Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26
Farm T0PlOa,

MichikAn lllih year llle cup amount
Ing, by official report, 10 lO,p1i, 100
pounds, averaging nearly five and one
half pounds per head for everything
sh0rh,
rroi, Law says that "ihe great ma
jOfity Of fingbOne IN Young horses comes
irOm tho failure 10 shorten the toes"
10 this may DO added that ringbOne Is
apt ~ be formed II colts aie allowed 10
stand on q plank floor, 0r anywhere else
whore tho iooting IL hard during tho
inst eighteen months Of their age,
Whether IN stable or yard during this
period, let them have earth Tor standing
on walking, free from stone 0r gravel,
II their summer pasture h n grayelly
aOil, or even somewhat stony, II N not
objectionable, because the colt will al
ways pick out Sprlngy tut enough to
stand aud walk on without injury TO his
feet, legs on Joints,
Recently We published q statement
about cornatalka eleven feet high or no.,
This was not done without misgiyinga,
because We know the honest grangom Of
La Crosse county would hop on to that
story with conStalk vastly larger,
Yesterday our fears were realized when
q appointment legal gentleman OF La Crosse
stalked into our counting-rOom with
one trailing along behind him over thir'
teen feet In length, The stalk was ac'
companicd by an ear Of corn over foot
long, containing o3G grains, with u
few little gnarly grains 10 spare, This
gigantic corn was planted May 10, and
on the lst Of June was only four inches
high andnot very promising, la Crosse
ChrOaicie,
II Is the largo foreign demand that
keeps up the price Of clover seed to the
lresont unusual figure, Largo orders
have recently been received from Ger.
many and other European countries for
clover seed and the sales ON that ac.
count reach high III in tho thousands Of
bags, at prices ranging from $500 TO
$500 per bushcl, m advance Of Sl.50
to s2 per bushcl since July /. Flax
seed has also been active on export ac-
count, and prices are 22c to 25c higher
than than at the opening OF summer
Timothy has been very active and closes
Zoe TO l2c per bushel over the former
figures and iOc to zoe higher than June
last, Mdimd Farmer.
Farming is not such finished, dead
and buried science that there is nothing
new to bc said about il. There have
been wonderful improvements made
within the last few years, and who can
say tho future will not bring out still
more wonderful things9 Farmers, many
of them, have been behind the times,
attending TO their own business, raising
their own crops, while sharpers made il
their business to watch the markets,
buy NJ the lowest price and sell ut an
adv ,nce-thus making money by their
brain labor often without lifting fin
ger, while the farmer perhaps loses or is
barely paid Tor his hard labor, when,
bad he been better informed, he might
have had the whole profit himself. -
american Farm.
Successful grape growers advocate
cutting back to the main stock, or with
in one bud of it, and our experience is
that stronger vines are obtained by cut
ting back the second year, within three
buds of the main stock but only com
pamtively few fruit growers have the
patience to wait 50 long for fruit, or
have the courage to use the knife so
freely, but if one can do it, when the
crop of fruit comes, il will be large and
good, and the vines will he in condi-
ton to produce good crops for many
years without injury to the vines.
But lie who is in haste for crop of
grapes, and let's most of the first years
wood grow, that he may get fruit the
second year, gets inferior fruit and weak
vines, which never produce satisfactory
crops. The autumn, after the leaves
fall, is good time to trim. -Powmaa.
The Philadelphia Farmer says: "NIany
persons dig their potatoes and dump
them on the barn floor to see if any will
rot before taking them to the cellar for
winter. There would be but little oh.
lection to this if the tubers were not ex.
posed to the light, and their quality in
jured thereby. The correct thing to do
is to sort and store as soon as possible
after digging. This saves the loss from
sunburn and the exposure to the light
even if the sun does not shine on them,
both of which injure the quality of the
tubers for table use. Besides this it is
best to store the potatoes in as cool n
place as possible at once. This used to
be the method years ago, before the rot
affected the crop. sThey were taken to
the cellar direct from the field, and
sorted at leisure during wet or cold
days, or when load was wanted to take
to market. There is yet little rot oc-
casionally, but not enough to prevent a
return of the old practice of putting the
tubers away from the light"
The Siberian pest that has been rag
ing in Russia is described as an inflam-
nation of the spleen, that first attacked
cattle and horses. The diseased ami
mails, without giving any premonitory
symptoms of illness, would suddenly
fall in their tracks and expire. The
spread of the epidemic to human beings
is attributed to the ignorance and care
lessness of the populace and police au-
thorities. Although with sufficient evil
dence that the pest is contagious, the
owners of animals dying of it were al
lowed to skin them and use or sell the
hides. This spread the contagion both
within and beyond the confines of the
province of Novgorod, in which it first
manifested itself. The peasants sought
to check the epidemic by forming re-
ligious professions and marching about
with baDrers bearing the figure of the
Virgin, and recting prayers. This only
helped. to distribute the seeds of the
disease still further. Large numbers of
domestic animals have fallen prey to it,
and also many human lives. One cir
cumstance that added to its destructive
ness was the differences that existed
for time among the physicians as to
the best mode OF treating it, their ap.
Il \ ~ a