The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13

Pigs are all the better for little char
coal now and then.
DO not forget that wood ashes are es-
peclally beneficial to peach trees.
a South Jersey farmer claims that a
turnip crop plowed under for green
manure pays.
Judicious feeding constitutes the
measure CT success, both in fa.tcning for
beef or feeding for milk
Many of our leading berry growers ap-
, prove of the practice Of running cult
vator between the rows OF their straw
berry vines
The adultcration of butter with oleo-
margarine and lard has brought the beef
and pork markets into direct COMPETE
tioE with the dairy-men
Thirty-fve pounds whale oil soap and
four gallons coal oil to 100 gallons of
water is recommended bv California
horticultural commission as the most
effective insecticide.
In many places where potato rot pre-
walls only the small potatoes, the latest
set, escape the infection. These late
potatoes are generally unripe, and will
be very unreliable for seed purposes.
Celery may be most cheaply bleached
by putting a four-inch urain tile over the
plant about foot high, and then allow
ing 1t to grow with only little banking
OF earth around the tile to keep it in
place.
Objection is made to brewers grains
by some dairymen that they operate on
COWS much as beer does on human beings.
stimulating them to an unnatural activity
for time, but at the expense of perma-
nertly weakening the animal.
The Dairy Farmer thinks that it is
worth S., 600 for every farmer to know
that quart of faxseed oil, with two
ounces OF beeswax added and applied
while hot, Will preserve the wood and
the IRON implements from decay.
In selecting a SOW for breeding choose
one that is quiet and mild in disposition.
She may be the one that will lay on fat
most easily, and it will, therefore, be
necessary to feed sparngy, but she will
be all the better as a breeder for this.
A second growth of barley, grown
from seed in harvesting, will often give
much fall feed for stock 1t grows more
rapidly, and its leaves are broader than
those OF any other grain, but for late
feeding after frost comes rye is prefer
able.
The farmer who sends his corn to
market in the shape of fat oxen, sheep
and pigs is always sure of getting paid
for his crop. The manure pays for the
cost of feeding. The man who sells his
grain direct enriches another mans farm
at the expense of his own.
1t is a wise provision of nature that
min ShOnl1 a lVVovo nlOcalHr f,1l 4,
first light frosts of a season. Generally
the next morning after hoar frost vii,
be rainy. BY observing this fact and
getting in late clover hay or beans liable
to be injured by rain some losses may be
avoided.
One of the reasons why timothy is so
hurtful to winter wheat is that, as mostly
sown after the drill, q large share of the
seed falls in the hollows made by the
drill tubes where the wheat is growing /;
if the ground is rolled before the
timothy seed is sown it VIII obviate this
difficulty.
There is good reason for the common
practice of feeding soft corn whole in the
ear to any kind of stock while it is vet
In the green state. There is considerable
nutriment in the cob while green, and
both it and the coin are much more easily
Cigestible than later in the season, when
both have become hardened.
The mammoth clover is rather too
much of a good thing. Its chief use is
to pillow under, as its course stocks are
not relished by stock. 1t starts later in
spring than the smaller variety, and on
rich land the latter will yield two or
three tons per acre, which will give more
feed to stock than the greater bulk of the
large variety.
Complaint is generally made that
peach trees die out after few years,
instead of living twenty-five to thirty
years, as they did when the country was
new. Is not this closely connected with
The fact that the ground is not protected
by snow, as it used to be in old time
winters1 And may not the yellows be
raced to the same cause2