The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-30
Farm and Garden Notes.

mails, he saws, fight ess, and are never
fiy-blown around the horns, are more
conveniently sheared, keep easier and
grow larger. This is his opinion after
nine years experience.
Open bitches are relic of the past
Drain tile not only carries off the water
effectually, but enables the fields to be
cultivated without the necessity of
building crossings over ditches
bitches get filled up, and become the
harbor for weeds, insects, mice and
other vermin.
Oatmeal is said to be excellent for
calves, and some are successful in feed
ing wheat shorts, but both are usually
too coarse to be drunk with safety with
milk. They should be fed dry; then
there will be little danger from over
eating, which is not the case if given
! in the milk.
An eminent horseman gives it as his
experience, after twenty years of trial,
that tired horse can be best refreshed
and strengthened by giving him
quart OF oatmeal stirred in a pail of
water. This fits it's stomaeh for a
stronger food, Stakes its thirst. and is
indefinitely better than pure water.
Poultry manure is nearly equal to
guano and the value of the quantity
annually derived from a single fowl is
about fifty cents, fully one-half the
cost of the feed. Five hens will make
one barrel of manure, and on farms
where large numbers of poultry are
kept, this Importance of the fact should
not be overlooked. Every ounce
should be saved.
The Farmers RecieU says: On
given amounts Of food the sheep pro-
duces for the same weight of dry food
nearly twice as much manure as the
pig while the OK produces even more
than the sheep. The difference is due
to the less digestible character of the
food supplied to the sheep and OK. The
quantity of manure produced during
the same time and for the same body
weight is, however, very similar with
the three animals, the greater con-
sumption of food by the pig counter
balancing the lower rate of manure
production.
To destroy the cabbage butterfly:
Wash the cabbages we'll with strong
SCOT and water, and on the first dry
day dust the ground about the cab
bages with quicklime, and pick as
many of the caterpillars off as you can
find; and during the winter gas-lime
the land and leave it in ridges to catch
the frost, and very few insects will
trouble you again. The odors emitted
from gas-lime are so pungent that
neither moth, butterfly nor mole will
remain on land that is dressed with it.
The white worm which infests, oc-
casionally, all soils where plants are
kept in pots may be removed as fol-
lows: Sprinkle little Stacked lime
on the earth and in the saucer of the
pot. Lime water may be easily made
by Stacking large piece of lime in a
pail of cold water, letting it settle, and
then boiling the clear water for use.
Give each pot a tablespoonful twice a
week.
The day Of feeding large quantities
of corn to an animal for score or
more of months is past, and thrifty
young steers off from good pastures,
with few weeks finishing off with
corn, are to furnish the beef of the
future.
DR.. Sturtevant thinks that when
sorghum mills become general and the
apparatus for the manufacture OF
sorghum is always at hand, some
varieties of corn viii be found to
furnish paying quantity of sugar
, besides bearing grain.
One reason, and perhaps the princi-
pal one, why larger, better and
healthier calves are raised from young
COWS than from old ones, is found in
. the fact that the milk of the former
is, as rule, much richer than that OF
the latter. For the same reason young
COWS are most profitable for genera
dairy purposes.
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