News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-05
Farm and Garden Notes.

The refuse from celery trimmed for mar.
ket is excellent for poultry.
Never breed a SOW before she is year
DID, as it retards her growth.
Dry paths tend to comfort outside the
house and cleanliness within.
Fast walking horses are better for
farmers than speedy trotters.
Two thicknesses of newspaper make a
good lining for apple barrels.
Never attempt to keep geese or ducks
where water is not accessible.
c. NJ. Clay, of Kentucky, does not be-
lieve in the common practice of burning
stubble and refuse on the land.
All who aspire to gardening honors
should at some time get in the way of
raising many of their own seeds.
Avoid root gratis in selecting apple
trees. If only single stock has been
used for the root graft it is not so bad.
A New York horticulturist recon
mends pure ground bone as one of the
best fertilizers for fruit trees and grape
vines.
If every man would take care of his
stock and be sure to have some to take
care of, the fertilizing question would be
greatly simplitied in the opinion of a
Florida farmer.
Hoard's Dairyanaa tells of New Hamp-
shire man who increased the amount of
the solids in his milk two per cent. by
feeding a half-pint of molasses to each
of his cows daily.
Separate crops of broadcast peas or pea
fallow, to prepare and manure the land
for succeeding wheat crop, furnish the
most valuable use to which the pea crop
can be- applied, according to the ex-
perience of Southern planter.
An authority on hogs states that if we
take all the hogs fattened in the United
States in year, and change the time of
fattening from cold to warm weather,
one-half the grain now fed will make ali
the pork. This would be saving of at
least S75, 900, 900 per year.
For cholera add ateaspoonful of LIQUID
carbolic acid to point and half of
water. Mix their food with the water and
give the fowls ne other water to drink.
Cholera is indicated by great thirst,
greenish droppings Changing to yellow
and white color, prostration, and ner-
vous, anxious expression.
The Canadian H0rticulturist recon-
mends as a ready means for the neces-
sary asserting of fruit for market, that
as full basket is brought in it should
be placed between two empty ones, and
as the fruit is carefully picked up the
best go into the right hand basket sec
onis into the left, and the poor laid
aside.
More attention should be given to
the growing of trees for lumber; on
every farm, almost, there is some corner
where the land is too rough or hard for
profitable cultivation such places should
be encouraged to produce trees that will
eventually be of value for timber; root
out undesirable trees, and encourage the
desirable ones, should be the practice of
every farmer.
The disease of the skin known as
mango is easily recognized by the dry,
which the hair falls off. The skin
cracks and a yellow matter oozes out
and forms crusts, which must be broken
up to give effect to the remedies applied.
1t is caused both by an insect and plant
ferent varieties of the disease. The
most effective remedy, says the New
York Times, is sulphur rubbed up with
four times its weight of lard with one
fourth its weight of creosote added,
well rubbed into the bare patches after
washing with soap and water
and rubbing with corn cob to break
the crusts.