The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-31
wh;,o some earth .hould b. drawn

While some earth should be drawn
around potato plants TO prevent the tn
beers from becoming sunburned, this work
should not be done too early. II is the
last Job dono to the crop before harvest.
ing, and If completed very early the soil
fills with weeds, to the injury of the crop,
Just rs the tubers are about to form is
the proper time for killing up,
The practice of ensilaging green fodder
for cattle in winter has one important adj
vantage, The manure from stock thus
fed is absolutely free from weed seeds,
With ensiage and ration of meal, stock
may be kept through the winteras cheap
lv as with any other feed, and with a
great saving of labor in cultivating the
crops to which its manure has beea 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 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
| it is better to leave them under or with the
hen mother. They need no food for
from a day So day and half
usually. When they get strong enough
to venture from beneath their mothers
wings it is time to move the brood,
From 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 heifer is thirty dollars and her
value forty dollars. The yearly average
production is reported ut forty dollars
and twenty cents, and the yearly cost of
keeping thirty dollars and twenty
cents. Some private diaries report year
ly production from STA to $13S and year.
ly cost of keeping from 500 to 1913.
As the country grows older the vege-
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 oftenel
the cause of failure in all kinds OF fruits
than is generally supposed, One good
e fleet of undertaking is to make the
soil more porous, and thus enable 1t tc
retain water until time of need.
The man who keeps an OK or COW unit
it pines with old age is a double loser b.
so doing. 1t invariably costs more IL
food and care to maintain an old ANNA
than young one. AS the vigor OF lift
fails digestion is less perfect and as
similation slower and more difficult, an(
the waste is greater. AS the decline
goes on more and more food is required
TO produce milk or meat. Old animal
| can seldom be fattened at profit wher
| it requires so much more time and fec
to do it. But their flesh is not equal t.
5 that of animals in their prime, so ther
is loss, both in the quality and cost
7 producing.
The practice of growing fodder cor
I by sowing broadcast or drilling thickl
1 through all the tubes has gone into dis
F., favor. The fodder so grown is watery
A difficult to cure and not as nutritious 8
4 whore air and sunlight reach it. Prob'
t bly, the best way to grow it, either &c
a soiling or ensilage, is to drill in doubl
r rows, running the corn through two tube
n seven inches apart, with width Of thirt.
t five inches between these double rows
t allow room for cultivation. A gre;
Il weight of nutritious feed can thus |
grown on the acre. The drill will so
two double rows at time, and with
little calculation the outside drill mari
= in going across the field will guide Il
driver SO that he can make straight ROY
n without previous marking.