News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-07-10
FARM AND GARDEN.
A Few Notes about Work from the July
american Agriculturlst."

Keep a record.
Tar sleeps noses.
Work for success.
Weed out poor hens.
Drink little ice water.
Observe rigid cleanliness.
Insure the farm buildings.
Hot weather favors vermin.
A pig loves run in the clover.
Late cabbages require rich soil.
Buckwheat mellows cloddy lands.
Give frequent change of pasture.
Unclean stables breed bad disorders.
A hundred-day pig may be very prof
table.
Pure drinking water is of the first
value.
Muzzle the horse when the corn gets
large.
Harvest the wheat in the ''doughy"
state.
Young stock need a separate feeding
place.
Timber cut in midsummer is most
durable.
Improve the live stock through better
males.
Protect the work horses from flies with
sheets.
Ripe, woody, late cut grass does not
make good hay.
Sheep need shade and shelter as well
as food and water.
Top-dress newly mown meadows with
fine manure.
Cultivating the corn prepares the soil
for future crops.
A clover sod turned under is a heavy
coat OF manure.
Poor layers and bad mothers should
go to the block.
Salt stock once a week not necessa-
rily on Sunday.
Dry earth makes good bedding for
cattle in midsummer.
Cut millet or Hungarian grass before
the seed gets ripe.
Give work horses frequent and small
drinks of cool, pure water.
Flat turnips sown now will yield ex-
cellent food for sheep in late autumn.
Sow buckwheat for the second crop OF
TO fill out where another has failed.
Place a wet cloth in the crown of the
straw hat 4; it may prevent sunstroke.
Superphosphate is a most acceptable
fertilizer for ruta bagas sown this month.
Manure begins to draw interest as
soon as spread, payable at the next har.
vest.
Select a portion of the corn field fol
seed, and give it extra attention. Breed
up the corn.
Repeated sowings of fodder corn make
a continuous supply of green feed at the
close of the growing season.
The root crop mas superseded the sum-
mer fallow in the rotation, and the use
! of the land is no longer lost for q whole
year.
Horses as well as boys enjoy an even
ing bath. They are profted by it if
lasting only few minutes and they are
subsequently rubbed dry.
FACTS ABOUT FERT111zERs.-In a few
years wonderful change has been
made in the kinds of phosphates used
then bone and bone phosphates costing
from $40 to $50 per ton now, mainly
South Carolina rock superphosphate an
alyzing from Is to Is per cent. of avail
able phosphoric acid, and costing at our
stations SIS per ton. Thanks to COOP
Grafton among farmers we can now buy
without risk of being cheated, as we
purchase only from responsible manu-
facturers upon a guarantee that their
goods shall analyze up to - per cent. OF
available phosphoric acid. Then a SAM
pie is sent to the State Chemist. By
this means we think we know exactly
what we are buying. This, together
with the fact that the result is almost
without exception satisfactory, strength
ems us in the belief that there is no ''lot-
terry" in buying commercial fertilizers
when proper precaution is taken against
deception and fraud. And this perhaps
can only be done by farming companies
buying in large quantities-with treas
ury sufficiently large to insure respect
have used for several years from fifteen
to twenty tons of South Carolina rock
superphosphate yearly. And am satls-
| fed that it is the cheapest fertilizer I can
buy. How long it will show such good
results only time will determine. Such
| experiments as DIR. Caldwell suggests /
am making, only in a less complicated
way. l cannot, however, agree with him
as to need of care that the fertilizer and
seed do not come in contact. This is
contrary to the practice of this section.
A drill that will not SOW phosphate could
not be sold here at any price. In an
experiment 1 made last fall the wheat
looks much better where sown in con-
tact than where sown separately.-How-
ARD PRESTON, Chester Co., Penn.