The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-05

ity unimpaired, from the stomach to
the blood in the water which contains
them, from the blood to the milk. The
cows drinking such water will be fever
ish, and fever may be conveyed in the
milk to whoever drinks it.
AFTER moving, what shall be done
for the bare fields2 What have you
got for top-dressingp Fine manure,
put on with Kemp's Manure Spreader,
is the best thing of all. Ashes, leached,
or unleached, will bring in " clover
not that they contain any clover seed,
but the ashes make the little clover
plants, that are hid amongst the stubble,
grow big and show themselves and bear
seed before fall that will fill the bare
spots with new plants in the spring.
FINE, well-rotted swamp muck, with
which a barrel of ashes to the cord has
been mixed when it was first dug out,
makes good top-dressing for now
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be quite as good as an equal quantity of
stable manure, and is often the best
use-the most proitable-to which
such muck can be applied. Both this
and the dung act not only as plant food,
but likewise as a mulch to protect the
roots of shorn grass from the hot July
and August sun.
IN warm weather, special attention
ought to be given to avoid harness and
yoke-galls. On the least sign of their
appearance, wash with CASTLE soap and
cold water, and at night apply com
press made of several folds of old
cotton cloth wet in cold water, securing
it so that it will be likely to remain
undisturbed. Pressure on the sore
spots can be taken off by padding or
shifting the harness. If an actual gall
exists, protect it from the flies by the
application of mixture of pine, tar
and lard.
as a grass-dressing after moving?
They are sometimes advised, and may
sometimes do good. Plaster certainly
will in some cases, and the plaster in
superphosphate constitutes about half
its bulk. Most of the superphosphates
contain too little nitrogen for good
top-dressing. They are, of course, use
less as mulch. The phosphoric acid
they contain does not easily get down
to the roots. Altogether, we have never
been able to get any money back when
spent for fertilizers to top-dress grass
stubble.
ARE commercial fertilizers of no use,
then, TO grow hay with? OF great use;
but not just in that way. If you have
a moving field that is getting thin-the
crop less than one ton to the acre, with
fve-fnger, sorrel, and here and there
mullen, or yarrow, or everlasting, or
all of them, showing-then put in
good team with good pillow and plow-
man, soon after haying, and turn over
the sod in straight, even, flat burrows,
three to four inches thick Sow on 300
pounds per acre of first-class, COM
plete fertilizer-400 pounds will pay
better-seed literally with a good grass
mixture, scratch it all in with a smooth
ing harrow, and, if the season favors,
your grass field will be thoroughly re-
newed and restored, good for several
more excellent crops at very moder
ate cost.
THE feeding value of the English
turnip is very much undervalued.
Cows, not only dry, but in milk, can be
made fat on them with but very little
hay and grain-in fact without any
grain. We have had visiting butcher,
along in February, put his hand upon
COWS so fed and say he had not handled
better beef all winter. If fed immedi-
ately after milking, the odor will not
appear in milk or butter.