Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-11
AGRICULTURAL.
Farm andLiye stock Notes.


Rye is unequaed for late growth.
Train, rather than break the colts
For sheep, oats are better than corn.
Pen the chicken ten days before killing,
Quickly and gently should be the rule in
killing.
Whole grain IS net fed without waste,
except to fowls.
Two hundred and nine feet on side
make square acre within an inch.
Better invest in more lumber for warm
pens than in more fodder for cold pens
Sometimes in fattenng, it happens that
animals get over-fed let starvation be
the cure.
Where milk can be sold at three cents
and a half per quart, it is believed to pay
as well as butter at twenty eight cents per
pound.
Where are your reaping machines,
blows and other implements to-day If
not carefully housed they are suffering
more injury each day, on an average, than
for every day they were used last season.
1t will never answer to have them stand
ing out.
Cut the Corn SALES.--FUTURE are many
advantages in such II course, a chief one
being that the fodder will go much far
ther: nearly twice as far as if uncut. The
time required for the cutting is hardly
worth considering, as this is job for bad
weather, when time is of little value 9th
erwise Feed in troughs or in half-bar-
rels made by saving barrels in two. BY
cutting and crushing bright well-cured
stalks they are made of as much value
for feeding as timothy hay.
Chemistry and Farming.-Dr. Sturtevant,
of the New York State Experimental
Farm, has reached the sensible conclusion
which many have reached before him,
namely: That something more than
chemical analysis is required for the study
of our cattle foods. Experimenting upon
the effects of exposure to clover hay, it
was found that the poorest specimen of
some which had been exposed to the
weather for a month showed the largest
percentage of albuminods-the cOnstitu-
ent that is looked upon as the representa-
tive of food value. But the trouble all
lays in the fact that when this was offer
ed to cows they refused to touch it, al
though they ate readily of the same NOW
ing of grass that had been well cured and
not exposed.
Horn Marks as Indicating age-These
are not, as many folks believe an indica-
ton of how many calves Il COW may have
had, but of age. This notion loses all
force when we observe that rings are met
on the horns of males as well as of fe-
males. When a heifer or a male is two
years old wrinkle may be found forming
at the base of the horn, and as the horn
grows, the next year this wrinkle is easily
seen. This mark, as 1t apaears in sight
therefore, stands for three years of age
AT five years a second ring appears. After
this one appears every year until at the
age of eleven or twelve the wrinkles are
smaller and closer, and some of the earli
est Will have been worn away. so the
horns are no guide to age after this.
Neither are the teeth, for these are effect
ed very much by the kind of land that
pasturing has been done on. They wear
off much faster for grazing on sandy land
than ON clay.
Orchard and Garden.
Prepare the seed beds this fall.
Rank manure induces club foot in cab
bage.
Prune in winter for wood; in spring for
fruit.
Potato tops answer for covering traw-
berries
Tomatoes can easily be had the year
round in Il hot house.
To force lettuce, keep near the glass,
give plenty of air and moderate heat.
Strong brine is taking the place of alco-
hol for preserving specimen fruits: they
keep size as well, and preserve their color
better in this.
Neither very damp nor Il very dry Gel
lar is the best for fruit; in the former rot
will be induced the more readily; in the
latter the fruit will become shriveled up
and fiat in taste. a mean between the
two extremes, with fresh air occasionally,
suits best
Late Ripening Fruit.A cold wet fall
will give fruit of generally inferior char
acter, as regards sweetness n better
| flavor Apples that ripen slowly will keep
better in winter than those that ripen
quickly, and for late varieties it Is no mis-
fortune to have the ripeniug process COM
peted in the cellar. But aside from apples,
most other fruits are the better in every
way for ripening speedily in warm wealth
er. Grapes must ripen completely on the
vines, and i'll growing weather.
Flowers and the Lawn.
Cover half hardy things.
Finish up bulb planting.
Strike alyssum cuttings for early
Lily of the valley will bloom IN the
house.
Pansy plants potted up now should
bloom by New Year.
| Many geranium is rendered sckly by
giving too much water.
Plants grown for foliage need light only
blooming plants need sun
Carnations do not like wet soil yet
they should not get as dry as we some
times meet them.
Violets in pots must have all their run
ners kept down all dead leaves removed !;
low heat and plenty of air. If these things
are left undone the plants might as well
be thrown out.
Chrysanthemums, after towering,
should be cut down near the earth and be
moved to the cellar, or any other place
where growth will not be excited. Then,
in the early spring the plants may be di-
vided and the parts potted up separately
for future stock. PrOpagating from slips
is also common means of increasing the
plants, but hardly necessary where but
few are wanted.
The India Rubber Tree.-We do not
know of another house plant which gives
equal satisfaction, all things considered,
with this one. To be sure it yields no
flowers with us, but its leaves are 50 hand.
some in their large size, fine form and
color, and their shining surface, that one
hardly misses these. We are not of those