Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-11-27
AGRICULTURAL.
Farm and Live stock Notes.

Put fences and gates in order.
Dry leaves make good bedding
Hens don't pay stingy feeders.
A smooth coat makes healthy animal.
Keep only as much stock as you can
winter well.
Let neatness adorn all parts of the home
surroundings before winter comes in.
Fall blowing is done at little more than
one-half the cost of spring blowing
Charcoal possesses great value when
added to the rations of fattening animals,
swine, poultry, and cattle especially.
For calves and yearling cows bran and
oat meal are the best grain food The
object with these animals should be fed
to keep them thrifty, without forcing.
There ought to be time now for cutting
brush. Cut close to the ground, or just a
little below the surface. Then the new
shoots that will start up in the spring can
be kept down with the scythe
a little work and calculation should not |
be allowed to stand between you and get /
ting the stables fitted up for animal com
fort during the winter. a few DAYS work
with hammer, nails, strips, straw, and so
on will soon accomplish sights here.
Pasture Lots These need manuring as
well us any other land from which crops
are taken. November is the best month .
to apply top dressing here. The manure |
should be old and fine if fresh it will
Vii WI rande no ', @, th
animals when newt turned ont
Wintering Bees.-lf they are to be given
the protection of the cellar, this month
should see them in the quarters. They
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of carpet or other coarse cloth, that Will
admit of the escape of moisture be thrown,
over instead. If the cellar can be kept
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a. III "'S - "c7ll'"lc.
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T,iiienS Dtt ~. NiiIiS WIN ,Hr lee''ihS'
ed for fnrnishIn~ heal umI f,I n,,t i,rks
in albumen and phosphatcs. Wheat is ii
more perfect food, as 1t Is also preferred
ny lows Whth ihty nave cGoice OF both.
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Milk in nnv shane is y,lu,ni. Rrfu.,
from the butchers. SCRAP cake and Ola
from the fish market furnish Il matelia
that indnces free laying. The writer one,
had access to Il slaughter house Wher,
hogs lungs could be hHl Tor almost moth
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Vegetable food is also needed. Potatoes
and turnips boiled and mashed with In
dian meal can hardly be equaled. Cab
bage is always acceptable. In the absence
of every kind of green food, sweet clover
hay affords not a bad substitute. AS ma
terial needed for the formation of egg
shells. and also to ad in the grinding ol
the food that is going on in the yizzard.
it must not be forgotten to provide LAYING
hens with small gravel and crit broken
bones shells and the like prOpprly fed
and kept in Il warm, well lighted aud well
ventilated house during the winter, hens
do not fail to lay well.
Orchard and Garden.
Burn the old rubbish
Good ti,ne to cnt or,fts
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me iiiole ilul' .iie oe,'el ie"l."'
TRIM olu WOOD from DlackDerflcS.
Asparagus forces well for winter use
Nentiate the fruit cellars in mild wealth
er
twenty acres nave been SET 10 h-s by
one man III BAKER county, floriua.
by digging over ground TINS tall many
weeds Will oe put BACK
:. Manure now on rhuparb VIII tell on ear
Illness, quallly ana size next spring.
uiaPeo ehceP pe9u ~ a 'cllpcl "tulc
Wllnlh d lew ueSreeS vi 40 PACK Ill lay
erS, using paper between.
CaDDage.-A1ter growth mas ceased pc
cause of cold, pull and store, placing 1t
heads down, close together in dry spot
III the garden, and covering over with
straw or leaves as hlSn as tne roofs, ana
on lhls same soil sneHerlhg az WIN
poaTds, IL Will Keep uhtii March "A small
STOCK lor use during winter may easily
he kept IN Darrel OF Don lha1 Is set on
emu III ury place, ana Whlch Is banked up
around IL 10 llS lop WIN earth anu Gov
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oo"iu' 81,
facklhe III barrels.IAppleS may, win
advantage, DE pressed III packing even TO
start a oruiSe on lhe ouislue, DuI pears
not; for pears the barrels must De Hhed
with straw paper TO prevent wood stains
; cholce pears sh0uid not go INTO paTrels
but into boxes holding buShel or less,