The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17


legs. A little spirits of turpentine
rubbed along the backbone will remedy
the evil, at least temporarily. Turning
out in the field unringed is the best
cure, though an animal once affected is
liable to a return of the attack.
If farmer wants to apply lasting
manure let him use coarselv- crushed
bone. 1t will not, however be nearly
so effective on the first crop, and as the
finer division by dissolving in oil of
vitriol helps the land for two or three
years it will be generally preferred. The
nimble siXpence is as much better than
the slow shilling in manures as in any
thing.
The best time to pillow under weed
to benefit, the land is while it is very
small. We have some kinds of culti-
waited plants which, by growing up and
returning to the soil, and to its fertility,
but weed would hardly deserve that
bad name if it would do this. Weeds
are robbers. What they contain is al
most exclusively from the soil, from
what belongs to the crops among which
they sow.
There is no use attempting to poison
the old beetles which appear on the pota-
to vines as they come up. They are not
there to eat, but to lay eggs and propagate
their kind. Only the larva can be de-
stroyed by poison, as these alone cat the
leaves of the potato. Much injury is
done to potato vines when young by re-
peated doses of poison, made stronger at
each application because the first does
not affect anything.
A COW that is troublesome to milk
may often be put to good use by setting
her to sucking successive calves, and
thus fattening them for veal. One such
animal, so ugly that no mixer could get
nei her, sucked her own calf and after
ward four others, which altogether
brought her owner more than $50. This
was as much money as the milk would
have brought in butter or cheese, and
with much less labor.
There are some good arguments in
favor of rolling corn ground Immediately
after planting. 1t compacts the earth
around the seed, thus insuring more
speedy termination. The surface being
entirely level it removes the marks by
which crows and other birds find the
grain. Again, rolling checks the work
Of the cut worm, which does not find the
hills so readily as it will by following IN
the rows left by the marker.
A hog has, or should have, strong d.
gestive apparatus A young pig has not,
and is often injured by feeding an excess
of too rich food. Corn is especially OBJ
iectionabc in summer. Luckily this is
the season when skinned milk is most
plentiful TO this abundance Of mil k
and scarcity of corn in the crib we owe
much "pig prosperity" Corn is very
good for pigs, providing it is first fed to
cows to increase the flow Of milk.
1t is good plan to roll the bean field
after planting partly to compact the
earth around the seed and partly to make
a level surface for beans to come through
the earth upon. If they are drilled in
the tendency will be to leave the beans
in hollows and the first cultivation fills
these up, thus throwing earth against
the stems. If rain follows, much injury
is apt to result. the wet earth adhering
to the bean stalk and causing rust.
1t is sad disfgurment to apple or
chards to see the roots or branches over
grown with worthless sprouts. They are
apt to start where pruning has been Sc
we're, and should be pinched off as soor
as they appear. to divert the sap thel
waste to profitable uses. The thumb anc
finger can do early in the season what a
year later would require pruning shear,
or saw to accomplish. If cut off wher
in full leaf, the sprouts will be less APP
grow again.
AS the season for using Paris green il
at hand it should be remembered tha
, iron rust is the best antidote for this
, poison. Water strongly impregnatet
/ with iron is not to be used to dilute
the poison as the iron in it will neutral
. lie portion. Much of the danger from
this poison may be avoided by applying
i. in weaker doses, which are equal,
, effective in destroying all insect life
For using on potatoes we use one heap
ing tcaspoonful of Paris green thorough
ly mixed with 100 pounds or one bushe
OF fine gypsum.