The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-10
FLRH, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Care I'm sIanasins sheep.


shade are provided for them. Nor are
they exposed to dust, for that is known
to be injurious to the fleece. The great
est possible care is taken in the breeding.
Men of experience are employed to go
from farm to farm to examine the sheep
and select the best rams that can be
-ound. The rams are closely examined
as to their fleece. bearing properties, and
all but the very best are sold off. The
whole economy of the sheep farm is
as perfect as intelligence and industry
can make it.
The Soil for Fruit Trees.
There is a necessity for having the
land for fruit trees we'll drained. A
cool soil, especially for pears, is very
suitable, but no water must be allowed
to stagnate around the roots. Mrs.
Quin says that on stiff, tenacious clay
soils, with clay subsoils, undertaking
and deep blowing will be found essen
tial to rid the soil of stagnant water, in
order to get the conditions which will
promote a healthy and vigorous root
growth. But on good farming land,
such as will produce, with ordinary
treatment, $50 to 200 bushels OF potatoes
to the acre, or sixty or seventy bushels
of shelled corn, it would be a useless
waste of money to spend the amount
necessary to underdrain the soil before
planting pears. A dry, hilly place will
be better than low one, with no good
drainage.
succSssfuI Poultry Raising.
In raising poultry or stock, it should
be the aim of every one to keep it healthy
and improve it. You can do it very
easily by adopting some systematic
rules. These may be summed up in
brief as follows:
l. Construct your house good and
warm, so as to avoid damp floors, and
afford flood of Isuulight. Sunshine is
better than medicine.
Q. Provide dnsting and scratching
place, where you can bury wheat and
corn, and thus induce the fowls to axe
needful exercise.
3. Provide yourself with some good,
healthy chickens, one to be over three
or four years old, giving one cock to
every twelve hens.
4. Give plenty of fresh air at all times
of tic year, especially in summer.
s. Give plenty of fresh water ally,
and never allow the fowls to go thirsty.
6. Feed them systematically two or
three times day, and scatter the food
so they can't eat too fast or without
proper exercise. Do not feed more than
they will eat up clean, or they will get
tired of that kind of feed.
7. Give them variety both of dry
and cooked food; mixture of cooked
meal and vegetables is an excellent
thing for their morning meal.
8. Give soft feed in the morning, and
the who,e grain at night, except little
wheat or cracked corn placed in the
scratching place during the day.
9 Above all things keep the hen house
cles n and well ventilated.
10. Do not crowd too many in one
house. If you do, look out for disease.
II. Use carbolic powder in busting
bins occasionally to destroy lice.
l2. Wash your roosts and bottom Of
laying nests with whitewash once a
week in summer and once month in
winter.
l3. Let the old and young have as
large range as possible-the larger the
better.
IA. Don't breed too many kinds OF
fowls at the same time, unless you are
going into the business. Three or four
will keep your hands full.
Is. Introduce new blood into your
stock every year or SO, by either buying
a cockerel or sittings of eggs from some
reliable breeder.
l6. In buying birds or eggs, go to
some reliable breeder who has his repu-
taGion at stake. You may have to pay
little more for birds, but you can de.
pend on what you get. Culls are moi
cheap at any price.
IL. Save the best birds for next years
breeding, and send the others to market,
In shipping fancy poultry to market
send it dressed.
Is. And, above all things, read the
poultry department of some good, re.
liable paper. You will gather more from
it than you can from any poultry book.
By paying attention to the above, you
cannot fail to succeed and make poultry
keeping as profitable as thousands have
done all over the United States
Rural Nebraska.
Household Hints.
In washing silk handkerchiefs wash
in water in which the best white CASTLE
soap has been lathered. Then snap be-
tween your fingers until nearly dry, fold
and press under weight. Never iron
Zines may be secured with great
economy of time and strength by using
either glycerine or creosote mixed with
little diluted sulphuric acid.
To restore morocco, varnish with the
white OF an egg and apply with S
sponge.
Ii when bread is taken from the oven
the loaves are turned topside down in
the hot tins, and are allowed to stand ;
few minutes the crust twill be tender
and will cut easily.
The best way to fry hsh is TO first fry
some slices of salt pork, then roll th,
pieces of fish in fine Indian meal anC
ry in the pork gravy, About thre
slices Of pork for a medium-sized fish
Whitefsh needs less fat than almos
any other