The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-20

flakes without shaking to pieces, and ex.
pose to the sun. After being thus ex-
posed for an hour or two, the clover can
be removed to the stack or NOW. Each
layer in the stack should have a light
sprinkling of salt.
An English gardener says the goose
berry prefers loose holding soil, which
readily imbibes, but does not retain much
moisture. The plant is propagated by
cuttings and should be transplanted in
autumn, the trees being ranged in lines.
The trees should be formed with single
stems foot high, and the suckers, if any
spring up from the root, should be care
fully removed. The ground on which
the bushes stand should be forked over
once year, but only slightly, so as not
to disturb the roots. Manure should be
applied either as top dressing or in a
liquid form. Powdered white hellebore
is the only certain remedy for the cater
pillars which attack the plant.
81 would suggest" says Professor
Cook in the Rural Ne0 Yorker, "placing
pieces of fresh meat, creased paper, ETC.,
IN the hives in hopes to attract the pests,
tmites) which when massed on these de-
coys could easily be killed. If thought
best, the traps could be screened by
placing them in box made of fine wire
gauze so that the bees could not reach
them. In such screens | shonld try
placing board smeared with thin
coat of thick syrup, to see if the mites
had sugar tooth to lure them to de-
struction. On such a sticky surface it
would be we'll to sprinkle flour sugar,
etc. If we can find in this manner some
substance that will attract these little
destroyers and call them off the bees the
battle is Won"
The Rurol Ne,o Yorher's report of the
annual meeting of the Michigan Horti-
cultural society contains the follow
ing opinions on ounce culture:
Mr.. S. d. Willard, of New York,
thought no cultivation the best
for ounces; that ounces in fence
corners and neglected places always bore
the best crops of the finest ounces. Mr..
j. S. Woodward, of New York, would
pillow a ounce orchard once every year
lightly toward the trees and cultivate
shallow through the balance of the sum-
mer He knew an orchard muched every
year with corn cobs that is very produc-
tive and profitable. Mr.. Rosencrans
gives his orchard a dressing of salt every
year and mulches it heavily with muck,
and raises plenty of fine fruit.
A New York paper asks the aid of its
readers in answering the question "Does
deep cultivation of corn during its
growth work an injury to the crop?" 1t
proposes that those who are willing to
test the matter shall take six rows, or the
number usually cut to make a row of
shocks, and cultivate them shallow dur
ing the season; take the next equal num-
Der of rows and cultivate or pillow them
deep at every working; note the APP
pearance of the different plats during
the season; in the fall cut and set each
plat by ITSELF and husk and measure
the product, noting the difference in
product, if any, and figure the differ
ence to the acre. The results, if re-
ported by all who try the above plan,
should settle the question. By such
plan many unsettled points in farming
might be quickly and finally settled.
The farmer who made a single pump
furnish water through rubber tubing to
the stock in four fields did very inge-
nious and wise thing. Animals should
be able to obtain drink whenever they
feel thirsty. The water then taken has
a better effect than if given at conven-
lent intervals by the farmer or his assist
ants, for in the latter case the animal is
very apt to drink more than is really good
for him. Then, again, if the attendant
is concerned at all about the quantity of
water the animal takes the chances are
he will pull himaway before the demands
of nature have been satisfied. For a
small outlay Of money farmers can, in a
multitude of cases, arrange the water
supply of their live stock so that they
can drink whenever they feel dry. Such
a method is economy in double sense
in the well being of the stock and in the
time of the owner or his help.