The weekly standard., 1869-09-29
HOUSE AND FARM.

Mr.. Melchi, the well known English far
mer, in speaking of crops of oats and bar
ley that had been destroyed by wire worms,
says, "All this might have been easily, and
cheaply, and certainly prevented by sowing
about six bushels of salt per acre just as the
plants were coming through"
FRAUD IN FERTILIzERs-An analysis by
Prot. johnson. of Yale Callege, of sixteen
different kinds of fertilizers, some of which
are sold as high as S65 ton, shows that a
very large proportion of them are worthless.
One specimen, selling at $23 a ton, was
shown to be really worth, as fertilizer, not
more than 1888.
\ GOOD HELPMATE.- The ST. Paul Press
publishes private letter from a lady in the
country, which shows that she ''does her
own cooking and baking on farm that
grows 1000 bushels ofgraip for Il large fam
iiy, including the voracious harvest hands,
and who, in addition to all these severe do
mestic tolls, raises with her own hands over
three hundred varieties of choice flowers,
doing all the laying out, digging, raking,
hoeing and manuring herself
4 correspondent of the Scientific Ameri-
ran recommends as remedy for the tooth
ache, or neuralgia affections arising from
teeth in any stage of decay, a small bit of
clean cotton wool, saturated with strong
solution of ammonia. applied to the affected
tooth. The pleasing contrast instantaneous
" produced in some cases, causes a fit of
laughter, although moment previouly ex-
treme suffering and anguish prevailed.
LINE IN Son.-There is said to be carried
off from the soil nine pounds of lime in
twenty-five bushels of wheat, nine pounds
in fifty bushels of oats, and fifteen pounds
in thirty eight bushels of barley There
are thirty-fve pounds of lime in two tons of
clover, and one hundred and forty pounds in
twenty-five tons ofturnips, and two hundred
and seventy pounds in nine tons OF potatoes.
Some soils contain an abundance of lime for
thousand years, while Others require an oc.
casional application of lime as a fertilizer
A practical farmer writes: In my observa-
tons Tor twenty years in the practical appli-
cation OF manure, am convinced that what
is ordinary termed mulching, or the applica-
tior of thoroughly decomposed barn yard
manure to the surface is the most economi-
ical use of this class of fertilizers. From
this experience l am convinced that one
cord of manure applied on wheat land
at the time of sowing, or on ground intend
ed for corn in the late autumn, or applied to
all varieties of large aud small fruits, is worth
three cords plowed or dug under to the
depth of eight inches.
Samuel H Goodwin, of Madison, Ind, says,
Last winter all the bees in our county, with
the exception of about half dozen swarms,
died, and of course there were none to suck
the honey from the flowers last spring. We
have an orchard which has borne but very
little fruit for the last seven or eight years,
but this season it is full of healthy fruit.
Now, the question is whether the fruit is
injured by the bees taking every particle OF
honey from the flowers many times day or
not; or, in other words, is not the honey
that is secreted in every flower blossom, put
there for the health and nourishment of the
young fruit?
There is no fixed rule for salting butter,
some preferring more and some lest salt
An ounce of salt to the pound is the quanti-
ty generally used. After the salt has been
worked in, the butter should be allowed to
stand twenty-four hours, and then worked
over again. By this second working it is
not only rendered more solid and compact,
but the salt is more thoroughly incorporated
the streaks are avoided, and the butter will
keep sweet longer time 1t should never
be worked in warm room, if you would
avoid oily, streaked butter, that will become
rancid in short time
BUTTER MAKING IN FRANCE.--A singular
method of making butter has lately come
into quite extensive use in France. The
process consists in placing the cream in a
linen bag of moderate thickness, which is
carefully closed; then burying the bag about
foot and half deep in the earth, and al
lowing it to remain from twenty -four to
twenty-five hours. After the expiration of
this period the cream is found to have be-
come hard, and it is then broken up by
means of wooden beater into small pieces,
and enough water poured upon it to wash
out the buttermilk To prevent any mix
ture ofearth it is advisable to enclose the bag
IN second one of larger size and coarser
quality.
THE BEST WASH FOR TREEs-October
IS perhaps the best period for the autumn
scraping and washing of fruit trees. The
insects which hide in the bark and crevices
of the trees, have by that time retired to
their window quarters and can be easily de-
stroyed. There is nothing equal as wash
with which to scrub the trees than prepa-
ration of say one pound of whale-oil soap
to large bucket of water, well dissolved.
There is nothing more nauseous to insects
than this. 1t will lay cold " everything
that we have tried it on but the curculio-
that, however. cares no more for the mixture,
even though accompanied with sulphur,
Allme-water and tobacco juice, than if il were
Ngingerly dose of pure spring water. But
\se-bugs, and the steel blue grape-bug, sur
tier to its power incontinently. Every
uAer and gardener ought to have supply
his soap on hand for use whenever ne
t99pple and pear trees well scraped and
e N washed with this preparation will not
" be freed from some of the chief insects
preying upon foliage and fruit, but will SEN
sibly feel its invigorating effects. r..
CURE FOR CoRNs ON HoRsEs.-I have
seen many valuable horses whose usefulness
was very much impaired by corns; have
owned such, and tried cutting and burning
with but temporary relief. l became ac-
Al quainted with the three-quarter shoe, and
i fund pertinent cure. As it may be new
TO some who would like to try it, l would
Say that it is what its name implies three,
/ Quarters of a common shoe. Cut off a
Quarter, or nearly so, of the shoe-of course
The quarter that was over the corn-round
theedge little that comes to the hoof, mai
ocnthe shoe, and drive on. You will per
hals expect that your horse will interfere
outyou will probably be disappointed. US
Il shoe with merely spring heel
have derived great benefit from apply
,,ng hats foot on to the frog and heels o
anorses' feet 1t keeps them soft, makes tn
irog grow, and at the same time will no
Keep out water, like other greese IL should
I've used two or three times a week on al
horses that are kept in the stable. If thes
Suggestions are worth as much to one 4
your subscribers, as they have been to me,
nal be well paid for putting then, on pi
er.-C0r Rural Neao Yorker.