Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-05-22

The cabbage needs a rich soil.
Granaries should be thoroughly
cleaned out at lesst once year.
A liberal dressing of wood ashes is
said to be beneficial to cherry trees.
The largest turkeys are the most profit
able 1t costs but little more to fatten
them.
pint of SCOT tied up in a cloth or bag
and immersed in four gallons of water
makes an excellent stimulant for bulbs
and should be applied about twice a
week.
An Iowa agricultural society recently
decided after considerable discussion,
"that the best time to prune nursery and
orchard trees is when the leaf is from
one-half to two-thirds grown"
The eye of the potato, from which the
sprout and roots start, is on its surface.
When potatoes are very scarce the inside
may be cooked and only the parlngs used
for seed, taking care to get pieces in each
hill that have good eyes.
Professor Sanborn, of the Missouri
Agricultural College, says that cobmeal-
fed cattle digest their food much better
than the meal-fed animals and that. the
corn-ears make fifty cents bushel by
the gain in weight of flesh.
A hill of raspberry plants, after being
trimmed in the spring, should have only
three or four canes, about three and one
half feet high, and nearly one inch in
diameter at the base, each cane having
few side spurs about ten inches long.
1t is said that there is no better index
10 the health of cattle and horses than
the condition of the hair. Indigestion
and all other diseases that farm stock is
heir to, even in a short time, is plainly
indicated by rough, harsh coat of the
animal.
Dead limbs on fruit or other trees
should be promptly removed. The cut
ting should be below any diseased part,
or it will spread the infection. The saw
used should not be applied to healthy
trees unless first washed with carbolic
acid and water.
In planting an orchard the young trees
should be slightly inclined toward the
direction of the prevailing winds. AL
the old orchards lean as the trees were
bent while young, and most of these old
orchards were set when there was more
forest and winds were much less violent
than now.
To make pigs grow rapidly barley meal
is better than corn. 1t is not so chaffy
as ground oats, and in England barley
with peas are the standard feeds for fat
tening hogs. When barley is high there
is always more or less light grain which
can be better ground for the pigs thar
for anyAother use.
Timothy and clover seed should not be
mixed for sowing. If both are wanted
ON the same field, SOW each separately.
The reason is that the round. heavy seeds
Of clover will be thrown farther by cas-
of the hand or of the machine than the
longer and lighter timothy seeds. Il
both are sown together, the clover seeG
will overlap, or there will be wide gaps
in the timothy, making the field lool
streaked.
Cows well fed, and which yield {
large proportion Of cream in their milk
always uldhC Gdlu DuGlCI, GtCu III WdIlt
weather, says the New York Herald. II
such cows and on such food a part O
the fat which usually goes into sue
passes into the milk veins, and is con
verted into butter. This is really COW
made oleomargarine, and contains less o
the essential oils which give grass but
ter its excellent flavor and aroma
DR.. Salmon says that mixture of tw,
ounces of sulpEuric acid to a two gallol
pail of water will make a disinfectan
which is amply sufficient to destro
every germ of chicken cholera that /
touches, and that it will accomplish thi
within few minutes. He says: "Ever
one who uses this disinfectant inteli
gently can save his fowls, or at least tn
greater part of them, even after the dis
ease has made its appearance in tn
flock"
AS the object of root pruning frui
trees is generally to promote fruitfulness
it is best to do it when the check t
growth is greatest, and this is in mid
summer or after the trees get into fu
leaf in the spring. On the other hand
if it is desirable, as it generally is, t
cultivate in orchards with the least in
jury to the trees, it should be early in til
spring. New roots put out, and the tire
is rather more vigorous than before, es
pecially when it had previously been i
sod.
The New England Farmer gives tn
following recipe for grating wax. Fou
parts resin, two parts beeswax, and on
part tallow. Melt all together in ket
tie, over moderate fire, and when we
mixed, pour into a cold vessel to harden
When stiff enough to handle. grease tn