News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
Farm N OteS.

House plants that have been plant
ed in the border need to be carefully
watched and supplied with water :;
otherwise in dry time they will suf-
fer far sooner than plants with their
roots unconfned. AS these make
their growth they will also need some
care in pinching and training with
reference to their future forms.
The Mississippi Agricultural Col
lege is reported 10 have done a great
work for that State and the South
generally by the promulgation of new
and important ideas concerning agri-
cultural methods. The youth of that
section are crowding to it, and al
though accommodation can only be
offered to 255 students, there are al
ready 800 applications for the coming
session.
Successful culture of apples must
provide good food for the trees. We
never saw the soil too rich for the
apple. Kitchen ashes in which the
refuse is thrown is an excellent top
dressing for apples. We like top
dressing better than any other system
of manuriag apples trees. Even nice
ditch scrapings are good to top-dress
with where nothing else offers.
If a COW has a very large udder and
it is swelled, it is best to milk her be-
fore the calf is dropped. 1t will be
great relief and perhaps save her from
having whichever. In the summer
there is much more danger than in
cooler weather. If the calf does not
pass its excrement freely, give it half
gill of raw linseed-oil. The first milk
helps to start the bowels of the new
born animal and in its absence the oil
will do the same.
A writer in Nature thinks the design
of black skin is to protect the deli
cate tissues beneath. Flesh is very
translucent to a strong light, and
there is no doubt that the rays of a
tropical sun would light up a white
man considerably, whereas black skin
would keep out the solar energy of
light, heat and chemical rays effectu-
ally. Skin heat is of no Importance,
as perspiration can always keep that
down. May not the oiling of the
skin in hot countries be partly to
make it reflective, so that it would
absorb less heat? And may not the
regard white races have for clothing,
be partly for the purpose of keeping
the insides of their bodies sufficiently
in the dark?
The most experienced dairymen say
that fat-producing foods produce the
largest amount of butter and of the
best quality. Not only must such
food be in proper condition, but it
must also be palatable to the COWS.
They make the best and readiest use
of the softer portions of fatty matters
like that in grass and green foods,
rather than in the hard fats of wheat.
Early cut hay, with all its sweetness
and ease of digestion, starts the milk
in q COW, and the butter also. Late
cut hay does not yield butter so read
lily, because the fats are indigestible in
During this month many kinds Of
hardy Towering shrubs can be propa-
gated with great ease in the open
garden border by selecting spot a
little shaded. If the soil is too heavy,
dig in some leaf mold or chip manure
and some sand. In such a spot may
be successfully raised a young stock
of different varieties of dogwood,
forsythia, hydrangea, spireas
privet, honeysuckles, syringa, flower
ing currants, kerria, ampelopsis, tea,
Noisettc and Bourbon roses.