The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08


meal as food for mich cows.
Money spent in paint for farm build
ings and implements is money saved.
1t will pay everybody who keeps hens
to provide them with plenty of clean
water or milk at this season.
1t is mistaken notion that any soil is
good enough for beans. Beans require
good soil we'll prepared for paying re-
suits.
Have a big cheap wash boiler. Put
it on a back kitchen stove, with soft
water. Into this put all the bones, po-
tato Feelings, bread scraps, gravy, meat,
vegetables, etc, that comes from your
table. Add any food-corn, rye, barley,
meal-for chickens that you may happen
to have. Add also red pepper and salt.
Dump this into trough for your chick
ems while the heat of the boiling has not
gone out of it. Crack the bones and it
will pay in eggs. We give this feed in
the morning Some of our nelghbors
prefer it at night. We get the most eggs.
The Country Gentleman, reporting its
experiments in sub soiling during the
past season, claims to have had best sue
cess with potatoes. With this crop the
increase in yield over those planted in the
ordinary manner was about thirty=three
per cent. in quantity, while the quality
was much improved, the tubers being
larger, fairer and less affected with rot.
The results with corn were less hattering,
although an increase of about twenty per
cent. was secured. The improvement in
the crop of potatoes was certainly suffi-
cient to make it worth while for farm
ers in general to give the plan thorough
trial. Small potatoes, cut, were used for
seed.
To show how cold weather affects cows
an intelligent dairy farmer mentions a
case where herd of COWS, which had
usually been supplied from troughs and
pipes in the stalls, were, on account of an
obstruction in the pipes, obliged to be
turned out twice day while the weather
was cold to be watered in the yard. The
quantity of milk instantly decreased. and
in three days the falling off became very
considerable. After the pipes were
mended, and the COWS again watered as
before in their stalls the flow of milk re-
turned Cows when giving milk
when they are dry, and exposure to Sc
we're cold interferes with the secretion
of milk.
If crops are not kept free from weeds
fertilizers are lost or do more harm than
good by furnishing food for the weeds
This was clearly shown by some recent
experiments made by Sir ]. B. Lawes,
of Rothamstead, where plat of mangels
planted for forty years on the same ground
was much more tbifty than the main crop,
which had been heavily MANFRED. The
experimental plat was kept exceedingly
clean, while in the main crop, owing to
the wet season, the weeds were numerous
1t is an erroneous idea that corn alone
is the best diet for pigs. 1t is too heat
ing and is deficient in albuminoids. To
correct this we must add an article, says
the Breeders Gazette, that will make up
for the deficiency. For example, skim
milk is highly nitrogenous and has nearly
four per cent. of true albuminoids. Two
and a third pounds of skim milk contain
as much albuminous food as is found in
one pound of corn. But we cannot al
ways add milk. Linseed cake, meal or
pea meal greatly increases the value of
corn as a hog feed. The pig kept in a
small pen, getting milk and table
scraps, with a little corn, is noted
for continued good health and even de-
vclopment.