The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-01
farmer saved the lives of hundreds of
animals with this remedy.

nually raises 1000 acres of oats to oh
tain that variety of grain upon which to
feed his calves and yearlings, believing
that no other grain possesses the same
food value to promote bone and flesh
growth in young animals.
1t is great mistake to leave barley
until dead ripe before cutting. If the
stem is green not only will the barley be
plumper but less liable to injury from
rains. A heavy dew will often stain
barley so as to injure its sale if the crop
is uncut until after it is fully ripe.
The objection to timothy hay that it is
often very dirty, is generally caused by
the pollen of the flower, which makes a
fine powder when dried. The grass
should be cut either before or after this
stage to avoid this, preferably before, as
after the timothy goes out of blossom the
stalk becomes woody and innutritious.
If barrel is filled with rain
water, and some finely decomposed hen
manure put in it from time to time, the
mixture will have very stimulating eff
feet on hills of cucumbers, squashes, wa
termelons and cabbages to which it may
be applied. Liquid manuring is too eX-
pensive for most farm crops, but it pays
in the garden.
While some earth should be drawn
around potato plants to prevent the tu
bers from becoming sunburned, this work
should not be done too early. 1t is the
last job done to the crop before harvest
ing, and if completed very early the soil
fills with weeds to the injury of the crop.
Just as the tubers are about to form is
the proper time for killing up.
The practice of cnsilaging green fodder
for cattle in winter has one important adj
vantage. The mature from stock thus
fed is absolutely free from weed seeds.
With ensilage and ration of meal stock
may be kept through the winter as cheap
" as with any other feed, and with
great saving of labor in cultivating the
crops TO which its manure has been APP
piled.
Although buckwheat shades the ground
more than any other crop, yet rye sown
with it will live through until the buck
wheat is harvested, and make a good
growth for fall feed. If not pastured
pretty closely in the fall the rye will at
tempt to head the same fall and will be
entirely killed by the winter. Hardy as
rye is it is easily killed by frost when the
stalk is forming.
Chickens when first Matched should not
be hurried out of the sitting nest. For
twenty-four hours at least from the time
the earliest commence to show themselves
tits better to leave them under or with the
hen mother. They need no food for
from day 20 day and a half
usually, When they get strong enough
to venture from beneath their mothers
wings it is time to move the brood.
From a report to the Pennsylvania
board Of agriculture by the chairman of
the committee on dairy products, we
note that the estimated expense of rails
ing a heifcr is thirty dollars and her
value forty dollars. The yearly average
production is reported at forty dollars
keeping thirty-nine dollars and twenty
cents. Some private diaries report year
ly production from S74 to 1888 and year.
ly cost of keeping from $50 to $93.
AS the country grows older the vegc-
table matter found in virgin soil is
washed out or otherwise lost in frequent
cultivation. This makes it less absorp-
tive OF water, and in dry summers
orchards cannot get enough water to
make needed growth and form fruit
buds for the coming year. This is oftencr
the cause of failure in all kinds of fruits
than is generally supposed. One good
effect of undertaking is to make the
soil more porous, and thus enable it to
retain water until time Of need
The man who keeps an OK or COW until
it pines with old age is a double loser 10y
so doing. 1t invariably costs more in
food and care TO maintain an old animal
than young one. AS the vigor of life
fails digestion is less perfect and as
similation slower and more difficult, and
the waste is greater. AS the decline
goes on more and more food is required
10 produce milk or meat. Old animals
can seldom be fattened at a profit where
it requires so much more time and feed
to do it. But their flesh is not equal to
that of animals in their prime, SO there
is a loss, both in the quality and cost Of
producing.
The practice of growing fodder corn
by sowing broadcast or drilling thickly
through all the tubes has gone into dis
favor. The fodder so grown is watery,
difficult to cure and not as nutritious as
where air and sunlight reach it. Proba-
bly, the best way to grow it, either for
soiling or ensilage, is to drill in double
rows, running the corn through two tubes
seven inches apart, with a width of thirty
five inches between these double rows to
allow room for cultivation. \ great
weight of nutritious feed can thus be
grown on the acre. The drill will SOW
two double rows at time, and with a
little calculation the outside drill marks
in going across the field will guide the
driver so that he can make straight rows
without previous marking
Household Recipe. and Ksints.
Paper labels may be removed from
bottles by wetting the surface and hold
ing for an instant over any convenient
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