The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
seIssoungs for the Farmer.

ScissorIngs for the Farmer.
Take sheep from the pastures early,
and provide ample sheds, we'll ventila-
ted, for protection from storms. Feed
in racks apart from other stock. Al
low free access 10 water, and salt
weekly. -Agricuhuralis
Winter Grain-Kecp the drain
burrows open allow no water to stand
on any part Of the surface.
Boiled apples and meal are excel
lent food for fattening hogs; apples
are cheap, meal is not dear, pork con-
tinues to advance and to-day the out
look is a profit in pork for the pro-
ducers.
If farmers would only comprehend
that fresh fruit and vegetables, as arti-
Giles of food, promote healthfulness,
lessen the butchers bills and the doc
tors visits, as well as expenses of liv-
ing generally, gardening would soon
take a prominent place among them.
Implements, put away for the win
ter, should be painted or protected in
some way from the action of the air
and moisture. Paint or varnish for
the woodwork, and a varnish of two
thirds rosin and one-third mutton tai
low is excellent for protecting iron or
steel.-Farmer.
Buildings should be thoroughly ex-
amined, and put in repair. Clear ont
and fit stables and sheds for the early
accommodation of stock.
The shortening days and intervals
of severe weather betokcn the approach
of Winter, and everything should be
in readiness for its coming. Any
root or other crop u~nharvested needs
the first attention. Threshing and
marketing grain will ~proftably occupy
the time ofmany. Permanent improve
ments in building, fencing, draining,
etc., can be made most favorablY at
this season
1t pays to feed literally, lows CIV
ing milk. Butter is high, and now is
the time to feed proitably. Every
COW should be made to produce as
much butter as possible. Whenever
butter is twenty cents per pound or
more, there is money in the dairy
business, and the mar who feeds the
most literally and judiciously, will
make the greatest profit. Meal, both
cotton-seed and corn, roots, pumpkins,
and fodder corr should all come in for
a share Of attention as profitable food
for dairy COWS. Whatever kinds of
food are used, the COWS should have
all that they can proftably turn into
milk. Many men feel that they can
not afford to buy grain for feeding
to COWS at this season Of the year.
Let them take q different view, and
ask themselves if they a afford not
to buy grain to feed COWS when butter
is as high as at DISQUALIFICATION
Journal.
DISEASED CATTLE SODA suit
was decided on Saturday last by q jury
in the Westchester supreme court
which is to be considered as a prece.
dent by which all future suites may
be determined involving the liability
of the seller of diseased cattle anC
horses. The suit in question wa.
brought by Hiram Finch, of Nortl
Castle, against DR.. Jonathan Carpen
ter, Halls Corners, to recover thu
sum of 5000, which he claimed rs the
amount due for five COWS sold to the
defendant, and for which sum tn
plaintiff held notes. The defence wal
that the COWS were afflicted with pleu
ropneumonia, and that their presence
among thirty-five other sound animals
caused the disease to spread, by which
the defendant lost every COW but two
The plaintiff denied that the COWS haC
the disease, and a long list of witness
es were called to show that the cattl,
were suffering fromit. The testimony
experts was exhaustive, lasting nearl,
two days. The court house wa
crowded with farmers, who took grea
interest in the proceedings. Mr.. e,
L. Lovatt, counsel for Dir. Carpenter
cross-examined the experts for thu
plaintiff in regard to the disease ii
such a pointed manner that they ad
mitted the COWS must have been attic
ted with something akin to pleuro
pneumonia. The jury rendered a yer
dict for defendant, giving him $l1(
damages and the notes for 5000
which makes a total of $1,010. Tit
principal established by this verdic
that a man who sells diseased cattle
not only forfeits the pay for them, but
il liable in damages for the spread O.