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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
Storing Cabbages.

Cabbages are best kept out of doors.
The usual plan is to dig trench wide
enough for double or triple row of
heads. In this trench place them with
the heads down and cover with dirt A
plan described by Prairie Farmer con-
sists in driving forks into the ground
for pole on which to hang the cabbage
The heads should touch the ground Tie
two together to hang over the stick and
then lay some brush lengthwise, or
coarse weeds, close against the head, and
over this cover with two or three inches
of dirt, leaving the roots exposed The
only objection to this method is that
sometimes mice find their way to the
cabbages. By this method the cabbages
are easily reached in any weather. This
way requires no trench. 1t is surface
storage altogether. In every case the
outer leaves should be left on the heads,
and in cellar and trench as we'll as with
those stored on the surface should be
pressed and confined closely. Cabbages
should be thus cared for just before
freezing commences in earnest They
are the better for being left out as long
as possible.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
Marketing Poultry.

The question of markets is what
seems to be bothering great many OF
the beginners in market poultry culture.
Admitting that the markets are the key
notes of success, it must not be inferred
that there are but few good markets
in this country. New York furnishes a
good market for several states, Boston
for New England and Richmond, Nor
folk and Atlanta for the south, and Chi
cago, Denver, etc, for the west But
the best market of all is the retail one
Create retail trade, and you get the
cream of prices and save the profits of
I0iddlemen. 1t is a mistake to ship a
great distance. Let the eastern men keep
their product east, and the southern
men south, and the western men west.
1t is the only way to prevent glut and
the surest way of making the most out
Of the business, according to Farm
Poultry
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
Selecting Seed Corn.

Indian corn is strictly an annual Ev-
cry plant of corn, being the product by
seed, is new variety or subvariety,
and by selection a substantially new
variety is obtained. For this reason ex-
plains Country Gentleman, distinc,
variety may be gradually changed by
successive selection, imperceptible i'll
one season, but gradually effecting a
considerable deviation in character At
this season, when farmers are husking
or handling ears of corn, they may &C.
casionally lay aside an ear such as they
would like to raise for a general crop.
They may reject all such ears as have
broad and heavy cob tat is hard to
husk or to break off, and choose the one
they sometimes see that has small cob
at the base CT the ear and is easily strip
ped of its husk. Continuing this course
you will in the course Of years have q
variety that is generally ca y to husk
Choose handsome, well rounded ears,
and you will eventually have a whole
variety with handsome, well rounded
cars
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
Clover Seeding With Bucl1wheat.

The buckwheat crop is not one that
most farmers would think as available
for helping to clover seeding. Yet it
is fact that when bucl1wheat is sown
about the 1st of July and some clover
seed is sown with it there is usually a
good catch Of clover in the fall. If the
soil be sandy, this clover is more likely
TO be good crop the next season than
when it is sown ON such soil with early
Spring grain Most OF the buckwheat
grown is sown on land that is too wet
in spring to be fit for any spring grain.
On such land there is no use sowing
clover seed There may be an apparent
ly good growth in the fall, but it will be
drowned out by water or heaved by frost
during the winter The long taproot
of clover is no protection against heav-
ing out by frost. On wet land it is no
uncommon sight to see clover roots lift
ed five to six inches above the surface
in spring, and when cut by the mower
the knives cut under the grass growth,
severing the root and completely de-
stroying the plants, says American Gull
tivator.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
An Instructive Potato Test.

A most interesting and instructive
experiment. was made at the Massachu-
sets station (Amherst) to ascertain
whether potatoes would yield more
when the potash was supplied as sui
phate worth "a cents per pound than
with potash as muriate worth % cents
per pound. The varieties of potatoes
were Clark's, New Queen and Beauty
Of Hebron. The same amount of potash
ana bone was used to the acre-viz, 400
pounds of potash and 600 of bone. The
bone analysed per cent of nitrogen
and 23 per cent of phosphoric acid. The
sulphate of potash analysed SO per cent
actual potash and the muriate 46-4 per
cent, it will be seen, less than the sui
plate. There We're six plots, two to
each variety Of potato. The yield was in
every instance larger when sulphate of
potash furnished the potash than when
muriate furnished it, the average in
crease being 16 bushels to the acre. In
the above experiments it is further wor-
thy of note that the Beauty of Hebron
outyielded the New Queen by sd bush
els to the acre and Clark S by SO bushels
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
THE DORklNG FOWLS.
Three Recognized varieties-For Crossing
Common Barnyard Flocks.

Three Recognized varieties-For Crossing
Common Barnyard Flocks.
The Dorking is tho most popular of
all varieties Of fowls in England. There
it is regarded as -eminently the farm
or's fowl. Three varieties are recognized
in this countryside white, the silver
gray and the colored. The general char
acteristics Of tho three varieties are the
same All have the five toes, the long
bodies, full breast, rather short legs and
heavy build. They show meaty qualities,
especially about the breast, which is es-
pecially full in both sexes. All have
white or flesh colored legs and white
skin.
The white variety is rather smaller
than the other two, but possesses the
Same compact build and meaty qualities.
This variety is bred only with rose
combs. Its plumage throughout is pure
white. The colored variety is bred with
both single and rose combs The silver
gray is also bred with both rose and
single combs.
Tho Dorking is, first of all, table
fowl. Its flesh is tender, juicy and of
| uGllOiouo tldNol. <Ao d VdDl6 lOWl IL
stands at the head of the list.
AS an egg producer the Dorking is
not the equal of some varieties. 1t lays
a medium sized, creamy white egg,
many of which have decidedly yellow
tint. Its eggs are smaller than those Of
the Spanish and less numerous than
those of the Leghorn. 1t cannot COM
pete in egg production with the Plym-
outh Rock.
i The hens do not generally offer to sit
early i'll the season, but when they do
sit they prove exceptionally good ones
and are among the most exemplary of
mothers. In thus summing up the merits
of this fowl The Poultry World adds
that the Dorking is valuable to use for
crossing upon the common barnyard
hocks A farmer could hardly make a
better choice when desiring to intro
duce fresh blood into his flock of hens,
than by selecting good sized, we'll
built Dorking cock. By so doing he
would add to the size and weight of his
chickens and produce them with more
breast meat, and that with a richer
flavor.
While being especially exempt from
some diseases which attack many fowls,
especially scaly leg, they are peculiarly
liable to what is known as humble foot.
The authority quoted believes that,
properly managed, the Dorking can be
made to pay well, inasmuch as for thor
oughbred eggs for Matching and for fine
specimens for exhibition there is a good
demand in this country and good prices
are realized
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
The Cauliflower.

At the Maine station handling plants
y pots before setting in the field in
creased the percentage OF marketable
heads. Trimming plants at time of set
ting is CT doubtful value. Thorough and
frequent cultivation are essential. The
outer leaves should be brought together
and tied a few days before eating, that
the heads may be well bleached.
Early varieties are as rule, more
certain to produce a satisfactory crop
than are the later Sorts The earliest
varieties grown the past season We're
Burpee's Best Early, Dwarf Danish,
Kronk's Perfection and Livingston s
Earliest, closely followed by Alabaster,
Landreth's First, Long Island Beauty
and several strains of SNOWFALL. All of
these varieties produced high percent
age of marketable heads.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
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MARKETING THE HONEY CROP.
Cow This Is Done by Leading Apiarists In
Various Sections of Country.

Cow This Is Done by Leading Apiarists In
Various Sections of Country.
Having secured good crop of honey,
In what ways can tho beekeeper realize
tho most money from its sale, or what
las proved best for you? This query was
cent out for answer by The American
Bee Journal and received replies from
bee men in various localities. The ma
jority give preference to q homo market
when there is one
II. d. Cutting said that tho home
market has always proved the best for
him for quantity of q ton or under. For
larger amounts he has had to ship to
larger city markets G. G. Miller said:
much depends upon circumstances.
Look out for your home market first. I"
G. NJ Doolittle replied, "Sell at home
as much as possible, and that remaining
ship on commission. S. l. Freeborn
answered, eff one likes the business of
peddling, he can frequently realize
enough above wholesale rates to more
than pay him for his time while retail
ing his crop" w. M. Barnum also
thought this good plan, for he advised
as follows: "Sell it at retail among your
village customers. Work up regular
route of your own. Sell also, if you
have them, eggs, butter, vegetables and
the like. Much better prices can thus
be obtained. If your crop is larger than
you can thus handle, ship to some re-
liable commission firm in the nearest
city"
r. L. Taylor said, "Sell directly to
customers in and about your own To-
cality if you are adapted to the business,
and, if not, then employ some one who
isl
Several approved of selling to the
large retail dealers direct. All agreed
that honey should be guarded carefully
and put up in attractive style M Ma
hin said: "Much depends upon circum-
stances and the size of the crop. What
would pay best in one case would not in
another. He has always disposed of
his honey at home.
P. H. Elwood replied: cit has proved
best for us to wholesale it and let those
in the retail business sell to consumers.
Our home trade to customers who come
to the door for it usually takes from
1000 to 5000 pounds This particular
branch of the retail trade we will hold
onto. The beekeeper must be governed
by circumstances. In many localities
the retail trade is best, decidedly"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
Corn HarveSters.

The enormous annual waste of corn
fodder can be partly accounted for by
the hard labor generally required to cut
and shock the corn. Cutting corn is one
of the hardest jobs on the farm, and in
many of the principal corn regions there
is usually a scarcity of labor available
for this purpose. Therefore, says The
Farm Machinery, machine labor must
be substituted for hard hand labor. For
number of years inventors have been
at work on machinery for cutting corn,
and manufacturers are now turning out
corn harvesters that do very satisfactory
work. With one Of these latest improved
corn harvesters, drawn by steady
horse, two men can cut from 900 to 300
shocks of corn a day. and the cost of
cutting an acre of corn is less than one
fourth that by the old. A greater ad-
vantage than the saving of labor and re-
ducing the cost is that the work can be
done in shorter time. To secure the full
food value of corn fodder the corn should
be cut, like wheat, just when it is ready.
If allowed to stand until it is too ripe
or frost bitten, there is a great loss OF
digestible matter.
Corn harvesting should proceed as
rapidly as wheat harvesting. That the
advantages of corn harvesters are appre-
ciated is attested by their large and
yearly increasing use. The use of the
present style will increase until invent
ors produce a machine of modern cost
that will cut and shock corn without
the assistance of hand labor at all.
Corn fodder is the most available sub
stitute for hay on the farm. Every acre
of corn fodder saved for feeding on the
farm will release an acre of hay for
market With wheat SO close to the cost
of production, farmers are forced to look
for a better ready money crop. This
year it is good hay
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
Nail Delivery In Rural Districts.

The late congress instructed the post
office department to expend $40, 000 i'll
experimental free delivery of mail in
rural districts, appropriating $40, 600
for this purpose, but the department
neglects to comply, pleading ''the pres
sure of more important questions. The
first assistant postmaster general gave
ont awhile ago that rural free delivery
had proved failure, in which he was
promptly contradicted by some 80 post
masters. People of the postmaster gen
erals own state complain because the
rural service is not extended in this way.
Now is the time for Mr.. Bissell to push
this branch of the postal service, says
The Amer AN AgricuIturist.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
DEPARTMENTS

alive with Customers these days. Do the why
had the doors
during the few the question would have
already Our store to-day literally with just goods you
at this Of the year
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
SOWING GRASS SEED.
Shall 1t BE Done Before or After the
Grain Has Been Drilled?

Grain Has Been Drilled?
In The farm economy the sowing Of
grass seed is very important matter,
yet there is a diversity of opinion re-
gardiug the matter of sowing before or
after the grain has been drilled or broad
casted and then narrowed. If sown in
that much seed is lost by being buried
too deeply, and the samo point is raised
il sown before the grain is broadcasted,
either by machinery or hand in the usual
manner. These advocates claim that
sowing the grass seed Immediately after
drilling or narrowing and then rolling
the surface will cover the seed sufficient
ly. Should the soil DO mellow and a
rain follow, much of the seed will ger
inmate. However, the covering is so
shallow and a large part of it so little
covered that in dry time much of that
which terminated is too near the surface
and is without sufficiently developed
roots to keep the young seedlings alive.
Most of the improved grain drills
have the grass seeder attached in front
OF the grain sower, and many farmers
will use no other, claiming that, while
some of the grass seed is no doubt buried
too deeply for termination, the greater
portion grows almost as readily as the
grain. That which is placed too deeply
will remain uninjured in the soil for
many years. This is especially true CT
all the clovers, as they contain much
Oil that prevents decay, and seeds thus
Hurled have been known to terminate
ten years after being thus deposited, the
blowing of the land after the expiration
of that period having placed the seed at
the proper depth. Hence deeply sown
seed is not always lost, writes New
York correspondent in The New Eng
land Homestead. He says:
When commercial fertilizers are sown
with the grain and the drill teeth ere
not set zigzag, the sowing of grass seed
after drilling has one good point, as a
large per cent of the seed falls into the
| little furrow made by the drill teeth and
is consequently Immediately ABOVE tho
fertilizer, and if it once gets foothold
it makes a rapid and desirable growth.
One great drawback to this seeding aft.
or sowing is the unprepared, coarse and
| lumpy condition OF the surface soil. Ii
the seed should be sown previous to
| rolling and the surface then brushed over
| with a light harrow, the latter operation
would prove of great value. By far too
| many farmers are careless in this line of
work, when, if properly done, it would
| show better results than any other of
the farm operations. Grass seeds are ex-
pensive, and on the proper preparation
of the soil often depends the success or
| failure of the future meadow and pas
| ture land. Too often it is necessary to
reseed the following year, which also
requires another grass crop to be taken
from the perhaps already impoverished
| soil. With fall sown wheat or, rye it
| will insure better catch nine times in
ten to sow timothy in the fall. If it
should possibly fail to grow, it may
then be sown the following spring, add
ing clover, if desired, at that time.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
FEEDING WHEAT.
It's valu. as Food For Growing and Tatten-
Ing Animals.

Professor d. e. Salmon, chief of the
United States bureau of anime! indus
try, says that for growing animals corn
alona is not so suitable as wheat OF oats.
From chemical analysis of foods a
mixture of corn and wheat should prove
better ration for fattening animals
than either grain alone When wheat
and corn are the same price, he says it
pays better to feed the wheat and sell
the corn. Wheat weights 2 per cent
heavier than corn. When it is fed alone,
it is just as good for fattening animals
as corn fed alone, and it is better for
growing animals, and the manurial
value of wheat is much greater than
that of corn.
When you begin to feed wheat, how
ever, go slow at first. Give only small
quantities, gradually increasing. Fed
in large quantity suddenly, it will pro-
duce indigestion. Mix it with other
grain
The circular of information issued by
the bureau of animal industry gives sew
eral mixtures of wheat with other
grains which are recommended for feed
ing. We append them below. Professor
Salmon says in addition:
The best form in which to feed wheat
is to roll or grind it into coarse meal
1t may then be fed alone or mixed with
cornmeal or ground oats. When ground
fine, it is pasty and adheres to the teeth,
gums and cheeks, so that it is not SO
readily masticated or eaten. In the form
of a coarse meal it is raished by all
animals, it is in a condition to be at
tackled bytile digestive processes whether
thoroughly masticated or not, and in
most cases it gives the best results. DR..
Gilbert appears to have obtained better
results from whole than from ground
wheat when fed to sheep. Sheep feeders
may therefore experiment with whole
wheat, but wheat meal will certainly
be found to give better results with all
other kinds Of animals.
The number of pounds of live weight
that may be produced by feeding a bush.
ell of wheat will evidently vary accord
ing to the age and condition of the ami
NAL fed. Professor Robertson, at the
| Ottawa experiment station, fed frozen
wheat to hogs and secured from g. tc
Is. 46 pounds, live weight from bush
Ell, the greater increase being from
young, growing animals and the small
er from those which were fattening
At the South Dakota experiment sta
ton the hogs fed ground wheat required
| 4. 81 pounds and those fed whole wheat
required 4.91 pounds for one pound gail
in live weight. The ground wheat fec
returned IS. 80 cents per bushel, thu
whole wheat 55. SO cents, corn &C
cents and peas IS. SO cents. The quality
of pork obtained from ground wheat anC
corn was about equal and was superior
to that from whole wheat, peas or mixet
| feed.
From the Canadian experiments i
would appear that the feeding value 0.
an equal weight of wheat is slightly il
excess of that of corn. The South Dako
ia experiments gave better results from
corn. In general, the difference would
probably not be very great, but it would
undoubtedly be better to mix corn an,
wheat, or corn, wheat and bran, o.
corn, wheat and middlings. The follow
ing examples show the composition O
such mixtures:
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
Live Stock Points.

A little story told lately shows the es-
innate put on horses in Kentucky. A
woman there sued railroad for killing
her horse and her husband. The jury
gave her $3.50 for the horse and cent
for the husband. So it is said.
For an ordinary silo, in which less
than 200 tons are to be put up, a two
horse power will run the cutter.
A good fodder or silo cutter will chew
up a ton i'll Is minutes.
England imports annually $50, 900, :
600 worth of eggs and poultry. The
English are the greatest egg eaters in
Christendom.
An expert says of the silage cutter he
likes best: 1.-The cutter prefer is one
with four knives attached to the main
shaft by cutter heads. This gives con-
tinuous cut and steady motion. There
is not the jar that there is to knives
hung on a balance wheel and not near
the danger in case an obstruction gets
into the machine A safety flywheel
Ihould be on every cutter. Buy a down
Tut. 1t runs much steadier and does not
have to be bolted or screwed to some
solid foundation to keep it in place.
1t has now been settled that it is not
best to put paint or tar paper on the in
side of the silo. Put tongued and grooved
boards. They swell with the moisture
and keep the silase tight and sweet.
Southdown sheep and lambs are look
ing up.
You may not think so, but now, when
animals of all kinds are low, is a good
time to go into the live stock business
In a couple of years there will be a
boom in everything that walks OH four
legs and i'll some things that walk ON
two legs.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
C|oaks and Capes
Fur Capes

Have Full Skirts stylish lengths
inches according of
grades $40 STOCK and prepared furnish you
nicer you wish. Just closing few
Silk and French Convey Capes 6S they
shorter than the prevailing length They sold $25o
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-11
100 pounds mixture. OF 5o.7 2.5

Many other combinations might be
made, but these are sufficient for pur-
poses of illustration. Mixtures l and 2
are more suitable for fattening animals,
while 3 and are excellent either for
growing animals or for those being fat
tened.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-09-08
FoREloN.

BRITrsH and German gunboats de-
stroyed the stronghold OF the Samoan
rebels at Latuanuu and drove them out.
MEXICAN troops were ambushed by
Yaqui Indians near Los Guesimes, and
twelve soldiers and one woman were
killed.
FEARING pleuro-pneumonia the Bel
gian government ordered quarantine
OF all American cattle for forty-five
days after arrival.
ONE THOUSAND Chinese were burned
or drowned during fire among the
flower boats on the Canton river.
lSa quarrel over boundary lines be-
tween San Miguel Achiutla and Tepos-
colma, Mexico, twenty-five persons
were killed.
A DECREE has been issued by Spain
cancelling the reciprocity treaty be-
tween the United States and Cuba,
10 take effect the moment the United
States applies the new customs tariff.
SEVEN persons were shot in Hayti
for connection with a conspiracy TO
murders daughter OF Hippolyte
POINT Az Pic. n summer resort 20
miles below Quebec, was destroyed by
fire.
TWENTY persons were drowned In an
accident on Moroccan bay, near Lam
caster, England.
PREPARATIONS for an industrial eX-
position OF giant proportions, 70 be
held I'm 1897, were being made at Stock
holm, sweden.
THE Jewish quarters OF half dozen
Morocco towns were sacked by the
Kabyles and many men and women
were killed and others sold into
slavery.