teaspoon
full to pint of milk. The milk must be
warmed to the proper temperature before
feeding.
What is phosphoric acid
Phosphoric acid is compound of
phosphorus and oxygen. 1t is not found
in free state in nature. 1t unites with
other substances-lime, soda, etc.-and
forms compounds known as phosphates,
which are found in all fertile soils, and
which seem to be necessary for the
growth of plants.
How much does bushel of lucern
seed weigh ?"
Sixty pounds.
Does it make any difference whether
an orchard is planted on high OF low
ground?
Dry upland is much the best, though
the more hardy fruit trees do well on low
land.
Give a recipe for making grating wax.
Three parts of rosin, three of bees
wax and two of tallow make good wax
Root Pruning
never had much faith in pruning the
roots of trees to make them bear fruit.
1t appears to me that the more extensive
the roots, the more fruit the trees ought
to bear but [ may be mistaken. An
English fruit grower says in an English
paper that having some very free grow
ing plum trees which bore no fruit, he
dug a trench two feet six inches from
their trunks, half around the trees in q
ral ,,ttinpanH oil tho ,,cn+c nc fat
as he dug, and with sharp knife
smoothed the ends of the roots cut off.
The result was that the first season the
trees did not make so much wood as pre-
| viously, but many spurs formed all ovel
the trees which were covered with buds
and the second season they bore large
crop of fruit He closes his article AZ
follows: 'The inference gained is to roo
: prune all gross growing unfruitful trees
We proved the good of it years ago il
,, the treatment of apples, pears, and ever
, figs, besides plums, and there is no bet
e ter time of the year for performing thu
0 same than the month of October. TIL,
t great art of fruit growing is to SO manag
= our trees that they shall possess sufficien
i vigor to produce fruit of good quality
r but not to overgrow that limit, by max
a ing good growth at the expense of
crop of fruit. 1t is quite probable tina
i root pruning in certain cases may caus
2 barren trees to produce good crops bu
. we need more light on the subject thai
6 we now possess In the above case til
y roots were cut off but half way arouu
y the trees but it is evident that he woul
have badly injured them if the entir
roots had been severed two feet and
r. half from their trunks. A better wa
e than to cut half around wouldSbe to di
d further from the trunks of the tree
d according to their age and growth, an
. to cut off the roots entirely around then
J. from four to six feet from their trunks
d T. b. Miner, IN the NeaO York WorlC
y Serving Up Eggs.
/ CURRIED EGGs.-Take six eggs, boile
ID hard; into lined saucepan put thr(
81 ounces of butter or three tablespoonful
y of butter and three dessertspoonfuls
n curry powder; slice two boiled onion
At finely minced; cook until soft, when slit
st into the mixtures the eggs, with te,
III cup of cream, and let it simmer, NJ
/. boil.
t. BUTTERED EGGs.-Beat we'll fol
1e fresh eggs, and with two ounces of bu
n n ter melted in water-bath, pour into
ii lined saucepan, stirring, that they mi
at perfectly assimilate. Serve hot, sprei
ID on buttered toast.
sr DREADED EoGs. Boil the 3ggs har
AZ lice them when cold and din each sli