Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-15
A9riemllnral department.


for eggs.
More people die from overeating than
from starvation.
Parsnips contain twice as much real
food as turnips.
The lean part of meat corresponds to
the gluten of plants.
A farmer in California last year sold |
$751; worth of potatoes.
Salads are among the best things a
person in good health can eat.
The frost of June 9TH was not as Sc
we're as that of June IL, 1912.
Avoid too much drink with your
meals if you would promote digestion.
Chickens for wintering may be
Matched as late as the 1st of August.
Cattle, sheep and horses should have
salt at least as often as once week.
One strawberry grower in Norfolk,
Va, had field this season of over 200
acres.
Simeon Abbott, of West Concord, N.
H., has grown rye this season seven feet
high.
The hay crop in Franklin county is
pronounced very good by the Greenfield
Gazette.
A Texas camel breeder says there is
no more trouble in raising camels than
colts or calves.
A pail of milk standing 10 minutes
in a foul stable is nearly spoiled for
wholesome use.
Intelligence is the supreme power
over human destinies; ay, it is might
or than money.
Much of the complaint against COM
mercial fertilizers, is the result of igno-
rance in the use of them.
Gen. F. E. Spinner is farming in
Florida, and works 10 hours day at
his new vocation.
Keep lime out of yeur dung heap, un-
less it be desired to liberate and dis
charge fixed ammonia.
Keep your piggery we'll supplied with
bedding that the pigs may have clean
place to lie and sleep.
The bright hopes of early spring
seem not to be realized in the early har-
vest, as to the grain crops.
, Every enterprising farmer should
make an experiment station of his farm,
| himself being the director.
} NJ. F. Norcross, of Winthrop, Me-.
has a Jersey heifer, % months old, thai
made lbs. of butter in week.
An average sized man, weighing 154
pounds, contains 1l6 pounds of water
and SO pounds of solid matter.
Grass farming, especially when dairy
husbandry leads, is more profitable ant
less laborious than grain farming.
!, A dairyman in Belchertown is max
ing 10 pounds Of butter day Il IL lb
per cow from COWS of Shorthorn blood
The cause of indigestion proceed
/ more frequently from the brain than tn
stomach-it is mental rather than stom
q achal.
: Your farm is your fixed capital; i'm
. proyements are your investments AM
n your crops over the cost of your produc
s ton, are your dividends.
J. Nitrogen in the form of nitric acid
n the principal element of plant growth i
e the nitrate of soda, and promotes tn
growth of grass on light soils.
lt Some hired men are as we'll wort
IS $40 month as others are $40. Th
Is best way to get all you earn is to begi
( by earning more than you get.
= The evening meal should be light an
a simple one, as sleep is generally III
broken and dreamless after supper
bread and milk, hasty pudding, or GA
~ meal porridge.
70 Milk contains what is necessary
- the building up of the human frame ar
no sustaining health. Its composition : il
ba water 81, caseine 4 IL, butter fat
!; sugar ga, mineral ash ga per cent.
n. There are two maxims that we ha
of often tried to impress upon milk prod
GERS, to wit, first no man can afford
al keep poor cow; second, that no m;
ce can afford to keep COW poor.
H. A merino ram. bred by S. B. LUIS
ms Batavia, N. Y. and now owned by H.
he Chamberlain. Bolton, Texas. has il
up sheared 38 lbs. and ozs. one yea
IN growth, one of the largest feeces on re
nd ord.
II American agricultural machinery
II displaclng the heavy farm machinery
ow Great Britain and Europe. The Sh
Sc field (Eng.) Telegraph states that 5
en- 600 dozen hay-rakes have been order
t0r by single firm in that city for the pr
ent season.
Id. A brood of quails, six young and
an old ones identical with the impor
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