Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-08
FARM NOTES.


er: Fathers and mothers stop grumblng
about the miserable lives you lead; teach
the boys and girls to see the beauties sur
rounding them on every hand, and which
are inaccessible to the city dwellers.
Time and again we hear of farmers who
feed their hens all the corn they can eat,
and then wonder why they do not lay. A
grain that contains SO per cent of fat-grow-
ing elements is a mighty poor egg food.
Once a day is all corn should be fed, and
then just at night.
If cattlemen could see what kind of cat
tie bring the top of the market and what
kind take the bottom of the market, and
should compare notes and find that the
steer that stands at the top cost no more to
raise than the one that goes to the bottom,
they would then be reaching for the top
place.
A new profession has sprung into ex-
istence within few years-that of veteri-
nary dentistry. Horses teeth are very apt
to decay or become liberated, and it is
often necessary, to save them from great
suffering, to extract the offending member
or treat it until the cause of suffering is
removed.
A Minnesota farmer last season took
drifted snow and put it in the ice house,
packing each load and wetting it with wa
ter from the well, finishing up each night
with all the water the snow would take
When full and frozen it was covered with
Sawdust, the same as ice The snow last
ed until used up, which was on September
20. The verdict was that snow was pre-
ferred to hauling ice far.
For winter laying, feed the hens in the
morning steamed clover, rOwen, and food
made of ground oats and corn meal, equal
parts by measure, and about one-tenth in
bulk of beef scraps, mixed with boiling
water and allowed to cook until the mix
ture is comfortably warm. At night give
equal parts of sound corn and wheat. Give
also what cabbage the fowls will eat daily.
The farmer works with nature. All of
her processes are governed by laws. 1t is
for the farmers to study out those laws,
and whenever he has mastered them he
has learned the right way and has only to
pursue it to a success. These laws are not
yet all written in the books, so he who
would know these things must 90 to the
fields, the soil and the plants to gather up
that knowledge which crowns his work
with liberal harvest.
We know from experience in the COW
stable, says prominent dairyman, that
linseed oil meal is a good feed, and has
tendency to keep the cows in good health.
Cows fed on corn meal and hay may get
constipated; lnseed meal corrects this.
| As to the quantity to be fed, beginning
can be made with one quart per day, in
two feeds to be increased gradually up to
four quarts for large cows Would not feed
too heavy to milk cows.
No matter how carefully bedded the sta
| BILE may be, when a COW is confined so that
] she can only lie in one position, there will
/ be times when her udder and teats will be
/ fouled. A brush to remove loose dirt, and
at times cloth with clean, milk-warm wa
/ ter, may be necessary to the cleanliness
requisite for good winter butter making
/ Part of the trouble in making butter at
/ this season is because the milk is fOued
| before it leaves the stable. The Odors of
the stable should be absorbed by free use
of gypsum. This is also of value in the
manure heap, and is probably the best way
of applying it to the land.
There are many elaborate and semi-sc-
entific ways of accounting for white specks
in the butter. When the cream is skim
med off more or less milk is taken with it,.
The milk is full of caseine that always and
readily curdles, one of the causes of the
speCks. All the trouble usually comes
from allowing the cream to become too old
and sour before it is churned. Badly-kept
dairy utensils may accomplish the same re-
suit. The remedy, according to the Dairy
World, lies in the direction of quicker
work and making the butter from sweeteT
cream.
Horsemen are interested in a case OF
roaring recently cured. The noted Eng
fish horse Golden Plume won a race at Liv.
erpoOl last week, after undergoing the OPP
Grafton of tracheOtomy for the cure OF
roaring" Golden Plume has a silver pipe
in his throat through which the trachea is
visible The pipe is secured in the throat
by a turned edge, the horse breathing
through the tube with the utmost freedom
Ashes vary according to the substances
from which they are produced. In lOC
pounds of hardwood ashes are about &c
pounds lime, II pounds potash and pounds
phosphOric acid, but cOrn-cobs contain, in
100 pounds of ashes, 20 pounds of lime
and 45 pounds of potash, the nearest APP
prOach to cOrn-cobs in amount of potash
being cotton-seed hulls, which contain IS
pounds. The hulls also contain as much
as Is pounds of phosphoric acid "a large
proporton) Even soft coal contains five
pOunuS Oh lime Ill lOO pOIHuS vi lIS ASH
while hard coal contains only half as much
lime, but contains also fraction over one
pound of phosphOric acid.
There is a question in the minds o
most bee keepers whether or not the act
of the bee are governed by instinct or rea
son. On this subject the Phrenologica
journal takes the position that the acts o
the bees are governed by intelligent thought
, To prove this it cites the fact that bee
gather honey only in climates subject Il
wintry weather. If our bees are taken Il
Australia, where the summers are peren
NAL, they learn in few years to store u
no honey, gathering it only as they need
! for sustaining life. The only way tn
, Australian can get honey is to impor
queens from cold countries every fey
; years, they not having learned that tn
i storing up of honey is unnecessary.