Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-05-28
AGRICULTURAL.

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An English grape-grower stopped the
profuse bleeding of a thrifty young vine
by forming sort of hard cement over
the cut ends by repeated dustings at
short intervals with Portland cement.
Charcoal pulverized and mixed with
water is highly recommended for reliev-
ing cattle suffering from any derange-
ment of the stomach, such as bloat, hoy
en-. etc.
Oats supply more nourishment and
flesh-maklng material to horses than any
other food, but oats alone are not condu-
Give to the best results. Mixed food is
best.
Hogs are sometimes troubled with dis
ordered stomachs. The best antidote is
charcoal. Aside from charcoal, charred
corn cobs, or charred corn, have a good
effect.
Exercise great care in the selection Of
calves for raising. An extra dollar spent
in procuring thrifty one with good
limbs will be better investment than if
placed at interest.
If lamb when first dropped becomes
chilled, teaspoonful of rum given with
twice that quantity of warm water, will
be excellent to restore warmth and re-
vive its strength.
Patent tube COW mixers are pronounc-
ed humbug by English dairymen. They
not only lessen the yield of milk, but in
some cases have actually spoiled the
cows.
Keep barrel of gypsum in the stables
where cows are kept, and sprinkle the
floor with it after the stalls are cleaned.
1t is valuable absorbent of liquid ma
nure, and an excellent deodorizer.
Try making compost heap this year.
Use the refuse vegetable matter, and
whatever will decay. Pile it in heap,
soak it so as to assist fermentation, and
the result will be valuable lot of fertil-
izing material.
The value of dry wood for fuel as CON-
pared with green is nearly double, es-
pecially when we take into account the
time it takes to start good fire in the
morning. Moral: Lay in years stock
ahead.
Gooseberries are not as much thought
of in this country as they deserve, for
the better sorts are really delicious
fruit. One of the newest and best of the
American varieties is the Downing,
propogated by Ellwanger & Barry OF
Rochester. 1t is an aboundant bearer,
and the fruit is large and of excellent
flavor.
Farmers sons and daughters should
be acquainted with botany, learn all
parts of plant, the relations of one
part to another and of each to all. They
should also learn what is the appropriate
food of different species, and the cohdi-
tions under which they appropriate theil
food.
Mr.. Taylor of Burlington, VT, says he
has tried wood and stone jars for put
ting up butter, and finds that butter from
the same churning, part put up in stone
jars and part in tubs, that in jars will
keep year in good condition, while thai
in tubs would become frowy in three
months.
An Indiana farmer gathered old bone
and reduced them by placing them il
alternate layers with ashes, and the mex
year used the mixture on a melon hill
and raised the largest crop of MELONS h
ever saw.
To cut hot bread, Miss Whitney rec
ommends using a hot knife, and layin!
the slices not on cold plate but on
napkin. Hot bread is not very good t.
eat, but when necessary to cut it this de
vice is worth remembering.
To destroy current worms, sprinkle
them thoroughly with sifted air-slaket
lime after shower, or, if shove
should not come at the right time, aftc
wetting them well. The worms viii
usually attack the bushes two or tire,
times in season. Apply the lime a
often as they appear. Lime does not in
iure bushes or fruit.
Buckwheat straw which Heretofore
has been considered of little value, ha
of late been utilized by some of the Yves
tern farmers by chopping it fine and add
ing meal to it. A small quantity fed t.
stock occasionally would be relished, NJ
doubt.
At the annual spring exhibition Of tn
Massachusetts, Horticultural Society
specimen of the Azalea eGgatiSita wa
| shown, which measured six and one hal
feet in height and seventeen and one-hal
feet in circumference at the head. 1t wa
contributed by Hon Marshall p. Wilder
and is believed to be the largest eve
grown.
A mixture of kerosene and lard will
remove lice if it is well aps'ied. /
should be used all over the skin, an,
brushed into the hair thoroughly. l
will be more effective if some sulphur i
added to it. Take one pound of lard
one pint of kerosene oil and four ounce
of flowers of sulphur; rub these we'll to
gether; smear some of it over horse
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