Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-03-22

PROFITABLE BUT NOT PoPULAR-A
portion of raw onion eaten just before re-
firing to rest will insure refreshing sleep to
persons suffering with lungs overburlened
with oppressive and irritating matter
SALT AND ASHES FOR HoRsEs,-A cor
respondent of the Prairie Fdrnaer says he
never knew a horse to have the collie, bots,
or worms, nor become "cTibber when
box of salt and ashes xas ever in reach in
his stall ,
FERMENTATION OF SYRUP. "A great
many OF readers have sorghum syrup that
they viii find fermentng unless care is used
as warm weather comes on. Fill up your
barrels bung tight and keep in "a cool cellar
So says Brother Clough, of the Sorghb
Journal
OLD AND New HAY--It has been ascer-
tanned that well cured hay weighed in the
field, July 20, and then stored in the barn
until February 20, had lost 231s per cent.
of its weight. II is, therefore, better TO
sell hay in the field at SIS ton than
from the barn at $50 in midwinter.
SooT.-This agent for evil is one of the
most valuable manures. Twelve quarts OF
SCOT in hogshead of water will make
powerful manure, which will improve the
growth of flowers, garden vegetables, or
root crops. In either liquid or solid state
it makes an excellent top dressing for cereal
roots.
BEANS FOR SHEEP--A correspondent of
the Country GentleD1dn who has this year
year LOO bushels of beans TO feed his
sheep. considers them worth equally as
much as corn. tie says it is necessary to
feed carefully at first, mixing in some light
er feel, till the sheep become accustomed to
them, as beans will clog them sooner than
any grain he ever used d.
BAKED APPLE DUMPLINGs-Onete acup
OF lard, one and half of wafer, q little
salt, for crust; eight tart apples, pared,
quartered and cored roll the crust and cut
in circular pieces, in which place four quar-
tiers. Wet the edge of the dough and close
up tightly. Bake in slow oven to nice
brown. These may be served with cream
and sugar, syrup, or a sweetened sauce, and
are excellent.
| CHEAP PAINT FOR BARNs--A CORES
pondent of the Country Gentleman gives
the following: Take oil meal, about one
quart to two quarts Of water. Boil half
an hour. When IT has settled take off
the top and mix with Venetian red Cor
other color and apply with common
brush He knows of mill painted thus
seven OF eight years ago that il still well
covered with paint
BED BUGs- Many sensitive housewives
will he relieved to learn that Mr. F. w.
Putnam, a naturalist, and a member of the
Essex Institute, of Salem, in recent
speech az the meeting of the institute said
that the presence of bed-bugs must not be
considered an evidence of a want of clean
illness or of neglect of active efforts to
prevent or expel them They breed as
q sort of parasite ON rabbits, pigeons,
bats, and some other animals and it
has often been found necessary to exter-
inmate those animals from some places be-
fore the bed-hug nuisance could be abated.
To CURE SHEEP PROM JUMPING.-A
correspondent of the Ohio Former gives
the following curious account of the meth
cd adopted by him to prevent his sheep
from jumping the fences of his pasture
81 want to tell you about my jumping
sheep, and how l broke them got them
in a pen, built sufficiently large to hold
them. then caught the ringleaders, one
ear then took cord or string, and run
through the holes in the ears together
close enough to keep them from working
their ears l then let them out and they
are as quiet as any sheep
PLANTING PoTAToEs.-Instead of plant
ing whele potatoes, large OF small. it is
better TO use good-sized seed, cut to two
eyes, and plant one in a hill More seed
will make a superabundance of tops, and
many small potatoes. In preparing the
land, it should be plowed rather deep i'm
the spring, and narrowed as level as pos
sible, then mark it out about three feet
apart in rows one way with pillow, max
ing the burrows four Ia six inches deep.
Drop the seed, one piece with two eyes,
from twelve to fifteen inches apart i'm the
rows, and cover with light pillow, four to
six inches deep. Cultivate clean, and
apply plaster and>ashes; let not weed
firow. Dig with horse potato digger.
RAISING CHIcKENs.-Get fresh eggs and
set them under old hens (they are the best
with young chickens), do not let other
hens get on the same nest with setting
ones when the young chicks are Matched,
take them and the old bird away from the
hcnyards, and shut them into coop, until
the chickens are from four to six weeks
old. Young chicks for the first week,
should have hard boiled egg with indian
meal, afterwards corn cracked coarse.
Keep the lice of by using Scotch snuff, or
have slack lime sprinkled in their coops
The most fatal disease among chickens is
the gapes, although there are great many
remedies tried, but the most successful one
| ever / saw tried, was with horse hair;
take the hair and double it, leave small
loop and twisting the the rest up tightly,
take the chicken on your lap, hold him
with the left hand, keeping his bill open
by placing the thumb and finger each side,
4 ha hal ha win MI ON
run 1t in the swallow, it would be death to
| it), twist the hair around few times,
and you will have the little red worms
sticking to the hair, its a sure cure. ~
THE KERRY Cow-Vernet, the sketcher,
writes to the American Stock Journal, pub
lished at Gum Tree, Penn, as follows:
al know the Kerries well among their
native heaths and hills, in the suburbs of
London, and the surroundings of almost all
English towns, and few in the United
States. They are a small, hardy, healthy,
perfectly peaceful race of animals, capable
of cropping out living, and keeping in
good heart and fair flow of milk upon such
rough chance food as will subsist a goat.
Besides these qualities, they little heed any
vicissitudes of Wealth, r. OF during with per-
feet impunity storms which would put
many of our fancy, full-blood and grade
COWS on the retired list, always maintain
ing the supply of milk, better, under all
adverse conditions, than any other cows 1
have ever seen. Gentle and docile in dis
position, the Kerry cow pets as amiably as
lamb, and in this respect has no equal,
either as dairy or family mixer. They
continue in milk to great age, make very
excellent tender beef and are more easily
fattened than any other breed Of cattle Of
which / have any knowledge. A barn
yard beauty, the Kerry COW certainly is
not; but her many good qualities ven all
personal appearances. At the present