Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-23
Farm and Garden Notes.

EfTTm and Garden NOteSs
Sod soil is good for potatoes.
Cut young grass for sitting hens.
A light, dry soil for watermelons.
Plant early sweet corn pretty thick.
The blackberry succeeds on Old wood
soil.
Tomato plants in melon hills drives
away bugs.
Barley is the best food for fattening
young geese.
Put hen manure in the corn hill ard
the potato hill.
Feed young calves three times day at
regular intervals.
1t costs as much to raise q weed as to
vaise bean stalk.
For early onions put out a few sets.
Make the ground very fine.
The new, pale asparagus is not with
out delicacy, but it has no striking favor.
A clean clover sod p!owed about four
inches deep will raise a big crop OF corn.
Don't forget that good field of clover
is one of the best things you can have on
the farm.
A good coat of unIeached ashes will in
crease the wheat crop from twenty-five to
thirty-tive per cent.
Ventilation in the dairy should lie
done at night or early in the morning,
when the air is the coolest.
Whatever isn should be tested on
small scale, and only when found advan-
tageous adopted in wider field.
A poultry fancier says that barrenncss
in eggs is more frequently caused by a
lack of green food than anything else.
Raise Hubbard or Marblehead souashes
for fattening cattle. Also for making
''pumpkin" pies, if you are pie-biter.
Scald the milk for calves having the
"scours," says the Prairie Farmer. It
checks the complaint gradually aud does
no harm to digestion.
The scarlet runner bean makes a shade
on the south side of chicken yards. 1t
has pretty flowers. The beans are good
to eat but are not to our taste
Professor Stockbiidge SAYS that the
average growth of wood on an acre of
land between New England and the Po-
tomac is a cord and half year for
thirty years after it is once cut over.
Don't throw away the yoang beets you
have tn nncd out. Instead of throwing
them TN tie ground to wilt throw them
into pan OF cold water, and afterward
boil them, roots and tops, for greens.
They are delicious.
The Gardeqer's Monthly says that a
little windmill such as some bows can
make with Il jack knife, will keep bird )
out Of a cherry tree in case tiny bell is
attached to it. 1t is better than stulfei
cat Or an imitation hawk.
A Jcrseyman threw a lot of old mack
erel under peach tree. 1t was after
ward the only tree that bore any frlit.
He said the fish flesh did the business.
He was somewhat correct. But we be-
lieve the salt had more to do with it.
The strawberry worm attacks the ripe
berries, leaving only small hoe, about
the one-siXteenth of an inch in diameter,
to show his entrance, and feeds on the
inside of the berry. The one an observer
found had formed a cavity the size of a
Lima bean.
Have plenty of grapes for the children.
One New York physician prescribes them
as a tonic in nervous diseases. There is
in some parts of Europe what is called
the grape cure. A New York musician
cured himself of drinking ardent spirits
by eating many grapes daily.
Strawberries require an open soil
Leaves from the woods are good Do not
work the soil with the hoe too close to
the plant. The strawberry plant may be
vigorous, but it is a delicate plant that
needs as much coaXing as q wallfiower at
ball. 1t needs it, all the same, and nay
deceive you unless you are tenderly polite
to it.
The care with which the straw stack
has been used up for bedding or feed, OF
otherwise disposed of, is an indication Of
tic kind OF farming pursued. A large,
unused straw stack at this season is &
sign Of poor management. 1t is better
to sell tie straw than leave'it in the yard
to b. removed in hurry just before
threshing time, so as to get it out of the
way.
Deep working of growing corn, sayi
the Kansas Fdsmer, is not good. II
tears away roots that are needed to hurry
thc growth of the corn. And it tends Il
hasten evaporation. If ground is wei
prepared for planting the shallowes
working which will keep the surfac,
loose and destroy weeds is the best /
is mistake to run the teeth or shovel
away down where the roots ought to b.
enjoying absolute freedom.
Tito best remedy suggested agains
Tho sAess CAD. Or bot fly yet known, j