The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-07
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Notes.


the leaves are wet with dew or rain.
Weeds and thistles along the roadside
should be cut before going to seed.
One of the safest and most nutritious
farm drinks for hot weather yet discov-
cred is butter milk.
1t is said that the reckless use OF lin
seed oil, petroleum and black sulphur
will kill vines and plants.
Do not be too cautious about thinning
out the plants, the remainder will only
grow the larger and be the better for it.
Potash on grape vines has been tried
with great success, especially on light
soils. 1t is said to promote the thrift of
the vines, and largely increases the yield
of the crop.
If, upon weaving q calf or other young
animal it is so far separated from the
dam that one cannot be heard by the
other, from one to three days will suffice
to render them quiet.
Professor Riley is authority for the
statement that water heated to 1870 de.
grees and applied to cabbage worms at
that temperature will kill this pest with
out injuring the cabbage.
In the summer feeding of hogs care
should be exercised in providing plenty
of fresh water and cool shade, especially
when they are fat, or they may be over
come with heat and some of them lost.
To achieve success in bagging grapes,
the bags should be put on as soon as the
grapes are formed. This operation will
not pay when the fruit sells for low
prices, say less than ten cents per pound.
Whatever the stock, and whether
breeding or feeding, the owner should
remember that grass, hay, and grain,
literally but not unduly allowed must
ever be the basis from which real profits
are reached.
Watch that the fruit does not so heav-
lily laden the trees as TO break them
down. The fruit on trees heavily laden
should be thinned, or at least the limbs
supported in some way to keep them
from breaking.
Pigs should have plentiful supply of
pure water during the long, not summer
days. 1t should also be borne in mind
that a patch of green clover makes a
most excellent feed for the growing
porkers, whether young or old.
1t is said that ground feed is of greater
importance to fattening stock in summer
than in winter. On account Of the more
laxative condition of their system, whole
grain will not be retained and asslmilated
so well as when they are on dry feed.
The general purpose COW may now be
called a COW with no particular end or
aim. The time has passed when every
thing good might be expected in a single
animal. To make profit, cattle, as
horses, must now be bred for a specific
quality of excellence-e beef or
milk.
NIliers all advise to cut wheat early,
as it then makes more flour in proportion
to husk. Farmers say that by leaving it
later greater weight of grain is produced,
and as millers make no difference in
prices the practice of dclcrring cutting
is likely to increase.
As the roots both of corn and potatoes
quickly occupy the entire spaces be-
tween the rows, it follows that the more
widely the soil is stirred away from the
hills the better for the growing crops.
Every farmer has noticed that going
through corn with horse and cultivator
starts it into more vigorous growth than
simply hoeing it.
An unbelever in shooting horses says:
"Quit shooting your horses. 4 boy who
goes barefoot from spring until fall
never wears his feet out, but he would
wear pair of shoes out every four
weeks. They don't shoe cows they
don't shoe dogs; still they both have
good feet as long as they live"
A plow to run easily for either man
or team should be set so that the bot
tom of the pillow will rest fiat, the
point neither turning down or up. Some
farmers never get the hang of adjusting
steel blows, and we have known them to
throw aside valuable implements as
worthless for lack of little skill in ad
justing them to run easily.
Since the fact is we'll established that
young animal will gain greater weight
from the feed than one which has made
its growth, it would seem to be good
policy to feed calves, colts and young
hogs something extra. They should not
have heating food to make fat, but
grains like oats and barley, which pro-
duce growth of muscle and frame.
The chief difficulty in teaching calves
to drink from the pail arises from too
great haste. Let the calf become hun
CRY, warm the food to the temperature
of new milk, give it the finger to suck,
but only for a moment, and the calf is
easily taught to drink. Calves do not
thrive well when they drink their milk
because during the operation but little
saliva IS secIeted, and the use of nipples
is now being adopted, through which the
calves suck the food from Il pail.
Grape growers thin grapes by pulling
off surplus buds and shoots and shorten
ing in canes, allowing but three or four
punches TO each cane when the trcllis is
well covered. If left to itself the grape
vine sets twice as many clusters as it can
bring to perfection. If large part
of the clusters are removed early those
remaining will be much larger, will ri
pen earlier and be OF better quality, and
the vitality of the vine be perpetuated
w. w. Mcach says that he prunes his
ounce trees vigorously every year, so far
us it consists of cutting back one half or