Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-17

condition contributing to this. Farmers
must come to this-working the land
more to improve it and kill weeds-and
the larger use Of vegetable matter, the
latter Is the way in which nature has en-
riched the soil and made great growth.
We are wise if we initiate her.
1T IL not necessary that We devote n
whole season to the growth of vegetable
matter to turn down, though in some
cases this is an advantage !; manure may
even have to he used where land ia reduc-
ed to quite low condition, or is natural
ly very poor Generally, all that is nee
essary is to fill mp the gap between the
harvesting of grain crop and the end of
the season, which, with the early grains,
affords ample time for Il full growth,
meantime benetiting the ground by shad-
ing it. There has been sufficient prac.
tice OF this kind to demonstrate it's utii-
ty. 1t is great advantage which farm
ers have within their reach. r r. in
country Gentlenian.
Mr.. c. w. Horton, Westtown, n. Y,
picked 4, 541 quarts of Strawberries from
three fourths of an acre. Crescent was
twice rs productive as Sharpless, Bidwell
and Charles Downing.
In reference to the query: Does cold
retard CESSATION ? friend writes from
Hawlev, Minn., that after the not severe
season of 1881 50 his cows "al came
in on time, but after the very cold wealth
er Of last winter they all ran over about
two weeks"
DIR. G. +. Page, Bildeford, Me-, says
he has means Of knowing of over 1000
families in this country who adopted the
vegetarian diet for curative purposes after
becoming diseased under the universal
meat-eating, and they rarely have occa-
sion to call doctor into their homes.
DIR. j. S. Wilson, in The Southern
|POrid, declares that to cure fever, or
act on the kidneys, no febrifuge or direu-
tic Is superior to the Juice of fresh, ripe
watermelons, which may, with very few
| exceptions, be taken in sickness and in
health, in almost unlimited quantity. not
only without injury, but with positive
benefit
Mr. John Tallman, Mount Morris, y.
T., has, according to Rurdi Home, been
much aided in his potato culture this
year by "a new parasite size and
form much like the average squash bug,
but beautifully colored with variety of
hues, yellow, green, gray, black. etc. He
feeds on the Colorado beetle and its larvR
and threatens to exterminate that pest.
A simple plan for utilizing kitchen heat
for evaporating apples in small but
steady and very satisfactory way is de-
scribed in the ". T.. Farmer: "Make
frame 2ix40 inches ont of laths put a
piece across the centre to strengthen
stretch over the top strong cord once in
six inches, and over this nail common
screen cloth /; hang over the cookstove.
high enough to walk under. This frame
will hold large milkpan full OF sliced
apples. and will make one and a half
pounds of dried apples in one day. The
the morning over hot fire. You would
be surprised to see how quick the paper
bags get filled with nice hght-colored ap-
Piles"
Farmers are urged by The Dairy to
spare thoir own strength by utilizing boz
vine muscle: "A light power suitable
for calf or two, can be procured for
about what n mans time spent in churn-
ing in one season would be worth. Where
the churning is heavy enough, bull
iiliN bt W ILLS NOlh, hliNi tio
discipline and exercise will keep him i'll
health and vigor and out of mischief. A
bull should be mnde to earn its feed by
work in tread-power-churning, cutting
fodder, grinding meal, threshing and saw
ing fre-wood nre all such chores as may
be done ny this animal with advantage to
itself and profit and safety to its owner; ;
for bull thus trained from calfhood will
always be docile."
A suggestive note concerning the vege-
table garden We take from the .NaSsdchu-
sets PtoughWan 1.-The rule is the peo-
pile of New England plant their gardens
too early to get large crops. Plants that
come up and grow rapidly will produce
much more than those that, after being
above ground few days, stop growing
and stand long time, without making
any perceptible progress. Every man
who eau do so, should have two gardens,
one in which to grow u few early vegeta-
bles, AMI the other to plant for the main
crop. The first should be located IN IL
warm, dry place, the last on moist rich
land. The early garden should be plant
ed soon as possible after the frost is ont,
and the late garden not much before the
first of June"