The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
Farm and Garden Notes,

All animals should be fed at regular
homs.
A row of apple or peach trees in the
fence corners is special treasure to the
farmer.
To prevent pear blight, trim off nearly
all the new wood before the trees freeze
in the fall.
Plums can often be raised by yarding
poultry under the trees to pick up the
curcuious.
Every apple should be saved and fed
to stock in the winter, if no better market
for it can be found.
Sheep are even better than swine in the
orchard to prevent the dropping apples
from filing the ground with worms for
next years insects. They will hear the
falling apple and run an devour it before
the worm has time to leave it.
Cattle ought never to drink from stag
nat pools, which almost always swarm
with germs of disease. The study of
monstrated that this fatal disease is
caused directly from impure water.
For the improvement of heavy soils
Hetdcn, Noigt, Guntz and Wetzke re-
commend lime for the first dressing.
They say also that the crop for the first
season should be potatoes; for the sec
ond, oats; for the third, tarcs or peas,
and for the fourth, potatoes again,
In looking over the seed box for spring
planting, melon and cucumber seeds
need not be re jected on accout of their
age. In fact, the older they are the bet
ter fruit they will produce. 1t is per
haps true that these old seeds will not
make as strong plants, hence they will
fresh seeds on highly MANFRED land
sometimes do.
Poultry should have plenty of light.
1t is rather a significant fact that the
laying season, with most fowls, is during
the time of year when days are longest.
Make them warm as possible in winter,
but do not do it by conhning hens in
dark and damp places, which will en-
gender disease. If possible have south
windows, so that hens may get sunshine
in the middle of the day.
Cows we'll fed and which yield a large
proportion of cream to their milk, al
ways make hard butter, even in warm
weather. In such cows and on such feed
part of the fat which usually goes into
slet passes into the milk veins and is
converted into butter. This is really
a COW made oleomarga inc, and contains
! less of the essential oils which give grass
butter its excellent flavor and aroma
Root fungus on shrubs and trees may
be destroyed by the use of sulphur. The
! practice of destroying dangerous fungus
parasites in the Old World by the use of
sulphur is quite common. The chestnut
/ trees in the neighborhood of Nantes,
France, have suffered severely, many be-
ing wholly destroyed. BY laying bare
| the roots and sprinkling with sulphur
before refilling the earth, the trouble has
! been arrested.
A pullet's egg will hatch, if properly
fortified, as well as the egg Of an old
hen. Most Of the very early eggs are apt
to be from pallets. They will be smaller
in size, and until the pullet has got its
! growth the egg she'll will be thinner,
! in the food has gone o build up the
frame. Because thinner shelled the
pullet's egg should only be set under
hens that will make careful mothers.
Lime in some form is indispensable to
the formation of egg shells. 1t is more
generally supplied TO hens in the form of
old mortar, broken shells and broken
bones. Either generally sufiices, but all
are better than either alone. Soft and
thin shelled eggs are generally, but not
always, the result of an insufficient sup
ply of lime, and eggeating among hons
is generally caused by a neglect to
supply this essential element of egg pro.
duction.
The introduction of the silo is likely
to make a considerable change in agri
cultural methods. In England, where,
owing to wet weather and laae frosts,
corn cannot be brought to maturity, corn