Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-03-05

To change the shape Of an animals horns,
all that il necessary to do Is to scrape them
thin upon the side you want them to lean. lt
properly done they can be made to assume al
most any form desired.
1t has been ascertained by a series of ex
periments that rye aud winter wheat germi
nate at 80 of heat barley and oats at 80,
Indian corn at As turnip at 80, fax at 30,
the pea and clover at $50, bean aud lupin at
49,, asparagus at 80, carrot at So, and the
bean at 4O'.
The United States sppropris,es less for ag-
ricultural purposes than any other country,
Switzerland excepted France annually ap
propristes $40, GOO, 900, Brazil S12, 900, 900,
Russia s II goo 600, Austria So, 200 600 Great
Britain S795 OOO Japan 81 900 000 SSiizer-
land Sli2 600, and the United States $685.
600.
Most farmers have enough cats, as where a
stock, however small, exists, they breed rap
idly, aud soon become too numerous. II at
all petted, they learn to hang around the
house in winter and grow fat on scraps from
the table but the same cats, If driven out Of
doors, will find good living in barns and
granaries, where they will save many dollars
worth of grain. Barn cats are always good
mousers and they transmit this tendency to
their young, so that even for house service it
is better to get a barn kitten aud tame it.
Ignorant blacksmiths often attempt to give
the foot of a horse a better shape by rasping
| the she'll While the shape may be improved
somewhat in few cases. it should be borne
in mind that the manner in which it is done
| is one Of the most injurious operations that
can be performed on the foot. The shell
which is thus taken away is impervious, and
does not allow the moisture OF the foot to
evaporate and become dry, hard and brittle.
See to it that this is not done the next time
you have occasion to employ blacksmith.
Hot beds should be started about six weeks
before the plants can be set out in the open
ground. Get ready sashes aud lumber for
the frames provide the manure and cart to
the place where it will be needed. Provide
'Aats," or shallow boxes for sowing the
seeds; these are made from soap and other
store boxes, one of which will make two or
three fats, three inches deep. For the fami-
ly garden, "A sufficient number OF plants may
be started in the kitchen and other windows.
The popular idea that hog cannot hurt
itself by overlooking is erroneous. Even II
fattening it is better to give only what can
be eaten up clean at one time aud at regular
intervals. II the feeding occurs at STATED
times each day, the hogs will lie down and
sleep in the intervals, and this will fstteu
them faster and be more healthtul than keep
ing food before the animals all the time.
mess of partially eaten food left in the trough
is distasteful even to hog, and makes hin
eat less in quantity and with less relish than
he otherwise would.
Encourage in every possible way meeting
for social intercourse in villages aud town
the year round. An interchange OF view
broadens the mind a general Acquaintance
kbits members of the same community close
together to further its best interests we ar
in the world not to live apart, but to aid snd
ben, fit one another. In a farming communi
ty this is especially necessary where house
are scattered far apart and men and womel
are steadily occupied from morning to night
Have as many social gatherings AZ can be de
vised and all will be the better for it, an,
there will be- fewer suicides from desponden
cy or low spirits"