The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-05-30

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an instinct which teaches them that if
they lie down it may be difficult for them
to get upon their feet again.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
silage is partial substitute for green
grass.
Silage may be made an efficient ally of
or good substitute for soiling crops.
1t is no sign that hen mcditates evil
to her owner simply because she lays for
him.
BE sure and set out some fruit-a few
berries at least-and how about the cur
rants and grapes5
The first eggs from pullets should not
be used for Matching if hens eggs can be
had conveniently.
Some who keep cattle up in summer say
that silage is even more valuable in sum-
mer than in winter.
A lath fence is the first thing to plant
for farmers garden. 1t will pay the
best of any one crop he can put in.
The common school is the farmers col
lege, and the parents ought to visit the
schools and be interested in their work
The persimmon is naturally a slow
grower, and although plenty of fertilizer
is given, they seem to grow only just about
so much.
Farmers are not putting business method
enough into their work, They must make
their brains do little more and their
hands little less.
If you have any mongrel cocks or those
from which you do not wish to breed, get
rid of them at once. 1t is needless ex-
pense to feed them.
An important advantage resulting from
the use of ensilage all the year is, that
manure made from it is available for use
not scattered at random over the farm.
A COW should never be idle more than
six weeks at one time. She will last
longer, and earn more than COW kept the
usual way-milked seven months, half
fed and idle five,
In selecting fertilizers remember that
gypsum, or land plaster, is cheap and
valuable form of plant food. 1t is es-
pecially valuable for mixing with hen
manure, ashes and compost.
Among the latest notable features OF
the poultry business is that of Matching
ducks by incubator and fattening them
for early market. 1t is claimed to be 6
very remunerative business.
I Have no fear of feeding potatoes tc
cows giving milk, but be careful about
feeding them few weeks before time Of
calving, for they stimulate milk produc
ton and at that period may cause garget
The butter product of any State can BIZ
increased twenty-five per cent. with The
cows now used and without additional ex
pense by feeding liberal balanced ratiol
and giving the COWS and the milk prope
care.
Boxes in the kitchen windows provide
probably the best and most convenien
way to raise plants from seed for tn
home garden. Sow seed about six week
before time to transplant to the opel
ground.
Bees should be furnished water if
good supply be not close at hand. TAX,
) a salt barrel that has just been emptied
| soak it in water and set it out near tn
apiary, and the bees will show how the.
/ appreciate such a tonic.
From the earliest streak of dawn to tn
last ray of the setting sun, there is some
: thing that can be done It is not al
l drudgery. Much of it is pleasant labor
hut it is work that must be done, AM
: done thoroughly at the right time, or
1 will not be made success.
To clear pear trees of the scurfy bar
louise scrape the scales off during col
weather and as soon as spring opens, an
! when they begin to hatch syringe tn
trees and their limbs with solution G
washing soda (half pound to an OF
! binary pailful of water). Prompt treat
ments of this kind will destroy them
Some pomologists paint the twigs an
!, branches with linseed oil for this pest.
: Silage is made in stacks in Englan
y just as hay is stacked; but the stack
covered with an air-tight roof, draw
: down very tightly by means of POVERTY
), screws attached to foundation timbers un
der tight floor. This method is fire
! 9uently failure, as the fodder is spoile
: for considerable depth and sometime
. the whole stack is damaged.
0 For disease of the bean consisting {
e a parasitic fungus growing in the tissue
e the pods and producing large brow
e spots, recent bulletin of the Departmer
i OF Agriculture suggests to Louisian
: correspondent to try spraying soon afte
the beans begin to form with solution G
t one ounce of hyposulphite of soda to
r gallon of water, repeating the operatio
e when the beans are about half grown, an
q again eight or ten days later. -