Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-06-04
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Mlnu-Dreaks also around IT. OF eYergreens
if possible.
The capital invested in fruit-growine
of which Chicago is the market, is re
ported to be $2O00000; amount Of sales
$15,O00,O00 -
Surface manuring and cultivation are
for grain, and, in particular for fruit
buried manure and deep culture, for yege.
tables.
The Pennsylvania State Fair is to be
held at Harrisburg this year, from Sen
TENDER 80 to October 2. A "horse expo
sition" is announced as one of its features
Sore Nose in Sheep.-A writer in the
New England Farmer states that he has
cured the above disease in his flock by
simply smearing the noses of the animals
with tar and sulphur.
-Cookies-One cup sugar, one egg, one
half cup butter, one-half cup lard, one
half cup of sweet milk, one-fourth tea
spoonful of soda, and -four to harden.
Roll thin, bake quickly, and sprinkle with
sugar.
"A writer in the Springfield Qll.) Jour
nal attributes the recent deaths of cattle
in that vicinity to the animals having eaten
the leaves of the Buckeye" horse-ches-
nut. Cows kept in pastures were not Of
fected.
"A warm onion poultice is highly re-
commended for Group in children, and
asthma in adults Apply on the breast
and throat, and the palms of the hands
and feet, first greasing the skin well with
goose-grease or some other grease.
The Rural Neo Yorker says "a COM
mon hen will live in some cases, from ten
to fifteen years, but is not profitable after
the third and fourth year. A hen is in
her prime the first and second years. We
do not keep any after the third year, ex-
cept some of our choice birds"
The Horticultural says that young
vines are especially injured by allowing
them to fruit freely. In vegetable life an
overexhaustion, while the plant is young
and immature, is just as permanently inju-
rious as overworking is to an animal be-
fore it has reached maturity.
-Molasses Candy-Take two quarts of
West India molasses, one pound of brown
sugar, the juice of two large lemons, or a
teaspo0nful Of strong essence of lemon
Mix together the molasses and sugar, tax:
ing care to use West India molasses, which
is much the best Boil to the consistency
required.
"A correspondent of an agricultural
journal says that the tires on his wagons
wear out before they get loose, and the
reason is, he saturates the felloes thor
oughly with linseed oil before the tires
are set The felloes are placed in hot
oil for about an hour, and are thus rem
dered perfectly waterproof, so that the
shrinking and swelling that loosens the
tires are prevented.
"A writer in an agricultural papcrsays
ait frequently occurs in the spring, when
the farmers are feeding their cows upon
ruta-bagas, or turnips, that the milk be-
comes so strongly impregnated by their dis
| agreeable taste and odor as to be unfit for
butter-making To obviate this, put a
pinch of finely-powdered saltpetre into
every gallon of cream. A little saltpetre
! worked into butter that has become sour,
or rancid, will render it sweet and pala-
table"
"A correspondent of the Gardeners
Chronicle says that he destroys the wire
worms in his flower garden, by using a
liquid composed of one gallon of sulphuric
acid, to twenty Of water, and applying it
plentifully to the soil late in the autumn,
NnCu Tic DldlltS uaNc OOllc DlOOuhug, anu
early in the spring when vegetation COM
mences. 1t is better to use it on the soil
before the plants are set out or the seed is
sown, as when it comes in contact with
the larvae, il is very injurious to them. He
much infested by these pests and it killed
every one of them.
AN Ohio correspondent of the North
icesterR Farmer succeeded in making a
small stock Of poultry quite profitable. In
February, 1867, he began with twenty
hens, cross of the Brahmas with the
common and the game fowls. From these
he raised one hundred and twenty chick
ems, sold ono hundred and sixty dozen
eggs and has fifty dozen on hand, for which
he is offered thirty cents dozen, making
the average price of one hundred and fifty
dozen twenty five cents, or $37 so. AS
the chickens will more than pay for the
feed he estimates that he has cleared over
| two dollars from each hen. He estimates
the total number of eggs laid during the
season by his hens at two hundred and
forty dozen.
The american Stock Journal, com
menting on the blind staggers in horses
says the first thing to be done in a case of
this kind is to relieve the pressure of blood
about the head of the animal by c0piOus
blood letting. The juguIar vein should be
tapped and so much blood be taken as will
serve TO restore the animal to the command
of its limbs. The quantity proper to be
taken can be pretty accurately determined
on by the effect produced. When the
horse shows signs Of being relieved, the
flow of blood should be checked, the cause
of the attack sought for, and medicines
given in accordance with the symptoms.
If the attack proceeded from an over
distension OF the stomach, the pump should
be brought into use, and free application
of warm water be made. Medicines CAL
culated to give freedom to the bowels will
be found beneficial.
To cover a steep bank quickly with
grass, the following method is recon-
mended by German horticultural asso-
station. For each square rod TO be planted,
take half pound of lawn grass seed,
and mix it intimately and thoroughly
with about six cubic feet of good dry
garden earth and loam This Is placed
in tub, and to it liquid manure, diluted
with about two-thirds of water, is added,
and well stirred in, so as to bring the
whole to the consistency of morter. The
slope is to be cleaned off and made per-
fectly smooth, and then well watered, after
which the paste Just mentioned is to be
applied with trowel, and made as even
and thin as possible. Should it crack by
exposure 10 the air, it is to be again
watered and smoothed up, day by day, un-
til the grass makes its appearance, which
will be in eight to fourteen days, and the
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