The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-24
AGRICULTURAL.
THE FARM.
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table. and also d~eteriorates its keep
ing p~ropensities. Dig on a bright
day-uever on a wet; the soil tina
adheres tends to decay. Store ever,
day the potatoes dug, or else protec
with boards.
1t is said that a pint of Stacked
lime scattered over a barrel of pota
toes will efectually destroy any ten
dency to rot. We have never tried it
but the'remedy is simple and within
the reach OF all. Immense crops o
potatoes are raised in these Northerr
States. New Hampshire aud Yer
mont raise millions OF bushels, anC
yet the price of good eating potatoe!
is high and the supply small. Why
Is 1T? The reason is obvious. Starch
mills abound in these States. Two
bushels of California potatoes can be
raised where one OF rarer kinds car
grow. There is always a market for
the coarser kinds direct from the
fields. The crop is sure-the pay at
hand-so our farmers will not Guilt
vate those which tempt the appetite.
Indeed, many a farmers family does
not know what a good potato is, and
would say to our early Blues, Cuscos.
and Harrisons, Small potatoes and
few in a hill" So, though the har-
vest is bounteous this year, the sup
ply Of eating potatoes will still be at
ruinous prices.
Carrots and beets should be stored
away now, while their juices are in
their prime. They are kept best in
layers of dry sand, covering a thick
layer over the top of the box. Stored
la this way, all their freshness is re-
tanned. Though a little out Of place,
let us observe that, ifthe top of a car
rot cut off at this season, or later, is
placed in a saucer of water, with a
few bits of charcoal to swaeten it, it
will form a radiated feathery plant
by no mean unworthy to grace a
laay's table.
ANIMALS THAT CHEW THE oUD.
Illuminating animals gather their
food rapidly, give it a few cuts with
the teeth and swallow it. 1t goes to
an interior receptacle where it is moist
ened; this is very essential if it be
dry hay. When the animal has filed
himself, he thoroughly masticates the
food thus slowed away In his stomach,
raising it cud by cud. When a por-
ton is completely m~asticated, it passes
to another receptacle, and the process
of digestion goes on. Thus. an OK, If
left to himself, will raise and masti-
cate all his food thus slowed away in
his stomach. IF he is pushed and
worked hard, aud does NOT have time
to masticate, he falls off in flesh, his
health is poor, and digestion incoh-
plete.
: The hoSse, on the contra ~, howev-
err much in a hurry he may be, must
masticate cash mouthful before he
swallows it. A hungry OK let into a
meadow will fill himself in twenty
minutes, VII le a horse would want at
less an hour aud twenfy minutes to
take the same amount of grass. The
Of, deer, sheep, go it, channels and
rabbit being the natural prey of fero-
ciOus beasts, are endowed with the
extra stomach in which hastily to
stow away the food without mastica-
ton. This may, perhaps, be regarded
as a wise provision of nature, enabling
them to sally forth where the food is
plenty, aud ia a short time fill them
Sc YES and retire to a place of safety
TO ruminate their food at their leisure.
HOW TO PRESERVE FRUIT TREES FROM
MICE.
Thousands of young trees are de-
stroyed annually by those little pes
tiferous scamps. They seldom fail to
give me their compliments, and in
such a manner, too, as to nettle my
temper just a little. | have wrapped
my trees with paper and twine. plowed
the ground late In Autumn, and clean
ed the grass carefully away from
around the trees; yet those little
thieves steal into my orchard aud gar
den, and very coolly girdle my choicest
trees. | put my wits to work to de-
wise some sure remedy that would be
cheaply and quickly done. Take
equal parts of pine tar aud fish oil,
mix together thoroughly by warming,
then take a brush and put on the
trees close TO the ground and twelve
OF fifteen inches up around the body.
lit will not injure the trees, and there
will be no more trouble with mice. /
tried the experiment on fifty trees
last Winter, and it worked like a
charm. My trees never were more
thrifty than Turing the present sea-
son DR.. Nichols, an Journal OF
Chemistry.
now TO RELIEVE CHoKED CATTLE.
I have fattened cattle on potatoes,
and always feed them whole, and
occasionally one gets choked. / then
put the animal In a yard where there
are bars, which l let down so that
she can jump over, but as high as she
can jump. | then place her about
two rods from the bars, with her
head towards them, and with a good
whip, we'll applied, | run her over the
bars on the jump. and when she
touches the ground on the other side,
the potato will fly out of her mouth.
/ have informed my neighbors of
this remedy, many Of whom have
tried it, and In no case have | known
a failure-AarOR Lee, IN Raral
american.
THE CORN CROP
While the reports of the small
grains in different localities of the
United States are quite variable, the
prospects of the corn crop are every
where good. Taking the whole coun-
try together, it is probable that there
has not been such a corn season IN
the last 6fty years as the present
And never was a crop OF corn brought
fOrw 4rd TO Its present condition In SO
short a time. Up to the last of June
the crop was very backward, not halt
.kaee-high, and looked yellow and
sickly, but then it started and never
ceased its rapid growth, day or night
until it was Ia the end out of danger
from frost. In the Southern State:
the crop is immense, and in man
places has been safely harvested. a
large supply OF hogs and cattle 70,
fattening will be required.
FALL FLOWING.
AS soon as the stubble fields hav,