Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-02

Hon. @. NJ. Clay OF Kentucky says that the
crows saved his crops from devastation by
the grasshoppers.
Pumpkins, turnips, beets, potatoes aud car
rots should be sliced when fed to stock, which
prevents choking,a as danger sometimes occurs
when whole or chopped pieces are fed.
Skim milk fed with little oil meal and
oats was found excellent when fed to calves
at the Wisconsin Experiment Station. The
young animals were kept healthy and grow
ing, but not fat
by pouring boiling water upon beans the
weevil can be destroyed, but to prevent inju-
ry to the beans the scalding should be done
in a colander, and they should by spread out
and dried instantly.
DR.. Sturtevant's analysis at the New York
Experiment Station shows that the narrow
leaved plantain, generally regarded as a weed
to be eradicated, possesses nearly the same
nutritve value as timothy.
It is estimated that the average profits on
cattle raising in Texas for the past five years
have been 100 per cent The building Of rail
roads has removed risks consequent on long
drives.
A member of the Eimira Farmers club
states that ten loads of barnyard manure, us
ed with S. worth Of phosphates aud potash
to the acre, are worth more than twenty-five
loads without the phosphates and potash as
manure is often short in both those substances
A Yates county New York; correspondent
of the New York Tribune reports that a
ounce bush grated on common thorn, and
without being cultivated, has borne regular
crops Of fruit for over forty years. He thinks
that this points a moral TO nurserymen, as the
ounce upon its own roots is uncertain and
short-lived
For a ration for stock to produce milk to
winter, Mr.. d. w. Kendrick Of Bristol, Mass
in Home and Farm, recommends four quarts
of cornmeal two quarts cottou.seed meal and
four quarts of shorts daily to be given at two
meals, and mixing the feed with hot water
adds greatly to the good effect Of the food.
Grape growing is largely on the increase in
the Hudson river valley, and immense guam
titles of the fruit are sent to market. Wine
making is carried on to some extent and spec
linens Of it which have been sent to France
were pronounced by connoisseurs superior to
the wines made in California, having full.
ness of body" and mellow flavor peculiarly
ts own.
little salt sprinkled on a manure heap is
one Of the best applications both for summer
and winter In warm weather it attracts the
moisture and keeps the manure from fire.
gdnging or burning from excessive ferments-
ton. In winter it keeps the heap from freez.
ing solid, and at any season 1t makes the ma
nure more soluble.
A Kansas farmer has a new method of put
ting in wheat, which the American Cultivator
recommends for trial in other localities He
has narrow iron wheel attached behind his
drill, which follows in the drill row and firm.
ly presses the soil with the seed to a greater
depth. By his method he grows upward of
ffty.six bushel per acre.
Harnesses should never be kept in the sta.
bles which are not entirely free of manure.
The ammonia thus produced is rapidly alb
sorbed by the leather, and the result is said
to be the same as il it were saturated with
strong lye 1t has the effect of rotting the
leather and the harness thus exposed will
consequently remain sound a comparatively
brief time.
Prof. L. b. Arnold says dairy farm costs
10 per cent less to operate than grain grow
ing or mixed agriculture second, the mean
returns average little more than other
branches third, prices are nearer uniform
and more reliable fourth, dairying e1hausts
the soil less fifth, il it is more secure against
the changes of the season, since the dairying
does not suffer so much from the wet and
frost and varying seasons, and the farmer can,
If prudent, provide against drought.
The Indiana Farmer says that il turnips
are designed for the table, or for market they
should be kept under earth. No other meth
cd has yet been discovered by which the pc
culiar favor of the turnip can be retained
| They may be placed in conical piles of not
more than 100 bushels each, over which thin
coat of straw may be spread and covered with
six or eight inches of earth. The tops and
roots should be carefully cut off from the tur.
nips before they are stored.
An old celery grower writes the New York
World that there are two causes for rust on
celery. One is too great exposure to the sun,
the other is earthing up or hoeng when the
ground or the plant is moist with rain or dew.
A cool, moist situation is best for celery, and
little shade is no disadvantage. Earthing
up should be done when the weather and
everything about the plant is dry. A cause
of both rust and rot is the entrance of earth
between the stalks during the process OF
esrthing up, and this is very apt to be the case
with celery of a tall, branching variety.
Sow lettuce seed now in protected place
and cover through winter with brush to pro.
tect it. and you will have early lettuce to
transplant in the spring
1t is always a profitable practice to look
well to the condition of trees and shrubs be-
fore winter sets in. A little care now in re-
| gard to draining and clearing up rubbish Of
ten results in the saving Of many trees. Dead
leaves make excellent manure when rotted,
and they should be sedulously secured every
fall. The rakings about the house or on the
lawn can be put in a small pile and lightly
covered with earth to prevent the wind from
blowing them away, and by spring they will
usually be ready for use as a manure. Never
| burn them.
| Rye for early spring feed may be sown up
/ to November. 1t is the hardest grain grown
| 1t will sprout at q very low temperature, and
the hardest frosts will not injure the young
| spires. If it does not make its appearance
before the winter, it will start very early in
the spring, and for a succession of feeding it
may, therefore, be sown up to the last mo-
ment The work is then done, while ii could
not be done in the spring for weeks after the
time when the seed will have started growth.
A successful farmer made the statement
that for several years he had practiced tying
up his cattle by day in the barn during the fly
season, and turning them out to Craze during
the night and he was satisfied that the yield
of milk was one-third more by so doing. 1t
was of better quality, and he could feed one
third more stock on the same acreage, for the
cattle destroyed by stamping great deal OF
! good pasturage And that his COWS might be
! protected, he even went so far as to darken
the windows of his stables with muslin cur
tains. He was about to build new barns and
! he should put on blinds, for he considered
them more necessary on his barn windows
than on his house. merciful man was mer-
ciful to his beasts and this was a case where
| it paid.
Facts are stubborn Things.
Is there anything in any of the numerous