The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12
ing four drops given in the same manner,
is recommended as a cure for garget.

ing 1Our drops given IN the same manner,
is recommended as a cure for garget.
Farmers should use great care not to
allow their hogs or cattle to have access
to potato tops or other vines upon which
paris green has been sprinkled. An OBJ
servance of this advice may prevent the
loss of valuable stock, as some have
learned from experience.
The best way to rid horses ears of
warts is to rub them well with a coarse
cloth and then touch them with a little
nitric acid every alternate day until you
have administered three applications. A
single drop of the acid will be quite suf
ficient for the smaller ones.
In answer to a question, as to what is
the best grain food for mich cows, Pro-
fessor Arnold recommends four parts of
bran, two parts of corn meal and one part
of linseed meal, as having given him
the best results in proportion to cost of
any dry food that he had ever used.
To cure INSTRUCTED teats in cows rub
udder with spirits of alcohol, whisky or
gin. Give a fluid drachm of fluid eX.
tract Of jaborancli night and morning
Give a general COW drink five days before
and one Immediately after calving Rub
udder with the spirits long and well.
More injury is done to Single roofs
from present modes of threshing than is
generally supposed. Unless the roof is
very steep pitch, dust and chaif from the
threshing machine will gather under the
edges of shingles and rot them out three
times as fast as would be the case if they
were kept clean.
1t is sometimes very convenient to fence
off part of a lot for keeping cows when
no permanent fence is desired. The far
mer who has fifty to a hundred rods of
portable fence that can be moved and set
in half day is more nearly independent
about fences than one whose farm is criss-
crossed every way by fences that in four
years out of five are only nuisance.
The pasture system does not do away
with the necessity for moving. The
stock eat only the best grasses, leaving
the coarse stuff and weeds to grow with
out check. Unless moved ut midsum-
mer to prevent weeds seeding the pasture
will soon become very foul, especially
with Canada thistles, the seeds Of which
will be blown all over the neighborhood.
A dressing of lime often has an excel
lent effect in making worn out soils pro-
ductive, and it is quite as apt to be ellec-
tive on land that has an abundance of
lime in its composition. 1t undoubtedly
makes more plant food available without
directly adding to the amount, and should,
therefore, be used inrotations where 9th
er methods are adopted to maintain soil
fertility.
The Asiatic fowls have their merits in
their large size, and nothing more. The
flesh of the young is not near so nutri-
tious as that Of a two-ycar- Old Dorking
or Lcghorn fowl. Let either of the latter
variety be cooked with that of an Asiatic
young fowl either as brolcrs or roa Sters,
and then let any epicurean test them and
report. That is the true way to decide
the question, and in way that no
other will.
The temperature alone produces Won
derful changes among our fowls, for
bird Matched in January will, with the
same care and food rs one Matched in
June, in nine cases in ten, outweigh the
chick of June hatch many ounces; they
may be of the same sort and same family.
the case is no different Our fowls seem
to demand the cool temperature Of our
winters to lay their foundation on for
latter greatness.
l heard an old farmer talk one day,
Telling his listeners how
In the new, wide country far away
The rainfall follows tn plow.
As fast as they break it up. you see,
And turn the heart to the sun,
As they open the burrows deep and free
And the tilage is begun,
The earth grows mellow, and more and
more
1t holds and sends to the sky
A moisture it never had before,
When its face was hard and dry.
And so, wherever the plowshares run
The clouds run overhead,
And the soil that works and lets in the sun
With water is always fed.n