Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-14
FARM NOTES.


numbering camps, where many horses were
used, has proved to his own satisfaction
that watering the horses Immediately after
they have eaten is the most frequent
cause of collie.
1t is claimed that the French method of
plunging potatoes for ten hours into two
per cent solution of commercial sulphuric
acid, ami afterward drying them, destroys
their terminating qualities, without other
injury, and keeps them sound and fresh
for year
Ban-yarls are bad leaks in farm man
agement. Thousands of cords of manure
are wasted in them from constant expos
ure to sun, wind and rain. And yet most
| farmers endure them just as though there
was no remedy. Manure is needed on
most farms more than anything else, and
yet nothing is wasted more.
| a few farmers may consider the sheep a
nuisance after they are sheared, and then
turn them out into the wilderness to find
food in the wilds of other sections. BY so
doing they rob themselves of great good.
\ poor field could soon be brought up to a
high state of cultivation by placing sheep
in it. The flocks will soon free such places
of all briars and weeds.
At Kansas City the other day were
shown two steers, red Durhams, one of
which weighed 1000 pounds and the other
1910. They were six years old, and near
ly twelve feet long, and six feet high. The
owner was offered 80 cents per pound, or
S4020 for them, but declined it, as he pro-
poses to take them to the worlds fair.
Prof. w. W. Cook of the Vermont ex-
pertinent station says: 'ln regard to the
effect of feed on the character of milk, we
find wide variety of opinion. and series
of more than 1000 tests which we complet-
ed ten days ago, seem to show conclusively
that the popular idea in regard to succu-
lent pasture feed having an effect on the
milk is decidedly wrong"
In raising live stock it is important to
have some special object to accomplish,
and breed accordingly. Too many farmers
are governed by their convenience, and to
save themselves time and trouble use such
"o thNg may iAiHN VII tlA'li 'ih i'ti iii'
without regard to the quality of the ami
mails, or their relationship to the herd or
flock in which they are usel.
Winter rye can be grown ON many soils
too poor to grow wheat, but it pays for care
as we'll as any other crop. 1t is most prof
table where there is demand for rye straw,
this often selling in city markets for $40,
S12 or SIS ton. Rye does not exhaust
soils so rapidly as wheat, though if grown
ON sandy land it will run them out in a few
years. unless alternated with frequen-
clover see ling AMI manure. Rye is not in
jured by HesSian fly, and may be sown
early and pastured off in fall to prevent too
large growth of straw.
The notion that expensive walls of stone
and mortar are needed to keep ensilage has
hal its day. Experience shows that air
, tight wooden walls are better. as well as
cheaper. The best location for a silo is
, against barn, or inside of it, boarding
the barn tightly on the side where the silC
is built, and closing apertures so that NJ
air can get through. The great compress
sion of ensilage necessary to preserve il
makes this the cheapest way to keep corr
, fodder, aside from the fact that it can be
, saved during weather when it would be i'm
possible to save it by drying.
+ The farmer who gets all his crops il
early has an advantage in easily working
them all the season. Oftentimes, too, b,
marketing very early he gets better price
81, ,,.I,A oil, to mar 10
when everybody is selling. If he does no
wish to sell early there is still a great adj
: vantage in getting crops off the land, Sc
= that preparations may be going on for put
ting in something else as a succession
: crop. The earlier ground is plowed TO
: wheat or other winter grain the better see'
= bed it makes, and in most cases this is de
S pendent on getting the prece ling crop of
1 as early as possible.
For quite a number of years surplus
, wheat held over from previous seasons ha
: helped depress its price in Europe. Tha
I surplus is now exhausted, and this year
S crop is all that the world has to depend up
on. This is a material factor in estimating
y probable wheat prices the coming year
g The English market governs ours, and it i
= shown by records for the last twenty-sevel
years that the average wheat price iron
1864 to 1884 was S1.45 per bushel. Thi
equals about S1.35 on the seabOard an
= about S12O in the Northwestern states
4 This is as fair an estimate as can now b
II made of what the price of wheat shout
$ be. During the last seven years the Eng
p lsh price has been lower, because of It
II serve stock; but that cause having ceased
Il the old conditions will rule.
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