The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-08-11
HOUSE AND FARM.

York Tribune say: "A farmer in Ohio had
thrifty orchard which blossomed freely
but bore no fruit. He washed twelve of the
trees once aweek in strong soap suds, and
was gratifed by fair harvest the subse-
quent season. s.,
GREEN OATS FOR Hoes.-A writer in the
Western Rural says lie commences feeding
his hogs green oats as soon as tall enough
to NOV, and continues till after harvest
The hogs, he says, thrive much better in
that way, with half rations of corn, than
with corn alone, and the former is much
cheaper.
CALLED SPoTs ON HoRsEs-A writer in
the Rural New Yorker gives receipt to
make the hair start on spots CALLED or other
wise injured on horses, as follows: "Take
an old boot or shoe, place it on the fire, burn
to coal, pulverizc and mix with hogs lard
to thin paste. A few applications Of this
paste will do the work."
STEAMING FooD FOR Cows-Mr. F. G.
Eastman, New York cattle broker, who
has farm in Dutchess county. where he
frequently feeds large number OF cattle,
says: "There is no doubt as to the advan-
tage of steaming food for COWS that are
milking. and for fattening any kind of stock
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healthy"
MILK SOURED BY THUNDER. "A cores
pondent of the Country Gentleman expresses
the opinion that the cause of milk beconl-
ing sour during thunder storms is not any
mechanical concussion produced by the
noise of the thunder, but the presence of
ozone, peculiar modification of oxygen,
which is produced in large quantity by the
| antinn Of al IN tha
REMOVING GAS FROM WELLs.-A cores
pundent of tho Scientific american gives an
account of an ingeniousy extcmporized ap-
paratus for removing carbonic acid gas from
wells 1t was simply an umbrella let down
and rapidly hauled up number of times in
succession. The effect was to remove the
gas in few minutes from we'll so foul as
to Instantly eXtingnish candle previous TO
the use of the umbrella.
PRESERVING EGGs.-A Partisan paper re-
commends the following method for the pre-
| servaiinn of eggs dissolve four ounces of
beeswax in eight ounces of warm olive oil,
in this put the tip of the finger and anoint
the eggs all around. The oil will immedi-
ately be absorbed by the shell, and the pores
filed up by the wax. If kept in a cool
place, the eggs, after two years, will be as
good as if fresh laid.
Every bushel of wood ashes applied to
the corn crop is worth one dollar. The
truth OF the assertion has been readily de-
monstrated by the results of experiments ac-
curately conducted. On all light soils the
action is highly energetic and salutary;
they exert warming and invignratlng in-
fuence, and promote the rapid growth of
almost every species of vegetable produc-
tion.
PoL1NG ToMAToEs.-A correspondent of
the Ohio Farmer uses poles for his tomatoes,
instead of trclises or lattice work, in the |
same manner that he would for hill of |
beans except that he selects poles {: little
heavier, and not more than four or five feet
long He sets pole to each vine, and as
the plant grows fastcns it to its support
with heavy wool twine Alllateral. flower
less branches should be npped off, and if
the growth is rank, the top beaded back
With this arrangement the tomatoes do not
rot, and are clean and of fine quality. The
ground, also, if left clear between the plants,
SO that weeds can be kept out. and in dry
weather can be often sstirred, so as to pre-
vent in a great measure the effects of the
drouth.
DAMAGING THE BREED OF HoRsEs-They
had great Metropolitan horse show in Lon
don lately, and seemed to regard it as some
thing of marked Importance. The English
people are beginning to think-we are not
prepared to say with how much justice-that
the present system of horse racing damages
the breed OF horses, whose more useful quail
ltles are sacrificed to secure speed over a
short course, and that the turf might now bc
abolished altogether without injury to the
breed of English horses. They propose to
the horse show. where the more
useful qualities of the animal. such as endur-
ance, strength and general vigor are always
sure to be well represented. We have often
thought that an animal which is model
racer and but little else, is not exactly the
kind of animal calculated to confer the great
EST equine blessing upon mankind generally.
Plain bran or ship stuff, says the Stock
Journal, is one of the very best kinds of
food To increase the milk 1t is not fa,ten-
ng steer could not be fiittened on bran
.lone, and COW. if fed on the best of hay
md bran alone, might iall off in her Weld.
lnlcss her strength and condition were kept
lp by Indian meal or stronger food. Ii
here were anything in which there
would seem to be no strength, it is bran, the
mere hull of wheat. 1t is not stimulating.
ike brewers grain, and can certainly do no
iarm if it does no good, and yet any farmer
Who will make the experiment will tind-or
II least we have found that "a cow being
otherwise kept in a proper condition, her
1ield of milk will be very considerably in
;reased by giving her twice a day feed of ,,
'ure bran. The fact is patent, although
We are not able to explain it. If there is
my one article which, while keeping up the
Iealth and strength of the COW, will also in. !,
rease the supply of rich, healthy milk, in
nr experience. it is cotton scedcake meal.
We have found this to have great effect
m the milk secreting organs. The COWS at (
lrst do not seem to relish it, and it should
'e mixed with some other seed; but they )
oon come to like it, and we have never seen
ny bad effects in any way.
To REJUvENATE OLD GRAPE VINES a
he editor of the Practical Farmer says:
Having on our premises, planted by
ormer owners, probably twenty years, half =
dozen old grape vines with large weather !;
eaten trunks or stems, which made annual
y but little new wood and yielded but very
ew poor grapes, two seasons ago we cut off !
he branches, and laid the main stems down : :
n the trenches, covering with about foot e
earth. Vigorous and healthy shoots =
prung up in great abundance-th weak +
mes of which were broken off, and leading .
mes at proper distances trained to the arbor Il
he new growths are now clean, healthy and
trong-sufiicient entirely to cover the large
rbor the present season; we look for bush
Is OF lrult from the new bearing wood We