Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-01
FARM NOTES.


pearance of disease in his flock, he must
make an effort to stop it at once, and not
leave them to their fate
Gas lime, when it can be obtained for
the trouble of drawing it away, is worth
all it costs. 1t should not be used fresh,
but put in heaps ready for spreading on
the land in the spring. In few months
the injurious gases escape, and it be-
comes mixture of various compounds
of lime.
The largest sugar producer in Louisi-
ana made last year on 5000 acres 6, ,490, 900
pounds of sugar and 1890 barrels of mo-
lasses, for which he received over half a
million dollars. The largest wheat
nuruuefn ttv,, -rer1d. eoliuuoepla of the
| crop of wheat which sold for $450, 900,
but it took $4,000 acres of land to raise it
on, nearly six times as much as was re-
| quired to raise the sugar and molasses.
A brilliant future is prophesied for the
milk-weed whose seeds yield finer oil
than linseed. Its gum can be used in
place of lndia-rubber, and from its floss
a fabric resembling Irish poplin has been
made, while the young shoots are used
in the spring by some people instead OF
asparagus, which they resemble in
| flavor" There is use, or abuse, to
which the milk-weed can be put
The earliest Sanskrit Vedas tell us
of the famous soma drink, the water of
| life, which gave Immortality to the gods
and prophetic power to men, and which
was made from the juice of the milk
weed plant, bruised and beaten up and
fermented with grain.
A man who is not smart enough to run
store is not smart enough to run a
farm. Farmers are not to be made out
of what is left after lawyers, doctors,
ministers and merchants are sorted and
picked out, and if a man tails on a
farm it is not unlikely he will succeed in
a store, for it requires more talent to be
a thriving farmer than to be an average
merchant. The one cause of failure is
the disproportion between a mans farm
and his capital A farmers capital is
skill, labor and his money. If he has a
little cash he must not have or work
more land than he can thoroughly man.
age by his personal labor. Every acre
beyond this is an incumbrance. One
acre well worked is more profitable than
a hundred hastily skinned over.
To find the best manures for sugar
beets on any given soil, it is well to lay
out seven patches. plant one without any
fertilizer; one with the Use of barn-yard
manure; one with complete fertili-
zer," containing lime, potash, ammonia
e.ard pl,oephsv6oe UrrU wfUII IIne, pUbusl
and phosphorus; one with lime, nitro.
gen and phosphorus; one with lime
potash and nitrogen, and one with pot,
ash, nitrogen and phosphorus. Note
the results in the fall and act according
| ly. A French fertilizer, employed with
satisfactory results on some land, con
sists of nitric acid, $50 per cent. phos
phoric acid, $50 per cent. potash, 800
soda 900; lime, 400; water, sulphurit
acid e. J6 per cent.
Too L. y dairymen are careless abou
full feeling their herds in the busy tim'
of harvest; yet this is, perhaps, the mos
trying time of the season. The farmer il
extremely busy, and forgets to inspec
his pastures, and see that there is suffi
cient food to keep his cows in condition
and to produce full yield of milk. HI
often says: 81 fear my pastures are get
ting too short for my cows: but | hop
that we shall soon have rains, that viii
give fresh feed, and then my cows viii
come up again" But this is mistakel
opinion, which he seldom takes tn
trouble fully to investigate. Milk is
temporary product, and naturally grow
less as the time advances from calving
and when there is falling of it can sci
dom be recovered; so that, when a GOV
: falls off or 10 pounds in her milk,
means the loss of about that amour
every day for the remainder of the sea
son. A dairyman should study the pc
culiarities of each COW. Some cows wi
appropriate all the extra food they ca
digest to the secretion of milk; and eve
> deplete their own systems to keep up
full flow of milk. Such cows should b
) especially well provided for; their ger
t erosity should be reciprocated. Thes
are the COWS that pay for feeding.