News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-19
If you would have good cows, be reg

If you would have good COWS, be reg
ular in feeding, watering and sailing.
The farmer who put away his pillow
last fall inside coat of grease is now
rejoicing.
Sheep do best in roomy house or
pen where they are not exposed to cold
winds or wet.
To not be in haste to have newly
Matched chicks eat, as they need nothing
for twenty-four hours after leaving the
she'll.
Every poultry-yard should have a
peach tree planted therein, as the peach
thrives we'll in poultry yards and is
protected from the bOrer by the hens.
Des>icated' fish is a new commercial
poultry food 1t is the heads of perfect
ly fresh fish, dried and ground, and
| should be fed in proportion of one pint
to twenty fowls, in their soft food. 1t
shou' d be fed in alienation with ground
meat. Some found an increase of twenty
per cent. N the egg basket since using
it.
Plant plenty of sunAower seeds if you
would have Your birds with handsome
plumage, they arc invaluable for birds
raised for the show room, in fact. they
are excellent for young chicks as well.
If the seeds be failed out when dry and
then reduced to meal, they may be mixed
with the soft feed, and will greatly as
sist the feathering of young chicks.
Any soil upon which water does not
remain during the winter, says writer
in Fj~ks u tpa:iHo. can be ma e to grow
Ill h vr-Ili
produce weeds will grow them; but as
there are few soils which can produce
two crops at the same time, It is better
not to try to grow a crop of weeds and
a crop of strawberries OF the same soil
together.
The udder of COW is very compii-
Gated affair. Outwardly it consists of a
series of muscular bands crossing each
other and attached to abdominal muscles
for the support at the mass of the organ.
The teat is not simple tube, as has
been supposed, but consists of a large
number of ducts, which run into four,
five, or more channels or tubes, each of
which discharges separately in the ORR
fee of the teat
The infertility of many soils is due
more to their mechanical condition,
their texture and relations to heat and
moisture, than to lack of plant food.
Such soils want amendment first and
manure afterwards. Some soils will
give good returns for manming; others,
without irrigation or amendment by
drainage, tillage, use of lime, mari or
muck, or otherwise, will not.
A horse should not be allowed to
drink Immediately after eating. Hon.
John NJ. Russell, ex-Secretary of the
Massachusetts, Board of Agriculture, tells
of seeing some horses in France fed on
coarse beans then watered all they
would drink and Immediately killed and
dissected. He observed that a consider
able quantity of beans had been washed |
out of the stomach, and some of them
were found in the intestineS.
The bean weevil, commonly called |
bug, is small beetle, which lays its |
eggs in the green pods. The pea weevil, |
another species, does the same for peas
The Young larvP find their way into the
Young seeds, where they grow with the
fruit, often destroying the meat, but do
not interfere with the germ There is
40 remedy for the depreciation, but since
he beetles do not fly far, if the seed con-
aims no images there will be no infest-
ng of the crop. One plan to kill the
magos in the seed is to pour boiling
water on the seed and pour off imme-
lately, but the best way is to sow seed
lot infested.