Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-11-15
che 9tamnton Winoiftor.
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

FARM AND FIRESIDE,
SALT AS A MANURE FOR WHEAT.-A COR
respondent of the Canada Farmer" gives
the result of his experience in using salt as
fertilizer for wheat He says:
''Last Spring thought l would try it,
and bought six barrels, and applied one bar
rel to the acre, On three acres Genesee Club
spring wheat: at the same time [ sowed
half a barrel across five acres of wheat iii
another place. Now for the result. The
three acres shot out FIVE days before the
same variety sown side by side on the same
day, and the strip across the field can sec
as plainly as if the one was wheat and the
other oats. The reason l applied salt to the
Club wheat was this | have been troubled
with the straw breaking, and salt is highly
recommended to gtiffen the straw whether
| it will or not cannot say yet but can say
that the wheat / sailed keeps far ahead Of
the rest. However, BIZ harvest l will be
able to tell you if it keeps the straw bright
and stiff, and it the wheat will ripen sooner.
MATERIALS FOR CoMposTs. spe-
cies of rough fbrous material is capable of
being converted into manure-so also is
woods mould-the scrapings of bitches, de-
caying leaves, marsh mud-the turf of head
rows-all these should be assiduously col
lected and carted to where the compost heap
is to be made. When sufficient quantity
is gathered commence making the heap by
depositing first # all heavy layer of farm
manure. Follow this with layer of the
materials for compost, and continue to con-
struct the heap layer by layer, in the pro-
portion of one load of manure to three loads
of rough fibre. If the heap is we'll built
fermentation will set in after while, th:
period at which fermentation will take place
being regulated by the state of the weather.
After the heap is we'll heated throughout, it
should be broken down and intimately
mixed, and it will then be in condition to
be spread broadcast over the field. --Nary~
land Farmer
FArTEN1Na Hoes.-After hogs have been
put up for fattening, and during the first
week Of the fattening process, cooked roots,
apples, pumpkins and vegetables of various
kinds, mixed with small quantity of corn
meal, should be given them. AT a later
period increase the quantity of meal, and
during the last three weeks of the fattening
they should be fed exclusively on cooked
corn meal and Stops 1t is extremely waste
| full to feed corn in the ear. We may here
remark, that warm and comfortable sleeping
apartments for the hogs expedite the pro-
cess of fattening, and that the open portion
of the pens should be at all times furnished
with an abundance of rough vegetable fibre
and woods mould, to be worked over by the
animals and converted into the richest of
manu~es. Maryland Farmer.
STABLES AND Cow HousEs.-We have al
ready frequently adverted to the fact that
comfortable stables and COW houses econo-
mise the feeding of stock. Where the latter
are exposed to the weather they require
larger amount of food and of ARCHER quality
than when properly housed. The reason is
obvious, in severe weather, with exposed
cattle, the loss of caloric incident to that ex-
posture must be made good by high feeding
But even in this case the health of the cat
tie cannot be so well maintained as when
they are protected from the inclemency Of
the winter weather by properly constructed
sheds. MARYLAND Farmer.
If people planting orchards would give
orders to mark the north side of the tree
with red chalk before they are taken up,
and when set out to have the trees put in
the ground with their north side to the
north, in their natural position, larger
proportion, it is said, would live, as ignoring
this law of nature is the cause of many
transplanted trees dying If the north side
be exposed to the South, the heat of the sun
is too great for that side of the tree to bear,
therefore it dries up and decays Builder.
CURE FOR RHEUMATISM. Having been
cured of rheumatism by the following pre-
scription, Mr. William Bassett, of Birm-
ham, Michigan, communicates it to the New
York Farmers club. Sarsaparilla root, sas
safras chips, and gentian root, each one
ounce guaiacum, half ounce iodine of po-
tassum, one-fourth ounce. Simmer the
first four articles in a gallon of water to a
half gallon when nearly cold add the po-
tassium: stir together, strain, bottle
Dose wine glass full twice day.
SAUSAGE -Housekeepers will do we'll 10
preserve the following frst-rate receipt for
sausage:
To every twelve pounds of meat take
three tablespoons of salt not much heaped,
three tablespoons black pepper, eight table
spoons of sage and o teaspoon half full of
red pepper.
Good sausage is splendid with buckwheat
cakes in winter, and got this receipt from
friend whose sausage is always good as
long as it lasts-4Naryland Farmer.
Frosted limbs, it is announced, are per-
manently relieved by one or two applications
of boiled lye of wood ashes, made SO
strong as to be quite slippery between the
fingers. This I've should settle, be drained
off, and have large handful of common
salt to each quart of I've mixed with it. 1t
should be quite warm and the limbs be sub