Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-03-16
FARM NOTES.

The only sure road to success in raising
swine is in keeping the pigs healthy and
constantly growing.
In using eggs for Matching, the largest
and strongest chicks will come from eggs
laid by the hens or fully-matured pullets.
Eggs that are small or double-yeked are
not suitable for Matching.
The breast strap in buggy and carriage
harness should be replaced by good fitting
collars and names It is "A heavy load for
horse to drag a buggy through the mud,
and breast straps were never intended for
hard pulling. Try the collar until the
spring mud time is over.
At the recent meeting Of the Farmers
Institute at Utica, n. Y, Col Curtis adj
| vised TO fence off an acre or two of the
pasture and raise some corn and peas and
other succulent food, and to put pigs in
there and let them root in the pasture and
feed them on the ground. BY this method
he gets a new pasture and a more fertile
one than he had before.
The production of raisins in California
was last year 100000 boxes. In 1873 it
was only 5000 boxes.
According to DR.. John Noelcker, a sim
pie test to ascertain whether a substance is
butter or butterine is to throw a small por-
ton Of it into "A frying pan or ladle made
nearly red hot. If butterne the smell of
burnt animal fat will at once reveal its ma
ture
Every time trotting horse wins a thous-
and dollars it is fair to say honest industry
has lost about twice that sum.
One of the meanest things a farmer can
do, without being called to account by law
is to keep one or more worthless snarling
dogs that annoy his neighbors, but such
meanness is by no means uncommon.
a correspondent Of the Farmers Home
Journal, speaking Of orchard grass, says
that although it is better suited to the shade
than, perhaps, any other grass, yet it is
equally well suited to the open ground if
sown in the spring and well narrowed in,
using not less than two bushels of seed TO
the acre. 1t is true it is inclined to grow
in punches, but if the quantity here recon-
mended is sown to the acre, one-half sown
north and south and the other half east and
west, it will give as perfect and continuous
a sod as could he desired. The seed should
be sown very early.
1t is claimed by a newspaper correspond
ent, who visited the Darlington farm, where
25O cows are kept for butter. that their
daily rations were eight pounds cornmeal
eight pounds bran and eight pounds Of cut
hay mixed and fed together This would
very nearly correspond to the German ra
ton, but a cheaper ration and one equally
well balanced, was used 10y Prof Henry in
some experiments last winter. 1t consist,
of sixteen pounds Of hay. seven pound,
wheat bran and five pounds of cornmcal.
One would not think that British land
holders were in much distress over shor
crops, low prices for them and live stock
or indeed in anything else when we heal
that 1850 to l10packs of stag and fox hounds
are kept there for mere sport. besides ove1
, 100 packs of barriers for the chase Of tn,
poor innocent hares. We do not know how
many the packs average, but probably no
less than 80 for some of fox hounds run IA
high as 30 to 60 each. Calculating all "A
30 each the number would Toe j,4OO worth
less dogs, the keeping of which mus
: amount to large sum annually Add t
r this the expense Of probably ! 200 horse
for the followers Of the hounds in the hunts
Erooms, stable boys. equipments. etc, etc.
/, and the bill of the whole foots up an enor
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