Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-03-23
AGRICULTURAL.
Fam. GlRDEx AND HOUSEHOLD.

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with common brush. He knows of
mill painted thus seven or eight year
Il ago, that is still well covered with tn,
\ paint.
: CANADA THsTLEs w, WooD CHUoKs
( About the only good use we eve
heard for Canada Thistles is that pro
mulgated by late correspondent o
| the Rural New Yorker. He uses then
to fill the holes of troublesome wood
chucks putting them in when about
half wilted. From nine holes thus
treated but one ''chuck" ever got out.
| STARCH FROM PoTAToEs. starch
| factory in Vermont last year used g..
600 bushels of potatoes, for which &c
| cents per bushel were paid. coarse
! variety called "California," which
| yields 800 or 400 bushels per acre, were
used. Thus an income of 500 pei
acre, was obtained from land not worth
| $50 per acre.
| DOGS AND SHEEP BELLS. An expe-
| rienced breeder of sheep, says that a
number of sheep in any flock wearing
bells will keep away dogs. He allows
ten bell sheep to every hundred. When
sheep are alarmed they run together in
a compact body, and the ringing of all
/ the bells frightens the dogs. In Great
| Britain and Ireland bells are used by
| almost every owner OF sheep. They
are useful for keeping off dogs and
foxes, the latter being very destructive
to lambs in places where this precau-
tion is not taken. Canada Farmer.
A HINT FOR THE BoYs.-I rejoice to
say / am a farmer. Although young
yet, find I can keep up with my
neighbors. 1 have always lived upon a
farm; my father is a good farmer, and
he has a nice little workshop, in which
I first learned the use of tools. can
mend a plow, wagon, sleigh or an OK
chain, sharpen and temper a crowbar,
make gate and hang it, mend har-
nesses, boots, shoes and tin pans, re-
pair and clean clock and watch, and
on a pinch can wash, iron and darn
stockings. My apprenticeship was
served in my fathers farm-shop on
rainy days where / spent my leisure
time, instead of resorting to the vii.
lage. This training has given me a
love for home, with skill and ingenuity
to keep things neat aud in repair, and
| to make home attractive to myself and
family. Highlander, IN Raral Ameri-
can.
CLOVER. Glover differs entirely from
the cereal plants in this respect, that it
sends its main roots perpendicularly
downwards, when no obstacles stand in
the way, to a depth which the fine
! fbrous roots of wheat and barley fail
to reach; the principal roots of clover
! branch off into creeping shoots, which
again send forth fresh roots downwards.
! Thus clover, like the pea plant, derives
its principal food from layers below the
arabic surface soil; and the difference
between the two consists mainly in
this-that the clover, from its larger
and more extensive root surface, can
still find sufficie1cy of food in fields
where peas will no longer thrive; the
natural consequence is, that the sub
soil is left proportionably much poorer
| by clover than by peas. Glover seed,
on account of its size, can furnish from
its own mass, but few formative ele-
ments for theyOung plant, and requires
a rich arabic surface for its develop
ment; but the plant takes compare
lively but little food from the surface
soil. When the roots have pierced
through this, the upper parts are soon
covered with a corky coating, and only
the fine root ibers ramifying through
the subsoil convey food to the plant
Liebig.
PRESERVATION OF Eaas.-Much has
been written about the preservation of
eggs, and many are the suggestions,
but none have as yet given satisfaction,
and for the sole reason that the strue-
ture of the egg is not considered in re-
lation to the physical and chemical
laws which govern evaporation, per-
meation and petrefacation. The shell
of the egg being porous, TO admit air
TO the chicken during the process OF
incubation, allows also part OF the
liquid to evaporate, aud the air to pen
citrate when they are not used soon
after being laid, and the air acting on
the animal matter produces early de-
composition and putrefacation, partic-
ularly so in formulated egg, in which
the germ is first decomposed. Clear
eggs, the produce of hens who have
not been with cock, keep fresh much
longer. This can easily be exemplitied
by putting an old formulated egg and
an old clear egg under a hen whilst
setting, when it will be found that
after the twenty-frst day the fecun-
dated egg is putrid, and the clear egg
At for use. To exclude the air from
the egg, and to. prevent the evapora-
ton of its liquid, it has been proposed
by some writers to pack the eggs in
salt, lime, bran, saw-dust, &c. by 9TH
ers- to keep the eggs immersed in lime
water, in salt water, or both combined;
others, again, suggest to varnish or oil
the eggs; and some even to parboil
them.
PACKING Snow UPON WHEAT. MANY
Of the most valuable improvements OF
agriculture as well as in science and
art, have been the result of accident
1t is said that Newton was led TO the
discovery and demonstration OF the Law
of gravitation by the accident of an APP
pie falling upon his head. We think II
doubtful whether such head as his
needed any such jogging to turn bis
thoughts in that direction. But how
ever this may be, farmers should always
be on the watch for accidental hints.
i A writer in the American Agricultur.
ist relstes an incident of neighboI
who obtained permission from another
neighbor to haul wood across his wheat
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