The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-02-07
Farm and Garden Notes.
Practise keeping farm accounts.

Farm and Garden Notes.
Practise keeping farm accounts.
Open and utilize farm dairy.
Sharp tools save time. Sharpen them
now.
Don't neglect to give the idle horses
sufficient exercise.
Save all waste and refuse matter that
is available for the compost heap.
The owner of good or-nothing COW
throws away time, food and labor.
Nothing more important for cows,
and especially butter cows, than regu lar
and judicious sailing.
In growing onions, parsnips and car
rots good seed is all-important. Use
none of doubtful vitality.
Brooms dipped for few minutes in
boiling suds once week will last longer
than they otherwise would.
Have you forgotten to provide dust
boxes for your birds, We are sorry if
you have; make them now.
Remember that wood ashes are Of
great value, and secure all you can for
top dressing meadows and grain fields.
To prevent the smell of cabbage per-
ineating the house while boiling, place
on the stove dish containing vinegar.
Never ship an egg that is dirty or in
any manner soiled. The appearance is
prime factor in the sale of any article.
Take care of meadows in fall, winter
and early spring, and two tons of good
hay to the acre will be surer than one
ton without care.
Oats supposed to be clean are so often
full of dust and filth and impurities as
to seriously weaken the appetite or i'm
pair the health of horses.
No better, cheaper or easier way to
salt has yet been proposed than to keep
some Jumps of rock salt in the troughs,
or in boxes in the pasture.
The question has been raised whether
warming water for stock in any but very
cold weather pays, and whether it may
not even do harm for beef cattle.
1t pays to pillow the second crop of
clover under. 1t may seem like loss
of hay, but the benefit to the land will
more than balance the apparent loss.
With young stock especially, allowing
the fences to become broken is one prin-
cipal cause of stock becoming breachy.
Either have good fences or none at all.
Toads are the policemen of the garden.
They speedily transport insect depreda-
tors to a place where they will do no
harm. And this interior Jail is quite
capacious.
Cut a good supply of firewood and al
low it to be seasoned. The woman who
can cook with green wood and be pleased
with it must be but a little lower than
the angels.
Some farmers taking the hint make
cleanliness the basis of all the care given
their swine; and it is needless ITO say
that when this is enforced other sanitary
conditions follow.
A daily growth in swine of a little
more than a pound is more profitable
than less or more. This daily growth
increases with age until the maturing
period is nearly reached.
Most cases of roup in well-kept yards
comes from newly introduced poultry.
Miss E. X. Winans, in american Agri-
culturisi, suggests the wisdom of keep
ing fresh importations apart from other
stock for at least week.
Professor Sanborn is emphatic in his
belief that corncobs have nutritive
value. With four parts corncobs to one
part of cottonsced meal he got gain
average better than that from pure corn.
The cobs must be ground fine; they are
of no value for pig feed coarsely ground.
1t requires burr mill to do the work
right.
Horses fed largely on other food de-
mand less hay, but hay is useful in
distending the stomach, thus assisting
digestion. An English veterinarian
recommends as seductive to horse that
is too delicate feeder little linseed
boiled to a jelly and mixed with the corn.
Hay dampened and sailed will tempt
many animals.
Most wood cutting is done in winter
when the trees are bare of leaves, for the
reason that this is the season for most
leisure and that telling trees is more
suited to cold weather than to hot. But
if wood is wanted for great durability
it should be felled while in full leaf.
This is especially true of soft, porous
wood. The leaves help to carry out Q
great deal of the moisture in the tree,
and this rapid seasoning preserves the
wood from speedy decay.