Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-07-03
NOTES.

Eight and five eghths pounds per gallon is
rapidly becoming the standard weight of milk
in this country and Europe.
Continuous growth il necessary to make
swine profitable, and this cannot be obtained
without plenty of feed. A little grain each
day with good pasture will answer all the pur-
poses and assure the pigs making very rap.
id growth.
One year ago good to prime steers sold
in New York city at SO. 10 to 81 per 100
pounds, with an average on all grades of Sc
81 per 100, Last week good prime steers
sold at 1896 to 500 per l0O with an aver
age on all grades of $3.50 per 100 pounds
The English sparrow is for the moment
useful in eating seventeen year locusts, now
appearing, according to Prof. Rrley's predic-
ton, in several places, and in great numbers
in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The insects do
not seem to be doing any harm aside from
nOnrishing the detestable sparrow.
Prof @. v. Riley, of the Smithsonian In-
stitution, is authority for the statement that
water heated to 1907 and applied to cabbage
worms at that temperature will kill this pest
without injuring the cabbage. The remedy
is very simple one and easy Of application
Some have found a solution of saltpelre in
water an effective remedy. The proportion
of tho Ingredients used is a tablespoonful of
saltpetre to gallon Of water.
The one mitigating circumstance about
hard times and low wagesis the Increased pur-
chasing power of a dollar. The Boston Com
mercal Bulletin has been figuring on the sub.
ject, and comes to the conclusion that s will
buy a. much Of the necessares of life to-day
as 81 80 in 1875, 81 - in 1853, ~ cents 1915
and 81 10 in 1925 In other words, the pur
chasing power of dollar is l . per cent great
er than it was in 1925, and 81 per cent great
or than il was in 1855. A dollar will buy
more to-day than in most previous periods in
the history of the nation
No corn meal should be given to pigs under
two or three months old. Some think a little
shelled corn may profitably be given to young
pigs, but they are better without it, II is not
fat that you want to put on the young pigs,
but you want to grow the muscles aud bones
produce a rangy frame. There is plenty
Of fat in middlings, and middlngs is a cooling
food, with nitrogen TO grow the muscles, and
and phosphate of lime to grow the bones bo-
Sides middlings ought to be as cheap as corn
especially whore so much wheat is grown.
Charcoal il a very valuable article for poul.
try. 1t is powerful absorber of foul gases
and infectious matters, and considering the
somewhat miscellaneous manner of a fowls
feeding is a very useful sweetener of the crop
and intestine5. 1t also seems to stimulate
digestion directly. Tho powdered article may
be mixed with the soft food. Corn burned
or charred on the ear, so az to keep liz shape,
is excellent but it must be remembered that
corn thus treated is no longer corn, but char
coal. II charcoal is given directly, it may be
left in small piles, in pieces the size of grain
OF corn, or such pieces as remain after sift-
ing wood ashes can be used. Turkeys seem
to require q great deal of charcoal, especially
when fattening II is carbon in cheap
form. Fat is also carbon of much great, r
value per pound.