The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-13

together, it is a question if it is not bet.
ter to feed all the sheep to the dogs and
save the food they eat.
A common herd, we'll cared for, will
often yield better returns than a grade
or pure blooded one where the owner
places more confidence in blood and
pedigree than he does in good care and
management.
With fat cattle at seven cents per
pound breeder finds that in feeding
four pounds of corn and fodder together,
cut fine, with two pounds of linseed meal
to each steer, the corn brings about sew
enty cents per bushel.
If the little striped bugs seem inclined
to have feast at my expense, an
Ohio farmer says: / dust some SCOT or
fine ashes over the vines some morning
before the dew is off. The dew will
hold the SCOT or ashes on the leaves and
the bugs will leaves for parts unknown.
Sheep enable the farmer to use certain
kinds of provender that would not be
saleable without their aid Hence, sup
posing that sheep do not return any profit
at all, which, however, is not admitted,
yet if they assist in saving that which is
often wasted they pay well for their
keep.
An English poultryman says that on
the first appearance of gapes, make a
quart of oatmeal porridge, stir into it
tallow candle, and administer it warm to
the chicks. Repeat the remedy every
two hours. lie states that he has never
lost chick from gapes when the above
was administered.
In skimming the cream from milk,
there should always be milk enough
skinned with the cream to give butter,
when churned, bright, clean look
Butter churned from clear cream, with
little or no milk in it, will usually have
an oily or shiny look. This shows that
the grain of the butter is in ured, which
affects the keeping qualities of the but
ter.
Whenever a permanent fence is needed
it should be straight and occupy as little
land as possible. 1t is not necessary to
make a post and board fence. With
wire and a stake posts and rails will
answer every purpose, and cost compare
lively little. Land that has been long
occupied by a Virginia worm fence is
generally fertile. and the crops grown on
land saved by Strengthening its crooks
will very soon pay the expense of the
change.
Every year the proportion of CRASHED
beef is decreasing, and this involves
much larger use of corn as feed. At the
far West farmers are going into the cul-
ture of corn that they may finish off their
CRASHED cattle. In the higher ATTITUDES
where corn cannot be grown, cattle are
driven to those sections where it can be,
and in some cases the cattle men are
buying farms in Kansas and Iowa, as a
supplement to their ranching operations
in Montana
Young turkeys require great attention
up to the age OF six weeks. A person of
experience might not loose more than
four or five out of fifty in favorable
season. No hard grain should be fed
until they are five or six weeks old
Bread and milk, with hard boiled eggs,
should be fed at first. Afterwards, the
curd from clabbered milk is one of the
best things for them, alone or mixed
with ground oats. Scalded milk can be
used for change.
On sandy soil after few years crop
ping the sorrel seed is apt to come in.
Farmers often say that the land has be-
come sour" and lime is used to remedy
the difficulty. But lime is less helpful
to sandy than any other kind of soil.
The cause of the trouble in such cases is
lack of fertility preventing growth of
clover, and the sorrel comes in because
it can thrive on poorer soil. Potash is
almost always deficient in light land,
and dressing of leached or unleached
wood ashes will make a vigorous clover
growth and eXtirpate all weeds that
good clover crop vii smother.