Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-13

Farm ana Garden Notes.
Pigs are all the better for little char
coal now and then.
Do not forget that wood ashes are es-
pecialIy beneficial to peach trees.
A South Jersey farmer claims that a
turnip crop plowed under for green
manure pays.
Judicious feeding constitutes the
measure Of success, both in fattening for
beef or feeding for milk.
Many of our leading berry growers APP
prove of the practice Of running a cult
vator between the rows OF their straw
berry vines.
The adulteration of butter with oleo-
margarine and lard has brought the beef
and pork markets into direct COMPETE
ton with the dairy-men.
Thirty-fve pounds whale-oil soap and
four gallons coal oil to 100 gallons of
water is recommended by California
horticultural commission as the most
effective insecticide.
In many places where potato rot pre-
walls only the small potatoes, the latest
set, escape the infection. These late
potatoes are generally unripe, and will
be very unreliable for seed purposes.
Celery may be most cheaply bleached
by putting four-inch urain tile over the
plant about foot high, and then allow
ing it to grow with only little banking
of earth around the tile to keep it in
place.
Objection is made to brewers grains
by some dairymen that they operate on
COWS much as beer does on human beings,
stimulating them to an unnatural activity
for time, but at the expense of perma-
nently weakening the animal
The Dairy Farmer thinks that it is
worth 81, 900 for every farmer to know
that quart of faxseed oil, with two
ounces of beeswax added and applied
while hot, will preserve the wood and
the iron implements from decay.
In selecting a SOW for breeding choose
one that is quiet and mild in disposition.
She may be the one that will Law on fat
most easily, and it will, therefore, be
necessary to feed sparingly, but she will
be all the better as breeder for this.
A second growth of barley, grown
from seed in harvesting, will often give
much fall feed for stock. 1t grows more
rapidly, and its leaves are broader than
those OF any other grain, but for late
feeding after frost comes rye is prefer
able.
The farmer who sends his corn to
market in the shape of fat oxen, sheep
and pigs is always sure of getting paid
for his crop. The manure pays for the
cost of feeding. The man who sells his
grain direct enriches another mans farm
at the expense of his own.
1t is wise provision of nature that
rain should always closely follow the
first light frosts of season. Generally
the next morning after hoar frost will
be rainy. By observing this fact and
getting in late clover hay or beans liable
to be njured by rain some losses may be
avoided.
One of the reasons why timothy is SC
hurtful to winter wheat is that, as mostly
sown after the drill, large share of the
seed falls in the hollows made by the
drill tubes where the wheat is growing
if the ground is rolled before the
timothy seed is sown it will obviate thi!
difficulty.
There is good reason for the common
practice of feeding soft corn whole in the
ear to any kind of stock while it is ye
in the green state. There is considerabl,
nutriment in the cob while green. ant
both it and the corn are much more easil,
digestible than later in the season, whei
both have become hardened.
The mammoth clover is rather toc
much OF good thing. It's chief use il
to piow UNDER as its course stocks ar
not reished by stock. 1t starts later il
spring than the smaller variety, and OF
rich land the latter will yield two O
three tons per acre, which will give NOR
feed to stock than the greater bulk of tn
large variety.
Complaint is generally made tina
peach trees die out after few years
instead of living twenty-five to thirt
years, as they did when the country wa
new. Is not this closely connected will
the fact that the ground is not protected
by snow, as it used to be in old tim
winters9 And may not the yellows b
traced to the same cause9
Oatmeal is deserredly growing il
popularity as human food. The crop il
this country is unusually large and il
most places the grain is very plump. /
is not necessary to hull the oats befor
grinding, as is usually done, whicl
makes oatmeal cost more than the bes
wheat flour. Grind first and sift tn
meal through fine sieve, and the oat
meal will be just as good and cost con
siderable less.
1t is always bad policy to crop bearin
orchards, and one reason for this is tina
it generally prevents their pasturipg b
pigs, which are the best scavengcrs fo
destroying wormy fruit with its content,
The apples in our markets would b