Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-06-08
Agritnltnral department.
RURAL AND DOMESTIC BREW
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The Southern States are the largest
producers of beeswax.
Don't plant more acres than you can
cultivate thoroughly.
The late growing peas should have
brush or other support.
In all cases cows should be MIXED reg
ularly and stripped clean.
The SALIVA gives a good deal of bright
ness to flower garden.
Shepherds should curtail sheep-killing
dogs close behind the ears.
Sow patch of sweet corn to make
green fodder for the hogs.
Inclose your currant bushes in yard
and turn in the poultry.
Horses that cough should never be
given dry and dusty food.
Flowing under green crop is always
of advantage to the soil.
A soil that is late in drying needs to
be thoroughly undetermined.
Protect all useful birds, especially dur
ing the breeding season.
The season is too late to bother with
poor tools, so ''get the best.
When you get good COW keep her and
raise her hefer calves.
Have you given the boys and girls plots
of ground for their own use?
Enforce prohibition against all weeds,
brambles, and like nuisances.
Grow variety of crops, and not put
all your eggs in one basket.
Pay a good price for farm help. Poor
help is dear at any price.
Few realize that grass is one OF the
most important of farm crops.
The earlier fat sheep are marketed the
better prices they will bring.
1t is by selecting and planting the best
seeds that crops are 'improved."
Promptness in repairing harness, tools,
wagons, etc, is true economy.
A little sulphur in their food OCCASION
ally will keep lice from fowls.
Cultivation is as essential as fertility
in the production of large crops.
Don't forget to remember the uses
and value of paint and whitewash.
Flowers, shrubs, and trees add both
beauty and value to the rural home.
A mixture of bone-dust and ashes make
a good fertilizer for strawberries.
Choose for Matching the large and best
shaped eggs from the best layers.
A VermOnter claims to have hen 80
years old. Rather tough hen-and story.
Let the hogs have some salt and char
coal mixed with their feed once week
A little coarse sugar mixed with Il.
horses feed will increase the appetite.
1t takes three days Of good food to
make up for one Of bad food.
No kind of grain will bear pasturing
better than rye.
The best method of paying for the
farm is to make it productive.
The hogs will require constant access
to fresh water now, and should have a
pasture run.
Much and thorough cultivation will
help to make up, to some extent. the lack
Of fertility in the SOIL.
Hen manure should be composted sep
arately, and used as concentrated fer
tilizer in the hill for vines, and other veg
etables requiring strong, quick-acting
fertilizers.
In planting trees, do not set them too
near the house Remember that they are
to grow, and that it is unhealthy to have
the home much shaded. 1t is seldom adj
visable to plant them nearer than forty or
fifty feet from the dwelling.
When l find sow that eats one of her
pigs, take the partly devoured pig and
pour over it some kerosene, and then
place it again in the pen. 1t is not at all
likely that the SOW will touch it again,
nor is it likely that she will eat any more
of herspigs.
A correspondent says that he protects
melons, squashes, cucumbers, ETC., from
striped and other bugs by using strong
solution of hen-house manure. Let it
stand for twenty-four hours and sprinkle
the plants freely with it after sunset.
An excellent way to kill potato bugs is
to cut old potatoes aud put Paris green
on to them, and place them around ii
your potato field. The bugs will take tc
the old potatoes instead of the vines Of
the new ones Those who tried this las
year say it is a much better way than tt
put Paris green on the vines
Horses will get more rest out Of theil
Sundays by being allowed the freedom O
a field, or lot, than by being kept tied VI
in the stable. They need exercise every
day. and if they have no work to do they
should be given the liberty of place
where they can romp as they like.
1t is better to set two or three hens a
a time and allow one to raise the chicks
1t does not require any more scratchin!
for thirty chickens than for three. If yo
use boxes for nests cover the front wit
cloth and cut through the center to ena
BILE them to enter. They prefer quiet
dark place.
A hen is hardy fowl. She will endur
much hardship and will be little the wors
for wear, provided she has three esser
tials-these are wholesome food, pur
water and clean quarters. These sh
must have, or disease will surely result
In summer time give them plenty c
room to roam over; scratching for foo
is the hens nature.
Whoever heard of breeder OF pure
breeds ever giving them mp and goin
back to scrubs? We have indeed hear
of some who bred the former, giving ther
up for grades, but never for scrubs, s
that the testimony of eXpermentists i
this line all point in the one direction
which is fact Of great significance.
In house cleaning never lay out NOR
work than you can accomplish with cas-
before dinner-it is as long as perso
ever ought to devote to such hard worl
and by judiciously following this rule 20
can get through with as much work g
if you had scrubbed one whole day an
was sick the two following days to pa
for it.
A Boston butcher says that early lamt
to fetch the highest price, should be fe
on nothing but milk and corn meal. Th
gives firm, white, wel-favored meat, ar
tender bones, while feeding hay or rowe
makes the flesh red and the little bon
tough us whaiebone, and oil meal Civ