Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-25
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ibe expenses Of the purchaser is1t because
they are not disposed to bessow the extra
amount Of labor involved In rolling their
feds, or is II because q lev do not understand
lis uses and benee.ss7
DO they pit know that sroller is almost
indispenss ole on light soils, because 1t
presses the earth closer Ground small seeds
thSis il Is equally useful on heavy soils, be-
cause il brushes the clods, and brings the
pulverized earth in direct contact with the
seed,-that il is good on grass fields, because
1t presses small stones, bones etc,-which
would otherwiNe iniure the knives of the
mower,-into the earth, and out of the way,
ard that il also levels ant and mole hills
that Il Is useful upon wheat fields in the
Spring, pressing the plants which have been
thrown out by the frost into the earth again.
that it exercises q most happy influence
upon cats, if used after the plants have at
tanned a hight of three or four inches; 10 a
word, Mr.. Editor, that il is good almost
everywhere, and ranks very properly with
the most important implement on the fArmt
Ii is astonishing, that while we are making
progress 10 almost every other direction, we
have dote so little toward the general in
PRODUCTION Of the roller. My own expert
ence with it has been so entirely satisfactory,
that l can not furbesr urging its importance
upon every farmer who has thus far not tried
IL"
THE USE OF CEMENT FLooRs FOR CATrLE.-
In reply to an inquiry about cement floors
for cattle, in a late issue of the Rural Ne,O
Yorker, a correspondent remarks:
| would say we have had expert euCes
which will exactly coincide with his inquiry.
1t wss paved and greuted well, and LETT
several months to dry before it was used. IL
was too hard for the cattle to lie upon with
ease, but still they wore it through, where
| 49, z.zol ro~S - tho otapphfp1o TX han
61st made, the stables were cleaned every
dsy, but seeing how it worked, we have
since put plenty of straw upon the floor in
the Fall, letting sheep or calves run in loose,
not cleaning out until Spring. By giving
plenty Of litter, we thus make a nice pile Of
pdludble manure. We think there is nothing
bitter than plank for stable floors. We do
not like underground stables for stock think
they are generally too warm and damp for
them to do well,-better for keeping roots
and manure. A word of caution-Do not
use cement floors for a hog house. r
TREAlMENT OF HoRsE's SwELLED LEGs.-
Horses in the Spring and Fall are subject to
swelled legs. The powers of the c%onstitu-
tion are principally employed in providing a
new coat for the animal, and the eXtremities
have not their share of vital influence
Mingled coIdials and diuretics are indicated
here-the diuretic to lessen the quantity of
the circulating fluid, and the cordial 10 in
y~igorate the frame.
Swelled legs are often teasing in horses
that are in tolerable or in good health; but
where the work is somewhat irregular, the
cure consists in giving more equal exercise,
walking the horse out daily when the usual
work is not required, and using plenty of
friction in the form of hand. rubbing. Band
ages have a greater and more durable effect,
for nothing tends more TO support the cap
illaiy vessels, and rouse the action of the
absorbents, thar moderate pressure. Hay
bands will form a good baodage for the
agricultural horse, and their effect will prob
ably be increased by previously dipping
them in water.
ANOTHER CURE FOR GAPEs IN CHICKEEs.-
Perhaps some of your readers, says a CORE
| spondent of Moore'S Rural New Yorker,
would be glad to know Of a remedy by the
use of which they may be able TO raise a few
chickens without the experiment being
rendered almost %prohtless through disease.
II is not a little surprising to see tuTpentine,
tobacco, and a host of other nostrums, re-
commended as cures for this difficulty, when,
in fact, they eau never reach the cause, or
effect q cure. 1t must be known that the
stomach and wind pipe are quite different
in their Office, and that the cause is in the
wind pipe. On dissecting one of these
chicks, you will find in the wind-pipe, near
the lungs, q Small, reddish worm, about an
inch long, and the circumference of a knit
ting needle. / nave often found a half dozen
of these worms in one chick, and they grow
until 1t is choked 10 death.
NV mode of treatment is first, provide
yourself with q quill from the hens wing,
strip it of the feathers to within an inch OF
the tin, wet it and draw down to a point,
place the chick between your knees, with
The thumb and finger of the left hand open
the mouth, stretch up the neck SO that you
- 80. ,I..Ar,A;a. - 4hn mind nina than
pass the quill down, give it q turn or two,
ard draw out. In this way you will draw
out and loosen the worms so that the chick
will cough them up. This should be the
work of a moment, and in the hands of a
skillful operator success will certainly follow.
1t may be necessary to repeat in a week or
two.
PURE WATER WITHOUT WELLs-Your cor
respondent says a contributor to Moore s
Rural Net0 Yorker, tells your readers how
to have a cheap we'll Of pure water. | pro-
pose to remind them of q way to have cheap,
pure water, without the well. | live in a
section where digging wells is very pre-
carious bushes. You may find water be
fore you get discouraged, and you may give
no in disgust, but the chances. are two to
one against. For fifteen years all the water
used in my family, for culinary purposes,
was brought from q well Of my neighoor
across the highway. The well was over
sixty feet in depth, the distance carried ten
rods, and up quite a steep hill. Who will
dispute this being up hill business? In ad-
dition to all this, there was the annoyance
your correspondent speaks of, such as cats,
rats, bugs and snakes, finding access by
tumbling from the top, which rendered the
water unfit for use a portion OF almost every
Summer.
Four years ago next April, at the sugges-
ton of a friend, | bought of a Rochester
manufacturer, a rain and river water filter,
No, g., for $l2, and set it in the cellar by the
side of the stairs. We usually put three or
four pals of rain water from the cistern in
at a time, then draw from the bottom, by a
faucet, as we need, pure, soft water, that has
neither taste or color. With this arrange
ment ice seems more necessary than that OF
the well. But what farmer, after trying it,
would deprive himself of the luxury OF ice,
TO make hard butter with, or keep fresh
meat, or, above all, to carry TO the field,
Instead of drinking the warm, sickening
stuff, which be must necessarily do if with
out it2 / would not go back to the use OF
hard well water if | could have it as handy
as could be desired, and free of expense.
would advise all those especially such as
are situated similar TO myself in regard 10
this matter,-tO try the filter.
AN EXPERIMENT IN WHEAT CULTURE.-A
correspondent of the Eastern Farmer thus de-
tolls a test of various fertilizers upon a crop
of wheat: Last Spring | experimental a
little in sowing wheat. | measured off two
acres of laDd-then divided into three equal
parts, numbering them A B G. On "a
applied boDe-meal at the rate of 900 pounds
10 the acre. On 3D." applied phosphate,
made at the rate of two casks lime and two
bushels rock salt to one cord muck. On &c,
! put 225 pounds of rock salt. l sowed the
Uhn1a NTH mhaof tho 9Th dau IF Nav and
first part of the season, that on the bone meal
grew the best, though the difference was
Eight between that on the bone-meal aud
that on the phosphate. AS the drouth Of
mid Summer increased in s~eVerity-that
supon the phosphate gained upon b)th
the bone meal and the rock salt, but later in