The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04

Successful asparagus. growers on
Long Island plant the roots four feet
apart each way.
"A wash with carbonic soap frequently
apPIleu IS advised as saving annoyances
to horses from flies.
By making we'll at the intersection
Oh tour fields all of them can be supplied
with water at the same time.
1t IS economy to use for mulchino
some material that can be dug with the
ground after it las served that pur.
pose.
A Fayette county, Mo-, farmer has al
ways averaged twenty-five bushels of
wheat to the acre by sowing one bushel
OF salt to the acre.
A correspondent in an exchange claims
that dipping the tip-end of nails in lard
lnsures there being driven without diff.
Guilty into hard-seasoned timber.
The craving for salt by animals is not
result OF feeding under the care of
man. While this country was all a forest
every salt spring was frequented by deer.
1t is stated by several who have tried
1t that handful of salt in the hill for
squashes Will save them from the maruot
whlcn works at the roots and DESTROYS
the plant.
When you try an experiment no
thorough and do not jump at concIu.
sions. Observe the weather and the
condition of the soil. Unnoticed items
often change the result.
A farmers wife says that three table,
spoonfuls of ground Java coffee given
10 SOW IN mess will cure sours, and n
less quantity given to a calf or pig will
never fail to accomplish the desired re-
suit.
Put Paris green on the potatoes as
soon as they come up. The beetles eat
little while after they come out of the
ground before they deposit their COOS
and if they are killed then it will nTc,
vent such rapid increase.
A tablespoonful of saltpeter lust oftor
dropping her calf is good for COW. 70
prevent parturient fever or SWELLING, of
the bag. This is the remedy prescribed
by an old farmer, who has used it thirty
years with unvarying success.
1t has been found that rubbing tar
and paratfine, or other equally strong
smelling substance, along the spine of |
grazing cattle will keep off flies, and the
beasts Will feed in peace, while others |
not SO treated will be seen racing madlv
over the same field.
The best way to apply salt to paths to
destroy weeds is as follows: Dissolve Tho
sat IN water, one pound to one gallon.
and apply the mixture with q WATERING.
pot that has a spreading nose. This will
keep weeds and worms away for two or
three years. Put one pound to the SQUARE
yard the first year; afterward a weaker
solution may be applied when required.
Unless sheep run in an orchard which
is best, some shelter should be provided
for them during the extreme heat.
In an orchard their droppings will mainly
be found under the best apple trees,
where they will do more good than any.
where else. If they are sailed on tar
they will tar their noses, and thus prc.
vent injury from the fly which laws the
egg that makes the maggot in the head.
One of the advantages of late planting
OF potatoes Is that something may be
done to the crop after harvest. If plant
ed so early that all the killing up has to
be done before harvest, the field is sure
to become very weedy, and the crop will
be materially decreased. This is more
especially true of the large growing, late
varieties, which, even when planted
early, will hardly be ready to dig before
frost kills the vines.
Lampblack mixed with strong VINEGAR
will mark sheep so that the name can be
read for year, but will not iniure the
WOOL as is often done when sheep are
marked with tar or paint The English
practice was to slit or notch the ,ears, a
mark requiring quick eye to detect in
a flock, but which once made lasted q
lifetime. BY changing the places on the
ear, using one or both, and varying the s
shape of the cut, a great number of