Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-05-11
Agricultural Items.


AND PEAR TREEs.-Make white wash by
mixing three pounds of fresh burnt Jumps
of lime in five gallons of brine, and apply
it warm. If half pound of powdered
barytes be added to the mixture, or the
same quantity of arsenic. the application
will be effectual because taste will
kill.
CURE FOR THE STAGGERs.--We are indebt-
ed to Captain Henry B.. Harman of this
county. says the Jeffersonsille (Tazewell
county, Democrat, for the following efec-
tual cure for the Staggers Take one
quart of brandy or whlskey, and desolve
one ounce of champion in it, and give for
a dose one gill. In about two hours after
taking this preparation, they will get up.
Care should be taken to prevent the III
from drinking water tor twenty four hours,
in which time complete cure will be eff
fected. He warrants his recipe to accom-
plish perfect cuIe nine times out of ten,
having several years tried it successful
ly.
CALLS FROM THE HARNESS OR SADDLE
Maj. Long, in his valuable account of his
expedition to the Rocky mountains, says
that his parGy found white lead, moisten-
ed with milk, to succeed better than any
thing else in preventing the bad effects OF
gall on their horses backs, in their march
over the plains that border the mountains.
It's effect In smoothing and soothing tie
lrrltateu and lndamed surface, was adml
| r.ble.-Americdn Farmer.
MANURE E-The manure applied to the
soil of Eng gland, says the AgrlculLor,
amounts To three hundred millions OF dol
lars being more than the value of the
whole OF It's foreign commerce yet the
greatful soil yields back with interest all
that Is lavlsheI upon it. And SO it would
be here ii we would only trust the soil
with any portion of our capital. But this
we rarely do.
PoULTRY HoUsEs.-Givc these a com
plete cleansing ; clean out all the nests,
whitewaSh the inside as we'll as the outside
of them, and when dry, put lii fresh hay
that done, whltewash the planks both IN
side and outside break up some mortar
for the hens to pIck-if you have not any
old mortar, provided them with lime where
they can have free access TO it besides
this, supply them with ashes and sand 10
dust themselves III, feed them alternately
with oats, corn and buckwheat, and you
may reasonably calculate upon an early
supply OF eggs and spring chickens.
HILLING CoRN.--AL Il late meeting of the
New Hampshire Legislative Agricultural
Society, all the speakers objected to hilIiny
corn. One farmer who had experimented
by hilling and leaving the earth level, found
no aPparant difference in the product, but
found the hiIled portions more likely to be
broken down by storms. The other stood
more firmly; or if bent sooner recovered
itself. Was not this owing to the
better maturing and hardening of the
roots?
y CURE FOR ScRarcuEs or HoasEs.--The
white or red lead mix, 1t with oil, and rub
Ii IL few times ON the part diseased, and Il
cure will be effected. The scurf should
be washed Oft clean every day with warm
soap suds, and the lead thoroughly rubbed
in. A couple OF spoonfuIs OF sulphur siv
en to the horse twice a week, will be Vi
service to him. L have found this to cure
when everything else failed. So says w.
n. Chalterdon, of Beekmantown, n. Y,
in the GeneSee Farmer.