The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-07-21
HOUSE And FARM.

L.. ~ 1.
ikcrssses Should be cut for hay when the
stalks are in bloom. The best time of all,
j aboIh for clover and other grasses. is just
/ wieniin full bloom, and the earliest bios,
soIis are beginning to.fade. If not too
l.,helyy it can then be cut in the morning,
AMI, if carefully scattered. can be hauled
intb the barn in the afternoon OF the same
4 daI This makes the best quality OF hay
1t Rtains more of the lnutriment OF grass
1 thai if it is left exposed to dews and rains
i ,forh few days, and goes much further both
for fattening stock and producing milk.
i But when the grass is very heavy, and is cut
4 with a moving s.ythe,l and thrown into
/ heavy swaths nr rows, it will not cure thor
ouSlly under two days, and is not. so good
for Eood as that cured and put away in one
day Dew and moisture always affect the
| fibr, of cut grass, and weaken the strangth
/ of the hay. They also injTe and destroy
1 the sugary matter, contained in the stems.
and render them dry and tasteless. When
| a branch of hay can be twisted tight with
out showing moisture or juice, it is dry
enough to be slowed away. A little salt
scattered over hay which has been caught
in showers, will improve it and render it
more palatable to stock.--Farm Journal.
DENT1T1oN OF ANIMALS correspon-
dent of the Mark Lane Express says that
| thedentition of animals, as a test of their
| age now excites considerable interest among
English farmers, on account of the disquah
| ficition of Lord Radnor's pigs at the Biz
| mihgham cattle show. Mr.. Owen Wallis of
| Mentone, states that on one occasion, when
drifting his yearling ewes, about the end of
September or beginning of October, he
found one with all its lamb teeth undisturb-
ed, and showing no signs of putting up per-
mancnt ones; while many others of the same
age had four broad teeth, nearly fully deVel
oped. AS these sheep had all been bred
alike, and the one in question was perfectly
healthy and about an average size, lie wish
es to have the great difference in their den
tition accounted for by veterinary profess
sors That they are generally correct in
their decisions he has no doubt, but he
thinks that the case described tends to show
that dentition is not always to be relied on
as an unIailing test of age, and as such great
discrepancies occasionally appear, minute
ones may do 50 frequently, and injustice
may be done to exhibitors by disqualifying
animals on this account.
IMPROVEMENT OF LAND.-There are two
ways in which land may be ameliorated and
brought into good filth and condition for
grain crops, and then seeded down to grass.
The first is by growing roots with the help
of manure. to restore fertility and get rid of
| weeds. which can be done to most advan-
tage on fields already well worked and
smoothed down by the action of the pillow.
The other is by summer following. The lat
ter is often objected to as entailing loss of
| one years crop, but this is more in theory
than in practice, for there are fields in many
farms that have remained in state of rough
pasturage, yielding but little grass for years,
full of old stump roots, cradle knobs, wild
grasses and weeds of every description, that
can only be got rid of. and the land brought
into.a proper system of rotation, By first
| giving them a thorough summer following,
| followed by fall wheat or barley, as the crop
| on which to seed down with clover or grass
Seeds Canada Farmer .H
| Coon MILK-The following rules were
unanimously adopted by the Illinois and
Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, ito in
sure the delivery of pure sweet milk "
| 1. That no milk is good, which is made
from filthy, sinking water, of sloughs and
frog ponds. sl
g. That no mill is good that comes from
cows logged, or overdriven in hot weather,
from the pastures to the stable. sH
ln3 Tint no milk is good that comes from
cows pounded or kicked and cruelty treated,
| by brutal men. i} .' ar
4. No milk is good that comes from dis
eased cows--cows that have sores filed with
puns, or that have uddefs broken and run
ming with corruption. sl4
THE APPLE TREE BoRER-Dr. w. 81
| Edgar. OF this city, owns farm near Jack
sonville. ILL.,, with an apple orchard of 1900
trees. He informs us that his orchard has
suffered much from the borer. He has lost
an average of sixty trees year for the last
/ three years His treatment this year has
been as follows: Alter destroying all the
borers that could be found, he banked UP
earth around the trunk to the hight of sew
eral inches, and then tied on paper so as to
cover the trunk to the hight of about ten
inches above the earth. He thinks this will
prevent the female from depositing her eggs.
Undoubtedly it will.-Journal Of Ag,icuJ-
tire.
GREASE ON CARPETs.-There is nothing
that annoys Il tidy housekeeper so much as
to have her carpet spotted with lamp oil or
grease, and we therefore make known, for
their benefit, the following receipt for ex-
tracing oil or grease spots from carpets and
clothes: Cover the grease spots with viii
ting and let it remain until it becomes satu-
rated with the grease; then scrape it off and
cover it with another coat of whiting, and
! if this does not remove the grease repeat the
application. Three coats of whiting will,
in mast cases, remove the grease, when il
should be brushed off with clothes brush.
SO says one who pretends to know. r
| The following is very good for cleaning
kid gloves Compound three ounces OF
good hard soap, melted in one ounce of
warm water, one ounce of hyposulphate OF
soda, and one drachm of liquid ammonia,
and apply to the stretched glove with a
piece of flannel. -l4
A Pennsylvania says, as remedy against
1 the striped bug pest, that water in which
refuse onions, or the tops and pealIngs OF
onions have been stepped is efficacious in
driving away bugs from squashes and al
their family, as well as the insect that troub
les cabbages. q II ,9ai ~ u laag
Stirring the soil about all garden crop
cannot be too strongly urged. Let it b.
frequently and WELL Two STRINGS ars a.
good as one rain and when the rain come.
the soil is in the best possible condition ts
receiyeit. afE }f.e se4ff a5G
Avoid washing .Japanned tea-trays il
hot water, it cracks and defaces the Japan
Il ming IF thew aDpear greasy a little fop