The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-05-29
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Notes.

| NOteas
Peas and beans contain nearly double
the flesh-forming matters that are found
in wheat, corn, oats or barley, but fai
less starchy and heat giving matters oi
fat.
Those who may desire to raise Ameri.
can elm. scarlet and silver maple trees,
should not forget that the seed ripent
in the spring, and should be sown as
gathered from the trees. The seeds OF
all our other species of naples ripen in
the fall, and may be kept over winter.
Mr.. Charles Downing, conceded au.
thority in regard to fruit-growing, AYERS
that, as rule, no variety of apple can
bear large crops annually except on
rich, deep soils, or where made so by
enriching materials annually, and even
then he thinks, at the expense of the life
or age OF the tree; that is, trees bearing
large crops annually will not live as long
as trees bearing moderate crops annual
ly, or full crops alternate years.
The following calculations are made
by Professor johnson: A foot in depth
and an acre of surface of sand will hold
1,197, 300 pounds of water; prairie soil
will hold 1,524, 600 pounds, while peat
will hold 2, 047, 300pounds of water. The
average rainfall in New England being
forty inches annually, equal to 9,075,-
600 pounds per acre, it would, at the
ordinary rate of absorption, all be held
in seven and half feet in depth of sand,
or in six feet In depth of prairie soil,
and in four and half feet in depth of
peat.
For insects on roses the following
remedy is applied at the celebrated Mt.
Hope Nurseries, near Rochester: "Boil
four ounces of quassia chips ten minutes
in gallon of soft water, and after strain
ing add four ounces of soft soap, which
should be dissolved as it cools, stirring
well before using. With small, clean
painters brush apply it to every infect
ed leaf and shoot. In fifteen or twenty
minutes wash the plants with pure wa
ter. Tobacco may be used instead of
the quassia. For some insects sprink-
ling of powdered hellebore will destroy
or disperse them, the plants being pre-
viously we'll moistened."
WORMS IN SOIL. The safest and most
effectaal remedy 1 have yet tried for the
depredations of worms in soils whether
in pots or in the open ground is SCOT.
flowers on wall border, we were sorely
troubled by worms casting out the
plants almost as fast as we could stick
them in. We gave the surface of the
border good dressing of dry SCOT, and
then watered it. It had most surpris-
ing effect; the worms came sprawling to
the surface by hundreds, when it was no
difficult matter to gather them and put
them out of harms way. Applied also to
pot plants, say dessert spoonful of dry
SCOT on the surface of six-inch pot, it
will be found to bring them hurrying
over the sides of the pot as soon as water
is applied. Acting also as an excellent
manure, and being generally so plenti-
full in nurseries and gardens, I am some
what surprised to see it SO little
used. On Camelias especially I have
found it to have most beneficial effect;
it imparts healthy dark-green color
to the foliage, and stimulates the roots
into more active performance of their
duty. London Gardeners Chronicle.
A Female Farmer.
Last year one of the eight premiums
offered by the Royal Agricultural Socie-
ty of England for the best managed farm
in the district in which the annual ex-
hibition is held, was awarded to q woman
farmer, Mrs. Ellen Birch, for farm of
242 acres of arabic land near Ainstee.
The farm, which is characteristic of the
surrounding region, is nearly level and
is divided into fields of thirty acres each
by neatly kept hedges, and is light and
easily worked soil, naturally dry. No
stock of any consequence is kept, as
town manure is cheaply brought on to
the land by canal from Liverpool, for
which market the products Of the land
are intended. The rent paid is G5, say
about 1922, per acre. The course of
cropping is as follows: First, potatoes,
after lea; second, wheat; third, barley
or oats, some with grass seeds fourth,
hay +; fifth, hay after which the
lea is again broken out and plant
ed with potatoes. The potato crop
now on the ground is spoken of as
simply splendid" And it is on the
potatoes that all the town and home
made manure is applied, sometimes with
the addition OF little nitrate of soda.
The grain crop, especially the oats, were
very heavy. Fifteen men and lads are
employed, at sixteen and seventeen
shillings week, and cottage rent.
Heavy crops of hay are grown, and
after this is over for the season, sheep
are taken in to grass for local statesmen,
at sixpence per week.
Always A chance.
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