Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-12
Farm and Garden Notes.

Well-lighted barns and stables do
much for the general health and vgor of
the animal system and a supply of fresh,
pure air is as essential as food.
In pruning, it is we'll to cover the
wounds with oil or white lead or graft
ing wax or shellac. Even the cut part
of small branches had better be SO
treated.
Egg plants are just about as tender as
tomato plants. Seed should be started
in frames or in the house, so that the
plants may be in open ground about the
middle or latter part of May.
s. E. R. writes that apples may be
kept from whitening in dry cellar by
putting a pail of water near the fruit. 1t
may be set on the cellar bottom. The
fruit will draw the moisture from it.
There is nothing better to protect
small garden beds OF strawberries from
late spring frosts than covering with
heavy paper, says Mr.. Purdy. 1t would
be impracticable for large field beds.
In moving land for the first time in
the season it is recommended that the
moving machine should not be set so as
to cut too close. If cut too close the
weeds are liable to get the start of the
grass.
A Connecticut correspondent in Conn.,
try Gentleman says: at is twenty.six
years since l began the painting bust
ness, and anything better than the best
oil and lard for good work is not
known.
The operation of churning should no
be hurried. The butter from creamt
churned from half to three-quarters of
an hour is of far better quality and con-
sistency than that churned in five or ten
minutes.
DR.. Henry B. Baker, secretary of the
Michigan State board of health, states
that low water in wells is a prolific
cause of typhoid fever. He makes this
statement after much observation and
research.
1t has been said that plants will not
thrive where furnace heat and gaslight
are used, but the plant is the best indi-
Gator of healthy atmosphere, and if it
will not thrive, the air is not fit for
human beings.
The Poultry Yard says that the eggs
Of prairie hens, or, indeed, the eggs of
any bird, if not so small and delicate as
to be crushed, can be Matched by do
mestic hen. The eggs of the quail and
ruffed grouse are frequently Matched in
this way.
Artificial cheese, made of one part oleo-
margarine and two parts skinned milk,
mixed to the consistency of cream and
subjected to the usual process of manu-
featuring the genuine article, is the
latest edible commodity contributed by
Germany
No kind of stock should be allowed to
eat young cherry shoots, however worth
less the latter may be. The leaves and
bark of the cherry contain considerable
amount of prussic acid, and this is occa.
sionally fatal to sheep and COWS left to
Craze where they can get it.
In most young orchards some trees
will be found that have made weakly,
stunted growth. In most cases this is
the fault of the variety rather than the
original stock. Grating with more
vigorous sorts will soon effect change
in the roots to correspond with the
character of the new top.
Pick your market chickens dry. Note
this from the Farm Journal: "We know
of no market where dry picked poultry
does not command two or three cents
more per pound than scalded stock, and
yet farmers in some sections continue tho
practice of scaldisg, when dry picking is
just as easy and expeditions"
If a farmer is obliged to plant on LAND
not enriched rs he would like to have it.