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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
Keeping sweet Potatuc5.

\ correspondent in O.cn"rl nd CIR
den writes: sweet pot@,.', we Keep
without trouhle l.y placing II good bed oi
pine straw hrnca,h tIrn. lilus them IN
sharp couical heaps aud covering then
tlirAly with pine straw. y rough board
sncl Is then built over the rows Of heaps
h. keep the strnW from getting wee, They
urc allowed To remain IN this Wpvnnul
freezing Wca'hrri,u Bonded, and then
II heavy coat Of earth = Ilt over the hel ls
and beaten smooth This course gives
tine potatoes Il cnanc" To- sweat and dry
oil under me pine straw cove md whel
the earth cover is put on ii IL kept dry
10y the sued. and the dry earth keeps out
frost much better than if II was allowed
t. get wet with rain
Another correspondent Of the same
journal suggests for localities where
frost, are severe, drying sweet potatoes
in an cvaporator for winter use. He says
I'VE cut the potatoes in slices, having
first removed the skin-aud they dry
very quickly and perfectly. They are re.
stored to their edible condition by scald'
ing or steaming, and if then placed in an
earthru pan with a little sugar and but
ter over the top and baked, they make s
dish tit for IA farmer king"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21

The season is here when in poultry
wards, where birds are kept in damp and
i'll ventilated houses, the foundation for
roup-that most fatal Of all poultry dis
eases-is laid I'm ordinary cold neg
lected very soon develops into rorp;
hence first symptoms must be taken III
hand at once. The first sign is sneezing
and running at the nose. AS soon as this
is observed the affected bird ought to be
isolated at once, placed in IA warm spot
where there are no drafts anil the usual
remedies aud preVrntives administered.
Bear in mind that cold weather is less
dangerous than damp. 1t is Il good plan
now to give iron tonic III water all
round, especially to the late chickens.
Diarrhea is another disease caused by
cold and wet weather; in chickens it is
often due to improper diet. Bone dust
is an excellent preventive, and growing
chickens should always have it. If
symptoms appear, try feeding with
boiled rice mixed with II little powdered
chalk. If the case is bad, try rice boiled
in milk. As soon as Il fowl is aiing. iso-
late it until you are certain whether the
sickness is contagious. Many diseases
are contagious. and whatever the attack
NAV be, the sick bird will recover soonest
if aloha
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21

The amount of air needed by bees va
rics greatly according to circumstances.
When they are excited and full of honey,
as is the case with a working swarm, the
amount Of air needed is very great. If
they can be kept quiet, n very little air
will suffice. In winter bees are in a semi
dormant state, and the amount of air
necessary for their maintenance is very
slight. Special ventilation, simply for
the sake Of securing fresher or purer air,
seems to be almost unnecessary. The
few beekeepers who plead for special
ventilation do so almost wholly upon
the ground that they can thereby more
readily control the temperature.
If the Doe repositories are built suffi-
GENTLY underground it does not seem as
though ventilation would be very much
needed for controlling temperature
When bees settle down into that ques-
cent state essential for successful winter
ing, their need Of air is very slight in
deed. When their winter nap is ended
and spring arouses them to activity and
10 brood rearing, more air is needed.
1t is then, if ever, that special ventila-
ton Is benefit; but rs all that is needed
can be SO easily secured by the occasional
opening of doors or windows at night,
If it ever becomes really necessary, it
scarcely seems worth while to go to the
expense of laying subearth pipes. l
should not do it or advise it, writes w.
II. Hutchinson, of Michigan, in The
American Agricultural.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21

Last year Dairy Commissioner Brown,
OF New York, at Il dairy meeting said:
1--WE are keeping on twenty acres seven
teen COWS, four horses, hogs and chick
ems. All the fodder we Use for that
stock we raise on twenty acres. We
keep Jersey cows that average 500
pounds Of butter Il year per COW and get
about thirty cents per pound for the but
ter, or about ninety dollars per COW.
After deGucting all expel4scs there WAS q
net profit of fifty-sM dollars PEI head.
We are using ensilage, and this is our
second year. We make butter at profit
Of sixteen cents pound.
1--WE feed ensilas;e summer and winter.
do not know of any other means by
which we could keep that number of
stock on tho land, except with n silo,
We feed some grain. The past winter
we fed three pounds Of hay at noon,
twenty pounds night and morning OF en-
silage, and three pounds of clover hay at
night. We fed seven or eight pounds of
grain with the ensilage twice day. We
cut our corn for the ensilage, and never
put it in whole. We use the southern
corn, aud find the grain evenly distrib-
uted in the ensilage."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21

VARIOUS WAYS kOfE MAY BE TIED.
The knot represented in Fig. is firm
enough for light stick Of timber or
similar object, while Figs. 2, 3 or can
be used where a stronger fastening is re-
quired. Figs. } and 6 show two con-
venient methods Of suspending a barrel,
either horizontally or vertically; while
for bag or sack the efficient fastening
shown in Fig. 7, or the simpler one shown
in Fig 8, will be found secure and conven-
lent. All the above fastenings can bemade
from single piece of rope, and their
construction will be evident from an in
spection of the engravings.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21

To give delicacy of flesh to chickens
make their principal food for II week or
ten days before killing barley meal moist
ened with milk. Alternate with Indian
meal; scald with either water or milk.
During the process keep the chicks con
fined in darkened room, is advice given
in The Poultry Yard.
The Philadelphia Farm Journal tells
that good thing for cheap paint and
one that is durable is TO mix yellow
ocher with coal tar. The color is green,
and it does well for coarse woodwork or
iron.
For perfect popping, corn should be a
year or more old and care should be
taken to keep it where mice cannot
reach it.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21

When Is butter OvcrWOrked and what
is the result of Overworking?
When the glohules are hrolcn 1t is
salvelike and will not keep well.
What per cent. Of water should we'll
made butter contain:
Not over II per cent.
What should he the condition Of milk
vessels to produce the best results in
milk. cream and butter:
Clean, sweet and smooth.
Breed of cows. Giye comparative diff
ference in richness Of their milk.
First Jerseys; second Guernseys;
third, Shorthorns; fourth, Holsteins
The Holsteins give greater quantity and
equal results in amount of lutter with
Jerseys.
Food of COWS. How doe, the food and
water affect the quantity and quality Of
milk?
Judicious combination Of nitrogenOus
and carbonaceouS foods insure greatest
quantity and best quality of milk. Weeds
and impure water impair the quality,
sometimes rendering the milk unfit for
use.
How should cows be stabbed to make
the most comfortable. and what effect
has comfortable quarters and cleanliness
on the animals relative to economy of
food fed ana Of results in product?
Let each animal have u box stall. Let
it be kept warm, dry, clean and well
ventilated, The food manger so an
ranged as to be kept clean also; effect,
less food consumed and more milk and
butter produced than if cows lie out Of
doors and feed at straw stacks.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
tksa se:s,k.-1r
rHESS'DKlRX,
'Ssxs-<~--'
WHEY AND WHEY.
One Kind Fattens Pigs and Calves, tho
other Is Worthless.

One Kind Fattens Pigs and Calves, tho
other Is Worthless.
A year or SO ago, when dressed pork
was bringing four dollars and five dol
lars per hundredweight, dairymen pork
raisers here said that it was beneath the
cost of production. If that is the case
the six dollars and seven dollars now
paid can leave onfy a narrow margin of
profit. Not long ago visited q dairy
farmer in the next town south of me,
aud found him standing on II barrel to
bind his shocks of tall corn. Passing
his hog yard noticed some very large,
fat porkers stretched on the sward.
"What are you fattening these hogs
with% / inquired.
II give them nothing but whey from
the factory" was the reply, "but they
have plenty of it,
This would have been u revelation to
come farmers, who always have lank,
suuealing shoats. do not recommend,
however, that pork should be grown ex
clusively on dairy swill. for the meat is
apt to he soft though sweet Good,
clean, rich dairy swill, like buttcrmilk,
sour milk and whey, together with
shorts and a little cOrnmeal, will make
pig develop physically as rapidly as it
should, and insure firm, sweet pork
Many dairy farmers in this state are
producing pork for home consumption
very cheaply by the judicious use of tho
waste from their diaries. If the course
they pursue could be emnlated by all it
4 ia,
swine growing methods. Half of the
dairymen, through the negligence and
fault of cheese manufacturers, are fur
nished regularly with an inferior quality
of whey that is worth only half value
for hog feeding. Ranklv soured whey
Is an abominatiOn in the pigs trough,
for it possesses about as much value for
swine food rs would potatoes and salt for
a human diet a slight degree of acid
in whey is essential to give it good feed
ing value. but when it is so sour that il
will sparkle and foam it is not an eco
nomical diet to give to swine
| think that il would behoove every
dairyman to estimate as nearly as posi-
Die this fall the actual cost Of the pork
that he has raised. To compare this re
suit with the market value of the meat
would cause the producer to do some IN
teresting thinking. Farmers who make
milk production II speciality, and who
pratronize cheese factories, should insis
d On having II good quality Of whey fur
nishcd them. manufacturers should
provide better tanks for storing whey
and the whey should be daily sterilized
/ in hot weather to keep it passably sweet
A steam pipe from the boiler could stcr
ilize the whey in u cheap and etfectiv,
manner
can point to as tino calves as were
ever grown that We're raised the pas
summer on whey, with the small add
ton Of IL mixture of shorts and middliugs
White whey denotes that Your cheeS,
maker is not getting out Of the milk al
Of the casein and butter fat that III
should, and however much Your pigs 0n,
calves may thrive on the diet, it is to-
expensive to be long to,orated.-Georg
l.. Newell III American Cultivator
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
HOG.

The Essex is most profitable when fat
tened and marketed at from nine months
to year old. More than half century
ago Lord Western, Of Essex, England.
travelling in south Italy, found near Ma
pies n rare breed of hogs new to him.
He imported a pair to his English home
and from them the modern Essex hog Is
descended. The original Neapoitans
were crossed with II larger, coarser breed
of black hogs native to Essex. Thence
we have the present improved Essex,
many specimens of which have found
their way to the United States and been
reproduced and deferred, rs all breeds of
hogs have been in our country. They
run here to more meat and less snout
and leg.
The Essex hogs cut up into delicious
small hams and shoulders. perfectly
adapted for fashionable markets and
private customers. They are therefore
adapted to small farms or for gentlemen
who like TO ainuSe themselves by raising
their own pork Tor the packer. how
ever. they are too small, and the breeder
who raj ,a' wine on an extensive scale
will not rolr tA4m. One Of the best uses
to which the Eegcx can be put is the i'm
provemont of breeds of large, coarse
swine.
Our second illustration shows speci-
mems Of the Duroc Jersey hog. This
breed is red in color and large in size
when full grown, dressing from 400 to
500 pounds. Pigs n 0 months old should
dress from 10 TO POO pounds.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
SHIPPING COOPS.


Two Designs for Ncat, Light Coops In
Which to ship Poultry.
A careless manner of shipping poultry
will materially curtail the profits of any
poultryinan. The value of the stock is
likely to he deprecated by it, and
clumsy, cumbersome coops will unneces-
sarily increase express charges. Farmers
as well as breeders of fine stock are al
ways interested in designs for light ship
ing crates, and we therefore reproduce
from number of these described and il
Illustrated by The Southern Fancier the
following: 1.-THE shipping coop made in
accordance with the plan shown at Fig.
l has the end Of the coop of solid
wood finch manrial and is bored full
of holes for ventilation. The front and
back of coop has a Finch board at the
bottom, also bored full Of holes for ven
tiaton. The sides are sloping to cor
respond with ends. Burlaps or calico is
then tackled on running from the top of
the finch board to the top. The top
board is II inches wide and 90 inches
long, the coop when finished being %
inches square and 90 inches high at ends
A can is nailed in the corner for water
n small funnel runs into the water can
Ovel'this funnel is pasted the following
notice, Please pour water in this fun
mel for the fowls An opening is cut in
the top board as long and wide as it will
allow for ventilation. \ small feed
trough can be tackled on inside, but DO
not use one, as fowls eat very little in
transit.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
a Marquis ANA His Estate.

One of the most humorous rhus.s in con.
nectim with the ap?'icatjcn for per'nis,
sion to dispose OF ,he StNcrl,dLe estate was
the reply of the 'la.4ui~ OF iilc,bury to n
question put to him 81 hearing "a few
months ago When asked whether ne had
made any provision for the housing of the
valuable hcirlooms in the mansion. he said,
"Wcll, now, it's very funny thing, but /
only thought of that myself yesterdays
His lordShip, who has only held the estate
some five years, is the patron Of nine liv
ings and the motto below hi, crest, I'VE
have been" will now have "A new applc,l
ton. Pail Mall Gazette.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
VALUE OF LlNSEED OIL MEAL.
Things That Are Told in n Bulletin Issued
. from the Ohio Station.

Things That Are Told I'm n Bulletin Issued
. from the ohio Station.
Chemical analysis shows that old pro-
cess linseed oil meal contains an aver
age Of about per cent. of nitrogen, 2
per cent. of phosphoric acid and II per
cent. of potash. Nitrogen may be pur-
chased in nitrate of soda at about fifteen
cents per pound, phosphoric acid in raw
bone meal at about five cents, and pot
ash in muriate Of potash at four and one
half cents, these being among the cheap
est sources of fertilizing substances.
Valued at these prices, says the Ohio sta
ton bulletin, ton of old process linseed
oil meal would be worth about eighteen
dollars. That is to say, the farmer could
as well afford to pay eighteen dollars per
ton for old process linseed oil meal to be
applied directly to the soil as fertilizer
as to pay the current prices for the or
binary fertilizers of commerce.
New process oil meal contains about /
per cent. more nitrogen than old process,
which raises its comparative fertilizing
value to twenty-one dollars per ton, or
the price at which coarse new process
meal is now offered in carload lots in the
Ohio market. AS it has been demon
strated that not more than one third Of
the fertilizing value Of feeding stuff is
lost in feeding, provided the manure is
carefully saved and used, the bulletin
referred to calls the attention of Ohio
farmers to the fact that in this way lin.
seed oil meal offers far cheaper source
of fertility than any of the so called
commercial fertilizers or phosphates.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21

The accompanying cuts here repro
duced from Popular Science News illus
trate the various ways in which rope
may be quickly and firmly attached to
objects of varying size and weight, and
are self explanatory.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
NORMAL SPINACH PLANT.

partments, and one was treated to ordi-
nary ondtons--sunligh by day and
darkness by night-and the other sun
light by day and electric light by night.
In this house numerous experiments
were made to note the effect of the cleo
trio light on plant growth.
In report made in the American
Garden, to which thanks are due for the
cuts here presented, it is told that the
general effect of the naked electric light
was to greatly hasten maturity, and the
nearer the plants grew to the light the
greater the acceeration. This tendency
was particularly marked in the leaf
plants-endive, spinach, cress and let
tuce. The plants iran to seed" before
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21


of the lamp. 'rio ilHn''I
These and similar experiments justified
the conclusions that while the naked
electric light has damaging influence
upon the plants near it, electric light
promotes assimilation; it often hastens
growth and maturity; it is capable Of
producing natural favors and colors in
fruits; 1t often intensi6es colors of flow
ers and sometimes increases the produc-
ton Of flowers, and that periods of dark
ness are not necessary to the growth and
development Of plants. Professor Bailey
believes it is only necessary to overcome
the difficulties, the chief Of which are
the injurious influences upon plants near
the light; the too rapid Fastening of
maturity in some; and, in short, the
whole series Of practical adjustments Of
conditions to individual circumstances
TO render electro horticulture a success.
Deherain, a French experilnenter, says
that the injurious rays from the electric
light are greatly modified by trans
parent glass. Professor Baileys expert
,rents with an electric lamp, protected
by an ordinary white opal globe, gave
results much less marked than that of
the naked light; in word, the injuri-
Gus effects were lessened by the use of the
globe. Lettuce was greatly benefited
by the electric lights.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21

Total cost of feed for the year, $3.50.
Four of the hens raised thirty
chickens. The cost of the chickens feed
is included in the above amount.
One of the pulets began to lay when
months and 3 days old,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
Lsavings.

Kingley-I unders. that burglars
went through your house last night. Din
they take everthing'
Bingo (sadly)-Everything but my wife
Epoch.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
GOOD HOGS.


The Essex hog is one Of tho most pop
Mar of the smaller breeds. It's flesh "
delicious, it natures early, and when
full grown weighs from $50 to 2T5
pounds Essex hogs "fatten almost nj
the sight of corn" The sows are very
prolific and fairly good nurses. The
pure Essex is all black, without a white
hair upon its body.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
Ihe Minter Girl.

The trouble with the winter girl,
When New Years timo is here,
L. not that She's not dear enough,
Bat that sine is too dear.
Now York Herald.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21

When the electric light has been de
prived of its heat ray, it is shown 10 have
powerful stimulating effect upon tie
muscles of the body.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
A Practical Lesson in Poultry.

The following from Canada farmer
and reported from the Ottawa station
will be read with interest by readers
who desire to know what a small mum
Der Of hens will do when well cared for
asd fed.
Eggs laid by fifteen Plymouth Rock
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21

g 4 j le leaves
were formed. and
II ear t II e light
the leaves were
small and cu.rled.
This is well illus
trated in spinach,
Figs. l and 2. The
cuts, which are
made TO the same
ale,showRound
Dl.ch spin a c h
when sevenweeks
old. Fig. / shows
an average plant
from the dark or
normal house, and
Fig. 2 one from
{ II e light house
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-21
PLANT GROWTH BY ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Professor BaiIey's Experiments with Elec-
tic Light on Loaf Plants. Spinach, Etc.
At the Cornell experiment station,
Ithaca, N. Y, in the winter of 1Sso-9o, a
forcing house was divided into two COM
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-21
Kit CarsOn's Family.

The famous pioneer guide and Indian
fighter, was married at Taos, New Mex
leo, on the I'd of February, 1S43. His first
child, Charley, was born May LIST, 1850,
and died April LIST, 1851. His second
child, Julian Billy, was born October
LIST, 1882 he was for years sheriff of Cos
tilla county, Colo, and died there several
years ago. His third child, Teresina, was
born June 23rd, 1865, and is now living
at Romeroville, near Las Vegas. His
fourth child, Christoval, was born June
10, 1858, and is now living at Las Animas,
Colorado, and is commonly known as
Kit Carson, jr. His fifth child, Charles,
was born August I'd, 1861, and is now re-
siding at La Junta, Colorado, and posses
SEES more nearly all the noble character
istics of his famous father than any of the
rest of Kit Carson's children. His sixth
child Rebeca, was born April 18th, 1864,
and died at Springer, New Mexico, April
10, 1885. His seventh child, Estefta, was
b orn December 20, 1866, and is now the
wife of Thomas Wood, residing at La Junta
Colorado. His eighth child, Josefta, was
born April 10, 1868, and is now the wife
of William Squires, residing at Gladstone,
New Mexico.
All of Kit Carson's children were raised
till of age by Thomas o. Boggs, who re-
sides near Clayton. Mrs. Boggs is niece
of Mrs. Kit Carson, ST. Mrs. Jesse Nelson,
residing in Otero county, Colo, is sister
of the pioneer.
There are no brothers or sisters of
Mrs. Kit Carson now living.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-21
PERSONAL.

John H. Knaebel, the well known at
torney, arrived last night from Denver.
Father Juillard has left for his new
parish in western Valencia and Bernalillo
county.
FLA. Healy, Pasadena, Cal; R. Hitting,
Cerrillos; E. j. Wilcox, Pueblo, are at the
Exchange.
James T. Newhall has gone to Rio Ar
riba county in the interest of the Singer
Sewing Machine company.
J. E. Gillespie, Kansas City visitor, is
here looking after business before the
court of private land claims. He stops at
the Palace.
Messrs. Douglass and Philip Harroun,
two bright and promising young gentle
men of Santa Fe, were here Saturday on
business connected with the new water
works at the capital city.-Raton Range
At the Claire: Henry Lee, Denver,
Colo. G. A. Moore and wife, H. Essinger,
Las Vegas; W. II. Laughlin, D. Cain,
Kansas City; Miss L. E. Breminger, St
Louis; A. Ketchner and wife, New York.
R. E. Twitchell, the chairman of the
Republican central committee, is in the
city registered at the Armijo. He il
working day and night for the success Of
Mr.. Catron and feels just like sure
acknowledgements Citizen.
Ernest Myers, of the popular firm Of
Lowenthal & Myers, Albuquerque, spent
yesterday in the capital-and he did bust
ness, too. In fact Myers is {
man who always does business, no matter
where he goes. Albuquerque can vel
afford to be proud of such rustler.
At the Palace: F. E. Birkicht, st
Louis; VIM. B. Gileot, Oakford, Wis; F
A. Dealy, Pasadena, Cal; Mr.. and Mrs. E
D. Depew, New York; W. S. Davidson
Chicago; F. W. Smith, New York; A. D
Campbell, Kansas City; John Fl. Knaebel
city; A. S. Hogle, Chicago; Mrs. Ann'
Council, Mrs. M. s. Cornell, Pittsburg
Pa