Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-25
AGRICULTURAL.
Farm aud Live stock Notes

Oil the brittle hoofs
| For more milk, feed more
| Build well when you build.
Pigs also need cool fresh water.
! It's mistake to he overstocked.
! Save seed oats from cool. moist soil
Travelling painters are usually rogues.
Fast walkers are more needed than fast
| trotters.
| Hired labor is costly pump your water
by wind power
A steer of 1000 pounds needs eighteen
pounds of hay daily.
Don't encourage the horse racing princi-
Pile too far at the fairs.
Skillful understanding will be repaid in
two years, on most land that needs it,
Meadows should never be grazed short,
but above all other times, not in the fall
BY carefully selecting his seed from year
to year it is. possible for any farmer to
greatly improve the quality of his pro-
duct.
An increase of twenty per cent in the
milk is sure to follow in cutting the feed,
over feeding it uncut, This has been tried
often enough to be depended upon.
Corn fed to pigs when IN its thlCkening
milk state will put more weight into them
III given time, than at any other stage
of It's development.
The extra labor required to work through
mud clods and watcr-sOaked land year af-
ter year, ON undralned soil, il in Il short
time equivalent to the labor needed TO put
down perfect system of drains. THIS is
Il point to figure ON.
1t should he known that young animals
return less value to the land in manure.
for the feed they consume, than older
ones. They retain II large share of the
potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen of
the food to build up their bodies, much of
which III the case of old animals goes
back to the land.
Wheat must advance ir price -Accord-
ing to the best estimates the surplus wheat
carried over from last year is put at lO0,-
,OOOOOO bushels. The crop of this year, it
Is believed, will yield 36O,OOO,OOO bushels,
making total amount of ago, 100000
bushels. The annual home CONSUMPTION
of wheat for all uses in the United States
amounts to about 365, 900, 900 bushels. This
would then leave about 950OO,OO0 bushels
on hand for export But, in recent years,
we have exported yearly from 100000
to 5OOOO,OOO bushels more than our pres.
ent surplus for export. If, therefore, the
foreign demand for wheat will be as low
as the lowest amount exported in recent
years, the supply will be inadequate by
some millions of bushels, and prices must
go up. Farmers will risk little by holding
on to their wheat.
Weeds.-A traveller from the west, who
recently visited his bOyhood home in Cen
trail New York, remarked that one dot of
thlstleS, no bigger than Il barrel head, in
the middle of a field thirty years ago, has
by this time extended over the entire field
Many other visitors to their early homes of
score or more years ago, could testify to
similar extensions easily noticed in the
breadth of land occupied by weeds. The
truth is we as farmers are all too inditfer-
ent to the subject of weeds their increase
and the damage they do. Their extension
Is so gradual from year to year that we
fail to appreciate how certainly it is going
on. Where it will all end we may well
begin to ask. The damage done to crops
by weeds throughout the older sections of
the country Is appalling now. If no posi-
tive steps are taken in their destruction,
things will go on from bad to worse until
some farms, we fear, will positively have
to be given up to them. We need to
practice thorough culture on an increased
scale, and to do this 90 over fewer acres.
Give the weeds Il set back by the most
thorough tillage, following up with heavy
crops that will choke them, and we have a
leading remedial agent. More attention
must also be paid to their destruction in
growing crops, whether in grain or hoed
ones. Allowing weeds to seed unmoest-
ed in pastures is another prolific means of
their spreading Here they should be cut,
if they cannot be dug out, Just as they
are about to seed. The entire subject is
one that farmers must give more thought
TO. We pity them in years to come if they
tall in doing so.