Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-24
Agriemltmral department.
RURAL AND DOMESTIC Brew
titles.
Yes, try for a prize at the fair.


Good weather for maturing crops.
Now keep at sHome on the
Farm"
The crop outlook is good in the
South.
Good time to exterminate Canada
thistles.
Good pastures assure good milk
and butter.
Do you make daily entries in a
farm diary?
Mutton is now dearer than beef
in France.
Autumn is coming-close up the
summer work.
Employ only sober and intelligent
farm hands.
Are you making any permanent
Improvements?
Loss is always occasioned by
using an inferior sire.
No young animal is profitable that
is not growing steadily.
The one sure way to have good
COWS is to raise them yourself.
Small focks of sheep are always
profitable, and may be cheaply start
ed.
The exclusive feeding of clover to
cows gives hard cheese and soft
butter.
The time has come when farmers
can no longer afford to raise other
than high-bred stock.
The farmers of the state of Maine
use ten thousand tons of concentra-
ted fertilizers annually.
Disinfectants should be used in
the stable from now until the cool
weather sets in again.
1t is the steady, quiet horse that
can do the biggest days work when
the weather is extremely hot.
| Good butter and cheese cannot be
made from the milk of cows which
are deprived of pure water.
| The best method of dealing with a
flock of poor sheep is to dispose of
them and stock up with good ones.
| Half-blood horses may do well
enough for work, but they should
never be used for breeding purposes.
Plenty of grass should be given to
fowls in confinement, in order to
keep them in good healthy condition.
Farmers should never consign their
produce to strangers. Deal only
with reputable and established firms.
; Thoroughly decomposed barnyard
manure is sufficient for the grape, or
indeed, any other crop we cultivate.
Fill your churns but half full and
see that the temperature is right, if
you expect the butter to come read
lily.
The milking qualities of a COW
depend more upon those of her sire 8
mother than those upon her own
mother.
Advices from Belmont county, O.,
report that buyers are now offering
thirty cents for good wool In that
| section.
, Grape vines must be watched fol-
! mildew, and if it appears sulphur
must be freely blown upon them with
t a bellows.
Tobacco leaves or tobacco in most
any form, placed in the bottom OF
the nest of sitting hen, keeps
, the lice away;
The young cattle will be benefited
q by change of pasture occasionally
e even if it is only changing fields with
e other cattle.
r A crossed fowl will always sit
t and if non-sitters are desired fol
o next season, they must be bred from
q pure breeds only.
] Treat your horses in such manner
T. that they will not be afraid of you
y A fearful disposition is about as ba(
h as vicious one.
/. Take long incoming. Bette
! spirits and increased vigor ant
n strength will far more than make III
!, the time taken to rest.
if Carbonate of soda is an excellen
V remedy for scours in calves. Rhu
;. barb stalks boiled down is also sait
h to be good for scours.
d To make gentle mixer, a cal
q should be trained from the time it i
J. two months old, handled frequentl
IS and petted.
! The world over stock raising an
!. dairying increase, and the raising O
20 cereal crops dimlnishes as the coun
+ try becomes older.
w A collar should never be placed O
:. horse without first being thorough
re- ly cleaned. Dirty collars are
,f fruitful source of sore shoulders.
ID Do not neglect to salt your cattl
pr and sheep. If rock salt is place
where animals can have free aces
to it they will not hurt themselve
eating it.
10 DIGGING POTATOES.