News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-16
Farm and Garden Notes.

See that pigs in the pasture do not
lack water.
dig early potatoes as soon as ripe" is
the usual rule.
A vicious bull without horns is still a
dangerous creature.
Beware how you get into debt. 1t is
not so easy to get out of it.
Clean out and inspect sleeps feet to
discover if rot is beginning.
Fruit should be fully ripe and not in
the least decayed when eaten.
An old farmer says: Don't have the
eggs ali in one basket" Diversified
farming is what pays.
A crushed tomato leaf rubbed upon
the part stung is now recommended as a
remedy for a bee sting.
The returns now show a total of
2,S15, 900 hogs packed in the West since
March 1st, against ?, 825, 900 year ago.
"Stand by the sheep" urges Rural
Home. A sheep comes up every six
months and pays its bills; it does not die
in debt.
The report of the Ohio Experimental
Station is that whole potatoes have in
variably given better results than cut
ones.
According to Professor H. G. Fernald,
the borer in ounce is the same as that in
the apple tree, and should be destroyed
in the same manner.
If the pasture gives out make up the
defniency with feed. Mich cows and
growing hogs will require a light feed of
bran night and morning.
Lambs should be weaned next month.
Let them remain in the field in which
they have been accustomed to run and
remove the mothers out of hearing.
The farmers who shall establish the
making of small cheese, for family use,
of uniform excellent grade, not too
strong, will find small fortune in the
business.
Shade is necessity for animals at
pasture. If there are no trees in the
field put up light shed with branches
of trees for roof if you can afford
nothing Letter.
The american Agriculturist suggests
that a weedy field may have crop of
buckwheat, and this, before there is
danger of frost, should be turned under
as green manure.
Mary farmers lay shingles on the
ground among cucumbers and squash
vines, and in the morning destroy the
bugs that have gathered on the under.
side by clapping the shingles together.
In laying out your work for the season
give the garden liberal share of atten.
ton. 1t may not be the labor which will
bring great returns in money, but it is
certain to do so in family health and
comfort.
The whitewash brush should be used
this month, or you may have
lots of trouble later on. Remember that
nits make lice, and that an ounce of pre-
vention is worth pound of cure. Car
bolic acid in the lime does lots of good.
Many successful potato growers rarely
use poison for potato bugs, says Anaeri-
can Cu!tirator. They begin when the
first bug makes its appearance, keep up
hand picking a week or two, and then
rely on cultivation and insect enemies to
do the rest.
The farmer who waits until having
time to get his barns and harvesting ma
chinery in order, will begin his haying
late in the season, his hay will be al |
lowed to get ripe and lose its most valu-
able qualities; he will be behind in har-
Vcsting and all the year.
DR.. Collier, of the New York station,
Knows of no remedy for pear blight
beetle except to cut off the infested twigs
! little below the injury and burn them
before the beetle escapes during the latter
part of June or the beginning of July,
its eggs during August.
OF Lightweight species of weeds de-
cribed by Mr.. L. II. Pammel, of St.
4ouis, as growing in South western Wis.
,onsin and South eastern Missouri, forty
tx are of European and thirty of Ameri-
an origin. One-third of the latter class
nd nearly one-fourth of the entire list
re composites.
81 have seen difference of nearly ten
bushels per acre in the yield of eight
ores of corn planted with bushel of
elected seed over that of the remainder
# the field or any portion of it planted
With corn of the same variety taken from
he crib" So says W. w. Tracy in
nswer to Rural Neao Y0rker's question:
Does it pay to save seedp
Keep all kinds of young stock in
hrifty, growing condition. 1t never
Jays to economic in the feeding of young
nimals. Once stunted they never re-
over from the effects of the neglect.
During the hot weather see to it that
hey not only have plenty of water, but
lenty of good water. Don't compel
hem to drink out of stagnant pool.