News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-09-22
FaCtS For Farmers.

things that he should become in debt
for, are manure and fertilizers.
The idea that all the light that
stable needs is the trap-door manure
holes along the walls should be
abandoned.-Jason Jones.
That cooking the food renders it
more digestible is admitted, but the
labor and cost of fuel are the obsta-
cles to overcome.
1t is possible for a farmer to have
no weeds to kill, but it will require
constant cultivation and the destruc-
ton of all weeds as fast as they ap-
pear.
A small evaporator, holding from
one-half to one bushel of fruit, may
be set upon the kitchen stove, and
run very little additional expense for
fuel.
If the farmer would study the con-
struction of the feet of his horses, he
will be able to protect them against
the work of many inexperienced
blacksmiths.
Vinegar will pay this year. Those
who are too far from market to ship
their apples at a profit should con-
vert them into vinegar, as vinegar is
saleable at all seasons.
fyou have several kinds of melons
growing near each other do not save
any of the seed, or the next years
crop may prove unsatisfactory, ow-
ing to the mixture of the varieties.
Keeping an animal until aged may
result in loss The greatest gain is
when an animal is young. After it
reaches maturityit may lose in weight
or gain but little.
/ know of no better trademark
than the growers name, with we'll
known, carefully-assorted fruit, put
up in neat, clean packages, of full
capacity to back it up.-E. Williams.
1t requires the very best of manage
ment to make the farm carry SUM-
cient manure to keep up the fertility Of
the soil without using green manures
or commercial fertilizers.-LiveS Stock
Indicator.
An English gardener who has had
great success III raising radishes
makes his radish beds with nearly or
quite one-half soft coal ashes and
SCOT. Under this plan his beds are
not invested with worms.
There would be no overstocked
markets if the finer grades of fruits
were shipped. Canning factories and
evaporators should use up all the in
feriOr products and relieve the mar
ket from their burden.
The fence corner is the hotbed in
which the weeds are protected. When
q few weeds spring up in some pro-
tected place and produce seeds, the
farmer will have to begin all of the
work of weed killing over again.
The points of the compass can be
told from trees by very simple obser-
vations. The side Of the tree upon
which moss is found is the north. IL
the trees be exposed to the sun it's
heaviest and longest limbs will be on
the south side.
If roots supply too little moisture
the tree will not make growth, IL too
much it will not produce fruit; there
fore, il is necessary to prune roots.
The practical fruit grower will know
which remedy he needs to apply
Professor Goff.
Some one asked us the other day il
we ever saw a good farmer who was
a poor man, and we have been look
ing around and thinking ever since,
and cannot yet put our hand upon
one. We wonder if there is not "a
moral in this somewhere ?-Southern
Farm.
When breeding to improve, no mis-
take will be made if the male is pure
bred. If he is not the best to be found
he will at least be far superior to the
scrub. Ifevery farmer would aim to
grade up his stock he would soon
double the value of his flocks and
herds.
The Japan persimmon isgrafted on
the common persimmon without diff
Guilty. Nurserymen usually graft
them precisely as they graft apples
in winter time, only employing col
lar-grafting instead of cutting up
pieces of the roots.-Meehan's Month
ly.
The corn crop is almost always a
paying one when its demands in the
way of cultivation and fertilization
are complied with. On poor ground
without manure, and not well worked
it cannot be expected to give a gen.
erous return.-Farmers' Home Jour-
nal.
We cannot influence the market
price. But any man can raise him
self from being n ten-cent-a-pound
man to being a twenty-five-cent-a-
pound man by sending to a market
Just the butter for which the people
will pay twenty-five cents.-Professor
j. III. Robertson.
Pneumatic tires to wheels may at
some day be used on farm wagons.
If so they will necessitate better
roads. Improved roads are now re-
eeiving more attention than any 9th
er subject that affects farming, and a
great change will take place before
another decade.
Those who desire to produce few
very choice fowls for their own tables
will secure something extra by cross
ing the pit game male with Dorking
hens. The cross produces the best
chicks and fowls for the table, but
the hens from the cross are not the
equal of some other breeds as layers.
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