News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-08-01
Agricultural Notes.

l L OR + OOT-hOT IN SHEEP. "A er-
mont flock master of much experience
says that the best method of doctor
ing sheep for foot-rot is to wet the feet
of every sheep in the flock, sound or
lame, thoroughly with kerosene or
coal oil, and put what sulphur you can
take in the thum and finger between
the hoofs of each foot. Keep them in
dry place for twelve hours. Repeat
this operation in about two weeks,
and YOU will have no more trouble.
How TO USE INSECT PoIsoNs. DR..
Lintner, State Entomologist of New
York, in one of his reports mentions
these precautions as necessary to be
used in applying Paris green and
London purple for the destruction OF
insects: First, never distribute them
with the hand, as an abrasion of the
skin might result in serious harm.
Second, apply the powder with the
wind so as not to breathe it. Third,
apply only to leaves and fruit from
which it will be entirely washed away
by long and repeated rains. Fourth,
exclude all animals from feeding on
the poisoned crops. Fifth, test the
strength of the prepared poison on
few plants first, lest it be too strong
and injure them. Sixth, use it no
stronger than will kill the insect.
To SAVE SwARMING BEEs.-All bee
keepers know what loss absorbing
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it is to save them, says a Western
apiarst. To prevent this difficulty
put queen that is not very valuable
ia queen cage and tie it to some con-
venient place, like a low limb on a
tree. The swarm will be sure to set
tie on the cage where they can be
hived without any trouble. 1t is the
scent of the queen that causes them to
alight. He adds that what called his
attention to this was the fact that so
many swarms settled in the same
place near the apiary. He grasped
the idea that it was the scent of the
queen that caused them to do so, and
after tying a queen cage with queen
in it to the limb of tree few times
it proved the theory correct.
CAN FARMERS AFFORD THE BEST p
Can the farm provide of its best for
the table and also be profitably con-
Quoted on the surplus? This is
question frequently asked, but rarely
answered. Too many farms are run
on the principle that the best of the
produce must be marketed and the
residue consumed at home. 1t is GER
tainly false economy to feed frozen or
decaying vegetables to either family
or live stock. If crop has suffered,
the first loss is the least; get the bad
portions quickly out Of the way and
guard another year against like loss.
On dairy farms, where butter is made
at home, no second grade of quality
can be pardoned the competition is
now so keen that only top prices re-
munerate the dairy farmers therefore
the family should have the best butter
made in the land. When poultry are
bred and fattened for market pur-
poses, the owners should literally feast
on fat things. On poultry farm,
lean chickens, starving turkeys, and
fabby ducks, together with gaunt
geese, should be unknown. When
spring chickens are worth fifty cents
per pound, and early ducks fetch
twenty to thirty cents per pound,
fat capon worth twenty cents per
pound can grace the home table.
There is no wisdom in meanness at
home, and placing on the market an
inferior article, because such is more
readily produced. A high standard
for everything produced makes home
more cheerful and swells the profit at
the close of the year. Good land well
cultivated, good stock well kept, aud
the farm home literally supplied, tend
in themselves to enrich the farmer and
to advance the widest interests in the
community. Observer.