Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-10-03

Musty food is not safe, as many dis
eases may be traced to the use of such.
Horses should not be allowed to drink
cold water when heated. 1t produces
collie.
If farm implements cannot be painted,
brush them over occasionally with crude
petroleum.
We must not let cucumbers ripen if
we would not ruin the crop from the
vines which feed them.
Land that is not thoroughly drained
will not pasture sheep without inducing
the appearance of foot-rot.
There is room for live young man in
every neighborhood who knows how to
deal with the insect pests of the farm
A teaspoonful of saltpeter dissolved
In gallon of water has been recon-
mended for killing rosebugs on grape
vines.
An occasional sprinkling of water on
the celery plants will help them during
this month, as they require quite an
amount of moisture.
The Arab compels his horse to feed
from the ground in order to maintain
the curve of the backbone. This is the
natural way of feeding and is an argu-
ment for low managers.
Unless crop of corn is a good one it
will not pay, but it is crop which is
more completely under the control of
the farmer, as far as cultivation is con
cerned, than any other.
George w. Wall writes to the Fruit
Recorder that he has boiled leaves and
stems of tomato plants until the juice is
all extracted, and finds the liquor deadly
to caterpillars, lice and many other enc
mics of vegetation.
A daub of tar on the noses of sheep is
an effective preventive against the at
tacks OF annoying grubs. The sheen
grub IS not always fatal, but very dis
agreeable, and doubtless has bad effect
Oh the general health of the animal.
One of the advantages of sowing salt
on wheat is that it partially prevents
freezing of the soil, thereby obviating
the dislodging of the plants by upheavai,
as lower temperature is required to
freeze ground that has been sailed than
that not sailed.
Salt is being used freely by nursery
men In their pear nurseries, for the pur-
pose of counteracting blight. Iron fill
lngs and copperas in solution have been
used for the same purpose. If these
remedies do no prevent the disease,
they at least correct disposition to
blight.
1t is said that the development of
flavor can be hastened by subiecting the
cheese to strong current of air. The
flavor is developed by the process of oxi-
dation. If the cheese is kept in too
close air during the process Of curing
1t will be likely to be deficient in
flavor.
Mr.. Allen, of Illinois, tests a COW that
ne thinks of buying by milking her
quickly and clean, and at once straining
an ordinary tumbler full of the
milk. He says any COW that will not
| produce three fourths of an inch of
cream on that much milk should at once
be rejected.
Many of the most desirable qualities
OF animals have been made inherent by
in-brceding, yet, unless practiced by a
very experienced breeder, breeding
should be avoided. 1t is not necessary
however, to cross different breeds in or
der to minglc blood dissimilar, but resort
may be had to several families of the
same breed.
A writer speaking of the economic
methods of sheep feeding, estimates the
allowance of corn for one sheep at three
quarters of one pound each day, stating
that on this quantity of grain and suhi
cient grazing or hay sheep will gain in
condition and fatten. This is New York
State, where dry feed is used for several
months in the year.
The best potatoes this year in many