The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-04-10
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

It is poor practice to let cattle help
themselves at the haystack,
Put your pear orchard on high ground
and it will not be likely to be troubled
with the scab
Keeping matches in any other recepta.
Gle than an iron or tin box is tempting
Providence.
Some people think farm animal is like
a postage stamp-no good until licked.
They are sadly mistaken.
A successful dairyman must be far
mer and must raise most of the food con
sumed, says prominent Vermont dairy.
man.
All animals are benefited by change
of food occasionally, and every one is in
jured that is allowed to stand on cold,
wet floor.
Terracing on lands inclined to wash or
shed water too rapidly is superseding the
old style of hillside ditching with many
Southern farmers.
Any one who intends to begin bee
keeping for profit will make good in
vestment by working for time in the
apiary of an experienced beekeeper.
Hen manure should be kept in barrels
or dry shed and well mixed with either
plaster, muck or road dust. Handled
in this manner, it is the best fertilizer the
farm produces.
Set the tramps at work repairing the
roads in payment for their lodging. They
are authority on the subject, have done
their share toward wearing out the roads
and have an interest in keeping them in
good condition.
In buying poultry for breeding pur-
poses go to some reliable breeder, who
has reputation at stake. 1t may cost
little more for the birds, but the buyer
can depend on what he gets. Culls are
expensive at any price.
To make good, warm breakfast for
forty fowls: Boil heaping half-peck of
potatoes, mash them, and one quart each
of shorts and bran, teaspoonful each of
salt and pepper, and finish by adding
hot water enough to mix into stiff
dough.
Clover cut up in small pieces, scalded,
mixed with bran and oats, makes good
morning feed for fowls. Have you ever
tried it2 It will make them active; this
produces an inclination today. Eggs are
what you need most when hens are want.
| inc to sit. Better try It,
Ten eggs Matched from thirteen set, is
<pod enough; don't expect too many and
you will never be disappointed. Take
all things as they come; you will feel
good-humored. There is great deal in
being contented; few people are nova
days, much to their own and others dis
comfort.
Have place in which to deposit what
ever will burn. A shallow trench of
proper size should be made to hold the
ashes. When burning has been made
cover the trench with boards to prevent
the ashes from blowing away. By care
in gathering the rubbish a supply may
be secured without delay.
Drawing manure and placing In heaps
to be spread in the spring is positively
wasteful process. A good farmer will
not be guilty of such gross mismanage-
ment The invention of the manure
spreader certainly offers no more excuses
on this score. A manure spreader is an
almost Indispensable factor in progressive
agriculture.
Milk set in milk pans in pantry at a
temperature of sixty to sixty-five degrees
will raise more cream and butter than
milk set in cooler pals at temperature
of fifty-six degrees. Milk to which fifty
per cent. water has been added, will
raise more cream when set at fifty-fve de.
grees than the same to which no water
has been added.