Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-15
FARM NOTES.

If rose bugs trouble your roses or
grapes, put spoonful of white hellebore
in a pail of water and sprinkle it over
the bushes OF vines.
In agriculture there are any amount
of theories, but there are great many
more facts; these have to be dug out of
the soil, but theories can be spun in an
armchair at any time.
A pasture constantly grazed with
sheep or cattle fed once or twice day
with cotton-seed meal, will rapidly i'm
prove and will develope the best pasture
grasses and white clover.
When cows are becoming too fat, stop
the meal and increase the bran. A very
fat mich COW is losing piece of prop
erty. Ask any grazier if he would'buy a
lot of old dairy cows to fatten for mar
| ket?
When good earth is used for potting,
plants seldom need any special
manure. The best soil for plants
is found in old meadows, and the corner
of fences where sod has grown a long
time.
Immense swarms of grasshoppers APP
peared at Jacksboro, Tex, recently
coming from the north, and at times OBJ
securing the sun. A farm near there was
completely ruined, even the corn stalks
being devoured.
Beans are injured by heavy rains when
ready, pull them and stack around the
poles driven in the ground; cover the
stacks with straw. In pulling, leave
them in rows for time to cure, and if
rain threatens they can be gathered
quickly in stacks.
Coarse heritage and weeds not in seed
may be cut and placed in the ban-yard
as an absorbent of liquid manure. A
number of little jobs can be done now
that will aid greatly in making things
comfortable, and will pay good interest
upon the time invested.
Butter, cream, milk and -four are pc
culiarly liable to absorb effiuvia, and
should therefor never be kept in moldy
rooms or placed where there are sour
liquids, or green vegetables, such as on
ions, cabbages and turnips, smoked fish
or bacon, or any kind of food of q strong
flavor.
Cisterns should be so protected that
there would be no danger of freezing.
Some who have large cellars build q
cistern Of brick, stone, and even of wood,
in one corner. A cistern of some kind
is almost indispensable, and their cost
is but little; many who are compelled
to set out barrel, pals and tubs at the
approach of every shower, may be saved
all this trouble.
Turn over the sod land as early as
possible that it may decay and become
better prepared for working in the
spring. Old land should be plowed
quite late, even when the same freezes
at night The eggs of many insects,
and the insects themselves, may be de-
stroyed in this way. The weeds are all
covered under as well as whatever may
remain of the crop, all of which go to
help improve the soil If the soil is wet
pillow so as to leave it in ridges, and in
the spring it will be in very much bet
ter condition than if left fiat. Plow
when you can in the fall.
Hereford cattle being large, hardy
thrifty, maturing early and making an
excellent quality of beet, are finding IA
vor at the West many have been trans
ferred there from the Eastern states and
from Canada, and considerable importa-
tions are annually made from Europe.
A breeder in Missouri has imported
thirty three Hereford COWS, one bull and
nine calves, all said to have been select
ed from the best herds in England.
Steers of this class, we'll fattened and ex-
ported to Great Britain, will be certain
to find waiting market at good
prices.
Now is the time to feed new corn to the
pigs and to keep it far from the horses
that have been accustomed to dry feed.
Many farmers are now out of old corn,
and begin to feed new corn to their
horses, and, we may add begin to have
horses with collie. If one has horse
that he is feeding like an OK or pig, Just
to fatten him, it may do to feed him
new corn, provided he is not put at any
hard work. But now, more can be made
out of corn fed to hogs than at any other
time. The condition of the feed and
weather are especially favorable for MAX
ing cheap pork. If the corn stalks are
green, and the ears well filed, it is in
prime condition to feed to hogs. They
will eat it all, and thrive rapidly. The
corn crop is promising. Cheap corn
makes cheap pork. New corn is the
cheapest, and warm weather is most ia
yorable for laying in fat.