News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-01
Farm Notes.

O"llIorula 1armerS insure IuelF
crops.
This years wheat crop is the heav-
lest eVer harvested in California.
Larger horses are getting more pop
ular every day. They outlast the
lighter ones.
An Ohio nan finds clover hay, cut
when in full bloom, just the thing to
feed to breeding hogs.
An annual manuring becomes, in
ume, as necessary as an annual SOW
: ing OF seeds. How few remember this
IN orchard management.
The half-breed Norman horses are
the best for road and farm work, while
the Clydes and Shire horses will fill a
want for trucking in the cities.
Roots are excellent to feed with
corn. Feed about oue-fourth corn and
three-fourths roots to matured animals.
Growing stock will require more corn
and less roots.
We learn best by experience. The
farmer of the future will be a farmer
OF experiments /; that is, he will try
and test for himself, and take less
of mere theory.
A second brood of currant worms
usually makes its appearance just as
the fruit begins to ripen, and is quite
as injurious to the crop as the first' II
not promptly destroyed.
Some farmers are growing the amber
cane to feed. George Hunter OF
Strong, Maine, says in the Mirror and
Farmer that he finds it far superior to
ensilege, and it keeps we'll.
A remedy for the maggot which in
tests cabbage is to make a hole with
a dibble close to the stock, insert ten
drops Of bisulphide of carbon and
quickly close the hole again.
A few shovels of dirt and a little
labor in the nick of time will do more
toward keeping a road in good con-
dition than whole days of blowing and
scraping once or twice a year only.
In breeding fowls, as we'll as the
reproduction of ANIMALS, it is Of great
Importance that the male used for
breeding should be especially choice,
and as fine a specimen as can be OBJ
tanned.
The prosperous farmer always has
good tools and takes good care of
them. He gets the best when he
buys, and always gets his repairing
done in time-before the implement
is needed.
Horses wear out nowadays in half
ofthe time they used to. Our grand
fathers kept their horses till they died
of old age, bnt fast driving and high
feeding and big loads kill off the horses
in these days.
Does a garden pay? What a fool
ish question! Of course it pays. 1t
pays better than any other part of the
farm. Why? Because so much can be
grown in it that the family can make
available at all seasons Of the year.
Fresh, hardwood ashes are worth
for the orchard fully as much as six
times their weight in fresh horse ma
nure, and other ashes have a CORE
spending value. The addition of salt
to ashes is said to still further in
crease their fertilizing properties.
Fruit growers should not attempt
to pasture their COWS, as it is far bet
ter to confine them in a small inclos-
ure and give them green fodder, such
as rye, corn or clover. Cows can
thus be kept by d~evoting one-tenth of
the land to their maintenance that
would be required if pastured.
When butter is kept in tubs or ear
then vessels. it must be packed as
closely as possible, and no interstices
or vacant spaces left, for the butter
quickly spoils around these interstices
and the evil spreads through the whole
tub. In large establishments it is con-
sidered essential that q tub be filled
with butter made all in one day.
The crops summary in this weeks
issue of the Farmers Review says that
the harvesting of wheat is concluded
in Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri.
In Fayette and Lexington counties,
KY, whole fields are reported ruined
by the black rust, and in Fayette fully
one-half the crop was ruined. The av-
erage yield in those States is reported
at from Is to 25 bushels to the acre,
when no injury from rust occurred.
The harvesting is still progressing in
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, uEder fair
circumstances, though scattering re-
ports of rain and rust are made, but
not such as to indicate any wide
damage. Rains prevailed over
large areas of Dakota, improving the
general outlook OF spring wheat great
ly and apparently insuring an average
yield. The general average through
out the country of both wheat and
oats was reduced 10 to 10 per cent.
before the drought was broken. The
situation in Minnesota is not ma
improved. A need of rain IN
Iowa and Nebraska is reported. In
Iowa the necessity Of rain has been
pressing and the prospective yield of
wheat and oats has already been
lessened fifteen to twenty peE cent.
The corn prospects continue very
promising in both the North West