The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12
FOR THE FARM AND HOME.


catlon TO plants or trees, pour 1t on the
compost pile. 1t is a good fertilizer.
Dandelion is sown in Swiss meadows.
and credited, according to correspond
ence of the London Gardeners Chroni-
Gle, with great milk-giving properties"
Pea straw is more valuable as fodder
than the straw of any of the cereals.
If well saved it makes capital fodder
for all descriptions or domestic ami
mails.
Black corn has been raised in Liv-
ingston county, New York. 1t is de-
scribed as being as black as an African,
as sweet as sugar and retains all those
attributes when cooked
In England, inferior barley is gener
ally ground into meal for feeding cattle
and pigs, and nothing surpasses its
value when boiled as a mash for horses
after hard days work.
Those who use lime as fertilizer
apply from ten to fifty bushels to the
acre; ashes may be applied at the same
rate; salt at the rate of 200 to 400
pounds, and plaster at the rate of 100
pounds.
Weed out your stock and get rid of
the poor mich and butter cows. The
profit in a dairy comes wholly from
the good cows, while the poor ones not
only do not pay for their keep, but they
reduce the profits made 10y the others.
Don't overfeed the hogs and let them
eat sour feed or feed left over, but give
them freely three times day all they
will eat up clean and relish it. Add to
the corn diet turnips, pumpkins, pota-
toes, apples, etc, as a relish. 1t will
help them to eat and digest more corn.
AS timothy grass seed, if sown at the
same time as winter wheat, is apt to
crowd the grain too much, the better
way is to wait three or four weeks until
the wheat is well up before sowing the
timothy. Sow just before rain, and
and no narrowing or bushing will be
needed.
All the bones that lie about the
premises should be buried near fruit
trees or grape vines. No matter how
hard they may be, the roots and action
of nature will soften and make them
available for plant food. If you own a
good-for-nothing dog, put his bones
under ground near some tree.
When an orchard requires fertilizing,
it is best to do this all over the ground,
and not to apply manure only near the
trees. This produces large growth
of roots close to the trees, for roots
grow where soil is richest. Orchards
need lime and ashes more than manure
and these soon produce healthy, smooth
bark.
A good mess of carrots keeps the
horse in good condition, and turnips
and refuse potatoes make a refreshing
change for the cattle. All the root
crops should be carefully slowed away
in an accessible location for winter
feeding, and such food is not only
economical, but promotive of health
and contentment.
Agriculture obeys claws of Nature;
science endeavors to ascertain and ex-
plain them. Science may attend upon
agriculture as a guide and stimulus to
the best eXertion but it is the patient
and prudent and experienced farmer
who knows what land he needs, what
crops he can raise, what fertilizer he re-
quires, and what labor he can best ap-
ply. 1t is the union of practice and
science which makes farming perfect
Loring.
Strawberry plants do better on land
that has been previously cultivated.
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time of setting out, but as soon as the
plants are well rooted in the soil, if
frost sets in, apply good mulch. In
spring, mix equal parts of super-phos-
phate and muriate of potash, and apply
at the rate of 800 pounds to the acre.
If the runners are kept down during
the season the second year will produce
large crop.-Philadelphta Record.
In determining the most profitable
COWS for the dairy, much depends upon
the purposes for which the dairy is
kept. The farmer who keeps few
COWS to supply his own table with but
ter, cream and milk, and sell the sur
plus in the season of flush pasture in
the form of butter, wants the cow that
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