Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-06-18
Useful Items.


EVERY farmer ought to know that cut
nails heated red-hot and dropped into
cold water will clinch as well as wrought
nails.
HORSE RADIsH is recommended as an
excellent remedy for hoarsenes, cough,
sore throat and slight diseases OF the
lungs.
Surface manuring and cultivation are
for grain, and, in particular for fruit
buried manure and deep culture, for
vegetables.
SOFT soap suds will be found valuable
for gardens and yards of sandy soil-and
almost any other for all that. SudS from
bar soap are of less value.
MUITITUDEs of farm accidents happen
because nuts on running gear are not
looked after and kept tight. Five min
utes' attention each day, wrench in hand
is the remedy.
CATTLE troubled with lice can be read
ily relieved from them by free appllca-
ton of the water in which potatoes have
been boiled. This Is cheaper than a
tobacco decoction.
THE Department of Agriculture says
that ten million bushels of wheat are
wasted in this country annually by bad
sowing-too deep, too shallow, too thick,
| too thin, TOO uneven.
THE veterinary editor of Wilkes Spirit
of the Times recommends the following
| for scratches in horse: Take sulphate
of zinc, one drachm; glycerine, two oz's;
apply every morning.
Sore Nose in Sheep.--A writer In the
New England Farmer states that he has
cured the above disease in his flock by
| simply smeanng the noses or the AMI
| Ia with tnr and SIJlDnur,
To make silk which has been wrinkl-
ed and "umbled' appear exactly like
new, sponge 1t on the surface with u
weak solution of gum arabic or white
glue, and iron it on the wrong side.
A wet silk handkerchief tied loosely
and without folding, over the face, IL
said to be u good security against sutio
crtion and smoke. Itpermits free breath
inc and at the same time excludes smoke
from the lungs.
A FARMERS WIFE says three table
| speonsful of ground Java coffee given tc
a COW i'm mess will cure the scours, and
q less quantity given to calf or pig Will
never fail to accomplish the desired re-
sult.-Ohio Farmer
A warm onion poultice is highly re.
commended for Group in children, and
asthma in adults. Apply on the breassl
; and throat, and the palms of the hands
and feet, first greasing the SKIN wei
with goose-grease or some other grease
The Horticulturlst says that young
vines are especially injured by allowing
them to fruit freely. In vegetable life
| an over exaustion, while the plant is
young and immature, is just as perma'
nently injurious rs overworklng Is to an
animal before it has reached maturity
Every peach tree in the orchard should
be carefully examined, at least twice, O
year, for the purpose OF hnding ana de-
stroying the borer. When the grubs are
small and confined to the bark they may
be easily detected. If they have pene
trated into the wood, they must be dug
out with knife or piece of strong wire
A small quantity of ofair-slacked lime pilee
around the base of the trunk had beer
found good preventive of these insects
HuRhYINa FARM WoRK.--It is goot
| thing for farmer to have his g'ount
mapped out, the crop for every sector
specified, and the time for working eacl
part noted in his plan Of action. Bu
this rule Is liable TO modification from
causes not foIeseen, and especially from
the character of the weather.s III IL ha
been decided to plow such a field at
given time, is would be poor policy to d.
10 II the soil was overcharged with water
or too arid to make plowlng easy ant
profitable. le.--Agricultur Paper.
GIRDLEp TREES. s.--The most success
full remedy for trees that have been gin
died by mice or other means, seems :
be simply banking the earth around Ia
, uncovered parts, so as to prevent tn
: SUMS drying and checking the wood
New bark will form II the wound Is ker
! moist and dark. 1.-THE girdling is to
high up on the stem to be easily bankeS
! clay should be brought around II by Ell
. closing the tree in box. Numerou
. we'll attested instances Of girdled tree
I being saved by these means have CON
s under eur observation.-Rural Ne
. Yorker.
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