News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-12
Farm and Garden Notes.
Plant the best of everything.

Plant the best of everything.
Fowls infested with lice become tot
weak to lay.
Spring work should be planned out
we'll in advance.
Fresh manure on ground to be planted
for potatoes conduces to scab
Sheep do not want too warm place
wind.
The Western P1oacman predicts tha
electricity will be the family carriage
horse of the future.
Prevent bad odors from the hog pens
and feeding-houses by scattering ashes
or charcoal plentifully over the floors.
Wood ashes are the best of all fertiliz
ers for grass, wheat and peach trees, &C
cording to an experienced Ohio farmer
Worrying by dogs, hurrying by rough
boys, kicking and pounding a restless
mixer, all reduce the quality of the
milk.
A COW we'll broken to lead is worth
SO more than a timid and unmanage,
able one; ''she will make more milk,
butter and good nature"
The grand requisite of success, with
out which the celebrated breeders would
be little distinguished, is feeding 1t is
food and management that makes beau.
tiful specimen of any strain of blood.
Professor Arnold says the running ex-
pense in labor and fuel for evaporating
apples is ten to twelve cents a bushe
for raspberries, half a cent a quart; for
peaches, twenty-five to thirty-f five cents
a bushel.
Professor Arnold states that it costs
more to make milk from old cows than
1t does from young ones having the same
milk capacity. He says as a rule the best
effects do not last beyond the eighth
year of the cows age.
The Cu,tioat0r says: "The main thing
in treating balky horse is to distract
his attention. A handful of earth in his
mouth will sometimes do it, or a string
tied tightly round one of his ears. Whip
ping is hardly ever advisable"
Professor Henry says that when a
farmer feeds his hogs 100 pounds of corn,
he gives them eight pounds of muscle
making food and seventy-six pounds of
Matchmaking food. Muscle is strength.
Fat is not strength, it is stored heat.
Irregularity in the amount of food
given the COW will cause her sometimes
to dryup. SO will worrying, fast driv-
ing or excitement of any kind An an
imal giving milk is very sensitive to bad
treatment or surrounding influences.
Farmers generally do not yet appreciate
the value of bran as feeding substance.
1t contains less oil than cornmeai. but
one-fourth more flesh-forming, bone
building material 1t can usually be
bought in the fall for about one-third
less than in the winter.
Mr.. Josiah Hopes urged readers, years
ago, to make a map of the new orchard
Labels get lost, or their lettering be-
comes ilIegible. But if the location of
each tree in the row be plainly indicated
on sheet of paper for careful preserva-
ton, the record of varieties is rendered
trustworthy and permanent.
President George II. Angel, Of the
New York Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, says that in Russia
binders are never used, and a shying
horse is unknown in that country. lie
adds: Carriage horses do not require
binders any more than saddle horses, or
cavalry horses, or artillery horses. The
tight check rein is another evil: so is the
present fashion of docking horses tails. !"
Mr.. A. w. Checver IN likes in the Ncl0
England Farmer the suggestion that in
purchasing a windmill for pumping
water, saving wood, OF similar kind, OF
farm work, it is not good plan 10 Sc