Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-06-01

weeds con never sell his grain at the high
est market price, while the extra care
needed to secure absolute purity Is sure
to be proportionately well paid. Far
mers understand this well enough, as is
shown by their periodic endeavors to &C.
cure pure seed for sowing and planting,
II we go to almost any market wo will
find that the bulk of crops are more or less
mixed, and therefore unstable for seed
and undesirable for any purpose. AL
most every spring there is an active de-
mand for seed barley, free from oats or
other varieties of barley, and not infre-
quently farmers buy from seed stores,
paying from two to four times the price
at which they sold their grain the fall
previous. In almost any neighborhood
farmer who will grow pure seed of the
various grains will find demand for his
entire stock at prices enough better than
market rates to assure him profit. When
we are told that farming is not profitable,
the implication is that reference is made
| fancy kinds of farming, such as growing
seeds and garden vegetables, nearly al
ways pays those who intelligently con-
duct them. Yet seed growing and gar
dening are really as true farming as
growing hay or making butter and cheese.
They are only better paid because they
cannot be conducted without close atten-
ton to details, and it is in this that neat
ness consists
Farm Notes.
A writer in Gardening Illustrated uses
thin gutta-percha in his grating opera
tlons. Pieces two inches square are put
IN hot water, and placed around the graft.
He likes it better than the common mix
ture for the purpose.
Sure death to cabbage worms. Make
a strong tea of pennyroyal and when
cold sprinkle your cabbage with it once
or twice a week, also put few of the
herbs around and on the plants, and you
will see no cabbage worms
butter maker, writing to the Iowa
Homestead, says the best butter color is
u pailful Of corn meal mush, fed warm
once day, the corn to be of the yellow
variety, adding that it will increase the
milk and butter us well as give good
color
An old sod, especially if the soil be
heavy and undrained, is usually disap-
pointing tho first season. The crop put
on 1t IL rarely as good as expected The
subsequent year it is better, and, if well
cultivated, the field will improve for two
or three years before being again seeded.
Cows when first turned to grass will
eat and need considerable dry feed daily.
Even straw will be eaten at this time,
the grass not having substance enough to
it to satisfy the animal. If the cow is
giving milk the meal ration should be
continued until June. or longer, if eaten
readily.
To prevent the hair falling off horses
name and to restore the growth, rub the
skin or the part with the following mix
ture, viz: One pint of alcohol and one
drachm Of tincture of cantharides. Give
the horse dose of salts twelve ouLces)
and feed some wheat bran, which will
, allay the irritation of the skin, to which
the loss of hair is due.
: Put a teaspoonful OF sulphur in the
nest ms soon as hens or turkeys are set.
The heat of the fowls causes the fumes OF
the sulphur to penetrate every part OF
> their bodies every louise is killed, and
| as nits are Eatched within ten days, when
the mother leaves the nest with her brood
: she is perfectly free from nits or lice.
1t is recommended that oats be soaked
; sufficiently to swell them before feeding
to stock. Ground oats are in proper con-
,, dition at all times, but many farmers feed
! them unground. When soaked the husk
is partly torn away and facility of diges-
ton increased. Poultry will carefully
; pick out the soaked grains from the day
when allowed a preference in the matter.