The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-28
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Gardcu No,cs


Save your coal cinders and ashes: sift
the ashes and use them about the currant
and gooseberry bushes.
About 5, 900 patents have been granted
by our government for churns, and still
inventors are at work perfecting new de.
signs,
AS remedy for the so called scab in
potatoes Henry Stewart recommends
the growing of them with fertilizers, and
not with manure, especially old manure.
After the age of nine months good
hog may be made TO weigh as many
pounds as he is days old. lie should be
narrowed early in the spring and
slaughtered before January.
1t is a well-known fact that all ami.
mails grow better and take on fat faster
in warm weather than in cold, and it is
well to take advantage of this fact in
preparing the surplus stock for sale.
In order to secure the fastest walking
horses they must be tested, and the best
retained for breeding, as careful selection
will result in the establishment of q breed
of fast walking horses if persisted in.
Fodder that is properly saved and fed
in combination with clover, hay and
grain is of equal value with timothy hav
by weight, seys Professor Sanborn; but
such fodder is very different from that
which is exposed to frost and bleaching
rains.
One pint Of oats, with a like measure
OF brand, is days rations in two feeds
for breeding eve. A week after lamb
ing the ration should be increased nv
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should also receive as much cut hay and
straw as she will eat.
The rapid growth and dense shade
which buckwheat makes give it great
value as weed destroyer. Even thistles
can be kept down by it if the land is
sown as soon after blowing as possible,
and the first thistes that appear are
pulled or cut with hoe
The farmer with an undisciplined
mind usually hates eXactness. He don't
Ike to be asked how many acres he has
of anything what is his yield per acre.
his income, his expenses, or whether he
is advancing in wealth. To keep ac
counts is horrifying. The farmer of the
future will do better.
The value of an ordinary ton of ma
nure is estimated at 800 pounds solid
worth $l.40; 500 pounds of straw and
litter, worth 81, and 900 pounds of water
and useless matter, the value of the en-
tire ., 900 pounds being 50 40. Manures.
however, vary in composition, and the
figures are not reliable.
The whole operation of butter making
from the taking OF the milk to the de
livery OF the butter to the consumer. is
entirely mechanical; but it is IA branch
OF mechanics that tolerates 70 mistakes.
for the least failure to perform the
proper operations at the proper time re-
suits in an inferior article, and perfect
butter only commands the highest
price.
Even a stiff clay soil may be rendered
more fertile by undertakings, which
not only carries off the surplus water, but
allows the air to penetrate the soil. In
dry weather the air carries proportion
OF moisture with it, while the warmth
of the sun is absorbed more quickly in
early spring. A thoroughly drained soil
produces better crops and starts an
earlier growth than one which is al
lowed to drain itself naturally.
Washing butter with brine has two
effects. If the fine grained butter is al
lowed to stand for some time in the
brine the latter will, by the natural laws
OF gravity, cause the solid or cheesv
matter in buttermilk to assume a lower
strata and can thus be drawn out from
under the butter. The added water has
also an affinity for the sugar of milk and
takes 1t with it when drawn off. The
BRINE also causes slight contraction of
the butter goDules, which causes in
creased tirmncss.
If butter is drained dry before the salt
is added marbed appearance NAV be
noticed to some extent, but if the gran
uated butter when put upon the worker
is fall of the brine used in washing it
out to free from buttermilk, it will so
dissolve the salt during the working that
when ready to pack the objection raised
Will not exist. The packing would have
something to do with it if put into fifty
SIX pound tubs. Butter does we'll if put
in well-glazed one gallon crooks. About
one pound of butter should be put in
each time, and most thoroughly crowded
IN with wooden potato mashor, and it
will come out of the crock Of as solid
color as one could wish. The whole
trouble of marbled butter is one of salt.
ing it too dry" and putting too much in
the package at time when packing
1t is well-known fact that some hors
when reduced to an impoverished state
are really very thin, as the term is I'M
derstood, while others have a meagre
amount of fat as the thinnest yet have
greater fullness of all parts and under
no circumstances do they become so lean
IN appearance as the other. This differ
enoe rs owing entirely to the greater size
OF the muscle, the motive parts, and this
difference is invariably shown in the cut
up meat. Farmers must take greater
care to keep their hogs clean, and let
them eat only clean food to make the
best pork. Don't overfeed the hogs and
let them cat sour feed or feed left nvnr