The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-23

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 a weed as to
raise bean stalk.
For early onions put out few sets.
Make the ground very fine.
The new, pale asparagus is not with
out delicacy, but it has no striking flavor.
A clean clover sod plowed 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 unleachcd ashes will in
crease the wheat crop from twenty-five to
thirty-five per cent.
Ventilation in the dairy should be
done at night or early IN the morning,
when the air is the coolest.
Whatever is new should be tested on a
small scale, and only when found advan-
tageous adopted in wider field.
A poultry fancier says that barrenness
in eggs is more frequently caused by a
lack OF green food than anything else.
Raise Hubbard or Marblehead squashcs
for fattening cattle. Also for making
pumpkin pies, if you are pie-biter.
Scald the milk for calves having the
''scours,' says the Prdrie Farmer. 1t
checks the complaint gradually and 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 Stockblidge saws that the
average growth of wood on an acre of
land between New England and the Po-
tomac is Il cord and a half a year for
thirty years after it is once cut over.
Don't throw away the young beets YOU
have Trimmed out. Instead of throwing
them on the ground to wilt throw them
into pan of cold water, and afterward
boil them, roots and tops, for greens.
They are delicious.
The Gardeaer's Monthly saws that a
little windmill such as some bows can
make with jack knife, will keep birds
out of cherry tree in case tiny bell is
attached to it. 1t is better than stuffed
cat or an imitation hawk.
A Jerseyman threw lot of old mack
crel under peach tree 1t was after
ward the only tree that bore any fruit.
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 hole, 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 cavity the size of a
Lima bean.
Have plenty of grapes for the children.
One New y ork physician prescribes them
as 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 a wallhower at
ball 1t needs it, all the same, and may
deceive you unless you are tenderly polite
to it.
The care with which the straw stack
has been used up for bedding or feed, or
otherwise disposed of, is an indication of
the kind of farming pursued. A large,
unused straw stack at this season is a
sign of poor management. 1t is better