Milford chronicle., 1883-09-01

do not want any worms in ours, how
: ever willingly others may take their mil
= thus favored. To put the COW in thi
business is to put "flth" into the mill
There is nothing in an unripe, worm
apple that can add a particle to the RAJ
; material from which COW produce
milk; and judging Of a cows stomac
by man's-and there is a reasonabl
physiological analogy between them
is not probable that a mess of hard, un
ripe, sour apples will be either aid o
comfort to a COW in her daily work
Apples are of questionable use in an,
way and at any time for a cows fodder
We have frequently given them to COWS
and also fed the pomace from the eide
mill, principally because the animals
evinced desire for them, but always
and without exception the milk has de
creased in consequence, and sometimes
very considerably. There is no doubt
that at times some acid food is healthful
even for q COW. Onemay generally have
confidence, to some extent safely, in the
instinct of COW as regards the selection
Of her food; but we believe never in re-
gard to the quantity of it. This is the
duty of the feeder to regulate. Bat
sometimes the cows appetite is abnor-
NAL and unhealthful and then requires to
be controlled, and this control is neces-
sary in regard to overwhelming water
from foul puddles, which is sometimes
preferred to clean water. Hogs may
perhaps safely consume wormy apples
which fall from the trees, but COWS must
not be treated as hogs by any means.
THE TROUBLESOME PEsT.-An ex-
change says, we would urge every farmer
to do what he can in his own way. Just
now the potato beetles are less numer-
ous than they have been for years, and
it will be easy to make an end of them.
If only not one was permitted to escape
on the whitening vines, now that the
crop Of tubers is safe, and every larva
and beetle were killed, they would dis
appear, perhaps forever. The same ap-
plies to the cabbage-worm, which just
now is playing havoc with the late crop.
If all the worms We're killed there would
be no seed left for another year, and so
too, with the apple-worm, if all the fallen
fruit were destroyed. Europeans are
wiser than we. The French are in dread
Of parasitic weed known as dodder.
plant which twines about their clover and |
destroys it. When iuformationi is lodged |
before a French magistrate, that farm
Dr. field is infested with dodder, he pro-
,eeds with his constables to the place,
spreads straw over the infected spots and
lurns it completely. There is an end Of
t. And SO the Germans annihilated our
Colorado beetle when itappeared in their
ielda. The farm was carefully burned
'ver, every beetle was killed, and rigid
earch was kept up until it was certain
hat not one had escaped. Then only
i'd the Germans rest in peace. And
hese were not individual efforts, but
7ere made in accordance with laws to
hat end, or it is most probable they
7ould have either not been made at all
7 would have been ineffective.
RooT AND FRUIT HOUSES. All that are ]
equired for root or fruit house for win
er storage area wall and roof sufficiently
hick to keep out the frost. Any dry, /
orous substance that will not decay or !
arbor vermin may be chosen. Dry
caves, straw. marsh hay, or saw-dust, or {
ven dry earth may be used. Where G
ne cold goes down much below zero
nd is long continued-and the long :
is more to be considered +
nan the depth of cold-the wall, kept C
ON spreading by cross strips on the b
-uds or posts, and the outer wall closely a
attened or protected on the inside by !
r-proof roofing paper, would be desir- \
Die. If the roof is lined with paper. "
Id is made double with an air space S
lly, that will be sufficient. A ventila- n
T must be provided or the house may :,
silly be too warm. Forty degrees is a W
'od temperature. The deeper it is-if O.
e ground the safer il VII be. Some fc
,od s. anas cheap houses of this kind are 4
ade by making a strong roof of logs !, Il
d heaping the earth dug out over it e,
veral feet thick. it
SEEDING A PASTURE. An old pasture a,
lich is desired to be turned into Il
sadow had better be plowed. It de- q
nds somewhat on the kind Of land and g.,
conuFtion. But unless there is some III
od reason otherwise it would be best 70
turn under the old sod NOW and leave is
,ough through the winter to rot; 54laen, IN
the spring, go over it with the Acme ~! !;
ROW and level, pulverize, and smooth ba ba
md seed it to clover and timothy with IN,
any grain crop. There is no neees- Wis
2 for any grain crop to seed to grass. ch
he weather is dry the grain croprobs S;e Ee
grass of moisture as well as weakens 1.- 81,
y its shade, and at the best starves WI
keeps it back. The ground should me
well prepared and the grass and CHI
yer sown alone as early as possible. iol
lothy and clover would perhaps be for e..
best mixture, and 70 pounds OF each tw,
Z be sown. biz
GARDEN HNT.--A seasonable re- prc
der concerning spinach and lettuce SOY
fall and spring is given in The NeiO
ss''.'| - s'9' fall
oplnach may De soWn from August fro
o 20, for cutting up in fall, but if de- aut