The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-29
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and GardcnN Notes.
Hen roosts painted twice year with
crude petroleum will never be troubled
with lice.
II your cabbages were troubled with
club foot last season, choose new piece
of ground for them this year or you will
have the same difficulty.
The common red clover is better than
the large for general purposes. The lat
ter is difficult to cure, makes coarscr hay
and is more apt to become musty.
An Ohio cultivator says: Gas potash is
the fertilizer most needed by the onion
the best results are economically obtained
by the application of good wood ashes
and other material rich in potash"
The Iowa Register says: Zone hundred
bushels of corn will shrink to ninety in
the crib, and to an extent more than
that, depending on the openncss of
the crib and the honesty of the neigh
bors.n
A lamb will begin to eat when it is
from ten days to two weeks old. There
is nothing better for them than whole
oats. Place them in shallow troughs
where the lambs can run and the old
sheep cannot. Keep them growing and
you may command fancy prices.
As the beetles from which the root
worms descend lay their eggs in corn
fields in autum, and as these eggs do not
hatch until after corn planting in the
following spring, simple change of
crops for single year inevitably starves
the entire generation in the ground
Professor Forbes.
In our practice the ordinary approved
method is to place dozen to twenty
young chickens in a coop, where they
are fed three or four times a dav upon
cooked vegetables and corn meal-one
part of potatoes and turnips to three
parts of meal-for two or three weeks
just before killing. -P0ultry Yard.
An Iowa butter maker says that the
best butter color is a pailful of corn meal
mush, fed warm once day, the COW being
of the yellow variety. He also adds that
it will increase the milk and butter, as
well as give good color. The mans ad-
vice may be good but it is evident he
hasn't been ''seenn by the butter color
manufacturers.
A member of the Elmira Farmers club
recently expressed the opinion that bad
results would always be found with wheat
sown on land into which the green growth
of any crop had just been turned, al
though it was believed that buckwheat
was the worst green manure. All green
growth incorporated with the soil near
the time of seeding will in every case be
found prejudicial to wheat.
Professor Shelton found that pigs
kept outside of the barn required ). %
pounds of corn in order to produce one
pound of pork, while pigs kept under
shelter and made comfortable produced
one pound of pork from 4. 16 pounds of
corn. AS the difference in the cost may
be the difference between profit and loss,
some idea of the value of good shelter
and warmth may be gathered from his
experiments.
The manner Of gathering fruit is of the
highest importance. We have often seen
intelligent men gathering apples as though
they were stones and could not be in
jured; they should be gathered as eggs
and handled with as much care; every
apple should be picked from the tree by
hand and placed carefully in basket
lined with cloth. Every apple that
chances to drop to the ground should be
kept with those of the third quality, what
ever may be its appearance, for when it
strikes the ground il receives an injury
that in nine cases out of ten will bring on
premature decay.-Neto England Fdrmer.