Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-04

mitting them to grow but IL few inches
before cutting. The root of bush can
not live long in the growing season, with
out top, and the more grass there is to
cover the ground the less chance is there
for the bushes to sprout.
Ensilagc Items,
Correspondence of the Country Grn,emsn.I
Silos need not be expensive Many
have been built from slabs and posts,
costing not more than $50 per 100 tons,
and they keep their contents as well as
any In all the neighborhoods where a
cheap wooden or earth silo has been built,
the system Of enslage is rapidly adop-
ted but where costly cement silo is
built by some wealthy farmer, the neigh
boring agriculturists are discouraged.
might from this practice.
Col. Richard Hoe has II farm ut Morris
ania, n. Y. Some years ago number
of cart loads of waste grass We're moved
and dumped in the manure heap for ma
nure; it was covered Mt once with manure
from the stable. When it came to be
cut over in the following winter the grass
was found sweet and green, and the cat
tie ate it with pleasure to themselves and
profit to the owner. Almost any farmer
can afford such silo. Corn, rye, millet,
and peavines are better for work horses
and for mules (as well as for horned ami
mals) than the best hay. They have
been fed from II wooden silo in North
Carolina Is ont of * months. and they
are as healthy as Mt any former period,
and in better condition. They prefer
pea-vines to all other cnsilage, aud re-
quire less grain with ensilage than with
dry fodder.
~ would not think of building silo
below ground unless had II hill SO ele-
vated that water would not rise in an ex-
cavation suitable for the purpose thus |
would save the necessity of cement.
This is the testimony of large North
Carolina planter. the owner of many
horses and mules. "Hhe ensilage | made
last year was all put in wooden silos
above ground, ami it kept MS well MS my
cement silos below ground. "
"My dairy fell of 100 pounds week
in milk when the ensilage gave out, not
withstanding the COWS were knee-deep i'll
pasture, although fed more meal than
before" This is the experience of Col.
Smith of Doylestown, Pa. whose butter
brings top market price i'll Philadelphia.
81 am building silo Of 150 tons,
says L. W. Stewart, the sage of Lake
View. What better endorsement could
any system have than that
Facts Tor Farmers.
According to IN estimate recently made
there are produced i'll this country annu-
ally $50, ,00O. 900 dozen eggs.
,nl: ,,,,k ,,1 np
amounting with sulphur ointment will kill
lice on hogs. In the stables use quick
lime, carbolic acid, petroleum or turpen-
tine, first delusing them with boiling
water. Persian insect powder in the beds
will kill the lice.
A little work on agriculture was once
given to Mr.. Merriman of the OnondaGa
club, inscribed sensibly MS follows: "Put
with this book, in equal quantities, prac'
tical knowledge and common sense mix
these thoroughly and apply the compound
to your farm every morning ut sunrise,
and you will have tremendous crops
Those who have IA time of making
garden " in early Spring, and doing up
the sowing all at once, do not get the
greatest good from their gardens. There
are many vegetables of which the season
Can be greatly prolonged by making sue
cessive sowings. A striking example of
this is sweet corn, which by iudicious SOW
ings may be had every day until frost
stops its growth.
In many respects grass culture has not
kept pace with Improvements in other
branches. We are continually getting
new plants, trees, new fruits, new vegeta-
bles, new grains, but II new grass is never
thouuht nj Np have tlp sana nrcha ri
grass, the same redtop, the same timothy
that we had over hundred years ago,
and, 30 far as drift of thought goes, we
shall have the same grasses for hun
dred years to come. And yet there is no
reason that we can see why there should
not be improved grasses as well as i'm
provements in any other thing, and there
doubtless would be if public attention
were drawn to the matter M it should
be.
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