Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-10-30
Farm and Garden Notes.

Tomatoes are wholesome food for
hens, and they like them, too.
A small pill according to size of
chick of asafGtida will give new life to
a dropping chicken.
Too heavy applications of rich manure
are thought to be one of the causes of
club foot IN cabbages.
Feed the morning meal to your fowls
warm. Scald the meal, boil and mash
the potatoes or turnips, and mix these
for the early days feed.
A successful farmer cultivates his gar
den when the dew is on the ground be-
cause this plan, in his experience, has
produced better crops than if hoed in
the heat of the day.
Tar the noses of your sheep and lambs
and let them take their salt from
trough with an inch or more of tar upon
the bottom. Then these sheep will have
no trouble from grubs in the head.
The old pasture, after being plowed up
and planted in corn for year or two,
will yield an old fashioned crop of wheat,
if proper seed is procured from some
different soil, where wheat is sure.
To have lilacs bloom plentifully every
year the Towering stems should be re-
moved as soon as the blossoms have
dropped and all suckers should then be
cut off, leaving only few clean stems.
Celery rust is occasioned by injury
done to the roofs of the plants, as an ex-
cess of rain or draught, either of which
Ii ha +Io
pillowing up or rusting of the vines that
follows.
Many persons who have tried Prof.
Riley's plan of killing cabbage worms by
the use of e-water pronounce it fail
ure. They state that the worms do drop
off from the cabbage head, but declare
that they revive after they have remained
on the warm ground few minutes.
In all localities where the clover head
nudge does not work the seed crop is a
paying one. Land where clover seed has
been grown two or three times will often
give fair seeding from what is left in
the ground, without sowing any. This
is one of the ways in which growing
clover seed helps to keep the soil fertile.
A cold wet fall will give fruit of gen
orally inferior character as regards sweet
ness. Apples ripened slowly will keep
better during the winter, and for late
varieties it is no misfortune to have the
ripening process completed in the &c lar.
But for most other fruits warm weather
at ripening greatly improves their quail
ity.
A French journal says that where
fowls have free access to vineyards the
ravages of the phylloxera is lessened,
and in some cases the vines are entirely
exempt. 1t advises portable coops to be
stationed in vineyards Broods of young
chicks are among the most successful eX-
terminators of insects, and young ducks
are still more valuable in this direction.
Undoubtedly an advantage in earli-
ness may be secured by going through
corn-felds before the grain is fully rine
and cutting out the stalks which appear
to he most advanced. By continuing
this practice lew years distinct va
rety of very early corn may be secured.
Now is the time to do this, as after 6
week or so the distinction between early
or late will be less evident.
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ting corn so that it will not fall down
1t is not always possible to husk corr
early IN the press of other farm work
When well sat up the corn may be safel
left until apples aud potatoes arc
secured, as it will take less damage than
either of the latter. But as often set ur
tie corn fl Is down in two or three
weeks, and not only the stalks but D'rcl
of the grain is lost.
Stable manures are often the agencies
by which weed seeds are spread over the
farm. This is more especially the fact
with top-dress ng wheat, where there is
less opportunity to destroy the weeds
by cultivation. Before applying top
dressing to wheat it is worth while to
think whether the manure does not con
tain weed seeds which had better be APP
pied to crops where cultivation can in
cure their destruction.
The second growth of the common
red clover is not generally mo thar
one third the bulk of the first, bu
where its seed will ripen it is one of The
most profitable farmers can grow. Two tC
five bushels Of clover seed per acre fol