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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13
PHOENIX, FARMER, FRIDAY,

less important that they come early than that
they be kept growing without check from
lack Of food. After the lamb is ten days OF
two weeks old, It will usually begin to eat
something besides its mothers milk. No
grain is better than whole oats placed in shall
low troughs where the lambs can run and the
old sheep cannot. A very little grain fed in
this way will bring greater profit than II fed
TO any other kind Of stock The best lambs
are always salable at fancy prices, while stunt
ed specimens are often drug and do not pay
expenses. Am. CultiUdt0r.
The opinion is steadily gaining ground,
backed up by actual test, that wooden slos
are not only practicable, but in many cases
are preferable to an expensive stone structure.
Water sometimes works into the latter, and
frost may combine with il to iniuro the ensi-
lage. Simply boarding up bay in the barn
is getting to be popular way of making sios,
and there is little objection to it, That ensi.
lage will keep well stored in this way there il
no doubt so why may not the average farm
or try the new system in this way instead Of
investing in costly stone sio ?-N Il. Home
stead
In Vermont the dairy interest has been
more intellgently conducted than in most
other sections, and as a result the butter yield
of COWS has increased in the last IA years an
average Of 80 pounds per COW. This increase
is nearly all clear profit, since il costs no more
to keep good COW than poor one. Some
of the gain is due to better feeding, but by
soiling and ensilage more stock may be kept,
and, If butter and milk be produced, at less
expense than under the old methods OF pas
ture, hay and grain. -Phild. Record.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13
Sorghum Culture.

There is a method whereby we may raise
our own sweet from the soil we till, and as
seed time is fast approaching l will give your
readers a short sketch of my own experience
in the capacity Of sugar making from cane,
which l believe is the first attempt in this
section. Two years ago, by the request of
Prof. Collier, agricultural chemist at Wash
ington, urging agriculturists to manufacture
their own sweet from cane of their own rails
ing, procured seed from there and planted
one-half acre to amber cane; the seed proved
poor, and small crop was the result. Not
so with my neighbors who obtained seed
from the Marblehead seed garden and real
lied an abundant crop. The cane when
growing resembles broom. corn, and requires
nearly the same treatment, and on good corn
ground, with proper culture will grow spon-
taneously as a forage it is not surpassed.
The stalks are sweet, juicy and luxuriant,
and cattle devour them clean with a relish.
Undoubtedly for ensilage, amber cane would
be superior to corn.
Being DESTROYS of getting the sweet, had
manufactured an extractor which consisted of
three solid iron rollers, worked by horse pow
er; for evaporators, l used my common sap
pans. With this arrangement, could man
ufacture one barrel per day of good thick
molasses, the quality being superior to any
ffty-cent southern article purchased at our
store. did not attempt to reduce the syr-
up to sugar, as it requires chemical prepar-
alton with which l am not acquainted, yet l
have no doubt it could be done with little
trouble. With better facilities and more ex.
perience the quality could be greatly i'm
proved. l also tried the working of corn.
stalks in lieu Of cane, as recommended by
Prof. Collier, but was not pleased with the
result. The syrup obtained was strong, un-
palatable and very dark yet that might be
greatly improved with experience 1 have
prepared a generous piece for this spring 8
planting, Notwithstanding the last year,
cane crop in this section was total failure,
in consequence of the season. If it proves a
success, consider cane culture one of the
profitable branches of agriculture. -- Corn
1cdH w., Cor. Manchester Mirror.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13
NOTES.

There are about 600 creameres in the
state of Iowa, and the yield of butter is es-
timated at l00,000,000 pounds per annum,
which, at % cents per pound, amounts to
S25 000000 The cheese product is valued
at $4,000, 900, making a total of S27, OOO,-
600 from that branch of industry alone. Iowa
has one-thirtieth of all the miloh COWS in the
United States
The state of Vermont defines "bob veal'
as follows, and provides punishment TO Of
Tenders of the law "a person who kills, or
causes to be killed. with intent to sell the meat
thereof for family use, calf less than four
weeks old, or knowingly has in his possession
such meat with intent to sell the same in the
stale or to send the same for such use to any
foreign market, shall be punished by impris-
onment not more than six months or fine not
exceeding $500"
A correspondent of the Iowa Homestead
says that a simple, sure and easily applied
cure for lice on animals, is to give few
slices Of onions in their feed. They eat them
readily, and one or two feeds does the bust
ness ehectually. This statement is plausible,
at least, though we never heard of the rene.
dy before. A good meal of onions has been
known to break up kissing bee, and to
cause considerable commotion in camp meet
ing, and there seems to be no reason why the
same should not effect a stampede among
lice.
Prof. Sanborn, formerly of the New Hamp-
shire agricultural college, in relation to the
use of cotton seed meal says "As a rule
can depend upon three pounds of cotton seed
meal, or equal parts of this meal with corn
meal, to give with a ration of straw of one
half of the amount that would be eaten of
good hay about the same gain of live weight
lthe carcass gain is not onsidered) that would
be found of gain following the consumption
of good hay. The straw aud grain may be
depended upon for a moderate growth of
young stock at very moderate cost. Constant
use of straw for mich COWS has been made,
but always in connection with other foods
Ia feeding lambs for the early market, It Is
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13

The soil for tomatoes should be rich, and
OF a kind that has been well cultivated and
previously well MANFRED In putting the
plants In the ground they should 60 in as
deep as possible as they will better provide
themselves with moisture should a dry spell
occur and although the tomato is not partial
TO dryness yet il is often injured by an excess
Of moisture. Last season we mentioned the
case OF gardener who tried experiments with
several kinds Of tomatoes, using different
methods in management. The most success
full plan was one in which square holes Of
eighteen inches diameter and the same in
depth were dug, the bottoms filed with chips.
stones aud other useless material, and upon
these placed, to within six inches Of the top,
good stable manure. After covering the ma
nure with rich earth the plants were placed
In them and watered for few days. As they
grew the bills were gradually made, and, in
comparison with other plants cultivated diff
ferently, the advantages from this system
were very marked. The growth was occa.
stoned by good drainage afforded by the loose
material in the Bubsoil which permitted all
excess Of water to pass downward, and yet re.
tanned capillary attraction during drought
The great quantity Of manure directly under
the plant could not be washed beyond reach
of the plant, and created warmth during the
earlier period of progress. Sould fertilizers
De ubtu lulAtuIe OF equal paris OF super
phosphate and saltpeter to Ave times their
weight Of wood ashes are excellent, and the
plants are also partial to common salt.
As to varieties, the Conquerer is small but
early. The Trophy is one Of the best, but
does not redden around the stem. The Acme
is a fine pink colored variety, excellent in
quality, but seems more liable 10 disease than
other kinds. One of the best varieties known
is Hathaway's Excelsior, a beautiful, solid
smooth, red tomato, which makes q good ap-
pearanoe at any market and the only obiec.
ton to 1t is lack of size although it is not
small compared with few others The Par
agon is a splendid red tomato, and is fast be.
coming favorite.
Should it be desired to get them out in the
open air in order to give them an early start
they can be protected with paper coverings at
night until the frost is past Watch for cut
worms, aud guard against the green worm
which eats them after they leaf Mulching
around the plant is beneficial, and weeds and
grass must be kept down. Clean cultivation
also keeps the soil loose and mellow and faci-
itates growth. The tomato is plant that
seems to recuperate from damage or injury
very easily. 1t seeds out new branches and
blossoms all the season. While the fruit is
ripenng on one part it is beginning on an.
other, and once it commences to bear it does
not cease until late in the season. 1t is there.
fore apparent that great drain is made on
the soil TO furnish plant food, and it is essen d.
tial, therefore, that not only manure be plac-
ed in the pits or hills, but that It also be work.
ed into the surface soil around the plants
Philddelphid Record.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13


Timothy Wheeler Of Waterbury, Vt, says
the white maple will yield whittier sugar than
the rock maple. No sap can be obtained
from q maple while in leaf or without a
freeze. With freeza in autumn, after the
leaves have fallen, the sap will run, but from
the top of the tree and not from the base as
in spring. Sap deepens its color as we as
cond the tree and also as we near the heart.
Mr.. Wheeler believes that the sap decreases
in sweetness as the tree is assembled. He
further says: Trees standing in or near sur
face water, and in low, moist, rich and mucky
land, run much sap, but it is watery and
poor, while trees standing on ledgy ground
and dry, will give very sweet sap. In all
cases where have found trees standing in or
near cold springs l find that those trees run
very sweet sap and large quantity. Now,
then, learn this lesson that temperature
has much to do with tho quality of sap
warm water makes poor sap and cold water
makes rich sap. Now, then, who is the bot
anist, naturalist or student who will inform
me why this is 80 ? What is the law? am
acquainted with tree standing near very
cold spring on the farm owned by O. w.
Kellogg of DuXbury, Vt, from which was
made in the spring Of 1881, 303 pounds of
very nice cake sugar. Two spouts wero used
running into one tub, the bore being
inches deep. The deeper we bore our trees
the darker our sugar will be, and the more
molasses will il contain. Shallow boring
gives us light sugar, with less injury to our
trees. Deep boring prolongs sap running.
There is more sap caught in the day time and
sweeter than at night. Sugar made from
second growth naples is whittier than that
made from first growth trees. The whittier
the wood the whittier the sugar 1t is the
wood that gives color to the sugar in the
pure sap. The more scattering the trees the
more and sweeter the sap. Color indicates
the value of the sugar" MIR. Wheeler advo.
Gates the use of either tin or metal buckets
with covers, tin spouts and evaporators, as
the best utensils for the production of the
incest quality of sugar.-Am. CultiCdt0r.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13
Ma.inns for Grape Gro~er.

/. Prepare the ground in fall plant in the
spring.
2 Give the vine plenty of manure, old and
well decomposed Fresh manure e1cites
growth, but does not mature it,
s. Luxuriant growth does not always insure
fruit
t. Dig deep, but plant shallow.
D. Young vines produce beautiful fruit, but
old vines produce the richest.
6. Prune in autumn to insure growth in
spring to produce frutfulness.
7. Plant your vines before you put up trel-
Uses.
8. Vines, like soldiers, should have good
arms.
0. Prune spurs to one developed bud; for
the nearer the old wood the higher. favored
the fruit.
10. Those who prune long must soon climb.
II, Vine leaves love the sun the fruit the
shade.
u. Every leaf has a bud at the base, and
either a bunch of fruit or tendril opposite
it.
10. A tendril is an abortive fruit bunch-a
bunch of fruit productive tendril.
IA. bunch of grapes without a healthy
leaf opposite is like a ship at sea without a
rudder-it can't come to port.
10. Laterals are like politicians; if not check
ed they are the worst of thieves.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13
Exhaustion Of the Soil.

The Scottish chamber of agriculture has
issued for the government final report on
the subject of compensation for farmers i'm
provements, with special reference to unex-
hausted manures. The document embodies
the views of upward of GOO of the leading
practical farmers of Scotland. 1t gives the
proportions of exhaustion during the years
covering the active existence of the principal
applications, and indicates the margin to be
allowed for arabic and pasture land. Lime is
said to last for two rotations on light arabic
soil, and on hill pasturage fed by sheep and
cattle for 80 years. save in wet climates. On
arabic land it is generally computed to ex-
haust at the rate of Ito per annum, but is by
some deemed most beneficial after the first
year or two. Horse, COW and town manures
last from three years on sandy soil to nine on
clay land, two-ffths being exhausted the first
year. OF guano, bones and phosphates, the
greatest endurance is given to half-inch bones,
which are said to last seven years at the rate
of Ito per annum. Bone meal covers six
years, with the most effect the first year, and
quicker action is assigned to dissolved bones.
Ammoniacal and phosphate guano, nitrates,
sdlphates and special mnnures are still more
speedily exhausted the former often spend
ing its effects in single year, though special
manures and cakes sometimes show their eff
fects over three and four years. -Fdymers'
Rfrielr
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13

Seedsmon never fail to offer for sale every
year plants or seeds of new varieties, which
are highly extolled for time and sold for
fancy prices In nine cases out Of ten trial
OF fow years proves the new kind to be no
better than the old sort, and frequently it is
inferior yet there is something in the breed
of plants as well as in the breed of animals.
and we have vastly improved varieties of
both The gain in this direction far exceeds
the loss in the other, though it would be east.
or to mention ten new varieties of plants
without special merit, that have been pulled
and advertised into notoriety, than one which
has proved really superior. We have been
reminded of this by reading a large number
Of reports concerning White Russian oats
nearly all unfavorable. One experimenter
sowed two bushels of White Russian oats and
two bushels Of common oats on land side by
side, and the result was Il bushels of the Rus
sian and Il of the common oats. A CORE
spondont of the Homestead says the White
Russian oats proved very unsatisfactory to
him last season. They were grown on excel
lent ground and had thorough tillage, but the
oats were very light, as was also the Weld not
being equal in any respect to the common
oats, But he feels partially repaid by the
consideration that he has assisted some one to
dispose Of an inferior article at 81 per bushel,
while tried and and valuable native seed was
selling at 60 cents. The foregoing represent
the general tenor of reports about White Rus
sian oats, though there is still occasionally
one who speaks in their favor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13
Growing NIarket LnmI,,.

In growing market lambs, says the Nation
al Live Stock Journal the feeder should re-
member that the lamb must be sustained on
the food eaten by its dam, and she must eat
enough for two. This consideration shows
That her food must be liberal and of good
quality. The lamb should increase in weight
at least one-half pound per day if growing
for market, aud this alone requires a fair ra
ton to produce; therefore the feeder must
deal with ewes sucking lambs with a liberal
hand. The eve must produce a profitable
fleece besides growing her lamb and keeping
up Der own flesh. We have secured most sat
isfaetory results by feeding sucking ewes
upon the following combined ration: Ten
bushels OF oats, nine bushels of corn and one
bushel of haxseed, all ground together in
hne meal, and mixed at the time of feeding
with one-half of wheat ldlings. Each eve
was given l ) pounds of this per day, with
about the same weight OF tine-cut hay, and it
was eaten up clean. The hay is not necessa
ry equal gain can be made on straw, but in
that case the eve should have two pounds of
the ground food, and if the straw is cut short
all the better A good shelter is supposed in
this case, else such growth of lambs as We
nave mentioned cannot be made on such
ration, nor perhaps on any ration in cold
weather, This small amount of haxseed has
a remarkable effect in modifying the heating
quality of corn; it keeps the bowels in a
healthy, active condition, and prevents all
danger of garget
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13
"COnqueror Of all LIES Woes"

MRS. A. W. Rowland, of Providence, R. l.,
says;-
"Deeming it my duty to suffering humanity TO
inform all who may be afflicted as have been,
of the safe and sure Remedy which, by the bless
ing of a kind Providence, has restored me to
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the use of the most valuable medicine that
have ever seen. During the past three years
have been afflicted with Kidney disease, accom-
panied by the severe aches intense pains, weak
ness, and prostration attending this dreadful
disease. tried many kinds Of medicines in
Guiding physicians prescriptions, without obtain
ing permanent relief.
"A few weeks ago friend persuaded me to
try Hunts Remedy; and, after using only half
bottle, was relieved of the severe pains in my
back, and continued the use of the Remedy until
am well again and now can take long walks
without being tired, and have an excellent ap-
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and pains from which suffered so long. most
cheerfully recommend Hunts Remedy as a safe
and reliable cure for Kidney disease, and 1t is the
only medicine have ever found that does exactly
what 1t is advertised TO do.
"'Praise the bridge that carries YOU over
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health.
ave are all strong enough to endure the mis-
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13

II you are suffering from any chronic disease about
which you are growing discouraged, such Pulmon-
airy trouble, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Neuralgia RheumA-
tism, nervous prostraton, ETC., send statement o.
your condition to Drs. starkey Palen, llO9 Grard
street, Philadelphia, and get their opinion to the
value OF Compound Oxygen in your It viii cost
you nothing Ask them, at the same time, to furnish
you with such documents in regard to their Treat
ment and such evidence in regard to their profession
al standing as will enable you to clearly Apprehsnd
the nature and action Of the Treatme mt and give you
confidence In them personally.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13
The Food value of cotton.se.d NsaI

Ahe EOOd value Of COttOn-Seed Meal
An interesting paper on this subject was
read by Prof. Gulley before the society for
the promotion of agricultural science, at Mont
real 1t seems that our crop of cotton seed
amounts to 5000, 600 tons or lS0, DOC. 600 bush.
els and that during he past year the oil mills
consumed $780, 600 tons of seed in the manu-
tacture of cotton.seed oil, while less than half
the remainder was used for fertilizers, seed
and feeding stock, the balance being a total
loss, The greatest value of the oil (Which
has hitherto been used for a variety of other
purposes) is now found to be in culinary uses
Perfectly refined and skillfuly used. il IL
equal to the best lard in all cooking opera-
tions. Cotton-seed cake or meal is also as
peclally rich in nutritive matter for farm
stock. Estimating the cotton seed at 10 cents
bushel and oat straw and coarse hay at $40
per ton, the average cost of food consumed
per head, per day, by cows experimental on
during the past winter was 7. 3 cents cows
averaging ; gallons of milk per day. One
steer fed for beef, weighing 200 pounds, when
shut up gained 2GO pounds live weight, or an
average of ) pounds per day, consuming an
average of IA pounds Of seed per day and II
pounds of straw and hay; average cost of
food per day, not quite 10 cents. Other ex-
perimeuts pursued at the state agricultural
college of Mississippi showed that boiled cot
ton seed with any kind of straw or hay would
cause cattle to fatten rapidly, no matter how
poor in condition. It also makes very rich
milk the oil of the seed seemingly appearing
in the milk in the form Of cream. The dual.