Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-13

tens the ripenings of crops week Or ten
days, hence they are especially important
on late-planted corn or potatoes.
A quart of good milk should weigh
about 2. 15 pounds, or nearly pounds ~
ounces. If milk is weighed, this rule will
give the monthly yield in quarts more ex-
actly than measuring.
Superphosphate, OF bone manure, in
any form is specific for turnips or ruta-
bagas. English farmers discovered this,
and now apply bone manure to their root
crops instead Of to wheat, as is usually
the practice here.
The following rule for estimating the
amount of hay in stack will be found
approximately correct In stack, timo-
thy, after ten days or two weeks settling,
600 cubic feet to tho ton clover, 700,
and prairie hay $50 feet. After thorough
settling about 500 cubic feet of timothy,
800 OF clover, and 450 Of prairie hay. To
get the cubic dimensions of stack, null
tiply the Favcrage length, breadth and
height together.
The milk from heifers is apt to be less
in amount, though quite as rich in cream,
as it will be on the same food when the
animal is older. Some growth continues
up to four. and occasionally five years of
age, and this growth utilizes some of the
nutriment that would otherwise 20 to
milk.
Colonel d. NJ. Clough has little faith
in Jerseys for practical agriculture.
"They are not fit for oxen, he says, "and
when taken to be slaughtered it puzzles
the natives to know how to make them lie
on their backs to be skinned "
Hog manure should not be used on
land intended for cabbages for at least Il
year before the crop is grown. Its pre-
mature Use is mistake commonly made
by farmers who draw manure for the gor-
den from their hog pen. Hog manure
breeds worms that work at the roots of
cabbage plants and render them worth
less.
The red rust on raspberries is n fungus
which rapidly spreads To healthy plants.
Every hill showing signs Of it should be
rooted up and burned. 1t may be avoid
ed on the varieties that root from the tips
by planting only those tips grown the
first year after setting ont the plantation.
At this age all will be healthy and re-
main so.
Clover seed has retaied at the enor-
nous price of 50 per bushel this spring,
and scarce at that figure. 1t is strange
more of our farmers do not make this n
farm crop. The first growth can be cut
in June before the middle of the month,
and when well cared for makes the best OF
feed. The second or seed crop can be
cut with dropper or self rake reaper
during the first half of September before
the fall rains set in, or as soon as the
clover heads are one half Drowned. Three
to four bushels Of seed is n fair crop per
acre here, worth about 800. which, added
to the value OF the hay or first crop, will
pay the farmer we'll, say n total of about
$40 per acre Twenty to forty acres at
this rate will bring i'll enough money to
permit the farmer to buy clover huller.
In Judging horse he should always be
made to stand still. Defects in the limbs
or feet that would be unuo;iced while in
motion will be plainly seen by his care to
rest weak or diseased muscle, when stand
ing. Ii perfectly sound lie will stand
firmly on all his legs the feet flat on the
ground aud without moving. Ii one heel
is raised disease of the mGvicular bone,
or at least tenderness, is probable.