The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-06-16

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of fine manure to use for raising q
patch of corn to cut up green in the
fall. Those who have never tried it
are not aware how much may be raised
per square rod. After Your planting is
finished and you get breath a little,
plow up small patch (plow deep) har-
row well, and with common pillow fur
row one way two feet and a half apart.
Scatter in your manure an inch deep
scatter in your corn-at the rate of
thirty or forty kernels to the foot and
cover it up. When up about foot
high, go through with the plow and
turn furrow against each of the corn,
sufficient to cover weeds! The corn
viii soon have the mastery and no
weeds win appear. When feed begins
to fail, begin on the corn, and if your
cows get it, they will tell of it in the
milk pail, and if you have large dairy,
few more pans will be needed. Some
prefer the large sweet corn. Some of
both kinds may be sown and then see
which is the better kind.-M II. Jour
nal Of 4griculture. A
81 A correspondent of the
Country Gentleman communicates the
following which he has used success
fully in curing Jumps on the jaws of
cattle ;: <ca ~
81 Half an ounce Spirits Hartshorn.
- One gill Spirits Turpentine.
Half q mint Sweet Oi1
Two ounces Gum Camphor. (,
e One pint of Alcohol.
- Dissolve the Camphor in the Alco-
hol, and then mix all the ingredients
together.
This mixture was at first applied
once day and rubbed briskly with
the hand, in ten days the lump be-
came loose from the jaw, when it was
opened, and after discharge of mat
ter, the application was kept up daily,
and in a short time it healed.
A New METHOD OF RAISING PoTA-
-ToEs-Lay up square pen of rails,
four feet high within the square first
put in few inches of rotted manure,
then four inches of half rotted straw,
then four inches of soil, upon which
plant the potatoes by cutting once in
the middle, and cover the entire bed
with them, then cover two inches with
half rotted straw, and in ten days fill
up with straw, and let them remain till
November, and fine large potatoes will
be found, in quantity ten times more
than by any other mode.
To KEEP PoTAToEs FROM SPRoUT-
1NG.-To keep potatoes intended for
the use of the table from spring until
new potatoes grow, take boiling water
pour into tub, turn in as many pota-
toes as the water will entirely cover,
then pour off all the water, handle the
potatoes carefully, laying up in dry
place on boards, only one layer deep,
and see if you do not have good pota-
toes the year round without hard strings
and watery ends caused by growing.
The neighbor / got my information
from says he has never failed, or had
any trouble from rotting or sprouting.
Try few.-Prairie Farmer.
To prevent cows from kicking, q
writer says: 'Take a rope or strap
three feet in length, and make loop al
one end, then carefully place the looT
end around the hind legs just above
the knee run the other end through
and draw the legs together as close as
possible; then wrap the remainder o.
the rope round the part encircling the
LEGS, and fasten. When the rope i!
properly adjusted, it is impossible fo
the cow to kick"
VINEGAR.-W. G. Baker furnishe
the following receipt: Take one gallor
of molasses to seven of rain water; pu
In key with loose cover or larg,
auger-hole in the upper head, anC
after few weeks you will have vinega
beautiful in color, pleasant in taste, AM
sour enough-far better and cheape
than the hard sour, water colored stui
you get at the stores, called vinegar
Prairie Farmer.
STRIPED BUG.-To protect your vine
from the depradations of the stripe
bugs make square box of clapboards
twelve inches square, and without to
or bottom and place over the hills, an
the bugs will not be likely to hurt tn
yines.-Mr. Noble, in Pontiac Jacksc
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