The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-22
he cabbage needs a rich soil.

Inc cabbage needs q rlch SOIL.
Granaries should be thoroughly
cleaned out at lest once a year.
A liberal dressing of wood ashes is
said to be beneficial to cherry trees.
The largest turkeys are the most profit
able. 1t costs but little more to fatten
them.
A pint of SCOT tied up in a cloth or bag
and immersed in four gallons of water
makes an excellent stimulant for bulbs
and should be applied about twice a
week.
An Iowa agricultural society recently
decided, after considerable discussion,
"that the best time to prune nursery and
orchard trees is when the leaf is from
one-half to two-thirds grown"
The eye of the potato, from which the
sprout and roots start, is on its surface.
When potatoes are very scarce the inside
may be cooked and only the parings used
for seed, taking care to get pieces in each
hill that have good eyes.
Professor Sanborn, of the Missouri
Agricultural College, says that cobmeal-
fed cattle digest their food much better
than the meal-fed animals and that the
corn-ears make fifty cents a bushel by
the gain in weight of flesh.
A hill of raspberry plants, after being
trimmed in the spring, should have only
three or four canes, about three and one
half feet high, and nearly one inch in
diameter at the base, each cane having
a few side spurs about ten inches long.
1t is said that there is no better index
to the health of cattle and horses than
the condition of the hair. Indigestion
and all other diseases that farm stock is
heir to, even in a short time, is plainly
indicated by a rough, harsh coat of the
animal.
Dead limbs on fruit or other trees
should be promptly removed. The cut
ting should be below any diseased part,
or it will spread the infection. The saw
used should not be applied to healthy
trees unless first washed with carbolic
acid and water.
In planting an orchard the young trees
should be slightly inclined toward the
direction of the prevailing winds. All
the old orchards lean as the trees were
bent while young, and most of these old
orchards were set when there was more
forest and winds were much less violent
than now.
TO make pigs grow rapidly barley meal
is better than corn. 1t is not so chatfy
as ground oats, and in England barley
with peas are the standard feeds for fat.
tening hogs. When barley is high there
is always more or less light grain which
can be better ground for the pigs thar
for any other use.
Timothy and clover seed should not be
mixed for sowing. If both are wanted
On the same field, SOW each separately.
The reason is that the round, heavy seed,
of clover will be thrown farther by q cas-
of the hand or of the machine than the
longer and lighter timothy seeds. II
both are sown together, the clover seed
will overlap, or there will he wide gaps
in the timothy, making the field look
streaked.
Cows well fed, and which Weld {
large proportion Of cream in their milk
always make hard butter, even in warn
weather, says the New York Herald. Ii
such COWS and IN such food a part Of
the fat which usually goes into SUE
passes into the milk veins, and is con
verted into butter. This is really a COW
made oleomargarine, aud contains less o.
the essential oils which give grass but
ter its excellent flavor and aroma.
DR.. Salmon says that mixture of two
ounces of sulpkuric acid to a two gallon
pail of water will make a disinfectan
which is amply sufficient to destroy
every germ of chicken cholera that /
touches, and that it will accomplish thi
within a few minutes. He says: ''Every
one who uses this disinfeotant intelli
gently can save his fowls, or at least tn,
greater part of them, even after the dis
ease has made its appearance in the
flock"
AS the object of root pruning frui
trees is generally to promote fruitfulness
it is best to do it when the check t,