Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-04-27
FARM CHIPS.

The Hubbard squash was imported from
the Wost Indias about thiryt years ago.
Patents have been issued in our country
for more than eight thousand different kinds
Of churns.
The Colorado potato beetle was known as
early as 1928, and was described by that
eminent entomologist, Say.
The butter at first class hotels costs more
per year. than tho -four, or the sugar, and
nearly as much as the meat.
A bushel OF corn under ordinary circum-
stances fed TO fowls will produce pounds Of
live poultry, and from 10 10 l6 dozens Of
eggs. Sc
An old proverb that fruit is "gold in the
morning, silver at noon, and lead at night"
does not apply 10 most stomachs nowadays,
if it ever did.
The quality Of fruit is materially affected
by the nature of the soil on which it is
grown, and by the care or neglect which the
trees receive.
The egg aud poultry interest Of the state
and country exceeds any other farm produc-
tion, in value, except the hay crop, aud some
authorities claim that it is greater even than
that.
Farmers who grow turnips can get the best
seed by setting out the roots very soon.
They will mature their seed in season for
the main crop, and, besides, the seeds will,
in all probability, be good. But it is neces-
sary to change seeds occasionally.
Gardeners who are accustomed TO plant po-
tatoes very early are not likely to get SO good
quality in the tubers, as those who plant
about the right time The same is true with
regard to early peas. Therefore, don't plant
until the soil is in proper condition.
Prof. Stockbridge says, III can with chem
icals properly prepared bring back old, worn
out, bush producing pastures to their former
fertility, and make them produce the grass
necessary to feed as much stock as in their
pristine days. Nothing else will do it."
If farmers would bring water to their
dwellings in pipes, from springs, or reser-
voirs on higher plane than the house, or
by means Of hydraulic power, they would
greatly facilitate woman's burdensome work.
The same arrangement for the barn will save
great labor to the farm hands.
To grow potatoes cheaply, use a planter
which makes the furrow, cuts and drops the
seed, scatters the powdered fertilizer and GOV.
ers, all in one process. Use the horse hoe
in hoeing and the digger to harvest. If the
beetles do not interfere, oue-half of the cost
Of growing the crops will be saved.
When the gardener is troubled in couse.
quence of his nice drum-head or stone-mason
cabbages splitting open, he will find it good
practice to pull them up partially. or give
them q sufficient start to sever portion ol
the roots. 1t will enable him to keep the
cabbages week or two longer in the ground
Cheese made Of full new milk will not gen
orally keep as well as that made from milk
which has had portion Of the cream remov.
ed. Some cheese manufacturers maintain
that they can take off q certain per cent OF
the cream which will not be noticed in the
cheese even by very particular cheese con
sumers.
Onions may be grown on the same soil fol
many years. They are of finer quality in
subsequent years than in the first, and con
tinue to grow more delicious for long pc
riod. Poor seed on fresh land will give poor
crops usually. Planting onion seed deep
from one to two inches-will prove an anti
dOte to the onion maggot.