The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
Farm and Garden Notes

produces more and can make better use
of manure than dairying.
Keep the poultry busy if you wish to
keep them in health, and make them
scratch if you wish for eggs; but keep
them quiet and well fed if you wish to
make them fat.
Agricultural societies should be
managed with the understanding that
they are institutions designed to bene-
fit farmers and promote improvement
in agriculture.
Potatoes, when dug in an unripe
state, may be at times watery and not
fit to eat, but if spread as thinly IS
possible in dry, airy place they will
in time become as mealy as if left to
ripen in the ground.
If you have easy access to a woods,
secure as large quantity as possible
of leaf mold. 1t is an especially good
fertilizer for sweet potatoes. Dirt from
old wood piles should be carefully col
lected and added to the compost heap.
Most failures to grow celery originate
in not having the soil rich enough.
The manure intended for this crop
should, if possible, be applied the pre-
vious fall, so that it may become thor
oughly incorporated with the soil. This
will help to keep the soil moist during
summer drouths.
One of the most successful breeders
of fowls says that fowls need moved
hay as a substitute for green grass,
and adds that they will eat large guam
titles of it every day in winter when
placed before them. Another breeder
writes in high praise of the use Of en-
silage as winter feed for poultry.
Poultry breeders do not seem to ap-
preciate the great value of bones for
their fowls, and but limited few ever
make use of them for this purpose. No
matter whether the birds are confined
or not, they are sure to be benefited
by moderate quantity of bones,
though those which are kept in close
confinement need them most.
A member of the Oxford (Ohio)
Farmers club claims that it is no trick
to raise 500 bushels, and even 1000
bushels per acre of mangold wurtzels,
in good season on good land, with
the same labor needed to raise an acre
of potatoes. The roots should be pit
ted just as winter closes up the ground
and kept in the pit until March.
When horse is not doing well pint
of linseed oil may be given with bene
fit. 1t improves the digestion ant
softens the skin. A quart of linseed
cake-meal given once day will have
the same effect, and a pint of molasses
put in the crib feed will be taken now
and then with relish and benefit. A
teaspoonful of ground ginger may alsC
be added occasionally.
If you are careful cultivator ant
have cultivated particular kind Of
field-corn for dozen years or more, Sc
lecting the best ears from the mos
fruitful stalks, while they stood in tn,
field, and kept the corn improving from
year to year, you have corn with ;
pedigree, and it can hardly fail to Civ
a better crop next year than any seet
corn you can buy, far or near.
A writer in the Culticator dnt
Country Gentleman says: 1 had al
opportunity day or two since to Sc
the manner of buying swarms, prac
ticed by some old bee-keepers in tn
neighboring district of Ontario.
conversation with the owners tende
to confirm all that has been claimed TO
this method, as to safety and YER
small waste of bees and honey Will
under ground. The bees were kept il
old-fashioned box hives.
Andrew Burnett, of WELLESLEY, vt
who raises considerable quantities G
fiat turnips for feeding to his mile
COWS, writes as follows: When 1 gras
down on well MANFRED lands the mic
die or last of August SOW one-quarte
of pound of white fiat turnip seed
the acre with tho grass seed, harves
ing the turnips after about thre
months growth. Too much seed
commonly used in raising turnips.
should use less than one pound of tn
nip seed to the acre if L were sowin
nothing else at the time.
The american Agriculturist says {
wire-worms: The term "wire-worn
isapplied to the Larvae of special speci
of inSactS Some of these live rnf