Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
INTERESTING TO FARMERS.

The following advertisement appears
in a Canadian newspaper: "Will the
gentleman who stole my melons last
Saturday night be generous enough TO
return me few of the seeds, as they are
a choice varietyP"
Well fed animals never get lousy; it is
the poor, badly fed ones that are troubled
with thesep parasites. Farmers, remember
this, little meal judiciously fed will
keep off the lice and barn itch, besides
bringing out your cattle In the spring
/ worth much more than the amount of
, meal thus fed.
No Chinese farmer ever sows seed of
any kind of grain before it has been
soaked in liquid manure diluted with
water, and has begun to terminate; and
| experience has taught him that this
] operation not only tends to promote the
growth and development of the plant,
but also to protect the seed from the in
sects hidden in the ground.
Fifteen thoroughbred French Norman
horses--eleyen stations and four mares
were received in New York lately.
The horses are mostly iron gray or black
in color, and weigh from 100 to 1900
| pounds each. They are said to require
no greater amount of feed than an ordin-
ary-sized horse. The cost of bringing
them from Havre to New York is in
round numbers 800 each.
/ A man being asked what was the
great point in cheese making, answered,
knowing when to dip" By that he
meant to say, knowing when to salt"
There is another point equally essential,
and that is to get the whey out of the
curds and also out of the cheese. The
first can be done by fine cutting and a
few other close points, the second by
proper hopping and pressing, both of
which are much neglected.
Parsnips, carrots, Swedish turnips,
and especially gel.wurtsel, will all
fatten pigs. The roots ought not to be
given in raw state, but always cooked
and mixed with beans, peas, India corn,
oats or barley, all of which must be
ground into meal. When pigs are fed
on such cooked food as we have stated,
the pork acquires peculiar rye flavor,
and is much esteemed, especially for
family use.
! 1t is always important to save the best
seed for corn. In doing so select oven
rowed ears, and with the rows straight
and not irregular on the cob. Ears that
taper are best, because better protected
by the husk, and then, too, the silk, the
female part of the plant, remains alive
longer. A reason for selecting the top
ear for seed is that it is always more
fully developed, more uniform and
more vigorous in its termination, hay
ing been better fertilized when in the
silk.
Hog and COW manure is not 80 hot as
horse manure, and is not valuable for
hot-beds. Perhaps it might be said to be
worthless; as fermentation is so much
slower there is not so much heat evolved,
but for dry, sandy or gravelly loans it
is much better than horse manure, while
on cold, heavy, clayey soils, OF mucky
land, horse manure is preferable. With
manure, as with everything else, there
is place for which one is better adapted
than another. Much of the value at
tached to horse manure is on account of
its heat-producing properties, for which
it is used in hot-beds. Many of the seeds
sown in these beds never reach the ma
nure, but are indebted for their rapid
growth to the fertilizing qualities con-
tanned in the rich loan covering the
manure.
A new process for the preservation of
forage crops in their green state is being
tested at Sufiield, Ct. Into a cutter,
which goes by steam, are run half q
dozen cornstalks at a time. which are
cut into very small pieces. Afterward
they fall into slide, which takes them
to vault fourteen by twenty-six feet
and ten deep, which has thick concrete
walls, and is capable of holding eighty
| five tons OF this feed. When the vault
is filled and closely packed down, thirty
tons of stone is placed on top. 1t is
claimed that the fodder will keep green
and retain its sweetness as long as it is
kept covered, thus making it one of the
best as well as the cheapest kinds of
feeds obtainable for cattle the year round.
1t is not intended, however, that this
feed shall be sold, and indeed it could
not be, as after twenty-four hours ex-
posture fermentation would set in, which,
of course, would ruin it. 1t can be
taken out only little at time as it is
needed for use.
Butter Making.
First, we must have clean milk with