Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-08-13
FARM NOTES.

the dry season.
A quart of milk for every six inhabit-
ants, is the rule by which they calculate
the amount of milk required to supply
the population of any city.
An infusion of about a pound of
quassia chips to eight gallons of water
has been found very useful in preventing
blight in peach trees and vines.
Guinea fowls are said to be very useful
in a garden. They destroy insects of
every kind and do no damage by scratch
ing up or otherwise ipjuring the growing
plants.
Peter Williams of Brunswick county,
Ga, had just housed his large tobacco
crop, when in storm his barn was
blown down and 10000 pounds of the
article ruined.
A good cow ought to produce 5000
pounds of milk annually; but in this
country the average is only about half
that, while in Holland 10000 pounds is
only considered fair yield.
The intense heat during the day to-
gether with the brittleness of the straw,
has caused Lancaster county, Pa,
farmers to do their harvesting at night
by the aid of artificial light.
Labor during the haying and harvest
this season in Indiana has not been so
scarce and high-priced in sixty-five
years. Two women have found constant
employment in harvest field at SO a
day each.
Pennsylvania claims to have the pre-
MUM wheat field. 1t is part of the farm
of Mrs. DR.. Nathan Kitchener of Coven-
tryville, Chester county. From four
acre field $500 sheaves of wheat were
hauled into the barn.
A faucet in the bottom of the cream jar
is recommended so as to draw off the
watery portion of the cream without dis
turbing the rest, as it is this watery por-
tion which becomes bitter and thus i'm
parts bitter taste to the butter.
J. Thomas Budd, Wilmington land
agent, is trying to reclaim Delaware's
waste and overflow lands by bringing
over 5000 German wheat-raisers and
settling them on it. They are to have lC
years to pay for their acres, and Budd
already has got hold of 5000 acres.
A Devon COW is reported that made 6
pound Of butter in summer from % Is
pounds of milk, and from fifteen pounds
in winter, with pasture only in summer
and in winter eight ears of corn and two
quarts of bran fed dry twice day. ShC
gave twenty-five per cent. more mill
when MIXED three times day.
The scales which fly from iron wher
it is worked at FORCES, iron trimmings
filings or other ferruginous material, i
worked into the soil about fruit trees, O.
the more minute particles spread thinl,
on the lawn, mixed with the earth O
flower beds or in pots, are most valuable
They are especially so to the peaches ant
pears, and, in fact, supply necessary in
gradients to the soil.
A new horse distemper, called by vet
Urinary surgeons paralysis of the throat
has made its appearance in the stables il
Boston. The muscles of the throat be
come infamed so that the animal swal
lows with great difficulty, in a shor
time becoming incapable of swallowin
at all. In few days the muscles of til
body are paralyzed and death ensues
The cause is said to berainy and irregula
weather.
| To transform avid heifer into vel
; behaved, well-trained COW, be patient
and exhibit no temper. Never strike G
kick her. She must first of all get az
, quainted with you. She must learn nc
, to fear you. If, in winter, it is best
5 milk in the stable, make as little fus
and as few alarming motions as possibl,
5 Handle her very gently. Be Garrett
| not to pinch the teats. This is the gres
: source Of trouble.
An extra good cow ough on no accour
to be forced to give milk beyond her MOI
: NAL quantity. fthis is done it will
at the expense of her constitution as we
as that of her progeny. 1t is matter {
6 doubt whether there is immediate prof
in the production of the extra quart {
two of milk. 1t takes certain amour
1 of feed to sustain life, and the next COZ
4 sideration as to feed is profit. Beyond
q rational amount of food, even if the an
NAL can digest it, there can be no prof
Berks, Pa, claims the largest chestnl
tree in the country. 1t is growing G
the farm belonging to the estate of SOLE
mon Merkel in Rockland township, an
: measures thirty EIGHT feet four inches
circumference; the lowest limbs al
: fifteen feet from the ground, and measm
fourteen feet in circumference at Il
> base. The top of the tree is reache
without danger by steps that are fastene
between the limbs. 1t is estimated TIL;
this tree contains about seventeen core
:, of wood. 1t still yields about thru
bushels of chestnuts annually.
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