The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-17
Farm and Garden Notes.
Kill the grapevine caterpillar.

Kill the grapevine caterpillar.
Feed worm bored fruit to swine.
The Welsh onion should be sown in
the fall.
Clean, oil and store all the implements
no longer in use.
Build temporary pasture shelter in airy
parts of the field.
The general purpose animal is superior
only in versatility.
Get out the years supply of muck
while the beds are dry.
Treat raspberries to shovelful of good
compost after fruiting.
II you dip the butts of posts in hot tar
they will last much longer.
Ten acres paid for and we'll titled is
better than mortgaged fifty acres.
Ten acres of red clover is sufficient pas
ture for at least fifty hogs, and is superior
for that purpose to any other kind of
grass except alfalfa.
1t is estimated that there is one sheep
In the United States to every thrty-four
acres of territory. In England the rate
is one to one and half acres.
In one year horse voids, according to
estimate, about one and half tons of
liquid and seven tons of solid manure.
This is worth from $50 10 $50.
Sliced carrots and oats figure largely in
the food given to sheep in Vermont. The
sheep of that State are said 10 eat more
OF oats than of any other grain.
The advantages of soiling consist of
saving of land, a saving of fences, a saw
Ing of food, saving of manure and bet.
ter care given the stock, as well as in
creased production from the land.
In France, eggs are sorted and sized by
passing them through ring. The aver
age sized ones must enter a ring four
centimetres in diameter; the small ones
must enter ring three centimetres
A correspondent of the New Haven
Mirror thinks that coins can be best pre-
served in sawdust, which keeps them
moist and green. lie keeps them in the
cellar, but dampens them when they are
dry.
Poultry cannot be made to pay unless
provided with properly arranged house
for their accommodation. This is as nee
essary to their well-beng as it is that
horses and cattle should have a good
stable.
There is much difference in the black
dirt got from the woods, which is com
monty called leaf mold. Some OF it is
the mold from decaying trunks of trees,
which is less valuable than that from
leaves.
An exchange remarks that the proper
time to gather the apple is when the stem
loosens readily from the limb and pota-
toes should be gathered when the tubers
loosen readily from the stalk, which NAV
not be until some time after the tops are
dry and dead.
Salt in their food when cooked for
poultry, is very proper seasoning, but
salt given in its raw state is deleterious,
if much of it is eaten by fowls. We do
not recommend its use in any form save
mixed with their mash of scalded meal
and boiled vegetables.
The Germantown Telegraph says
"Fresh, clean lard rubbed on any kind
of warts on horses or cattle will remove
them on three or four applications. |
have removed such warts time after time,
and have never been able to find the wart
for the fourth application.
Nothing is gained by the use of half
bed males for improvement, as it is a
step in a backward direction. Only the
pure breeds can be used safely for pur-
poses OF improvement, and the best that
can be procured are cheaper than those
that are inferior at any price
When we pulverize the ground to a
great depth the warm air comes in con-
tact with body cooler than itself, the
water in the soil condensing into drops,
which partially answers in place of rain.
The deeper we pulvenze, therefore, the
greater the amount Of moisture collected.
Surplus stock are nuisance in the
poultry quarters. They eat as much as
hens, and yield no return for the feed
consumed. Where fowls have their lib
ertY one cock to q flock of twenty 10