Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-07
NOTES.

The spores of smut found In smutty grain
are so small that 1900, 900 can be placed
side by side in the space of one square
inch
When cheese which has been much sailed
and kept dry is washed several times in soft
water and then laid In a cloth mostened
with wine or vinegar 1t gradually loses its
sadness, and il IL be q rich cheese, from
being hard and dry 1t becomes soft and
mellow.
Always remove the contents OF tin cans
the moment they are opened. 1t is positive
ly dangerous to leave canned goods in the
open cans. The action of the air upon the
soldering Of the cans forms an oxide which
renders the food unfit for use, cases of poison
ing from this cause being reported from
time TO time.
The Breeders gazette thinks wool can be
probably produced in this country at the
present prices. To do this the farmer must
Gull out the poor sheep, keeping only those
that will shear eight or ten pounds Of wool,
and aim to secure hooks that will produce q
clip that Is uniform in length and fineness.
1t says that the prolonged depressions in the
price Of wool have always resulted in marked
improvements of American hocks.
The manufacture OF potato starch in AToo-
stock county, Maine has increased greatly
in the seven years past, the output OF last
season being estimated at 1000 TONS or II,
00O, 600 pounds, which amount, at % cents
pound, is worth $3.50, 900. On an average
about nine pounds of starch are obtained
from bushel of potatoes, or a ton from 225
bushels.
The COWS will soon need to be fed green
fodder, etc, to keep up their flow of milk,
and the dairymen and farmers who have not
got patch of fodder for their COWS will
likely regret it, when they begin to fail in
their milk.
One of the most successful OF Illinois dai-
rymen keeps 100 COWS, but never raises a
pound of hay. He feeds his cattle on corn
fodder cut when in blossom, bound and set
up till cured, or till winter, when it is re-
moved to the barn. He gets seven tons of
this dry fodder to the acre, and claims il ia
worth as much az the best of hay.
In soft wood penny nails are more
effective than eight.penny; but where the
mailing is to be in oak, stub-eights are pref
cradle Ten-penny nails average sixty eight
to the pound, while the long Fights give lO1
to the same weight BY remembering this
the amount Of nails required 10 do a given
piece of work may be easily calculated.
The New Jersey experiment station tests
indicate that: First, green-fodder corn dried
in shocks was preserved as we'll az that in
silo; second, dried fodder-corn cut and
crushed was eaten with as little waste as was
the ensilage; third, in three cases out of four
the quantity of milk was not increased by
ensilage. The amount of food given was
the same in each case. In the process Of
curing in shocks and ensilaging, there was
loss of eighteen per cent OF dry matter
from the original corn. stalks.
The american Agricultural says that
there are some things that are impossible,
and one of these ia to make bad butter good,
by any process whatever. Those farmers
who are packing butter, must therefore be
exceedingly careful TO avoid every fault that
would injure its quality. They should be
aware that every fault or bad quality will
only grow worse and worse by lapse of time
in the package.
writer in an exchange advocating the
dishOrning of cattle says: Cutting out the
embryo horn from the Calls skull is not a
painful operation; not 30 much no az dock
ing a lambs tail, and not one-hundredth
part 30 much az castrating an animal. Yet
we do these for the sake OF convenience aud
profit, and why should we not remove the
horns, which are an intolerabe nuisance and
source of much danger to the owners OF
the cattle2
The practice of making butter in summer,
when prices are low, and then packing II
away to use or TO sell in winter when butter
is high, is not 30 common now, nor 10 prof.
liable, as It used to be. Since tho introduo-
ton of creamery butter in the markets, pack
ed butter has not met with 50 ready favor
with the consumers, and, consequently, the
business of packing butter away for winter
does not pay az well as formerly.
Careful experiments by DIR. Sturtevant of
the New York experiment station show that
unripe tomato seed will grow and give gain
of fifteen days in earliness over ripe seed
from the same plants. He also says that
peas and corn fit for table use will grow and
produce earlier crops than ripe seed but
plants from immature seed are feeble com
pared with those from ripe seed. Earliness
seems to be in proportion to the state of ripe
ness OF the seeds. The point now is how to
combine both earliness and vigor in the same
plant.
Oats when newly threshed are full of
moisture and not 30 profitable 10 feed as old.
unless there is much more than the usual
difference in price. New oats will give some
horses the collie and are therefore not 10 be
given TO such on any condition. The loss
of weight by keeping oats until the following
summer is generally pretty we'll up TO the
amount gained by the increase In price. II
new oats have to be given it should be at
first in rather small rations, which may be
increased II no bad effects are noticed.