Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-11-10
NOTES.

Lime saked with a solution Of salt in water,
and then properly thinned with skim-milk
from which all the cream has been taken,
makes permanent whtewash for outdoor
work, and, it is said renders the wood incom-
bustible. It is an excellent wash for presery-
ing shingles and for all farm purposes.
An occasional meal Of corn, burnt on tho
cob until each kernel is black, or as long as it
can be burned and have the corn retain its
shape, is greedily eaten by fowls, and results
in general improvement in their health, and
a greater average number Of eggs are pro-
duced
In fattening swine do not forget to give
charcoal lberally. When pigs are confined
to a corn diet they are apt to suffer from a
disordered stomach which is relieved by
charcoal. Au occasional handful Of wood
ashes and sulphur will also be found bene-
fetal.
Corn will shrink from the time it is husked
from the field or shock, in the autumn, in we'll
protected cribs from 20 to 30 per cent by
spring. That is 100 bushels will shrink to
20 or so, according to how dry II was when
gathered. Sound corn will shrink 20 per
cent so that 40 cents per bushel as ii comes
from the field is as good as 80 cents in the
spring.
Some sorghum sugar raising experiments
in central Illinois this season have proved un-
expectedly successful. The cane was kept
green and growing by excessive rains until it
| became quite watery, but still the juice boiled
down TO sugar readily, equal to the lightest
Louisiana article, and was worth 81 cents
pound.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
| is keeping three cows on what he raises from
one-half an acre of land. The system Of en-
| siage does it.
Professor W. j. Beal is experimenting with
sprouted wheat and has arrived at the conclu-
sion that it can be safely used for seed. The
wheat he is using already has sprouted six
times. 1t seems to be little weaker at each
! sproutng, and each time a small portion fails,
but at the first trial large per cent grows
| well.
The experiment made by the late Commits
sioner of Agriculture, Mr.. LeDuc, says the
| Farmers Magazine have not been fruitless.
| Although the cost Of procuring q pound of
sugar was expensive, and the experiments
with tea rather costly, yet the knowledge
gained from such trials has been of great SER
vice, as tea growing in the South is extending
and better sugar can be made from amber
cane than formerly.
It is said that within the present decade
Montana is likely to head all the states aud ter
| flIOTlth III Tue IlTCuuGNlOu VI tNlllts IOuI
| years ugo there were not moro than G0O0 head
in the territory, this season there will DO
about 80, 600 sold from there and the pros
pect is that the stock raising business will con-
| tinuo to increase very rapidly for long time.
In commenting upon the fact that upward
Of s., 600, 600 worth OF cotton seed meal is an
| uualy imported into Great Britain to feed cat
tle English agricultural authorities style it
the very best food imported, admitting that
only by its use can English grazers compete
with the Americans. It might be profitable
for our cattle raisers to take this hint and feed
proper rations Of cottonseed meal.
Persons unaccustomed to lame horses W i'll
more frequently pronounce the wrong limb
! than the right in cases of slight lameness.
This blunder may be easily explained. They
perceive that horse drops his head the mo.
inent one foot comes to the ground, and they
| Immediately conclude that that must be the
lame one, faucying that he drops from the
| pain received when 1t meets the ground I;
whereas the fact is, he treads as lightly ~ he
can on the lame foot, and bears his whole
weight on the sound one.
The present high price of straw, the do.
mand for city stables aud for paper making
and other purposes being very ltrgr, and con-
stantly increasing, makes it more profitable
to sell straw than to make manure OF it. aud
nearby woods from which t, draw his sup
plies of bedding in of days in the fall or carly
winter, in the shape Of leaves, which can be
gathered when dry and stored away for future
use. They make most excellent bedding for
all kinds of stock, and the manure is short
and easily handled
j. L. Jensen, Danish agricultural scientist
and expermentalist, has issued book in
which he claims that earthing up potatoes is
a preventive of disease. He says those varie-
ties which root deepest are most free from
disease, and that the spores of the fungus
which causes rot are conveyed through the
atmosphere to the plants, and can only reach
the tubers by being carried by rains through
the earth or by dews down the main stem of
the plant He recommends earthng up pota-
toes as protection, saying that though the
yield is not increased, a remarkable freedom
from disease is noticed where the plants are
eerthed up as much as they will bear.