The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-11
Farm and Garden Notes.


Muriate Of potash is remedy for the
yellows in peaches.
Peaches grow we'll on a high ground
with a southern exposure.
For growing calves scalded skim milk
may have oatmeal added to it.
General lie Due makes farmers paint
of sweet skinned milk and cement.
Where old straw is heavy and rank, let
it dry somewhat and burn it. 1t is good
for corn.
Mr. Benjamin Ware says that green
manure produces stalks and foliage rather
than fruit. To produce fruit it should
be composted.
Earth drawn from the woods where
the leaves have rotted is a good manure
for peas in the hill. 1t enriches the
flavor. The only trouble is weeds.
Draw old rotten limbs from your woods
and lay them where they can dry. Some
day burn them, and they will make
good fertilizer for turnips and cauli-
| flowers.
To prevent sows from crushing their
young nail board about one foot wide
to the side of the pen. The board is to
be put on like a shelf, so that the little
pigs can run under it to get out of the
way.
A German paper states that the penc-
tration of roots in drain tile, which some
times occasions much trouble, may be
prevented by covering the joints in the
vicinity --of trees and shrubs and red
clover with earth in which a little coal
tar has been distributed.
AS the roots of melons run in the shade
of the branches, they should never be
moved, else the sun scorches them at
once, nor should they be in any way
handled or disturbed. Let the cultivation
60 ahead of the vine and never after. A
vine once troddcn upon is lost for use.
The hardness of the best Jersey butter
is regarded by professor Arnold as an in
dication that too much Of the fat that
should go to make suet has gone into the
cream pot. Still, in summer. we can
hardly have butter too hard, and the oily
foods which make it softer should be re-
placed by others.
Small, yolklcss eggs denote over
feeding. They are generally pro
duced by an exclusive diet of Indian
corn, with little exercise. Give plenty
of green food for awhile. Skim milk,
into which bran and meal have been
stirred, and cooked remnants from the
kitchen will also help to remedy the
trouble.
Japan clover is becoming popular in
the South. A writer says on soil unfit for
anything else, it furnishes good pasture.
and supplies heavy green crop for turn
ing under and improving the land. 1t
grows short but very heavy. Sheep are
very fond of it, and cattle relish it, 1t
can not stand severe cold, and will not
DO well above thirty-six degrees.
Old hens make the best mothers, those
Of the Cochin breed being excellent for
Matching purposes. Brown Leghorns
seldom want to sit, and even after max
ing up their minds to it they are fussy
and inconstant. Plymouth Rocks are
good, and Brahmas, although faithful,
are too heavy, and if they happen to
plant their feet on one of the brood it is
death to the chicks.
1t is generally found that where.
brush heap or pile of straw has been
burned in the spring, the land beneath
is more productive the following season.
That this is not due to the ashes has
been proven by carefully removing every
particle as ash material. The heat prob
badly disintegrates some of the soil and
makes available fertility that could not
otherwise be used.
A great many bones are wasted on every
farm, which would make valuable fertil-
izing material, easily prepared for use.
Procure an old pork or whisky barrel,
ana as bones accumulate, throw them in
and cover them with unleachcd wood
ashes. If the barrel stands in the weather,
in few months the bones will become fri
able, and easily converted into the best bone
dust. If a quicker process is required,
burn the bones and crush them.
The Gardeners Chronicle relates an in
stance where apples and pears were
planted on heavy clay, which had been
trenched down to ian iron hard pan. ."
The trees made no growth, and moss and
lichens grew on them. The orchard
was then thoroughly drained. In six
months the lichens began to disappear
and the next year fine growth was
made. The soil had been warmed by
the drainage, and the fertility had been
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