Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-10
INTERESTING TO FARMERS.

The most difficult thing to raise on n
farm is a mortgage; it requires the best
of culture and the richest of soil.
English corn reports show that wheat
is below the average, barley above, oats
and beans slightly above, and peas a
little below.
To keep seeds from the depredations
of mice mix some pieces of camphor
with them. Camphor placed in trunks
or drawers will prevent mice from doing
them injury.
Sweet cream is usually churned at a
little higher temperature than sour
cream, and the same rule holds good for
churning whole milk. Sweet whole
milk churns best at little above 900.
Lambs should be separated from the
dams and given a good pasture by them
selves. If early lambs are desired for
the spring market, Southdown cross is
preferable for quality, though in size the
Cotswolds are much larger than the
Southdowns.
1t is said that in all the states east of
Illinois three acres of land are required
to furnish grass for cow, during the
six months of the year she is in pasture,
while one acre in grass will furnish her
with sufficient hay during the six months
she is in the stable.
In section of from fifteen to twenty
miles around Philadelphia, wind powers
have so greatly multiplied within the
last five or six years that they are to be
seen in almost every direction and have
become regarded as one of the necessi-
ties of farm, especially where much
stock is kept.
Lime Stacked with solution of salt in
water, and then properly thinned with
skim-milk, from which all the cream
has been taken, makes a permanent
whitewash for outdoor work, and it is
said renders the wood incombustible
1t is an excellent wash for preserving
shingles and for all farm buildings.
Always set the hens after dark, cover.
ing them from sight for day, and re.
move the cloth or covering at night
Thus, if the sitting-room or nest is new
to the hen, she gradually grows familiar
with the surrounding as day approaches
and will be very likely to conclude tt
stop for few weeks in her strange quar-
tiers.
This month and the next are the bes
for cleaning up the wet, low lands. TIL,
thick growth of grass and weeds is frs
to be cut and burned, when the soil viii
be ready to break up with the plow. s.
soon as the soil has been made fine b,
thorough narrowing, it should be sow
to grass seed. Frequently it will b.
necessary to run one or more.
To the question. "What do you esti
mate the annual cost of keeping sheel
to be per head?" submitted by the com
missioner of agriculture of the state O
= Tennessee, to seventy-one different per
sons, the answer varied from 25 cents t.
50. Several put it at 80 cents and 3
cents. Four answers from Sumne
county put it respectively at 81, $l.2
and 50.
For worms in horses, divide six ounce
of blacksmith's iron filings into twelv
parts, and make into as many balls, wit
+ sufficient flax-seed meal and molasses
+ Give one of these every morning, fast
+ ing; the day after finishing give physi
ball, composed of six drachms of pow
dered Barbados aloes, two drachms @
powdered ginger, and molasses. Ever
other evening during the time the twelv
balls are given the horse should be fe
+ on soft food or steamed oats, mixed wit
, equal parts of bean and fax-seed mea'