Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-08-28

Much barnyard manure in this country
Is wasted.
What we want is more vegetables and
fewer weeds
Cut out the thin shoots from currants
and the fruit will come larger.
Sow some white clover seed and ashes
on the bare spots in the pasture. 1t will
pay.
Examine the mouth of young stock to
see if they have loose teeth in the way of
feeding.
Rich Jersey milk should be thoroughly
cooled before being carried any distance
in cans.
Look out for caterpillars, not only on
fruit trees, but destroy them on all the
wild shrubs.
A ton of hay is said to contain 200
pounds of mineral matter, which is taken
from the soil.
The soil is the farmers bank, manure
draws the checks, and the stock grower
has the manure.
The best means of obtaining a profit
from any class of stock is to keep the
best and keen it well.
Try plaster on all kinds of soil you
have, and learn where it does best and if
it will pay anywhere.
A great improvement in dairy stock is
made by selecting a thoroughbred bull
of good milking family.
Watch your fields and see where the
water stands and where the soil remains
wet longest, so you will know where to
put in drains next fall.
There is way to enrich our lands
that is by blowing often and raising
clover, and all Of us can keep more stock
and make more manure if we will only
try. We can increase our forage crops
each year by little calculation before.
hand.
A Colorado paper says that "the COW
may be queen, the horse king and the
sheep away up in royal honors; but it is
an indisputable fact that the hog, under
the impetus of alfalfa and pea food, is
approaching dangerously near the
throne"
Peas are cheaper food for pigs than
corn, They fatten them very rapidly, al.
though they do not make as solid pork
as corn. They have this advantage over
corn: They mature early and can be fed
as soon as large enough for green peas,
the pigs consuming vines and ALL
A small plot of ground, tEickly sowr
with barley so soon as the ground is dry
enough, will be eaten bare by sows. Il
is better to let them have little piece
for themselves than to allow them 10 rur
over winter and spring grain in the fields
or than to shut them up to keep then
from trespassing,
Oats when newly threshed are full Of
moisture and not so profitable to feed a.
DID, unless there is much more thar
the usual difference in price. New oats
will give some horses the collie and arr
therefore not to be given to such on any
condition. The loss of weight by keep
ing oats till the following summer il
generally pretty well up to the amour
gained by increase in price If new oat
have to be given it should be at first il
rather small rations, which may be in
creased if no bad effects are noticed.
1ONeTS VI HOWCES suOulu huOW llld
one blossom allowed to mature or "g,
to seed, " Injuries the plant more than
dozen new buds. Cut your flowers, al
of them, before they fade. Adorn you
room with them, put them on your ia
bles, send bouquets to your friends VIII
have no flowers, or exchange favors will
those who have. All roses, after the
have ceased blooming should be Gu
back, that the strength of the root ma
so to forming new roots for next year
and on these bushes not seed should b
allowed to mature.