The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-31

growth next spring, while if manuring is
delayed until then the tree does not get
much benefit from it until then, causing
late succuent growth which is very Ii
able to blight.
Celery should be earthed up as fast as
it grows in order to get it to blanch we'll
Still the operation must not be com
menced too early as the growth might
be weakened somewhat thereby. Above
all things, allow no soil to get into the
heart in earthing, as the crown is apt to
rot from this.
No process for gathering apples has
improved or hasted the old and slow one
of careful handpicking. With self.sus-
tanning ladders and low heads most of
the fruit may be easily gathered. One
advantage of low heads is that even if
the fruit falls much of it will not be
seriously injured.
To keep celery, place a board about
nine inches from the cellar wall and pack
full of the plants in an upright position.
Nine inches from the board place
another, and pack full in the same way.
Underneath is placed damp moss. Keep
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ture as possible to forty degrees.
More and better feed for chickens can
be grown by planting suntlowers than
corn on equally rich soil. The sunfower
seeds should not be given as an exclusive
diet, but once day in alienation with
other feed. The fowls that soonest learn
to like them will be marked by their
bright combs and will begin lay ing
first
a clean, well-cut field of corn looks
better and can be got into con-
dition for the next crop. The butts of
corn stalks may not be eaten, but if
chopped up and spread about the barn
yard they are excellent absorbents of
liquid manures that would otherwise be
wasted. In the field they arc worse than
useless.
Few animals will eat barley heads, but
after the grain is thrcshed the straw
makes palatablc feed for a change during
the winter, if kept in good condition. 1t
is usually, however, SO broken up by the
threshing machines that the stacks are
soon spoiled unless topped with the stiff
fer straw of wheat or rye that will make
/ IuOIC compact covering.
The common white fiat turnip or the
purple top strop leaf variety are the
kinds mostly in demand by city CON
sumcrs. Yet they are not so rich as the
yellow varieties or even as the rutabagas.
Toward midwinter aud later the early
white turnips become stringy and of
little value, while the yellow turnips and
rutabagas are better after midwinter than
they are when first gathered.
i is probable that eggs will never
again be as cheap in summer as they
used to be, owing to increased attention
given to various modcs of preserving.
Every winter, however, there is large
demand for fresh eggs, and those kept
over from summer will not take their
place except at considerably reduced
price. But the business of keeping
eggs from summer till winter is profita-
bic if well managed.
Glover is biennial, and usually will not
blossom until the second year after SOW
ing. But under favorable conditions.
with carly seeding and late warm fall,
many heads will often appear the first
year, and some seeds may lipen, This
late growth should be cut or fed off, AS
the clover plant dies after it has per-
fected its seed. This accounts for the
entire destruction by winter killing of
many clover fields that appeared unusu-
ally promising the fall before.
On clay or heavy soil probably the
only part of the farm that needs more
potash is the fruit orchard. Much of the
potash in the soil is locked up in the
wood, and still more goes into the leaves
which are mostly blown away now that
the timber land has been so gcner.
ally cleared up. The best bearing trees
in orchards arc generally near fences, or
in depressions where leaves are not
blown off. a good deal Of potash is also
required in perfecting and rpcning the
fruit.