The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-24
Farm and Garden Notes.

World.
Farm and Garden Notes.
It will pay to always keep salt within
reach of the cows.
Using dull or worn out instruments is
very poor economy.
Sawdust makes good bedding for
cattle if properly cared for.
Buy lot of bran, middlings or linseed
meal to feed with your corn meal.
The farmer who does not read farm
papers has neglected one of his priv.
leges.
If you are short of bedding and near
grove lay in good supply of dry
leaves.
Grapes should be kept as near the
freezing point as possible, and yet not
freeze.
Remember 1t will pay to house your
fodder as soon as you possibly can, ifyou
have no silo.
1t will pay you to test your COVE
separately and send those that don't pay
to the butcher.
Tarred paper iudiciously applied to
stable cracks will help out the fodder
and increase the milk supply.
Don't forget that pound of fine but
ter is worth thirty cents. and pound Of
"store" butter about half as much.
Don't forget that it is much easier to
let cows shrink in the milk than to per.
suade them to swell the milk flow.
The cold, damp ground is poor mat
tress, and an extra forkful of bedding
in the stall will "just take off the chill"
All animals for meat, sold alive in lots,
will bring better prices the nearer they
approach uniformity of size and weight.
Never ship an egg that is dirty or in
any manner soiled. The appearance is
prime factor in the sale of any article.
Don't forget that if you look to the
manure to enable you to come out even,
you are keeping the wrong kind OF
cows.
Consumers will not eat as coarse pork
now as formerly, and the demand for
leaner meat of tenderer fibre is increas.
ing every day.
It will pay you to keep your heifers
gentle and used to being handled,
thereby saving much trouble and time
when they drop their first calves.
Now is the time to remember that it
pays to have your cows calve'in the fall
and early winter, and make your calcu-
lations for winter dairy next year.
Don't forget that the favor Of the
milk that you sometimes attribute to
some kind of weed in the hay, is due to
lack of cleanliness on your part in the
care of the cows.
Sheep manure applied in liquid
form is recommended as a good fertiliz-
er for chrysanthemums. Soak in water
until the water is strongly covered with
it and then apply.
The hen is willing but weak creature
at best, and when the cold wave dashes
on to the open shed it freezes her jocund
song and there is no sign of eggs in the
snow drifted nest.
The arbor vitae is one of the best ever.
green trees for hedge. By shearing it
can be made very dense, while it grows
very rapidly, so that for a general pur-
pose it is one of the best.
Here is the mixture some have found
profitable to feed: Twenty pounds of
corn, fifteen pounds of oats, ten pounds
of barley, and ten pounds of wheat
bran, ground fine and well mixed.
If you have not comfortable poultry
house, make it so at once, if you want
to get any good out of your poultry.
They will do you no good unless you are
good to them and provide for their
wants.
Charcoal is an aid to digestion, and
should be given occasionally to fowls
and swine Corn burned on the cob is
the best form to give it, and little
properly charred will benefit the human
organism.
If you have not local market, ship
good, well-graded winter apples directly
to a reliable commission house in the
city. If you have not enough for car
load, join with your neighbor or neigh
bors and make up one some way.
All farming is in one sense contin-
uous, never ending round of sowing,
cultivating, reaping, just as the year is
ever spring, summer, fall and winter.
And yet who ever saw two seasons alike,
or the cultivatng of the soil that ought
to have been the same2 We must study
our work if we are going to make a sue
cess of it.
The troublesome red spider on house
plants is only to be conquered by fire.
quent sprinkling of the leaves with a
fine syringe. The scale insect is van
pushed by brushing the stems with an
old tooth brush dipped in soap suds; he
is apt to be troublesome upon the orange
and oleander trees. Mealy bug is dis.
posed of in the same way.