The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19
Farm ara Garden Notes.

Farm ARA Garden Notes.
The feet and legs of horses require
more care than the rest of the body.
They must not be allowed to stand in
filth and moisture, and in grooming a
horse the feet and legs must be as
thoroughly brushed and cleansed as the
coat. A little oilcake meal mixed with
the food will give a glossness to the
skin and have a good effect on the
health.
Select some suitable piece of ground,
manure and plough so as to SOW some
crops, as rye, corn, millet or sorghum
for soiling, early next summer. 1t
adds greatly to the health, comfort and
efficiency of work animals, to feed them
green food, especially at noon. The
ground must be manured and plOughed
now and again before sowing in the
spring to secure good results.
Farmers generally lay out too much
work for the help they employ. The
best rule is not to attempt the cultiva-
ton of large areas, but to make the
land produce the largest yields. If
one acre of ground can be made to
produce fifty bushels of wheat that is
far better than to appropriate two or
three or four acres in the production of
the same quantities.
Peach trees should have a mulch
around the base and under the
branches. In the spring peach trees
should be well cultivated, and during
the summer they should be cultivated
nearly the same as corn. With good
treatment the trees Will live to double
the age of those neglected. Mineral
fertilizers show good results when APP
piled to them.
In keeping sheep over winter they
will do very well on coarse hay and
straw, provided they are given feed
ing Of oats and corn at least once a
day. The ewes that are expected to
give the early lambs shAld be literally
fed, while those coming later on should
be separated and treated in the same
manner later in the season. What is
desired in good eve is plenty of milk
for the lamb.
Provided few heads of cabbage for
your fowls in the winter.
Leaves contain in abundance three
elements indispensably necessary in
the production of crop5, nitrogen,
potash and phosphoric acid.
Save soap suds from the laundry,
and when not required for immed-
late application to plants or trees,
pour it on the compost pile. 1t is a
good fert izer.
TO preserve hay caps or wagon
covers they may be painted with the
following mixture: Cut one-half
pound of yellow soap into thin slices
and dissolve it in a quart of boiling
water; mix this by stirri G it while
hot into thirty pounds of common oil
paint. Give two coats for hay caps
and three for wagon cover or barn
sheet. When the caps are not in Use
they should be rolled up, and a sheet
may be h ing up or left spread over a
carriage.
Apples, says an eminent fruit grower,
need to be kept as cool rs possible,
without freezing. They wi : endure a
little frost much better than too warm
Observation-Disclosures degrees
to thirty-fouf degrees is best. When il
rises above forty degrees they don't
keep well, and temperature over
fifty degrees will speedily spoil them.
Hence, to keep russet apples till late in
May they should be kept in a tight eel
lar, and aired only at night when the
temperature is near OF below the freez-
ing point.
Household Hints.