Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-04-17
Farm and Garden Notes.

Turnips excel on dry sandy soils.
Wood ashes make the best of fertiliz-
ers for orchards.
Bagging grapes is now generally APP
proved by growers.
Oats and potatoes find a congenial bed
IN cool, moist ground.
Feed your stock with regularity both
as to time and quality.
Heifers intended for the dairy should
not be fed on fattening food
The best guards against drouth are
keeping the soil deep, rich, clean and
mellow on the surface.
A Michigan farmer gets rid of Canada
thistles by the use of his sheep. He puts
small quantity of salt at the root of
each thistle, and the sheep eat it off close
to the ground.
The bones thrown out in cooking or
from the table are much too valuable to
be wasted. Burned or ground they are
excellent feed for poultry, and this is per-
haps the best way to make the phos-
phate they contain available as a fertiliz-
er for crops.
The whey left after making cheese is
poor food by itself, but if mixed with
wheat middlings or bran its deficiencies
are supplied and it is then good for store
hogs. The acidity of the whey causes
it to be eaten with greater relish and also
makes it more digestible.
While every grape vine must ultimate
ly have trellis, it is not necessary to
make the latter before or at the time the
vineis planted. The first year of growth
stake is all that is needed. With the
second spring the trellis will begin to
come in use, though three to five years
will pass before it will be. fully occu-
pied,
The first year after setting apple trees
corn is better hoed crop to grow among
the trees than potatoes or any roots. It
makes a shade for the ground and for
the trees themselves, beside insurinp
thorough cultivation, which, however,
should be given with special care not to
lnJure the trees by whifletrees and horse
cultivating implements.
The deeper the drain the purer will
be the water that flows from it, unless il
accidentally taps some deposit of soluble
mineral matter. At all events, the loss
of nitrate from drainage water, which is
sometimes complained of, will be less
when the drains are deep. The long
roots of clover, which strike into the
subsoil, will very rarely go below the
depth of drainage.
One of the best manures for the gar
den is made by mixing two bushels of fine
bone with wagon load of stable manure
The bone makes the manure heat more
quickly, and the manure softens or dis
solves the particles of bone. If waite
with which sulphuric acid has beer
mixed is poured on the heap, it will pre-
vent loss of ammonia. Most stable man
ures are deficient in phosphate, which
the bone supplies.
Except just at the time of calving
when the quality of feed is as importan
as its quality, liberal feeding is Away
the best policy for cows. A good ANNA
will not accumulate fat, and it is Difficult
to keep fine mixer in even tolerabl
condition. But if she eats well, as ever,
good cow will, her owner may rest as
sured that the feed is returned to him il
the milkpail, in form more valuable
than most of the feed that is eaten OF
the farm can possibly assume.
To pillow deep is one of the Englisl
rules for good farming. If we had relieC
more entirely on maxims of American
manufacture in farming it is pretty SAT
to say that this would not be anon,
them. For the great American staple
Indian corn, deep blowing is almost al
ways injurious. The soil can scarcel
be too warm for corn, and shallow pillow