The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-04
Farm and Garden Notes.

The ice water remedy for cabbage
worms has been pronounced failure.
Honey should be kept in the dark or
it will granulate; the bees work in dark
hives.
There is general belief among farm
ers that good wheat cannot be grown af-
ter beans.
Hedges, which many claim ought to
substitute fences are costly, and entail
much labor.
Some of the best sorts of pears rot at
the core if left on the tree until the fruit
begins to turn.
The horse manure supply should be
carefully saved and applied with as little
waste as possible.
Most old orchards need manure, and
the time to apply it is late in the sum
mer or in the fall.
Every kind of bulb grown in pot
should be repotted every year, and have
complete change Of soil.
Red-top grnss is regarded as very
good grass for pasture. aud of some
value for hay if cut early although the
yield is not as large as of some equally
good or better grasses.
By sowing a bushel Of salt to the acre.
a Fayette county, (Mo.) farmer believes
he has succeeded in keeping his average
of twenty five bushe! of wheat to the
acre maintained for years.
1t is said that some New York farmers
who grow good crops Of clover annually,
are blowing it under instead of curing it
for hay, they believing that the crop is
worth more in that respect than when
moved.
Turkeys should not be confined to be
fatted until about ten days before they
are to be sold. They will gain rapidly
in flesh for about ten days, but after that
time they begin to lose flesh, owing to
becoming restless and uneasy from con-
fnement.
Draining can be carried to excess, and
often, perhaps, on account of certain pc
culiarities of the soil and surroundings,
be of no benefit to the land, but these
cases are few. and much more draining
could be done to advantage on almost
every farm.
What to do with the superintendent
crop of apples is to evaporate them or
make cider of them, which may be con-
verted into vinegar or apple butter. The
hogs and sheep should be allowed to
consume those not fit for use in any
other manner.
Professor Brown, of the Ontario Ex-
perimenting Farm, finds after nine years
xperimentation that a bullock gained
on permanent pasture 2.0j pounds per
day, at a cost of two cents per pound
and that this was the cheap pest of the
twenty ways of feeding tried.
Trees usually die when transplanted
from lack of moisture. The advantage OF
planting in the fall is that the heavy
rains carry the earth in and around the
roots, and moisture is plentiful. Excess
sively cold. drying winds, however are
injurious. If possible very young trees
should be stakcd.
In planting set early as possible. Root
let's Will grow until frost stops them. A
newly set tree wants all the rootets it
can get. No matter how well we may
work the earth in about the rootlets,
there will be many where earth does not
touch, but the growing rootlet pushes in
and the earth is in contact over its whole
surface.
Rough, rocky or bushy land may be
plowed in the fall to good advantage be.
cause the farmer is not so busy as in the
spring. thus giving him more time to re
move the rocks and roots that fill the
land When the farmer believes his
land to be full of worms and grubs, by
blowing very late in the fail he viii dc
something toward killing them.
Perhaps in hundred seeding pota-
toes not more than one or two may be
worthy of general cultivation, and it will
require two years at least to decide as to
their cooking qualities, and two or three
more as to their productiveness and
vigor. But if one potato in thousand il