The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-04-17
Farm, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes.
In cleaning and oiling harness oil OF
il should be unbuckled and thoroughly
examined and cleaned.
Feeding chopped onions 10 poultry is
said to eradicate lice. For young chick
ems three feelings week in the spring
and part of the summer are sufficient.
The utmost moisture that should be
found in thoroughly worked butter is
very slight dew, and it should be of
such fine consistency as 10 slice down,
hardly dimming the surface Of knife
blade.
The best preventive for worms in
celery is to mix plenty OF salt, SCOT and
lime with the manure that is to be en-
ployed in trenches. This should be
added to the manure some weeks before
it is used, during which time it should
be turned now and then. The mixture
above named also benefits the growth of
the celery, which will lift clean and
spotless compared with that grown in
the ordinary way.
Good wheat ought to furnish at least
seventy-four per cent. of fine -four. The
best samples often furnish seventy-six
to eighty per cent, and in few rare
instances as much rs eighty-six per cent.
of -four has been obtained. Inferior
varieties seldom produce more than
sixty. eight per cent, and in instances
only fifty-four to fifty-six per cent. of
-four has been obtained from bad sam
pies. On an average, wheat may be said
to yield seventy-five per cent. Of fine
flour and twenty-five per cent. of bran
and middlings.
A. P. Walling, Worcester, Mass,
writes to the Poultry World: az have
tried sunfower seeds this year with good
results. At first my fowls would not eat
them, not seeming to distinguish them
from sticks or stones, but in short
time they learned to split open the shells
and devour the kernels with a gusto,
and the effect in glossing the plumage
was very soon noticeable. / think the
amusement of breaking the shells will
turn out just the thing when my birds
are cooped up in winter, as it will divert
their attention from egg eating, feather
plucking and similar mischief"
Grating Potatoes.
A subject which created some interest
few years ago, and which still crops
up, was the grating of potatoes, from
the fact that some potato growers as
serted that they had by this means raised
hybrids, or potatoes intermediate be-
tween the scion and stock. With the
view OF testing the accuracy of such
statements, I obtained, through tine kind
ness Of Mr.. Syme, all the varieties in
Messrs. Lawson's extensive collection.
selected thirty y-four distinct sorts, and
began by placing the most distinct vari-
cites together. 1 first took all the eyes
out of the one that was to be the stock,
and cutting various pieces cut with a
sharp knife, l took corresponding
piece out of one that was to be used as
the scion. These were fitted together
as neatly as I could by tying but, pre-
viously to that, I passed piece of
wire through both so as to hold them
the more firmly together. After doing
about hundred in this way, it occurred
to me, in order to make doubly sure, to
ask Mr.. james Cooper, who for upward
of thirty years acted as budder and
CRATER to the Messrs. Lawson & Sons,
and who is well known as one of the
most successful grafters in the kingdom.
to graft some of these potatoes for me !;
but after doing thirty-six tubers he
threw them aside, saying that it was all
nonsense. Some of these we're potted
and placed in a sharp bottom heat,
others were placed in suitable soil in o
cold frame, and some were planted in
the open border. Those in heat were
examined after they had made about six
inches of growth; those in the cold
frame, as we'll as those in the open bor-
der, we're allowed to mature their tubers,
but in no single instance could I trace
the least change, nor yet could I find
that the scion and stock had united and
this was also the case when cut the
eyes out of one-haf of single tuber.
cutting it in two, and tying the two
halves together, so that there could be
no misftting Of parts. I found in nu-
merous instances that eyes had been on
the so-called stock, but in such instan-
ces the young tubers were the same
as the stock.-Correspondence London
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