The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-24
Farm and Garden Notes.

Lice on young stock prevent their
growing. Carbolic acid diluted with
one to twenty-five or thirty, will de-
stroy the lice by using as a wash.
If seed corn is taken from any place
except as hung up in braids on the
rafters of warm room, it will need to
be tested before planting. In open cribs
some of the corn is injured by snow or
rains, which impairs the germ while to
the eye 1t may appear to be sound.
An exchange says that a New York
dairyman has learned from experience
that the quantity of skinned milk re-
quired to grow pound of pork when
fed to hogs, will, when fed to dairy
COWS, increase the yield of milk and
cream sufficiently to produce pound of
butter.
The pork barrel should be looked af-
ter, and if any redness or scum appears
the brine should be taken out. boiled
until all the impurities rise and returned.
If any of the pork is above the brine it
will soon become tainted, and the faint
will quickly affect the entire contents of
the barrel.
Dry earth is an excellent absorbent of
manures, but it should be spread over
the top of compost heaps, and that very
thinly rather than mixed in with the
manure. Earth in any shape is heavy
handling, and the less the quantity mixed
with manures the more easily they may
be applied to crops.
tits seldom that crop worth the la
Dor of growing can be got in a bearing
orchard. If it could, in most cases it
would be poor policy to attempt it. A
well-Cared for orchard produces what
sells for more than any other equal area on
the farm, and nothing beside its fruit
should be expected of it.
Whenever dependence is placed upon
pasture for cattle, drought is sure to in
terfcre with their rations some time dur
ing the summer. Many farmer who
has sown crops for the silo has found ex-
celent use for part of the fodder thus
grown to be fed green during summer
drought while pastures are bare.
Clover seed being very small will
sometimes fail from drought with every
precaution taken to save it. But nine
tenths of the failures are due to Insult
cient seeding or hard unbroken surface
on which the seed falls. narrowing
finely and sowing peck of seed per
acre will generally insure good catch.
1t is not certain that hen, even when
pressed by hunger, will eat the curculio
insect. 1t is formidable looking mon
ster even when quiet, and we have seen
fowls turn from them as if afraid. The
curculio, however, is a shy insect, and
will avoid trees in yards where fowls
run provided it has other plumb trees
not so protected on which to prey.
In some places the ordinary rosebug
is proving one of the worst enemies to
the fruit grower, increasing to incredi-
BILE numbers and eating leaves of pear
and apple trees so as to prevent fruiting.
1t is worse on sandy soil, as most insects
are apt to be. 1t may be destroyed by
spraying fruit trees early in the season
with water in which Paris green has been
added, at the rate of one tablespoonful
to the barrel.
The objection is often urged against
narrowing winter wheat in the spring
that it will uproOt and destroy fall sown
timothy. In practice, however, this fear
has not been verified Possibly some of
the timothy plants may be injured and
this also is true of the grain; but the
remainder will grow so much better that
the sod will be thicker the following
year where the narrowing has been most
thorough.
The great trouble with the celery grow
ing is that the plants, at one stage Of
growth or an another, are permitted tc
suffer for water. This invariably causes
tough and hollow stalks. Keep the
plants growing from the time they APP
pear above the ground in the seed bed
Transplant them to rich soil-give
them water as often as they need it, and
give it in abundance, and you will have
tender, plump celery.
Many growers of house plants make the
mistake at the outset of trying to ROOT
cuttings in the shade, fearing that il
they are put in the sunlight they vii
wilt. This is mistake, especially in