Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-02-01
Farm and GardenNotes.

The best orchardists agree that the
orchard should be cultivated and cropped
occasionally, believing that it is better
that the land should be exhausted triae
than that the orchard should become
what is termed hide-bound.
L. Graver sends the following recipe
for cabbage worms Take heaping Ia
blespoonful of saltpeter dissolved in hot
water, added to a gallon Of cold water
and applied to the center of the plant is
a sure preventive. Three applications
are usually sufficient:
Surface manuring, says Colman, is es-
pecially effective on sandy soils, and a
light dressing yearly is far more beneficial
than heavy coatings once in three or four
years. But the best results on sandy soils
is when they are dressed with compost
of manure and clayey muck.
Every grower of Seeding potatoes,
says the New York Tribune, well knows
that it takes from three to five years to
fix the shape, color and type of any seed
ling, and that by careful selection he can
almost produce a potato to order. By
taking advantage of the tendency to i'm
provement we can constantly improve any
variety we choose.
A prominent New York farmer, whose
crops are proverbial for their abundance,
uses no other fertilizer than land plaster
and clover. His plan is to sow clover,
plaster it so as to secure rank growth
and turn under for his other crops, wheat
included. He has kept up this plan for
over fifty years, and claims that his farm
is growing more valuable each year.
A hog will live in small box that he
can crawl into to get out of the snow,
but hog or other animal that just lives
is an expensive sort of boarder for man
to keep. Six to seven months is long
enough to make nice piece of pork from
any well-bred, weaned pig, and he who
takes year for it is pretty sure to throw
away three or four months feeding ma.
terial.
The manure from certain number o.
fowls if carefully saved and properly ap
piled will pay for their keep. 1t should
be kept dry in winter and be mixed will
an equal bulk of plaster. In spring work
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planting time put tablespoonful in eacl
hill for corn or potatoes, mixing it wei
with the soil, SO that the seed does no
come into direct contact with it.
Good blood Is no doubt necessary t.
success in stock raising and in fattening
cattle, but it is not all; feeding anC
general management are what secure sue
cess. Take a highbred COW and give i
the treatment usually given an ordinar,
COW, and you will see how quickly shC
will run down; or take the ordinary Gov
and treat her as we'll as pedigreet
animal and in a short time the change il
the way of Improvement would be S,
great that you would not know her.
Experiment has shown that if por
ton of the eye Of potatoes is cut out o
injured it causes the remainder to pusl
forward more vigorously. In a Who'll
potato it is rare that more than three O
four eyes grow. By cutting in two 0
three pieces and removing part of tn
eyes on each, they will all produce strony
shoots, if the pieces are not afterwar,
injured by heating from being piled i
two large heaps. 1t will make a grea
difference to the coming crop if potatoe
intended for seed are spread thinly in
light place, where the temperature re
mains little above the freezing point.