News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

Farm and Garden Notes.
Salt counteracts the i'll effects of wet
pasture and food on sheep, and prevents
foot root.
If we breed or feed the best the pur-
chaser Will come to u.s. If not, we must
hunt up the buyer.
Keep Goth for each mixer hanging
in the barn to wipe the dust and dirt from
the udders before milking.
Putrid flesh has communicated faint
to the milk in the udder by simply faint
ing the air Ereathed by the COW.
Lay out the seasons work so that no
available force will go to waste, and so
that there shall be no expense for main
tenance without its direct result in labor.
In determining the amount of profit,
the cost must always be considered, and
no matter how cheap we can keep hog
it costs something every day in one way
or another
Of course you have a good clover pas,
ture for your pigs. Do not, however,
depend on clover alone. Push them
right along. 1t is the early maturing hog
that brings the most profit.
At the Ontario (Canada) Agricultural
College a recent experiment with peas
showed that it took thirty-five pounds
more of cooked than of uncooked peas
to make 100 pounds of pork, live
weight.
A Louisiana farmer sold So worth OF
potatoes, the product of one acre, and
then planted the acre to cotton and sold
the product for $50 The 1925 he nat
urally regards as a good result from a
single acre.
Variety of live stock on the farm,
quite as much as variety of cropping, is
a source of wealth accumulation in the
holding. With variety -rss-S2sster numbers
can be kept, and the best use can be
made of all food by giving the quality
suitable TO each description of animal.
Dishorning stock is becoming ques
ton Of great interest to dairymen and
ranchmen. 1t will settle itself in time
like that of ensilage and all other two
sided ones. Many think the loss of
horns effects the value of a stock bull,
while it unquestionably adds to individ
ual safety.
Cabbage and caulifower want rich
soil. The first crop may be planted after
Winter frosts are over; second, for
early Fall or late Summer use, month
later, and the late Winter cabbage in
July and August. Early cabbage have
room enough at two feet apart; the late
drumheads require three.
1t is risky business taking small pota,
toes for planting, if they are the leavings
from bin. They may make good seed,
if well ripened and from strong, thrifty
plants; but potatoes that grow small,
because their growth was checked by
blight or other destruction of their
leaves, are worthless as seed.
Much valuable manure may be saved
by carefully deodorizing and composing
the refuse and night soil A mixture OF
five bushels of dry dirt and one pound
of carholate of lime, added to the sink
or closet as required, will convert the
whole into valuable manure, that can
be handled as easily as that made in the
barnyard.
There is no plant that enjoys plenty of
good manure more than the rose, aud
lack of this will always result in scraggy
plants and miserable blooms. Cow man
ure is exceptionally good for roses, espe-
cially when reduced to good compost.
Dig in plenty of it about the roots,
and especially use plenty Of it when the
roses are first planted.
A simple method of trying ensilage on
a small sc, lie by pitting or trenching is
recommended by Major Alvord in timer,
ican Culticdt0r. The excavation should
be in we'll drained soil, and, particularly
if small, should be lined with boards or
with straw. Into this pack the green
forage, cut or whole plants, cover with
the earth thrown out Of the pit, and ex
hume from one end as needed for use.
Overlooking will produce vertigo in
geese and ducks, as well as in horses and
other larger animals. Give soft and
easily Z gasted food and let the geese
and ducks Iun out in a pa ,ture and where
there is plenty OF water. When "a fowl
is attacked by vertigo, holding its head
under a stream of water for a moment
VII arrest the disease. Small doses OF
ialap, or castor oil will remove
the tendency to this complaint.
Celery does best in cool, moist soH. It
can, of course, be grown in any garden
soil, except low river bottoms or old
boys. But it does better in these than in
stiff c'ays, unless the water level is SC
high that it does not allow say two OF
three feet of foot room. The main crop
Of celery is planted in the North from the |
middle of June to the end of July, some
times even later. Celery grows best in
the cool nights of autumn.
There Is an advantage in feeding grain
Or any other rich foods. if done judi.
cousiy, that the analytical tables OF
value give no hint of. The concentrated
foods, if fed with Others, will not so
overload the stomach, and greater pro.
portion may therefore 60 torepair waste,
build up frame and tissue, or convert
into milk, meat or wool. Foods of low,
value, as, for example, straw,
should be avoided. 1t is not possible
or most stock to eat enough of them tc
get the nutrition they need for living,
much less for thriving and profit.