The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-15
for their size and their wool is fine and

long.
There is no better fodder in the world
than the leaves strippedfrom Northern
cane. Every kind of domcsticated ami
NAL devours it greedily, and to excellent
advantage.
If you have any vacant ground that is
growing up in weeds, NOW them down
or pillow them under. They make
mulching and good manure, but they
are very bad crop.
Celery and caulihower need very rich
land and plenty of water. Rich swamps
with a stream of water through Them
might be easily converted into favora
bic place for these two vegetables.
Cheese when properly made and thor
oughly cured, so that all of its substance
is available for food, has twice the value
of butchers meat for sustaining life. and
is quite as easily digested and as whole
some.
Beets are only successfully grown by
the most rigidly economical and the
most skillful methods of culture, in
which the European farmers as far sur
pass Americans as we surpass them in
our free and liberal political and social
condition.
Many farmers are very careless in SOW
ing buckwheat 1t is often the case that
old and worn out fields are plowed up
for the crop. If well plowed and thor
oughly narrowed such fields might pro-
duce a good crop-but one narrowing is
not sufficient.
Soft food or ''mush, " as it is called
should be fed to young chicks very spar
ingly Give them nothing to eat for the
first twenty-four hours. Then for the first
week diet of fresh hard boiled eggs
mot over one to every twelve chicks
and a little dry bread crumbled fine will
be all they need
Buckwhcat should always be sown
thinly. \ peck Of seed per acre, evenly
distributed, is enough on rich soil. The
old rule used to be to have the plants
far apart so that eve and lamb could
lie down between them. At this dis
lance apart the crop will at harvest cover
the entire surface.
No matter how hurrying the harvest
work may be, neither the farmer nor his
help should tax themselves so as to in
duce sickness. There is enough labor
saving machinery to make overworking
unnecessary, and it is better to hire an
extra man or two fer a few days than to
put all the labor on to few hands.
If a heavy growth of wheat has been
cut, the clover under it will probably be
somewhat stunted. Under fallen wheat
it will often be apparently destroyed.
y ct there is probably more clover than
appears to the casual observer, and if let
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the field before fall and be a good crop
next season.
The farmer whose grain is beaten
down at harvest time is apt to mentally
resolve never again to use so much man
urc. 1t is an undoubted fact that in a
favorable season small grain often grows
too large for the best results This is
never the fact with corn, and both for
this and potatoes manure is seldom APP
piled in excess.
If wheat is to follow oats or barley the
sooner after harvest the land is plowed
the better the chances for a good seed
bed. No matter how dry and hard the
soil be at blowing time, every fall Of
rain, however slight, will moisten the
upturned surface. On the unplowed
land the heaviest rains will run off with
out doing much good
/ When barley straw gets down early
from too large growth of straw, the crop
is rarely of full weight. Quite often a
second shoot will start from the Joint,
and in such a case the crop will scarcely
be worth harvesting. Barley is a crop
subject to more mishaps than any other,
and for this reason many farmers are
abandoning its culture.
"Why do we salt butter2" To pre-
serve it. Salt draws water from the
buttermilk and takes up the sugar. thus
separating the constituents of the butter
milk; it penctrates and converts into
brine what remains, and thus prevents
rancdity and decomposition. 1t i'm
proves the flavor to many, while Others
prefer the fresh products.
There need he no difficulty in blowing
under the tallest weeds or rye if log
chain is attached to the pillow so us to
form loop and draw the tops down to
the ground. Cutting the weeds before
blowing only cumbers the surface with
trouble, some rubbish which is the more
difficult to turn under as it is not held to
the ground by roots, but is free to be
moved alonS III front OF the plOW.
We have found nothing so cffectual in
preventing cut worms from destroying
young cabbage plants as wrapping around
the stems as they are set out the green
leaf of some coarse weed. BY the time
the leaf rots the cabbages are beyond
the reach of the depredators. BuTdock
leaves are just the thing if the owner is
so fortunate as to have any growing
along his fences. Green leaves are much
better than the paper which has been re-
commended for this purpose, -Neto York
Herald.
Recipes.
CELERY.-To crisp celery let it lie in
ice water two hours before serving to
fringe the stalks stick several coarse
needles into a cork and draw the stalks