News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
Dirty boots are as much out of place

Dirty boots are as much out of plac
on hay as on the carpet.
Buckwheat is recommended for sol
infested with wire-worms.
Old orchards should be MANFRED anc
plowed. using lime and ashes
Wood ashes, where available, are the
cheapest fertilizer for fruit trees.
1t is usually necessary to moisten egg
little just before Matching in nests built
IN Oh and dry"
For the first month five times day is
recommended for feeding young chick
ems, by correspondent of Poultry World
Sulphur, insect powder and kerosene
should be used freely in preventing the
spread of and in destroying poultry
vermin.
Currants would give better satisfaction
II not so generally sighted They repay
very literally for pruning, manure, and
Gu. ture.
ay IN stock of copper sulphate and
whatever other materials are needed, at
an early date. And don't forget the
spraying pump and nozzle.
On many farms it will pay better to
build a large poultry yard to pen the
chickens IN, than to build much longer
fence to pen the chickens out.
1t may be pleasure for farmers to try
some of the fancy breeds, but the most
profit comes from adopting one of the
general purpose kinds and breeding it
straight.
Old pear trees that have apparently
been worthless have been revived by the
application of peck of salt and ashes
scattered around the base. Now is the
time to try the method.
In pruning roses cutting back closely
produces, as rule, fever blossoms of
finer quality, while from those not so
closely pruned will be obtained larger
quantity of smaller flowers
When about time for setting of eggs
to hatch, the nest and hen should be
thoroughly inspected, and if there be a
sign of vermin, all should be thoroughly
busted with sulphur or Persian powder.
In planting peach and ounce trees
they should be given a rich, mellow soil.
old trees may be materially benefited if
the branches are carefully thinned out
and a good dressing of well-decayed
manure is given over the surface of the
roofs.
Says the Neao England Farmer: GA
farmer will spend day in carting some
fertilizer for which he has to pay a good
price, when for the same time spent he
might have had something Just as valu-
able by carefully collecting the drop
pings from under the hosting fowls"
Plant raspberrics in rows five feet
apart and three feet in the row. Black
berries in rows eight feet apart and three
feet in the row. Strawberries may be
set in rows three feet apart, and twelve
inches in the row. The soil should be
fertile, but good cultivation counts much.
However great possibilities there may
be in poultry raising, the plan adopted
by many farmers causes loss of far
more fruit, and garden truck" and
grain, than the CHI ckens are worth. In
telligent management and feeding are as
necessary with chickens as with other
livestock.
No one need expect to get sound,
healthy chickens from eggs laid by hens
that have been coddled into good for
nothingness all through the winter
months. The constitution as we'll as the
other characteristics of a chicken is de-
termined by the health and condition or
its parents.
Speaking of pasturing, New Eng
lander says: "In my opinion a farmer
can keep a sheep with every cow with
out any additional expense. A farmer
keeping twenty cows will find he has
just as much food if he has kept twenty
sheep with them, and they are just as
well nourished.
Wood ashes are one of the best posi-
BILE fertilizers for young trees, whether
fruit or ornamental trees. 1t should not
be put directly on the roots, but worked
into the soil, as it is filed in after the
tree has been set and plaster might
also be used in the same way, either
alone or in connection with the wood
ashes. The ashes aud plaster might also
-Pfowed or -spaded IN.
The best treatment for mango in pigs
is to apply mixture of flowers of sui phur
and common lard. Apply this ointment
to every part of the animal, rubbing it
into the hair and skin with good stiff
brush. The pigs should, of course, be
reno ed from the old pen and placed in
one perfectly clean. One application
will usually be sufficient to effect cure,
unless the disease has been neglected
until the animnl is covered with sores;
then two or three applications may be
necessary.