Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-16
AGRICULTURAL.
Farm and Live stock Notes.


Short-horns are on the ascendant
Take your vacation after harvest
Store potatoes in cool, dry cellar.
Productiveness depends on the food.
Pet u cat and you spoil her for mouser.
One years seeding makes seven years
wedding.
Start with good calf and feed it well,
and you will have a good COW cheap.
Fowls in Chicago market are said to be
dressed when Il handful Of feathers have
been taken off.
A COW that will not yield 400 pounds OF
cheese a year isn't worth keeping. Many
are kept that yield less.
Shingles may be made fireproof by set
ting the butts into trough of water, IN
which a half bushel each of lime ana SAT-,
and six pounds of potash have been dis-
solved
Potatoes not wanted before spring, may
90 into pits where they will keep with
less shrnkage than in the cellar. In
burying, the only secrets are dry ground
and plenty of cover
Don't be deceived in feeding corn meal
to mich cows. Fed freely, it at first in-
creases the milk flow, but soon goes to fat
and lessons the milk. Many valuable
COW has been injured by overlooking in
this way.
Inconsistencies in Anmals.-Many IA
COW that has been bought us tirst-class
mixer has disappointed the buyer so
woefully, by her small yield in the new
home, that the owner has felt cheated.
Such results may often be attributed to
the cows being homeSick. A friend who
moved one of his best cows from his farm
to his home in the city, said the milk yield
fell off one-half in two weeks. The best
time to remove COW is just when she has
had calf The calf will occupy her at
oh will ha oh los
and by the time it must he weaned, she is
likely to be sufficiently accustomed to the
new quarters. not to be further affected.
Plan t. SOW more clover-As fodder
it is unequalled, while its effects in light
ening heavy soil, and adding fertility to
any kind of land, is one of its chief recon-
mends. Take heavy compact or tena-
cious soil for example, and the far reach
ing roots of clover have an ameliorating
effect most remarkable Any one who
has noticed inverted sward land of this
character, on which timothy or other
grass has stood, and then a field of clover
similarly under, must have observed how
the soil Of the latter is filled with dense
mass of clover roots, penetrating every
part while the same are comparatively
absent from the former. It's making no
mistake to calculate on sowing good
breadthS of clover with view of reap
ing such advantages.
plan to defer the fattening until the cold,
chilling winds whistle around the corners.
The corn and other grain may then all be
in shape for business, but it will take
enough more to produce every pound of
fat in cold weather than it did in warm,
to pay for laying in feed early for this pur-
pose, even If it must be bought. Ami
mails will gain almost twice as fast in
warm weather. Usually, too when they
are tattened early, they sell as well, if not
better, than when coming i'll late, for de-
pend upon it, the great bulk of farmers
may still be counted upon to blunder
along in the old way, and send in late
meat all in heap.
Orchard and Garden.
Sow lettuce for spring use.
Dig swee; potatoes before frostS.
Set good kinds in place of any poor
ones.
Two year Concord vines can be bought
for ten cents stun, some farms haven't a
vine.
icy mulch of turnip tops forthe straw
berry patch next winte", by sowing some
seed over the surface now.
Remember that the earlier in the fall
manure is applied the longer time it has to
become infused in every part of the soil,
for next years crops.
In choosing trees to plant look more to
the root than to the top. Small trees al
ways have the best roots in proportion to
size, and on this account are comparative
ly the best Quick growth and large size
are more certain to be soon realized IN
trees four to six feet high, than from those
twice as large to begin with.
Apple for stock.-Feed the wind falls
and other inferior fruit, especially if the
crop be heavy : all farm animals will be
the better off for receiving some. Cows
given a few daily will improve in flesh
appearance and the yield of milk. Fed to
sheep in connection with hay and grain,
they tone up the system of these to good
effect. The richer sort of apples will be
worth the most if kept by themselves and
turned in to the swine they will hel[
along fattening perceptibly Boiling OF
steaming them for swine is an advantage
The very relish that horses have for ap
pies, is enough to indicate how beneficial
they must be to them as food.
Flowers and the Lawn.
Plant Dutch bulbs.
Gather seeds of ANIMALS.
General lifting should begin.
CobocaS are now in their glory.
Guard the tender plants if frost threat
ems.
Carnations should be ported up during
the next TWO weeks.
Late weeds usually perfect the most
seed don't allow It,
Pansies Those Sown in August ough
now to be large enough to require NOR,
space. To have very fine flowers set tn,
plants into very rich light soil. They
should stand about four inches apart bott
ways.
White clover for lawns.-Shall it be uset
or not when seeding Is common
question. The answer lies in nutshell
II the lawn is one that cannot be watereC
freely ana regularly throughout the sea
son, yes if it i, one where water and hos,
are always convenient, no. The forme
condition of things usually prevails in tn,
country and about villages, hence we rec
\ ommend slight sprinkling of the Glove
seed along with the grass. At the rate o
pound to the half acre is enough. Tn,
advantage Of clover here is, that in DIR,
, weather It keeps its color better than gras
does. Its disadvantage where lawns ar
Watered is, that j; grows too freely, injur
ing the grass.