Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08
FARM NOTES.


mates the amount of butter now made in
creameries in that state at $4,000, 600
pounds per annum.
The too common practice of covering
lawns with manure in the autumn, MAX
ing them look like barn-yards, in most
cases does more harm than good.
Arthur Fee, of Plymouth county, Ia,
expects to shear, next season. 10000
sheep. 1t is stated, on good authority,
that there are upwards of 10000 in that
county.
Iowa RENTS the taxes for five and ten
years respectively, ON land planted to
fruit and fruit trees. 1t is said to have
been the direct means of clothing more
than $4,000 acres in that state with
orchards.
Forty years after the first arrivals of
stock in Australia there were IL, 497
horses, 262, 1868 cattle and 537, 1871 sheep
there. In 1861 the number of sheep had
increased to Oils, 100, and it is stated
that five years afterward the number
was doubled.
Phosphoric acid is firmly held by the
soil and is not subject to loss through
drainage, and has limited difusibility;
potash is strongly retained and has n
greater diffusibility; nitrogen in its var
ious forms is less strongly retained, and
has ready diffusibility.
An open pair of eyes, ready tongue,
and well-used note book will enable a
teachable farmer to bring away from a
good fair, something great deal more
valuable than premiums. For the
other sort, who are living in the ruts and
don't want to get out, well, they might
better stay at home.
Shocking is an important matter and
should be done with care. If the stalks
are not well set up and properly tied, the
shocks fall in all directions and the fod-
der is damaged and the husking made
more difficult. Bands of rye straw, or
even Of willow, may be used with ad-
vantage.
In parts of Holland there are as many
as two thousand bee-hives to the square
mile, bringing in to the inhabitants of
that area at least fifteen thousand pounds
per annum. Large tracts of country in
England-not to speak Of Scotland and
Wales-quite as suitable for bees as the
Dutch pastures referred to, are without
, a single bee, and do not produce there
fore single pound of honey or an ounce
of wax.
Buckwheat should be cut before the
first frost Injuries it. The grain shells
badly when the plants are dry, therefore
cut in the morning when the dew is on.
The cut crop after standing few days
will be dry and ready to thresh, which
had best be done at once. If n machine
= is used, remove the concave, or the
cylinder teeth would otherwise break
the kernels. The grain should be clean
; ed at once and spread out as thinly
as possible, as it is very apt to heat, and
become worthless, if let in large heaps.
The following treatment is recommend
ed for tumors on horses caused by strik-
ing them: Clip off the hair over the in
jured part, and apply this ointment
Bin. iodide of mercury, one part; lard,
eight parts; mix well together, rub the
swelling well with the ointment; tie the
head up so he cannot rub it into the eyes
The next day dress the part with lard
, after cleansing with CASTLE soap and
water, repeat the dressing every Other
!, day for a week or ten days, then apply
the ointment again in the same manner
G Glover.
/ While large class of the farming
community hold to the opinion that
= clover is better and more surely sown in
1 the early spring, this work is much of il
e done during the late summer and au
+ tumn. A considerable proportion O.
r the clover sown at all seasons is mixed
S with timothy and other grasses. Wher
e thus associated on moving lots the full
S benefit of the clover is not realized il
= the majority of cases, because care wa:
not observed to sow with it varieties
which blossom at about the same time
The clover in consequence goes to seeC
before the latter grasses are ready for thu
e moving machine. Even under these
Y conditions the clover has not been with
: out value. Its long tap roots have pu
Q the ground IN condition to be readily
/ acted upon by air and moisture. They
e have also added to its fertility. Among
: grasses which blossom simultaneously
i, with clover, and therefore adapted tC
t seeding with it on meadow lands, are
e meadow fescur, perennial rye grass
| Kentucky blue grass and Italian rye
/ grass.
The apple crop is abundant and the
G thrifty farmer and housewife are casting
e about to know what they will do will
D the apples. II is too early to make ap
2 pie butter, OF cider for winter use We
e can, however, now make good article
h of vinegar If the sound apples are
y pressed now, and the juice put into clear
: barrels, and placed in the sun, with s
K bottle neck downward in the bung, to lei
in the heat and keep out the gnats ant
Q flies, good article of vinegar may bC