The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-12-30
Farm and Garden Notes.

Suntiower seeds are useful Tor giving
gloss to the feathers of poultry fed
upon them.
1t is often thought bother to raise
ducks, but where they can be conven-
iently kept any Of the improved breeds
will pay we'll.
In changing the diet of an OK five
days will generally elapse before the
remains of the preceding diet are OK.
PEELED by the animal.
Spread manure as fast as it is made
Manure applied in fall and winter will
do the corn much more good than that
applied in the spring.
Thyme will grow almost anywhere,
but it prefers dry. poor soil. If the
ground is rich the plant will grow too
luxuriantly and lose its aromatic quail
ties.
A COW wintered upon two tons and a
half Of hay will produce not far from
five tons Of manure, provided she be
well Uttered and none Of the excrements
be. wasted.
The autumn sown grains, both wheat
and rye, have deeper roots and q longer
period of growth than the spring sown
cereals, and are better able than the
latter to supply themselves with the
necessary ash constituents from the
soil.
Plant fruit trees in the fall. Pack
the ground firmly and mound up the
earth around them to keep them steady.
Level the soil in the spring. A gill Of
carbolic acid in pail of whitewash ap-
piled to the trunk will keep off mice
and rabbits.
In sowing wheat be careful that no
foul seeds gets into the ground through
the drill or by the hand of the sower.
Have your seed wheat perfectly clean.
An hour spent in making seed clean
will save day or week in the future
in Graduating weeds.
Air-slaked lime is good thing to
dust in the poultry house in the nests
and wherever disagreeable odors or lice
mortar, crushed oyster sheels, ETC.,
should at all times be within easy
reach Of the fowls, whether in confine-
ment or not.
Scatter oyster shell lime about the
yards and runs. It is the best material
for egg shells. Air-slaked lime scat
tered over the floors of the poultry
houses will drive away unpleasant odors
and keep them healthy. Add crude
carbolic lime for whitewashing. 1t is
most effective in destroying lice.
In the treatment OF light soils, Eng
lish farmers frequently SOW mangels,
carrots or Swedes to be fed upon the
land with sheep. Such land after
being fed off by sheep will be made close
and productive by the tread of the ami
mails. With an allowance of oil cake
spent on the land. these fields will be
quite productive for cereal crops.
It is not good plan, says writer, to
leave squashes attached to the vines
after the frost. They should be sepa-
rated, being careful to let the short
stem remain on ut least until the
squashes are assorted when cold
weather comes. Place the ripe, selected
ones on shelves in dry, cool place like
that of fruit room. Some cellars will
answer, but most of them will not.
The Michigan legislature at its last
session appropriated $1,000 for expert.
ments in ensilage and the culture OF
amber cane at the State Agricultural
college. The season was somewhat
late, but corn for ensilage was at once
sown, and the silo has just been filed,
samples of the fodder being subjected
to careful chemical tests before being
put into the feeding, for the purpose Of
noting any chemical changes that may
take place in it and making a more
complete theoretical determination OF
the value of the new system Of feeding.