Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-04-30
Farm and Garden Notes.

Cleanliness should be, but it is not
always, next to good butter
Tobacco refuse is a rich and quick
acting fertilizer. 1t is also repulsive to
insects
Look we'll to the house drainage and
see that it and the water supply are kept
far apart.
You have TO consider the feeding of
the hen as we'll as the chicks. Feed the
former first on grain, and after that she
may take pick with her chicks.
The best way to pillow for corn is to
begin in the middle and throw ridge
up by turning and to throw the burrows
toward the centre, finishing up around
the sides.
Because there is but little in the paper
warning against planting bad seed, be
careful, nevertheless, to see that all the
corn you plant is sound and lively, and
thus avoid the serious expense of replant-
ing.
DR.. N. Rowe warns farmers against
keeping sick dogs around the house
whe there are children. Children and
infants, he claims, are liable 10 disease
where puppy or a dog having distem-
per is kept in the hou:e.
Old flour barrels are not always suita-
BILE for apple barrels, especially when the
fruit is to be shipped long distance.
Bits of flour left in the crevices of the
barrel mold in a damp atmosphere an |
impart an unpleasant flavor to the fruit.
The last month or so of pigs life
has great influence upon the flesh of
the animal You can put on the frame
all through the year, but the flavor is
largely determined by the feeding during
the latter period of fattening. The sam
is true of all animals.
The evolution of the tomato is going
on in a remarkable way. Not many
years ago the fruit was mostly skin and
seeds, but the newest varieties ale almost
solid pulp with very few seeds. Posi-
bly,, as in the case of the bananas, the
seeds will yet disappear altogether, ind
the plants will have to be prorag ted by
cuttings.
Some farmers hold that it is q good
plan to harrow the corn stubble to break
1t down, level the ground and loosen the
SOIL thus letting it dry out more quickly
and forwarding the time when it may b.
plowed. Springs work usually needs
crowding along as rapidly as possible
and as corn hills not peasant things
to plow why not harrow it first2
The efforts to preserve eggs in purity
are never more than partially successful
The lined egg, though not spoiled, il
never absolutely fire. h. 1t has lost some
moisture and has absorbed some air
which has tendency to decompose par
ticlcs. Although lime and other prep1
rations exclude air they do not expe
what the egg had previously absorbed.
1t is wastcful policy, that OF exhaust
ing the soil so it will no longer pa,
the cost of cultivation. The feeding oil
stock, carting the manure on the land
and proper rotation will keep the sol
intact. Hence it is more profitable every
where to feed all the coarse grains OF
the farm than to sell. Once the exhaus
tive process is begun it becomes ever.
year more difficult to make change TO
the better.
Mr.. ]. L. Rose, wellknown breeder o
trotters in California, says; The thor
oughbred has the valuable qualities o
speed and endurance to greater exten
than any horse in the world; and, if yo'
can get the. thoroughbred to tfot, thel
you may cry Eureka! But there is tn
rub. l have tried this to some extent
and all of my efforts have been failures.