Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-05-11

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the best kind Seed for early cabbages
should be sown in the hot-bed in March,
and plants transplanted when from four
to six inches high. To preserve the plants
from the fly, make the seed bed on
platform or scaffold, raised on posts, about
four feet from the ground. The jumps
Of the insect are limited to certain
height and the plants are thus placed be-
yond their reach. When seed is sown in
field for late or fall crops, as soon ms the
plants appear above the ground they
should be sprinkled with wood ashes and
air Stacked lime, equal parts, while the
plants arc moist with rain or dew. This
is an eificacious remedy for destroying the
beetle or flea that attacks them as soon
as they have broken through the soil
Until the plants have stem as large rs Il
pipe stem, they are subject to the ravages
of the cut worm, for which there seems to
be no better remedy than ashes or air
Stacked lime, sprinklcd literally close to
the stems Of the plant AS this pest dis
appears about the middle of June, cab
bages planted late suffer but little from
it. We have now another pest that il far
worse than the cut-worm in some local.
ties, which is the maggot the egg is laid
by small fly, and as soon as Matched
root. Tie plant will stand still and will
look green, with the exception of one or
two leaves, which will be yellow for two
or three weeks. As soon as n yellow leaf
Is noticed on plant. it might rs well be
pulled mp. as it will never thrive and
avoid when planting another not to put it
III the same place AS the old one, us the
maggot will frequently be left i'll the
ground and will be ready to attack the
new plant. A remedy for the maggot is
one tablespoonful Of saltpetre pure crvs-
tals) and one-fourth ounce OF carbolc
acid mixed in n paiful Of water, and dip
the roots of the plants in the solution be-
fore transplauting. Plants should be two
feet apart in the rows, and the rows three
feet apart, which will make seven thou
sand, two hundred and sixty plants to
the acre. The white or cream-colored
butterfly makes his appearance soon after
the plants are set out, which produces the
green worm. Mr. G. NJ. Smith of Phila-
delphia gives his experience in combat
ing with the worm. On his return from
The west, last summer, lie found his cab.
bages infested with them, which threat
ened total destruction. After trying va
rious remedies, lie found this receipt to
be the best Take twenty parts OF Sill
part of carbolic powder, and three parts
Of air-slacked lime, mixed well together.
and busted into each head four times a.
intervals of one week. The result was
the saving of seventy-tive thousand cab
bages, and a loss of only five per cent.
Some one says he succeeded in curing
his hens of egg-eating proclivities, by
filling shell with lard and cayenne pep
per and placing it in the nest. One pill
of this kind is sufficient cure for one
hen.
There is but little doubt that corn will
maintain Il remunerative price for the
next eighteen months. Owing to the de-
fectivc character of seed corn in the great
corn belt of the northwest, there is no
probability of more than two-tnirls Of
crop being raised.
In our judgment, winter dairying is
from % to 50per cent more profitable than
the ordinary spring and summer dairying,
and that to the private dairyman who will
add TO this winter dairying wise and
shrewd provision to meet this demand, n
pure, fresh and reliable article, another
% to ~ per cent may he added to his al
ready increasing income, making very
nearly, ii not quite, one hundred per
cent advance on his present income
! (ogm.
The red hog is a satire on the art of hog
| breeding. He is nothing more than the
old original stock we started ont with. If
, You will take up a work on English agri-
a culture of forty years ago, and read the
! description Of the Berkshire of fifty years
: ago, you will find a very accurate descrip-
i, tion of our red hog for the Berkshire Of
fifty years ago is described Ill all the text
! books over there as a red hog, and he has
I the peculiar disposition of our Jersey Red
~ or Duroe as We call him.
d after ALL remarks the Atlanta Con.
h stitution, ''the money made by farming
is the cleanest, best money in the world.
1t is made in accordance with Gods first
law, under honest and genial influences,
away from the taint of trade or the fierce
heat of speculation. 1t fills the pockets
OF the farmer at the expense of no Other
man. His gain is no mans loss : but the
al more he makes the better for the world
g. at large. Prosperous farmers make d
" prosperous people. Whatever benefits
ie our agriculture benefits the common
IN wealth.
Ill The agricultural editor of the New
h. England Fdumer, i'll giving up his dalry
I'd farm, which he has run for ten years, say
k he has proved that an acre OF good Ian.
or will easily grow the fodder for II COW. an,
IN that % acre farm, of ordinary quaint.
ID of soil. can carry u team and dairy AMI
id mails old and young equal to an animal L
)r the acre, year after year, provided plent'
$. of labor is judiciously applied to the soil
; On this farm has been made annual.
d. 5000 pounds of butter, put in quartz
ot pound prints, and selling at from 90 t
r. 20 cents, wholesale present price .
he cents.
The evidence in favor OF sorghum as
IN valuable crop to be grown for feeding t
es stock is accumulating. 1t has some de
OF cided advantages as soiling cror
VII 1t can be drilled safely even ear
Is lier III the season than can corn ; i'll fac
en- some practice drilling the seed late Ill tn
ch autumn SO as to secure the earliest praC
y tical growth in the spring. 1t is reishe
,,.e by most if not all kinds of stock whe
pe fed green. Contrary to what might b
VI supposed, 1t seems to be valuable for VII
AS ter feeding when cured us is ordinai
Vi corn fodder. In some trials horses al
u reported to have shown themselves e'
III, pecially fond of it breeders Gazette.
ars n No person should buy their potatoes {
in grocerymen who let them stand III frol
a. Of their stores in the sun. Potatoes b.
nw long to the Soinaum family, of whiC
e,y the deadly Night Shade is one of its fl
mo brothers. All branches of the FAM
So contain more or less of that poisono'
Iva narcotic called Solanine. The bulb,
M potato, contains the least OF this, unle
~ they are exposed to the sun, which rapi
ly develops this element Long exposu
to the light, without the direct sun, W
develop the sOianine i'll the potato al
,,,Gt Cow Good Rut a