Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-30
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TUESDAY. MAY 80. 1854.
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lHDuig dDDheu one CAts u CoAhihOt- 'se-N -
acre to wheat crop and increased the yield
nine bushels per acre.
NATIONAL CATTLE SHow.-.O the 25th and
9th Of October next, there Is TO bet great Cat
4! Ties Show at Springfield, Ohio. Twenty acres
have been inelosed, and two hundred stalls
erected for cattle.
DGADExINa T1MBER.-When the bark slips
freely in June, July, or August, is the best
time to grdle trees. Cut the small growth
three feet above the ground; the roots do not
sprout, and the stumps are more easily remov-
| ed.
Broom CoRN.-A ton of broom corn viii
make 200 or 300 brooms. 1t is worth $50
a ton, beside the seed. II is great crop IN
| the Mohawk Valley.
| FENCE PosTs, stepped in a solution of blue
yitriol-one pound of vitriol to forty pounds OF
! water-will last foreyerand be pretty good at
ter that
RED ANTS may be driven away by sprink-
ling fine sea-shore sand upon the shelves.
Cn1cKRNs should be kept in coops, with
floors above the ground, until they get strong
enough to run at large.
| BONES may be decomposed by putting them
| between layers of wood-ashes moistened in a
barrel. Bones aud eggshells should be thus
disposed ofas fast as they come from the kitch
en-. A strong heating compost heap will de-
compose bones Diluted oil ofvitriol in old
kettle or or big earthern jar, is a good thing
into which to cast waste bones.
FLAx.--A recent traveller thinks. we shall
become exporters Of fax, instead ofimporters,
in few years.
ToMAToEs should always be busHed just as
much as peas, and who but slovea would
think of raising the latter without any support.
Tomatoe plants should be trimmed also, and
not permitted to bear all the fruit that sets up-
| on the bushes
BrRDs AND CoRN.-Birds must eat, and it is
natural for them to look in the plowed fields
for food. OF course they will pull up your
corn, unless you prevent them by making it
unfit for food If you shoot or poison the
birds, you will kill your friends. Hyou wish
to prevent them from eating up your seed corn,
pour bushel of seed into tight vessel and
heat pint of tar and pour it over the eoru,
and add warm water and stir all together UNI
til the grains are coated with tar; then drain
off the water, and add lime, ashes or plaster,
or wheat bran en- 1ugh to adhere to the grains,
so that YOU can handle them without sticking,
and the birds will not pull your crop as soon
as it comes above the surface.
BUrrER.-Not one pound in five of the but
ter sold in the market is fit for human food
Buttermakers should remember these few short
| rules:
The newer and sweeter the cream, the
sweeter and higher favored will be the but
| ter.
The air must be fresh and pure in the room
or cellar where the milk is set.
The cream should not remain on the milk
over thirty-six hours.
Keep the cream in tin pals, or stone pots,
mfr which a nj Of off ,n
ing, then stir the cream lightly each morning
and evening; this will prevent the cream from
moulding or souring.
Churn as oftenas once week, and as much
oitener as circumstances will permit.
Upon churning, add the cream upon all the
milk in the dairy.
Use nearly an ounce of salt to pound Of
butter.
Work the butter over twice, to free it from
the buttermilk and brine, before Jumping and
packing.
Be certain that it is entirely free from every
| particle Of butter milk, or coagulated milk,
and it viii keep sweet forever.
| In Scotland, syphon is sometimes used to
separate the milk from the cream, instead of
skimming the pans.
LEATHER For MANURE.--Old boots and
shoes, and old harness and shoe shop scraps
are first rate manure. They may be eaten up
in ashes or ley, or added to the compost heap,
or chopped fine and plowed in the soil. Old
WOODEN rags and scraps of wool, hair, skins, all
should be treated in the same way.
AFRICAN CoTroN.-In Liberia, Africa, there
is plant or tree which grows Is feet high and
bears cotton in bolls similar to the common
cotton plant of this country. The staple ia
very short, but has soft silken texture, aud
is of delicate fawn color. The odor is ex-
actly lkecotton, though its appearance quite
unlike it Is this native fbrous substance
worth looking after? We think it is.
AVALUABLE OLD Cow-We have an ac-
count of a COW owned by John B. Decker, of
Vantage, n. j.. that is tbiry-t,co gears old,
and has a young calf, the fifteenth in nine
years. She has brought over forty calves III
her time. She gave 20 to "a quarts of milk
last summer. She was raised by the father of
her present owner. Her teeth are yet good.
This COW with all her descendants, if alive,
would make one of the greatest cattle-shows
ever seen in this country.
Usage ORANGE HEDGES are all the rage
now, since almost every other plant that has
been tried has proved failure, nine times out
of ten, and the one time is not anything like
a safe permanent fence. The Usage Orange
b1is d. Are, is in its natural condition tree, as
much so as the apple tree, The young hedges
if carefully set and cut back well, grow to
good feuce. If neglected they soon run to the
natural form of trees, and are worthless as
fence 1t is yet to be proved whether the
hedge that is well trimmed every year, will
live and prove a close fence. 1t is used by
Mr.. Longworth Of Cincinnati, to fence his vine
yards, and keep out all intruders. The plants
are easily grown from the seed, if properly
treated by soaking in boiling hot water. They
should be planted in nursery beds in May,
and transplanted to the hedgerows nextspring.
Cut the shoots off close to the ground, and
set the roots not over six inches apart. The
soil of your hedge-rows must be rich, deep,
and mellow, as the plants are gross feeders.
and full grown hedge admits no other plant
to grow near it to any advantage.
SOAKED Corn FOR HoRsEs.-One Of the
most successful and judicious farmers in the
vicinity of Baltimore, effects saving of from
one-third to one-half of his corn, by soaking
it thoroughly before feeding. His method is
this:--two empty vessels. hogsheads. or some
thing similar, are placed in his cellar where
there is no danger from frost, and filled to the