News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-21
Farm N oteS.

Look out for the Dean WeeVll IN the
seed you plant.
Plant pumpkins with the corn and
beans with the potatoes.
The last of May is early enough to
plant squashes in the north.
Make the rows straight where you
furrow or mark the ground for plant
ing.
Sow some white clover seed and
ashes on the bare spots in the pasture.
1t will pay.
A ton of hay is said to contain 200
pounds of mineral matter which is
taken from the soil.
Look out for caterpillars, not only
on fruit trees, but destroy them on all
the wild shrubs.
One thorough hoeing or cultivating
early in the season is worth more to
the crops than two STRINGS later.
The craving for salt by animals is
not result of feeding under the care
of man. While the country was all
forest every salt spring was frequent
ed by deer.
1t is stated by several who have
tried it, that handful of salt in the
hill for squashes will save them from
the maggot which works at the roots
and destroys the plant.
The Moorestown, N. j., agricul-
tural society has offered premium
for the greatest number of English
sparrow heads, to be presented at
/, heir annual exhibition to be held in
June.
Watch your fields and see where
the water stands longest, so you will
know where to put in drains next fall.
1t is often the case that the garden
is neglected on the farm. The lux
uries of the garden should be enjoyed
by e;farmer, and the fruits should
also be given their proper place on
the farm.
Put Paris green on the potatoes as
soon as they come up. The beetles
eat little after they come out of the
ground before they deposit their eggs,
and if they are killed then it will pre-
vent such rapid increase.
A Colorado paper says that the
cow may be queen, the horse king and
the sheep way up in royal honors !;
but it is an indisputable fact that the
hog, under the impetus of alfalfa and
pea food, is approaching dangerously
near the throne"
1t should be no more work to raise
potatoes, sweet corn, peas, beans, and
squashes in the garden than to raise
potatoes, corn and pumpkins in the
field, and would not be if the garden
were properly laid out and fitted for
horse cultivation.
Peas are cheaper food for pigs than
corn. They fatten them very rapidly,
although they do not make as solid
pork as corn. They have this advan-
tage over corn. They mature early
and can be fed as soon as large
enough for green peas, the pigs con-
Stunning vines and all.
Provide the peas with some sup
port and the beans with poles before
the vines start to climb. A good way
to support peas where brush is plenty
is to nail the butts of the limbs to a
pole and hang them over the row
where the vines will reach them. The
poles may be held up by forked stakes
and must be well braced to hold them
in the wind.
There is an idea among dairymen
that calves cost too much to raise for
COWS. Many calves are sent west to
be raised on western farms. The
dairymen of neighborhood might
own stock farm near by, run on the
cooperative principal, where their
calves might be grown into COWS.
Isn't it little early to cry short
crops? The Secretary of the Minneso-
ia Board of Agriculture says the de-
crease in wheat acreage this year
will not be over six per cent. in Min
nesota, and as far as he can learn the
crops are not at all injured by the
backward spring.
To force flower seeds to come up,
SOW in boxes as near the fire as con-
venient. Dip piece of flannel in
warm water, lay over the box and
sprinkle water on top of the flannel.
In this way cabbage and some flower
seeds have been known to come up in
four days, and tomatoes in week.
A lady visiting Kansas writes of the
grasshoppers in a different strain
from the usual unappreciative man
ner: "If you are not quite sure that
they are not intending to Eight a
flight Of grasshoppers is a beautiful
thing to see. All day they foated
over us; millions upon millions of
airy little creatures with their white,
gauzy wings spread to the light,
steadily toward the sun, as
it seemed. 1t was like a snow storm
in sunshine, if you can picture such a
thing, with the fakes rising instead of
falling"
Commissioner Colman has just es-
tablished in the agricultural depart
nent at Washington bureau to in
vestigate all questions affecting the
interests of the dairy. 1t will collect
The latest information relative to the
LARRY industry, and will give especial
attention to the manufacture, sale and
of oleomargarine and
other spurious articles sold as butter.
1t is said that the commissioner will
recommend to the next Con-
yress the passage of some restrictive
measure which will better protect the
farmers and the public from the sale
If spurious butter.