The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1886-07-30
Practical Notes.

| Watch young melon plants as they make
| their appearance, and If insects trouble them,
dust them freely with ashes, SCOT or tobacco
dust when wet with dew.
Butter tubs should be thoroughly ceansed
and then soaked in brine before packing down
butter in them, which will materially assist in
preventing the butter from being tainted.
The French mode of killing fowls, by making
with a sharp pointed knife an incision at the
back Of the roof of the mouth, which will divide
| the vertebra and cause immediate death without
| pain or Disagreement, is doubtless the best.
| The Russian thistle, introduced by the Men,
monte immigrants from Russia with their first
| importation of spring wheat, is reported to be
| spreading rapidly on new lands OF Dakota and
Minnesota, and threatens to become trouble
some intruder.-[ Chicago Journal.
The great mistake in the feeding Of young
calves is to give too much, as by overlooking
the digestive organs exhaustive diarrhGa is
produced. Three quarts day is sufficient for
calf up to month old, and this may be grad
ually increased to four or five quarts at the end
of the second month, with the addition OF a lit
tie hay or grass.
Rank Favored foods make rank-favored
meat. Whatever you give your hogs-and they
are expected to devour all kinds of refuse-be
sure it is clean and not putrid. The finishing
off when fattenng, should be with the sweetest
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meal and the refuse of the dairy are good.
Good, sweet, wholesome pork is the product Of
cleanliness and sound, clean food.
Charcoal is appreciated by fowls Of all kinds.
The very best is found in charred grain. Corn
roasted like coffee and fed once aiday would no
doubt pay for the trouble in the increased pro-
duct of eggs. In fattening the process is much
fastened by its use, and we think the meat
much more palatable. There are many cpl
cures who would willingly pay larger price
for poultry fattened by the use Of charred
corn.
feed the young chicken the first three days
ON hard boiled eggs, and then stale bread or
broken crackers for a few days longer or until
they get snort enough to run out then give
them the same as l do the old fowls 1n the
mornlng-corn meal, fine feed, boiled potatoes
and beef scraps, always using little of the egg
food. After they are two weeks old, keep
cracked corn and wheat by them all the time.
r G Burlington.
What has become Of the juicy beef roasts and
steaks of our boyhood? This tough, tortuous,
tensile Texas meat is no more like the old fash
toned New England beef than spring chicken
is like an antediuvian rooster. 1t ought to be
impressed upon the minds Of our farmers, that
good, home grown beef is still salable In spite Of
western competition. Let the farmers raise
good beef for us and we will pay them tor their
rouble.-[Springfield Union.
1t is common opinion that pigs will make
the greatest gain and fatten most rapidly on
corn while in milk just before it hardens.
Whether this is true or not, it always pays to
feed literally at this stage. When the corn is
gathered in the fall, there is always moro or
less soft corn, and the wise farmer has thrifty
lot of young hogs to which he can feed this un-
merchantable grain, thus making nearly as
much profit from it as from his sound corn.
The farmers and breeders OF Cotswold sheep |
at Morrsville have organized Green Noun
tain Cotswold Sheep association. r g Hill of |
Elnore was elected pres Frank Phillips of |
Glover vice pres, and A Niles of Morrisville |
sec and treas; L L Camp and w w Delano of
Emore and Alfred Dodge of Morristown COM
mittee on pedigree. The object of the associa-
ton is to improve the Cotswod sheep by form.
ing registry. The committee on pedigree will
meet at the office of A A Niles of Morrisvlle on
he second Tuesday in August, at 10 m, for
'eceiving applications for registry, and deciding
whether they are entitled to certificates.