Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-04-04

A potato that has been chilled is to-
tally unfit for seed. Farmers are often
at "A loss to know why their potatoes
do not sprout, when the solution of the
mystery would be found in the fact
that they were chilled before planting.
Layering consists simply in bending
down branch and keeping it in con-
tact with or buried to small depth in
the soil until roots are formed. The
connection with the parent plant may
then be severed. Many plants can be
far more easily propagated thus than
by cuttings.
IN important question for farmers
to consider is where to apply manure
so as to have it tell best for profit. OF
course it should not be used on any
spring grain except corn, and will
probably yield the best money value if
applied to potatoes where this crop is
largely grown
In fruit growing, remember that
fruits are like grain and vegetable
crops, in this, that they must have
manure to keep up the fertility, Tn
like vegetables and grain, however,
their feeding roots are mostly at the
surface. 1t is best, therefore, annually
to top-dress fruit trees.
1t does not pay to try to get a calf
from COW oftener than once in twelve
months If the time for dropping a
calf is to be changed, make the period
longer instead of shorter. The COW
needs some time after calving to re-
cover strength before being again sub
iected to collaborating.
The milk of COW in her third or
fourth calf is generally richer in quail
ity than younger one, and will con-
tinue so for several years, In dry sea-
sons the quality is generally richer, al
though cool weather favors the pro-
duction of cheese. Hot weather in
creases the yield of butter
Remove young calf from its moth
er Immediately if it is not to run with
her. Place it, if possible, where she
cannot hear it. If a calf has not been
allowed to suckle it can be taught to
drink in one lesson. Give fresh, warm
milk for a week then warm, half
skinned milk, and finally warmed
skinned milk.
There is an advantage in growing
some kinds of trees from the seed
where the trees is expected to remain.
The peach tree is longer lived if never
transplanted, and if budded at one
year old will soon get into bearing. a
few varieties Of peaches reproduce
themselves from the pit. The Wager
is one of the most popular of these.
A writer in the Fruit Recorder
makes the statement that one of his
neighbors planted some cabbage plants
among his corn where the corn missed,
and the butterflies did not find them.
He has, therefore, come to the conclu-
sion that if the cabbage patch was in
the middle of the corn field the butter
flies would not find them, as they fly
low and like plain sailing.
The sheep is close grazer, and even
prefers short pastures. 1t is scrupu-
lousy clean, though not very select in
the choice of the heritage on which it
feeds. Wool, being highly nitroge-
nous substance, requires larger sup
ply of albuminoid food for sheep than
other ruminants demand. Wool being
the chief profit of sheep farming, it
will be economy to feed oats or oil
cake pretty freely to secure a liberal
growth of this staple.
Fuchsias like rich soil freely
drained, consisting of turfy loan, old
thoroughly decaycd manure of leaf
mold in about equal portions, with a
good sprinkling of charcoal dust and
sand, and, if at hand, handful of
bone-meal may be added at the last
shift. Should they be required to
bloom for long time and continuous
ly, they must be well-fed. They are
often well-grown under vines, the moist
atmosphere necessary for their proper
development and the partial shade of
the vine foliage seeming to benefit
them materially; bear in mind, how
ever, that where the vines are closely
trained and the foliage becomes dense,
the shade will be too much for the
fuchsiaS.