News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
Farm and Live stock Notes.
written for the News and Citizen.l
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Asafntida in their water tends to
keep off chicken cholera
Corn is a free feeder, and the soil
con hardly be made too rich to suit
the crop.
Undertaking wet land extends the
season, and improves the quality of
the growth.
While fresh, sweet meat is to be
preferred for fowls, some that is faint
ed, if it is well cooked, will do no
harm in supplying this important kind
Of food.
In cleaning woodlands, or thinning
out trees in pasture lots, or around
the home. a careful study should be
made of all, with a view to having
such as are to be left standing, Of
good kinds, forms and healthy.
-, Danger from honey locust. One
objection to this hedge plant is, that
when any of the large compound
thorns are knocked off by the wind or
otherwise, some points will stick up
as they lie on the ground, with great
danger of wounding the feet of live
stock.
The seed for broom corn should be
planted in dry, rich, clear land either
in hills three feet apart, each way, or
in drills three feet apart. On such
land it may be planted early but if the
plot for it is weedy, it is better to de-
fer until near the end of the month,
as the seed is naturally long in COM
! ing up and becoming established, and
here it should have the benefit of hot
weather. Determine by testing some
of the seeds beforehand what percent
age is poor and then sow accordingly.
One of the best articles known for
killing rats is plaster of Paris (cal-
cined GYPSUM. 1t should be thor
oughly mixed dry with an equal part
of flour and Indian meal, and placed
where they can get at it. The rats
will gorge themselves with the mix
ture without distrust; it will set and
harden in their stomachs and death
Will soon IOllOW.
The absurd practice of bleeding
horses or other animals for bringing
them into condition is less customary
than formerly. There are times, when
under the advice of a doctor, blood
letting may prove valuable for reduc-
ing inflammation or congestion, but
for ordinary depletion, it should be
feared for the evils it is liable to pro-
duce.
Experiments have shown that the
best time to cut timber for use, either
in building, manufactures, or as fuel,
is when the trees are in leaf. Indeed
some claim that if cut during this Pc
Rod its durability is twice that of
winter felled wood. If there is no
time to spare for working it up when
cut, it should be peeled and raised
from the ground to help drying.
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
Mulch all late planted trees.
Salt, as fertilizer, suits plums.
Give peas brush before they are six
inches high.
In favorable seasons the peanut
will mature as far north as Pennsylva-
MIA.
While the cutting season of aspar-
asus lasts, no shoot should be al
lowed to grow.
Ducks are very useful in the garden
for destroying insects, a1d there is no
scratching.
Gypsum or plaster busted over
plum trees when the dew is on, is dis
tasteful to the curculio and tends to
prevent its work.
IA late crop of raspberries may be
obtained by proper pruning. The
canes should be cut down to near the
ground in the spring, causing new
shoots that will develop late, to come
up.
A recent year a jealous fruit grow
er killed more than three Bushels of
insects in his orchard by very sim
pie means. 1t was done by suspend
ing number of bottles among the
branches of the trees, filling them first
about half full With a mixture of wa
ter, molasses and vinegar. Once in
fortnight he would empty the bot
ties, usually finding them full of ev-
cry description of insects. The task
was an easy one and afforded great
satisfaction to the doer, realizing, as
he could, what saving in depreda-
tions, as well as further increase, was
affected by the means.
There is great satisfaction in hav-
ing all trees and shrubs properly la
beled, a matter often neglected. The
labels that come on the trees from the
nursery should not be relied on, as the
names soon wash off. These also are
fastened on with a wire, and that too
is an objection, for in time, as the
branches enlarge, the wire is liable to
become filled out, cut into the grow
ing branch and kill It, sooner or later,
if not removed. Sheet zinc cut in
form of long tapering wedge makes
the best cheap label we know of,
being indestructible, easily applied,
and can never injure the tree by stran-
gulation if rightly put on. This is
done in the easiest possible way, by
merely coiling the tapering end around
small branch several times and thus
it will yield to the increase of the
size. The writing may be done with
common lead pencil, and will in
crease in distinctness with time.
FLOWERS AND THE LAWN.
Cuttings root easily now.
| Pot azalcas need plenty of air.
a thin scattering of straw makes a
good shading for seed beds.
German ivy is made satisfactory in
the long run, if frequently pinched
back when young to induce stockiness.
In arranging flowers in a small
arear, the effect will be the best, if one
particular class is allowed to predom-
mate.
Insects increase rapidly at this sea-
son if not kept down by fumigation,
hand picking and washing.
Where the space for flower garden
ing IS small, none should be wasted
by growing poor kinds of flowers,
when good ones may be easily pro-