Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-26
Farm and Garden Notes.

w 18th bounty free
OF luscious fruit from bending vine
And laden tree
Doth autumn mark the years decline.
The sunhower shows her disc Of fame
The hedgerows yield their hardy spoil,
And fields OF waving corn proclaim
blessing on mans daily toll
Don't let your fowls roost where their
refuse will be lost.
Don't pillow more land for your wheat
than you can manure well.
The Poultry Yard advises stoneware
jars as the most suitable packages in
which to preserve eggs by lining.
Mr. Wilson, the great grape grower of
the Northwest, advises that grape cut
tings be one-half inch from the bud
Reports are continually being received
of the success of Buhach powder as an
insecticide for the cabbage caterpillar.
Try handful of nitrate of soda on two
hills of late sweet corn. Spread it on
evenly and rake 1t in. You will see q
difference in the color of the leaves in
two days after the first shower if your
land needs nitrogen.
According to an analysis made of as
paragus by DR.. Goessman, fifty per cent.
of the ash is potash Potash should
prove valuable fertilizer for asparagus
as we'll as for potatoes, tina ash of which
contains about sixty per cent. of potash.
Meal should always be mixed with
boiling water which partially cooks the
food. A common error is to make the
food too wet and soft, in which state it
becomes injurious to the fowls, compel
ling them to take more water than their
nature requires.
Parker Earle says that the soil in which
berries grow has much to do with their
enduring shipment. Grown on poor,
sandy soil, they have not borne convey
ance hundred miles; ON stronger and
better land the same sort possesses great
shipping capability.
The following are the periods which
various trees have been known to reach
in particular cases Elm, 1856 years
maple, 416; larch, SIC; orange, $50; cy-
press, 800; walnut, 900 oriental plane,
1000; lime, 1,1O0 spruce, 1900; oaks
1900; cedar, 1900; yew, 5000.
Some farmers manage to dodge potato
beetles and do away with the necessity
for poison. They plant little later
than any other potatoes in their neigh
borhood, and Of early varieties, which
are out of the way before the second
crop of beetles find them. But in hot,
dry summer this plan will not work.
A correspondent of the Fruit Recorder
says he has boiled leaves and stems of
tomato plants until the juice is all ex-
tracted, and finds the liquid deadly to
caterpillars, lice, and many other enemies
of vegetation. 1t does not injure the
growth of plants, and the odor remains a
long time to disgust insect marauders.
Agardener who was pestered with moles
in his flower beds. where he could not,
without injuring his "carpet bedding"
! place traps to catch them, succeeded in
getting rid of them by boring small holes
over the mole tracts and pouring into
them water mixed with kerosene oil, at
the rate of gill to four gallonso of water,
after which he had no trouble from the
animals.
An English gardener writes that it is
better to use poultry manure as a top
dressing in garden than to mix it with
ordinary manure and dig it into the land
and that unless the quantity is large, it
would not make much difference on q
J farm. If the quantity is small, the most