Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-16
Farm and Garden Notes.

a small quantity of bad milk will
spoil whole mass of cheese at the fac
torp.
Thinning fruit when iudiciously done
always pays, no matter what is the crop.
Try it.
The best way to treat the curculio is to
jai the trees and destroy the pests that
fall beneath it.
Professor e. NJ. Shilton says that thirty
loads of manure applied to one acre is
equal to forty loads spread over twice
that surface.
James Fitz, Kcnwick, Va, says:
"When sweet potato plants are set II
feet by 3 feet, $500 plants are required
for one acre; if set II feet by 81 feet
s, 100 plants are needed"
Maple floors are better for creameries
than cement. The former can be washed
while the latter knocks away gradually in
small PARTICLES. Pine floors, when damp,
give off an offensive Cdo:.
A little glue in limewash for outbuill-
ings and fences is good thing, because
it makes the lime adhere, but it is bad
for trees; hence limewash for trees is bet
ter without any such addition.
A successful Canadian dairyman thinks
bran, peas and corn mixed the best but
reproducing food for COWS. Cows should
be MIXED with dry hands. Cows should
not be MIXED in close proximity to the
dung heap.
When the tree IL planted the branches
should be cut back to form a regular
shaped head, and if they are pinched
back so as to keep the tree symm otrical
and only such branches are allowed to
grow as are needed, there will be no
necessity of mu:dering the tree in after
years with the saw.
Much of manure dropped by cows
yardcd over night in the barnyard is
wasted Un'ess the yard is we'll Uttered
the liquid excrement is lost and the solid
droppings dry away until much of their
value is gone. Throwing the manure in
heaps and applying little dry earth to
the heap daily will prevent loss.
There is no mystery about making
neats-foot oil, says the Rural Home. The
only thing necessary is to boil in kettle
as many cattle's feet and hoofs as can be
obtained and skim off the oil until no
more rises. From the four feet of one
animal pint of oil is generally obtained =,
and it is well worth the tri1ing cost of
making it.
SO long as COWS will eat grain or meal
it will pay to give them some daily. If it
don't they are not worth keeping any
way. Good cows will grow poor when
kept on grass alone and in full flow OF
milk. And when the pasture fails they
will have no reserve supply of flesh and
fat to keep them in condition for milking
next winter.
Cows often chew corn cobs, not for
their nutritive value, but for the min
eral they contain, lust as they will chew
old bones. In such cases wood ashes, or,
better still, ashes from corncobs, will be
eaten as greedily as salt. Ashes for cows
when on green feed corrects acidity Of
the stomach, and few supplied occa-
sionally will do good.
A Rhode Island fruit t-grower says that
the best ground for peach orchard is a
light, sandy soil that has been planted
for several years with general crops. Do
not plant on ground rich enough to pro
duce onions, peas, spinach or lettuce,
for trees will be liable to make late
autumnal growth and produce unript
wood that will be winter-kiled.
Commissioner Colman SAYS regarding
the Angora goat industry; "While fee