Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-06-26
Vt PH0NIx AND RECORD FARMER. 1885


Hay water il great sweetener Of tin, wood
on aud ironware. In Irish diaries everything
used for milk Is soaldod with hay water. Boil
a handful Of sweet hay in water and put in
the vessel when hot.
II one will SOW clover and herdsgrass, and
cut it four times a year, and dry il In the
shade, so that the leaves will not fall off the
stems, IL will be found to be the best OF green
food for the hens in the winter, ~ there Is
no food in grain and roots that will give
yellow yelk like clover aud meat, and by its
use yellow spOnge cake aud custard eau be
had in winter, as we'll m in summer.
As a general rule Professor Ford found
that the yield Of butter grew less the lower
the temperature Of the milk before setting.
When milk set in ice water directly after milk
ing gave 100 pounds, milk that had been pre-
viously cooled to G8o gave 95.7 pounds, 90
gave 81 pounds and 4So gave SO 3 pounds A
means of restoring the original qualities of
such milk was found in warming the milk
to about 1919 before setting
Says the Planter and Stockman. "There
is scarcely farmer in the country who can
not add to his income, as well az to the deli
cscies Of the table, by the careful manage
ment of few swarms Of bees The work
is light, and much of it may be done by
women. The business Is not a. mysteri
Gus az many suppose, and a knowledge Of all
the details necessary may be acquired In a
very short time. The profits compare favor
able with other agricultural pursuits"
In a recent bulletin Of the New York State
Agricultural Experiment Station, DR.. Sturte-
want details some experiments with seed corn
thoroughly and slowly dried at a high tenn
perature, which go TO show that the seed 80
dried will not only germinate at a much low
a., Nl,.N
kept in the ordinary way, but that it will al
80 resist much higher temperature WITHOUT
losing its power of termination. The Doctor
therefore recommends that seedmen should
take pains to kiln. dry the corn they offer for
sale. Corn preserved in this manner would
doubtless resist better the vicissitudes which
accompany early planting than would seed
saved in the customary manner.
Hungarian grass on some farms makes
very good an well as cheap food, when pro-
perly grown and cured but many who grow
this crop make such mistakes that they Abau-
don IL as an undesirable crop The Michigan
Farmer says that Hungarian grass is crop
that needs warm, light laud, and it also needs
hot weather to grow in. When sown early
in the spring it will not grow well, but IL
sown o ween the 10Th of June and the lat of
July it grows very rapidly, and will produce
large crop il well MANFRED. A correspond
ent of the Mirror and Farmer, speaking of
this grass, says be uses it in bis silo, and it
comes out splendidly.
A man who can look upon the green fields,
waving forests, and the flocks and herds up
on the hillsides with no other thought than
of their pecuniary increase who can stand
amid all these beauties and harmones of Gre
alive nature and feel no deeper emotion than
the throbbing of his pocket book, misses the
highest mental enjoyment. In the works OF
nature, both animate and inauimate we see
design and ruling idea OF beauty, harmo-
ny and order. And shall we whose occupa.
ton places us in the midst of the real and
beautiful shut our eyes aud ears and leave
the purest, noblest joys Of this life to be APP
preciated by those who are so situated that
they are glad to get a painted semblance OF
the landscape with which we are surrounded
and of which we form H part 2-Airror and
Farmer