Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-23

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is satisfied that the feed is one Of the most
important considerations. lie has a herd Of
common COWS that produced $50 pounds Of
butter per COW, in one year, without grain.
by iudicious feeding he increased II the sue
ceeding year to $50 pounds per COW, the next
year TO $50 pounds, then lin 1882 to 200
pounds but in 1883 three Of them gave $50
pounds Of butter, and the product has in
creased in five years from 1870 pounds per
COW to $50 pounds. The increase in product
has been in proportion to the increase Ct
feed
The Jersey COW Princess I'd, which gave
the largest yield Of butter ever produced,
was induced TO do so by careful management.
She was given walking exercise daily, and
her appetite was stimulated In every possible
manner. Her yield was remarkable, being
twenty-seven pounds and ten ounces of but
ter in one week, or nearly four pounds per
day. As her yield Of milk in twenty
hours was twenty three quarts it required
only about six quarts Of milk TO each pound
of butter. Her daily allowance of feed was
thirty-ive pounds of clover hay, forty-eight
pounds OF bran, thirty FIVE pounds of carrots
and beets, twelve pounds of oatmeal, six
pounds OF corn meal and six pounds Of oil
meal-nearly three times as much as that re-
quired for q common COW.
Few things in.the progress of the civilized
world are more astonishing than the increas-
ed consumption Of wool. This is best shown
in the statistical account Of the production,
which, In the year 1880 was about 800, 600, e
600 pounds weight, and in the year 1871 had
raised TO 1926, 100000 pounds. In this ex-
trsordinsry aggregate Europe produced $685.
$50, 900 pounds; South America and Mexico,
PA, OOO, 900 United States, 1856, 600 600; Au-
stralia, 25j, 100000 Africa, 9G, 900, 900 bal
Rnce, scattering.
Some excellent experiments were made at
the Houghton farm, New York, in order TO
determine the temperature Of the soil at vari-
GUS depths. Thermometers were placed at
the surface and at depths of three inches six
inches, nine inches, one foot, three feet, five
feet and eight feet They were noticed hour
ly from May to November. There is a great
daily range caused by absorption of heat by
day and radiation at night. The maximum
temperature at the surface is about midday
and the minimum shortly after midnight
These extremes are later at successive depths
until at one foot they are retarded eight to
ten hours, presenting the curious feature Of
the one-foot thermometer rising while the
surface one is falling, and vice versa There
is constant rise in the temperature of the
soil, beginning in the spring, easily observed
to depth Of eight feet. During the autumn
there is a zone of subsoil below one foot,
which is warmer than the soil above il, and
this prolongs the season.
The grange gives less attention than for
merly to financial TEXTURES. II is now con
Quoted on different and more elevating prin-
ciples. The main object and aim is the cul-
tivation of social relations and promotion of
literary and other educational tastes among
its members.
It is estimated that there is one sheep in
the United States to every thirty -four acres
Of territory. In England the rate is one to
one and a half acres.
1t is commonly a matter of discussion as to
the comparative eRrliness OF two seasons 1t
is often hard to decide, as well as unsafe
from q general remembrance of the last sea
son. Moreover, the thermometer records do
not aid one much. The best way of keeping
track OF the seasons is by keeping O record
of the time of blooming of some two or three
fruit trees, the blossoming of trees cores
ponding almost exactly with the similar
phases of climate in different years. Such
records have been kept over long series of
years in some places, and the results are val
liable as throwing much light upon the prog
ress of the seasons.
Few people know how much is to be gain
ed by transplsnting fruit trees a year before
they are set in the orchard. Remove them
from the nursery rows year before they are
wanted, setting them three feet apart in the
rows. In this shape they can be easily and
chesply cultivated. Trees removed directly
from the nursery into the field die because
they have no fibrous roots to support them.
II they were removed year earlier they
would stand the process better, and when
they are ready for the orchard they will be
about year ahead of trees not transplanted
and of the same age. c. A. Greene Of Cliff
ton, N. Y, has made practical test Of the
matter, and concludes that 'it the advantages
of this method were more generally appre-
ciated, there would be demand on our nur.
serymen for fruit trees twice transplanted."
When transplRnting the straw berry, an ex-
pert forbids the removal Of the runners, and
recommends leaving six inches of them at
taohed to each side Of the plant. The ends
of these runners are then to be bent down
and buried with the roots. Plants thus treat.
ed are provided with means for drawing
nourishment at once, and will thrive in sd-
verse conditions which prove fatal to plants
stripped of their runners.
The last report of the department of agri-
culture regretfully announces the experiment
to introduce the cultivation of the tea plant
in this country as failure. After expend-
lug $25, 600 in tea farming the admission is
made that the climatic conditions are unfa-
vorable to its growth, and that itg culture is
Improbable.
In the washing of woodenware, the churn
the worker, etc. caro- must be taken to use
hot water first and then cold in preparing
them for use and cold, then hot, in cleans
ing them; and without any soap whatever.
The soap used on the tins, and occasionally
on the painted doors and floors of the room,
the Stats and windows, should not be the
rank, half-made soft soap of the soap-fRt
man, nor even the yellow soap from the gro
Gerry CASTLE or odorless oive-oil soap, or
the preparations now on the market in the
form of powder are the only soaps that can
be used with safety.