The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-10-10
Farm. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Notes.

Farm, GARDEN AND HOOoLhOi-D'
Farm Notes.
The fattening time of the year is
especially at this season, when the ceol
air Of autumn seems 10 give new life to
all animal nature rs if the forces re-
leased from activity in the plants were
given to animals TO use. Animals OF
every kind will gain most rapidly in flesh
now if provided with proper food. A COW,
OK or horse will Withstand the cold of win
ter much better If in good flesh than
otherwise. Those desired to be fattened
will respond readily to liberal feed oil
good hay and grain. Indian corn meal, !
and oil meal, are the standard fattening
grains. A few quarts of roots daily will
assist the thorough digestion of hay and
similar carbonaceous fodder.
Root crops attain their best growth
after the light frosts come. The cool
weather seems to affect them so that they
become solid and compact, and form
sugar, under IFS influence. So do not
fear the effects of frost on the turnips
and mangolds, but rather welcome it,
and do not harvest till just before the
ground freezes. Potatoes, however,
should be dug as soon as the tops wither,
"a they gain nothing thereafter, and are
ant to rot under the action of fall rains
after ripening.
Manure, of summer and fall accumula-
ton. should be carted to the fields and
deposited in large heaps in convenient
spots on level land. Any refuse capable
of decomposition and conversion into
manure, may well be incorporated into
these heaps. A thin covering of earth,
compacted somewhat, will prevent too
rapid heating and consequent loss. The
shoveling over of such manure does not
serve to forward the decomposition,
only to control it but the same pur-
pose is accomplished more easily by the
earth covering. One shoveling over
in spring to pulverize it may be of adj
vantage.
The refuse of the harvest fields, weeds
etc, should be gathered in a distinct
heap, mixed with its bulk of stable
manure and left to decompose. 1t will
make good manure, and If thoroughly
composted there is little danger of the
,, weed-seed retaining their vitality but
) to insure this complete decay the COM
post should be made by itself, and re.
j ceive special. attention. This is better
i than burning, for it saves the heterogeneous
and most valuable portion. But the
t brush and very coarse weeds (of which
! there should be none) which will accu
i mulate on every farm, must be burned
e And it is far better, and gives the place
a much neater appearance to get rid o
8 all such refuse, than to let it lie arounC
" till spring. Well is it, too, to have gen
$ eral picking up scrape about the hom'
9 and farmstead, of all the bits of WOO
& and other litter, thus keeping thing
IS neat and trim.
4 How to Fatten Chickens.
: 1t is hopeless to attempt to fattel
!, chickens while they are at liberty. The,
# must be put in proper coop, and this
"a like most poultry appurtenances, nee,
" not be expensive. To fatten lively
" fowls, a coop must be twelve feet long
le eighteen inches high, and eightee
N inches deep, made entirely of bars. N
10 part of it solid, neither top, side 10
is bottom. Discretion must be used aC
"a cording to the size of the chickens pu
l., up. They do not want room indeed
ct the closer they are tho better-provide
os they can stand up at the same time
I'd Care must be exercised to put up sue
=, as have been accustomed to being t.
i'd gether, or they will fight. If one
Ut quarrelsome it is better to remove it
,e. once, as, like other bad examples
't- soon finds imitators. A diseased chickc
en- should not be put up. The food shoul
IN be ground oats, and may either be pl
b bo in trough or on fiat board runnin
ed along the front of the coop. 1t may |
as mixed with water or milk the latter
he better. 1t should be well soaked, for
MS ing pulp us loose as can b., provide
ON that it does not run off the board. TIL,
W must be we'll fed three or four times
, I,l day-the first time as soon after ia
he break rs possible or convenient, III
M then at intervals of four hours. Eat
ties meal should be as much and no mo
ed than they can eat up clean. When tn
of have done feeding, the board should
ed. wiped, and some gravel may be spre0
IN, 1t causes them to feed and thrive. Aft
49,. fortnight of this treatment, you W
nee have good fat fowls. If, however, the
by are but four to six to be fattened, til
in must not have so much room as thou
for there were twelve. Nothing is cas-
or than to allot to them the proper spac
t the it is only necessary to have two or TIN
ten pieces of wood to pass between the ba
'ov; and form partition. This may a
,ere serve when fowls are put up at differ,
the degrees of fairness. This requires att
cd ), ton, or fowls will not remain fat Q
nall healthy. AS soon as the fowl is 81
King cientlv fottenad Il norst no L;l1o5 90
ania ."''o' ~ iii"oo w hiiio", "o
erwise it will not still get fat, but
lose flesh. If fowls are intended for
market, of course they are or may be
e fattened at once but if for home C
hey sumption, it is better to put them VI
OF such intervals as will suit the time w
'me they are required for the table. W
chy the time arrives forl killing, whether
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