The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-22

large yields are from trees that stand by
themselves and that have been we'll ma
nured besides.
Market gardeners find it profitable to
alternate stable with other manures
rather than use the same kind continu.
ously on the same land. Farmers can
take a hint from this. Perhaps one
reason why phosphates have been so
largely successful has been because the
stable manures previously used have been
deficient in phosphoric acid
The New York Times says that lime
seems to be a preventive of rot in pota-
toes, in the cellar. Some potatoes that
were rotting and were picked out of
heap of forty or fifty bushels were put
into a corner and well busted with slack
lime. They stopped rotting at once and
the decayed parts are now dried up.
There is no disagreeabe smell about
them.
Some fruit growers are of the opinion
that there is no cure for fellows on peach
trees, but claim that the disease may be
prevented by judicious management
Peach trees should be cultivated, not
plowed, and kept clean for the first
three or four years. After that time
a grass crop may be permitted but the
land should be annually broadcasted
with some fertilizer rich in potash. The
borers must be kept away, and all dead
branches carefully removed.
Those who have meadow land that has
been drained and seeded down to the
better qualities OF grasses often find it
necessary, the Massachusetts Ploughman
says, to apply a dressing of sand, eX
perience teaching that it very much i'm
proves the condition of the grass roots
and increases the crop of grass; some
times quite as much as dressing of ma
nure. The reason why this is so few stop
to inquire. The application of sand to
a meadow often accomplishes a double
purpose First, it lightens up the soil
and gives the water a chance to drain
off, and second, it furnishes a silica to
the grass which is necessary to strengthen
the stalk.
An old farmer who has carefully tested
the matter, thinks that he can secure
better results from scalding the feed for
his cattle than by steaming or any other
method of cooking He puts the cut
feed in his trough, pours in hot water
with more hot water and closes the tank.
This operation is done in the morning,
and by evening the food thus prepared
will be soft and palatabe. He always
prepares in the morning the feed that
will be used in the evening. and vice
versa. Stock fed in this manner will
come out at the end of the winter in fine
condition and with smooth and glossy
hair, indicating perfect health Stock.
man.
a correspondent of Vjch's Magazine
says: There are very few people not
fond of lettuce in the early spring. Hav-
ing removed from the city where early
lettuce could be bought at the markets,
| was much at loss for this refreshing
salad plant-at least, until quite warn
weather. Knowing it to be quite hardy
I last autumn sowed some seed in warm
dry spot, and in week or two the plant,
were up. Before hard frost l placed
around my little patch some boards-tC
, be particular, an old door frame
over this some loose boards, covering
, about two-thirds of the space, so tina
there was about one third uncovered TO
light and air. 1t was where it got tn,
. best of the sun, sloping southeast, and i
was a surprise to find how early l haC
young lettuce from this rude bed. O
course, this will be no benefit to thos
who have hot-bcds and other conven
fences for forcing vegetables, but to very
many of your readers think the knowl
, edge NAV be useful