The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-06-13
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

b FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
is Prompt wedding of garden crops will
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,r Wood-ashes are excellent on moist
10 Ills.
,, Use powdered helleborc for the currant
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y Feed the young chicks often but not
n b plentifully.
IGive good feed and extra care to the
Iorses that are at farm work.
| Oats is the great staple horse feed of the
,orld for all classes Of horses.
If you want the best work from your
teams you must feed just right.
Colt shows among the draft horse
breeders are becoming popular.
Hard, dry paths tend to comfort out.
side the house and cleanliness within.
The much abused crow is also one of
the best aids in exterminating the white
grub.
Western farmers say that a grain ration
must be used with alfalfa to produce
good milk.
Care should be taken to supply every
animal kept on the place with all the
water it needs.
Transplant the tomato plant with care,
keeping a good solid ball of earth on the
roots till reset.
The same food, without variation,
should not be given to poultry for any
considerable length of time.
The drinking vessels for fowls should
be often refilled and kept clean. Hens
drink little at time, but often.
A well-known writer maintains that,
contrary to the popular notion, darkness
is not essential in growing mushrooms.
Weeds can be killed more easily and
quickly by choking out with heavy seed
| ing of clover and timothy than In any
other way.
Examine young fruit trees of all kinds,
andi if bo:ings or sawdust are seen on the
ground hunt for the hole and probe out
the grub with piece of wire.
A falling off in flesh of farm horses in
summer is too often due the fact that the
pasture field is depended upon to too
great an extent for their maintenance.
Be easy with the wire-card or toothed
currycomb on cattle and horses. A stiff
brush and wire currycomb, without
teeth, is safest r. the hand of the average
man.
A warm sandy soil, with sunny ex.
posure, will give the earliest cuttings Of
asparagus, according to A. W. Cheever,
but deep loan may give larger returns
during the season.
A prominent horticulturist expresses
his belief that the Wealthy apple top
grated upon the Switzer will be perfec
and long-lived tree, serving more tina,
one generation faithfully.
Ducks grow very rapidly and it i
claimed that person who goes into tn
duck business systematically and take
advantage of all the good points of {
dwsix- caI, t,,-.-h;s
quickly.
The question is discussed whether j
pays to save leaves for bedding and alb
sorbents, and our answer is that, at least
it is better to get leaves and use then
than believe there is something better ant
not use anything.
1t is authoritatively stated that ea'
celeste (blue water, simple solution o
sulphate of copper with ammonia) is no
only remedy for mildew, but at tn
same time rids plants of the rose beetl
when they are so infested.
With good roads it would be as easy t.
draw two tons of farm produce to marke
as one ton under present conditions, We
the good roads in farming districts mus
wait until the persons chiefly interested
have greater development of public spirit
A case of black rot in large vineyard
was attributed by member of the annua
meeting of the Western New York Hor
ticultural Society to the use of barnyart
manure, the ammonia from the new
manure being thought to injure the nev
canes.
Any land upon which water stand
more than twenty four hours after rain
fall, however heavy, is pronounced b.
excellent authority to be unfit for any or
chard without thorough tile-draining
and not safe even with it, because Their
is always the risk of the tiles being oh
structed with roots, and the trees becom
ing unthrifty in consequence.