The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-06-18

FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hygiene on the Farm.

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err under the above heading says:
Now, the idea that a rural life should be
n healthy one is correct, and farmers ought
to be the most healthy, happy, and serene
people on earth; they can have the purest
air, variety of employnents, wholesome
food, beautiful scenery, and if they would
study how to live might be models Of health
and yigor. There may be good reason Tor
neuralgia and colds in the
country, in the exposures of weather to
which the people are subject, but that any
exists for dyspepsia We cannot admit. But
the visitation comes, the afflicted seeks re-
lief, what is to be done? He is told he can
be cured, his good aunts and grandmother
have each seyernfsure cures for him and
he tries them all, and all that are known to
the aunts of all his neighbors. He takes
bran bread, disiikes it and exchanges it for
boneset tea; this is better, but not recover
ing he is advised to eschew tea, coffee and
meats; does itand gets worse; then tries DIR.
Somebody s bitters made especially for dys-
pepsia this gives him more appetite and more
pain; he tries raw eggs, raw meat, mint
tea, dyspepsia pills, mustard and caraway
pickles and saleratus, and nineteen other
articles but none fits his ease, and he seeks
the doctor Shut people like charmed drugs
and mysterious doses, and the doctor only
preseribes o system of regimen and he
leaves in disgust. But the demon he cam
not shake off, and in despair he would give
anything, the world, if he could, to have
once more a sound stomach. Does he know
that disease like everything else under the
sun, is the effect? and has he the resolu-
ton to remove the cause of this when he
finds it :? I'd. -tEf- .
What is the solution of this problem?
If we all lived strictly according to phys
iology, undoubtedly few would die young,
and physicians would be few, but we vio-
late the laws of health and must suffer. If
it took some great violation to make one
sick, all, or nearly all, would avoid it; but
our violations are small and many; each
standing alone would be unmpor tant, but
combined they slowly, insidiously, yet
surely as the drops of water fill the buck
ct, undermine the strength and bring dis
case.
Our remedy then cannot be found in
some one new habit, one kind of food, or q
single nostrum; our daily life is made up
of n multitude of things, we are effected
by legion of influences, we must study
them ALL grow wiser and learn to improve
in the matter of ventilation, of personal
cleanliness, baths, of the kinds of food we
eat and drink, as well as of the moral in
fluences which affect rs.
PLASTER AND SALT FOR CLovER.-A cor
respondent of the Germantown Telegraph
says he has full faith in plaster and salt as
an application for clover, either for hay,
seed, or pasture, and gives the result of
his experiments as follows:
This last year tried an experiment on
field (all clover which was intended for
hay. 1t was in thirty feet lands. To the
first land l applied plaster, sown broad
cast, ut the rate of two bushels per acre,
at cost of one dollar per acre; to the sec
ond land l applied, in the same
manner, two bushels of common
ground salt, at the cost of 50 SO per
acre; the third land l applied, in the same
manner, mixture of salt and plaster, zone
bushel of each) mt a cost of ST. IS per acre,
and so on all over the field. Throughout the
whole spring any novice in the art of farm
ing would have picked ont every third land
as the best next the first ones, to which the
plaster was applied. Having long been an
advocate of plaster for clover, was very
careful to note every circumstance, however
trifiing, which could in any way effect the
experiment, and am now very thankful for
this case, as it enables me to communicate
several important results which otherwise
could not have accounted for The times
of sowing the substances, on the whole
field, extended over two and a-half weeks;
n short time elapsed between each patch of
three lands. The result is that find the
same amount of plaster does best when
the clover is two or three inches high, and
when it is sown on the leaves when they
are wet with dew. The salt did best when
a warm rain fell just after it was sown.-
The action of the mixture is plain, we ap-
ply in one stimulant the four ingredients
most needed by clover, viz: sulphuric acid,
lime, chlorine and soda.
CURING Hay. Experience proves that
grasses should be cut for hay when the
stalks are in bloom. The best time of all.
both for clover and other grasses, is Just
when III full bloom, and the earliest bios
SONS are beginning to fade If not too
heavy it can then be cut in the morning
and, if carefully scattered, can be hauled
INTO the barn in the afternoon of the same
day. This makes the best quality of hav
1t retains more of the nutriment of grass
than if it is left exposed to dews and rains
for few days, and goes much further
both for ta.tening stock and for pro-
dncing milk. But when the grass is
very heavy, and is cut with moving
scythe and thrown into heavy swaths or
rows 1t will not cure thoroughly under two
days, and is not so good for food as that
cured and put away in one day. Dew and
always affect the fibre of cut grass
and weakens the strength of the hay. They
also lnjure and destroy the sugary matter
contained i'll the stems, and render them
dry and tasteless. When branch of hay
can be twisted tight without showing mois-
lure OF juice, it is dry enough to be slowed
away ! little salt scattered over hay
which has been caught in showers will i'm
prove it, and render it more palatable to
stock.-Fdrn Journal.
PROTECT THE BIRDs-The birds have re-
turned to us, and every one should extend
them hearty welcome, and encourage
Them to build among his trees and shrub
berry. s F &-
Nearly the whole class of birds that
spend the summer in our midst is vastly
Useful and beneficial to the farmer, gar
iener, and fruit grower. Robbins, cat
birds, peewees, orioles, blue BIRDS wrens.
yoodpeckers and numerous others destroy
immense numbers or caterpillars and |
other noxious insects so detrimental to our |
ruit crops, and but for the warfare thew
make upon them it would be well nigh |
to raise fruit at all. Farm |
Journal.
IMITATION CIDER. following forms a |
ooling and very refreshing drink for sum-
ner, and one that can hardly be aistin-
,uished from apple cider. To cold water
me gallon, add dark brown sugar one
'ound, tartaric acid one-half ounce, Yeast
hree tablespoonfuls, and the same propor-
ION for any amount desired Shake well
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