The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25

Farm and Garden Notes.
The plum grated on peach stocks
makes a short-livcd tree.
The celebrated old English beef came
from the long horned Durham.
Sour milk, whey and buttermilk are
excellent liquids for mixing with the soft
food of poultry.
The short horn cattle of the West are
magnificent animals. They take the lead
as thoroughbreds.
Large, coarse hogs are no longer IA
vorites. Dealers prefer pork weighing
from two to three hundred pounds.
One toad on a farm destroys more in
sects than his price in lime, worrying and
paris green. One toad is almost as good
as hoe.
The Maryland Farmer says that the
base of the horns and the insides of the
ears of Il COW being a good golden yellow
she is sure to be a good butter COW.
DO not permit farm hands to smoke in
the barn or to lay down a lighted pipe
there. Colonel Colman says that most
farm fires occur in winter. He keeps
pail of very salt water on every house
floor.
In selecting fruit trees see that the
bark is smooth and healthy; that they
have entirely shed their leaves and have
plenty of small, fibrous roots. A tree
with leaves remaining on it after frost
sets is unhealthy.
a writer in Gardening Illustrated says
that if young shoots of the tomato are
oil on, off To-
plants, they will make less rampant
growth than seedlings. and be more fruit
full. Cuttings prove best for pot culture;
they are then to be kept near the glass
with temperature of about fifty degrees.
They will make fine plants by spring.
A farmer who last spring rolled his
seed potatoes in flour of sulphur had
smooth, healthy tubcrs, entirely free
from scab or rot, while all his neighbors'
crops that had not received this treat
ment were badly affected by both Gyp-
sum, which is sulphate of lime, has been
tried, but has failed to save the crop, or
even to improve its quality, though it
generally increases the quantity.
Dr. Sturtevant's experiments indicate
that there is a great difference in the re-
suits of the same treatment with different
varieties af corn. This serves to explain
many wide discrepancies in the conclu-
sions of farmers with regard to this crop.
Probably the methods OF cultivation pop
ular in any particular section are more
nearly based on correct views of the re-
quiremcnts eff the plant as grown there
than is generally supposed.
When cabbages begin to head they
present such a mass of leaves that it is
very difficult to destroy the worm that
inlests them, at one application. At
this stage, also, it is unsafe to use any
thing of a poisonous nature. Paris
green. which is sometimes recommended
tor cabbages, should never be applied
except when the plants are very small, so
that it will certainly all be washed off
the leaves before harvesting.
The quantity of food required to keep
a hen IN good working condition. is about
four ounces of corn or its equivalent of
other food per day. This is quarter of
a pint. Corn alone will not make eggs,
but wheat WILL and the hens which run
around a barn and have the run of the
vheatmows are those which produce the
eggs. y glass house and all the Access
series of broken shells, dust baths, etc,
will not help in the production of eggs.
They are good in their way, but the fowls
need abundant exercise and nothing
more than reasonable feeding. 1t is bet
ter to compel the fowls to take exercise
by scattering their feed and by feeding
them moderately late in the morning,
giving the principle meal late in the af-
ternoon. y variety of food is good, but
too much is worse than moderate lean.
ing the other way. Exercise, however
is Indispensable.