Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-18
NOTES.

Bran or middlings mixed with whey and
fed to pigs keeps them in excellent health,
and, if mixed with a little barley meal makes
the sweetest and best of pork
French poultry fanciers are now feeding
fowls designed for market with barley and
steamed yellow carrots. This feed is remark.
able for its rapid fattening qualities
French butter is not made as many sup
pose, from milk Of cows fed on old pastures :
these are reserved for fattening cattle. and
the COWS from which butter is made are fed
with lucerue.
Mr.. J J. Erwin, of Texas. has Just com.
pleted his spring clip Of Il flock Of $50 sheep.
which will make an average Of over Ave
pounds per head and was sold before sheared
at 30 cents per pound.
II is said that there is no better way to de.
stroy sorrel than to pillow the land in early
summer, and il July SOW buckwheat Sorrel
is potash plant, and has sometimes been
used as fertilizer for potatoes.
Mr.. Ira Beabott, of near Bower Hill. Wash.
ington Co, Pa, out Of one flock Of sixty ewes
had eighty two lambs. and seventy-seveu of
them are living and doing well. Mr. Bea.
bolt is considered a very successful sheep
raiser
A celebrated raiser Of long-woolled sheep
says There is danger Of keeping toe
many together On "A lOO-Rcre farm ten
would cost little and would do finely, twenty
would occasion perceptibe expense and forty
would cost as much a. they were worth"
James Myers, of Concord township, Elk.
hart, Ind, had colt foaled this spring which
is ljt hands high When its head is raised
up 1t reaches over the dam back 1t has to
be fed by hand, owing to its inability to
stoop to the maternal fount The dam is d
common animal about 10 years old
If jars for the purpose of holding cream
are constructed with faucets in them. the wa.
ter Of the cream will sink to the bottom and
can be drawn of without disturbing the
cream. This water is bitter, and frequently
imparts TO the butter a bitter taste but by
being drawn of as described the butter viii
not be thus affected
The ox-eye daisy has become a great pest
il some sections Of the country. Those who
are troubled with this weed should bear in
mind that it is propagated by seed and not
by root, and that to rid themselves of it they
have only to NOV before the seed is ripe. II
may take two, or even three seasons TO nd q
field of this innocent looking flower.
1t is believed by many bee keepers that rye
meal is the best possible substitute for bee
bread. when the latter is not in full supply
The meal should be put III shallow boxes neal
the apiary, and a few pieces of comb near il
will attract the attention OF the bees to 1t
This food causes the swarms to be larger and
earlier than any other.
One of the most useful implements that
can be used upon the farm is the field roller
1t brushes the clods, levels and smooths the
ground and presses the earth firmly around
the seed, causing il to sprout and grow much
earlier. In very dry weather a good rolling
,.Et nil go 4.
which Otherwise would not have terminated.
Mr.. David Ayers, OF Camella Mitchell
county, Georgia, says his sheep, g. 800 in
number cost him annually IA cents per head
The average clip is three pounds of unwAsh-
ed wool, which sells at 30 cents per pound, q
clear profit on money invested in sheep Of 81
per cent. His sheep feed upon the pasture
the year round which is worth about Sl.5C
per acre.
The grain crop of California has attained
its present production Of 40, 900, 900 bushels
from the first attempt to raise wheat for
home consumption, less than thirty years ago.
The first bag of flour was made in 1888, al
Horners mills, Union City In 1868 Mr.
Horner raised 22OOO,OOO pounds of po
tatoes, which he sold at 3 cents per pound.
He is still living Oh his rancho, whittier lac
went III 1876
LIE pLaGAANb vi llbIhlnB water lbT BLOCH II
to be condemned From its stagnant condi-
ton it necessarily becomes impure especial
ly during the hot season, and when drank it
a serious injury to the health of stock II i.
one of the causes of bad odor in milk and moi
unfrequently the cause of malarial and ~,
phoid diseases Ill the farmers family. Pro
vide fresh living water for all the cattle If you
would keep them healthy and thrifty.
The National Live Stock journal speaking
of raising colts has this to say: The true
policy is to promote the growth Of the colt
by an abundance of nutritious food, and tC
secure a healthy and perfect development Of
heart and lungs and bone and muscle by per
hitting him to romp and race, and play a
will, BY SO doing, all there is of good il
'roughing it" will be attained, and all that il
bad or dangerous in generous feeding will bC
avoided"
The best and most economical method Il
get rid of moss in lawns is to rake whenever
the ground is bare in winter, Even when
the ground is frozen the moss is readily torn
up. After the moss is removed give a toy
dressing of fnely-rotted barnyard manure
and early in spring SOW on a liberal quantity
of blue grass seed and little white clover
Then roll with a heavy roller and not NOV in
spring until the young grass has become vel
established
The Massachusetts Ploughman remarks
that formerly in some portions of Massachu
sets it was the custom, with some farmers
to SOW oats to cut green for hay but Hun
| garian grass, within a few years, has in
measure taken the place of oats The ad
vantage Of Hungarian is that it can b.
| sown later in the season, aud the seed cost
less, if the oats are sown as thick as they
should be to make the best hay. If til,
| ground be cold and moist oats would grow tn,
/ best.
A writer in the London Garden gives Il de
tailed account of the method adopted by hin
for raising asparagus shoots of twice the or
binary size. The plants were given plenty o
room-say four feet apart each way. The
first two years light crop was planted be
| tween the rows. Afterward no other crop i,
planted. To give the right depth in planting
trenches are dug eight inches deep and gooC
strong yearling plants set therein At tn,
time Of planting no manure is applied, but i
freely used afterward. By adopting thi
method of growing asparagus the great ex
pense of trenching for ordinary thick-be
planting is obviated.