Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-10-31

corn on eiluall1 1lCu SUI. Int sunuOWei
seeds should not be givenas an exclusive
diet, but once day in alienation with
other feed. The fowls that soonest learn
to like them will be marked by their
bright combs, and will begin laying
first.
A clean, weIl-cut field of corn looks
better and can be got into con-
dition for the next crop. The butts Of
corn stalks may not be eaten, but if
chopped up and spread about the barn
yard they are excellent absorbents Of
LIQUID manures that would otherwise be
wasted. In the field they are worse than
useless.
If beans are quite dry when pulled or
gathered, the best way is to thresh i'm
mediately, leaving them in the chat, and
that spread thinly on the barn floor till
we'll cured. If they are put in mows or
stacks, some moisture will gather, and
more of the beans will be discolored and
unstable.
The fall is much the best time for top
dressing orchards, especially of the pear.
If applied in the fall it secures healthy
growth next spring, while if manuring is
delayed until then the tree does not get
much benefit from it until then, causing
a late succulent growth which is very Ii
able to blight.
Few animals will eat barley heads, but
after the grain is threshed the straw
makes palatable feed for change during
the winter, if kept in good condition. 1t
is usually, however, so broken up by the
threshing machines that the stacks are
soon spoiled unless topped with the stiff
fer straw of wheat or rye that will make
more compact covering.
The common white flat turnip or the
purple top strop leaf variety are the
kinds mostly in demand by city con
sumers. Yet they are not so rich as the
yellow varieties or even as the rutabagas.
Toward midwinter and later the early
little value, while the yellow turnips and
rutabagas are better after midwinter than
they are when first gathered.
It is probable that eggs will never
again be as cheap in summer as they
used to be, owing to increased attention
given to various modes of preserving.
Every winter, however, there is large
demand for fresh eggs, and those kept
over from summer will not take their
place except at a considerably reduced
price. But the business of keeping
eggs from summer till winter is profta-
bic if well managed.
Glover is biennial and usually will not
blossom until the second year after SOW
ing. But under favorable conditions,
with early seeding and late, warm fall,
many heads will often appear the first
year, and some seeds may lipen, This
late growth should be cut or fed off, as
the clover plant dies after it has per-
fected its seed. This accounts for the
entire destruction by winter-killing of
many clover fields that appeared unusu-
ally promising the fall before.
On clay or heavy soil probably the
only part of the farm that needs more
potash is the fruit orchard Much of the
potash in the soil is locked up in the
wood, and still more goes into the leaves
which arc mostly blown away now that
the timber land has been so gener-
ally cleared up. The best bearing trees
in orchards are generally near fences, or
in depressions where leaves are not
blown off. A good deal of potash is also
required in perfecting and ripeniug the
fruit.