Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-04-06

culture, which means the usc of wedding
"PPliahces aH often as il needed, must be
secured
New York Huttcr Market
The New York butter dealers say that
putterihc and oleomargarne interfere
WIN The sale OF 'all butter of only fair
quailty, especially if not strictly fresh. "
One Of the great benefits of the mann.
fncture aud sale Of these limitations is tbe
improved standard of the make of dairy
butter. "Thc medium and low Grades of
butter are drug on the market because
oleo has, by its superior merit, displaced
the grease that used to be palmcd-1ff ON
the poorer classes of customers" 70 get
rld OF tins competition, dealers advise
dairymen to "hold back all the odd tubs
oil butter they can, use it up Mt home and
supply the local demand Of towns and
villages, and make its use last late. Let
the fresh come forward but keep the old
back, which will be Just as good for home
use up to June /, and thereby materially
lessen the amount Of it offered here. Fine
fresh butter is so far ahead Of ole, that it
ID not III competition with it..
Substitute for Rain,
Hoeing, md the frequent stirring of
the surface of the soil, are good substi.
tutcs for rain, Those parts of the rar
den that are most frequently cultivated
show the best results It is probable
mat corn, watermelous, tomatoes, Lima
beans, and cabbage, and possibly other
plants, II well started, in good. deep soil.
may go through two months drought
without very serious damage \ deep.
well manured soil. suffers much less thar,
q shallow soil. Sub-soiling and inauurc
are to certain extent substitutes for
rain Moisture comes from below. I'm
dcrdraining is also a safeguard against
drought. The course Of the drolns in
the garden can easily be marked in "A drv
season, by the ranker growth of vereta
tion above them. Irrigation, in many
parts of the North, will pay. The soil If
well prepared, could use, to good advan-
tage, twice the quantity Of water i: re-
colIes from rains during the dry months
of simmer.
The kind of feed offered to hens must
be governed by the use for which thev
are intended. Hens intended for the
table should be fed largely on the kind
oil iood which is known to contain u large
percentage OF tiesh-producing material
but when eggs alone are wanted they
SHOULD be fed on egg-producing food
Fowls should never be left without plenty
of water, given fresh at least once dav.
and IN winter it should he luke warm. Ii
would he good plan to put some nails
or old rusty pieces Of iron into the water.
Ihls gives the water a mineral taste and
serves to tone up the system, acting as a
tonic.
If cabbages are set out one yard each
i l.,
acre Such being the case it i, profit
able crop when successfully grown. ms
this vegetable not only sells we'll. but on
account of its keeping qualities. affords
green food in winter for animals and
poultry, to say nothing of the family.
In transplanting trees all the roots
which may have become bruised or brok-
en- IN the process of lifting should be cut
clean away behind the broken part ns
they then more readily strike out new
roots from the cut parts IL all such
cases the cut should be clean .lopiug
one, and made in an upward and outward
direction.
How shall / get good herd of cows /:
, Is the question among many youlg far
, mers. Thoroughbred cows cost too much,
, but yuu can get n full blooded bull from
= /
cows, and raise the calves. The calves
; take more from the male than the female.
In few years you will have good herd
l OF cows Tor milk.
3 Every flock owner should improve his
p iiock year by year, by the Use Of good
, bucks, and keeping the best eve lumbs
and disposing of the Oldest sheep III the
= flock. 1t is very poor economy, indeed.
: to sell of the lambs every year and keep
: the old sheep until they are ten or twelve
I years old, because the iiock by this meth
: od will not yield as much profit as by a
V ludiclous system of wedding ont annual
: ly.
l 1t is said that "howeyer fertile soil
5 may be, not more, perhaps, than one per
= cent of its substance is at any moment.
$ in fit condition for nourishing the crops.
= The great bulk of this fertility is unavnil-
Il able TO the plant at any one time, and is
' only slowly liberated by the action of air,
y OF moisture, of heat and OF manure. Ii
is upon the rate at which the liberation
5 of plant-food takes place that the natural
!, u fertility of the soil may he said, in Il
I, I, great measure, to depend.
u Intelligent farmers everywhere realize
. that proper mixture OF grain foods ls
. more economical than to feed exclusively
~ of one or two kinds. 4 Connecticut far
i mcr who makes farming pay feeds lis
: cows two quarts daily from Il mixture o
:. 200 pounds Of coarse wheat bran, lOl0
r. pounds of corn meal and 800 pounds oi
:, cuttunseed. This is mixed by being
| thoroughly shoveled over on IL tight barn
p. floor. The same farmer thinks it pays t,
! feed coarse bran to hogs occasionally
Il when meal is fed regularly, rs it keep,
a them in good condition,
| Rice meal is meeting with much favo
< ms IL food for mich cows wherever tried
II 1t consists Of the securing of the RE,
n kernels after the shell is removed 1t,
II composition is nearly that Of averaC,
oats or the best corn, in respect to albu
minoids. II hns three times the ash o
oats, twice the fat, the same amount q
fibre and II per cent less carbohydrate
but the latter are about compensated fo
III by the more fat. 1t comes done up il
rs loose bags and retails at about $22 pc
u ton. .-Ncr EHg'ond Homestead.
N How to Raise Calvcs.-Wheu five o
IL six days old take them off the COW an,
4 feed them, lightly at first when ten o
is twelve days old, put handful Of whea
le bran III the pail. As they grow older al,
r to their feed, yet there is more danger q
. hurting by feeding too much than no
q enough When two months old turl
? them out to grass When brought to til
th barn in the fall, feed with two parts ,
re wheat bran and one part Of Indian meal
n about one quart per head daily In tn
of spring they come out like two year-ol1,
ot Never feed sour milk, nor buttermilk
or though new milk is not objectionable. -
% Cor, Nep England Homestead.
ed The beet is one of the best of the earl
he vegetables and should be found in tn
u ~ ayntyNpbara fTh