The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1869-11-24
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Ia bi, ofgIue dissolved in skim milk win
restore Grape.
Strong ley put in water will make it as
soft as rain water.
Half cranberry, is is said, bound on
corn will soon kill III.
Ribbons Of every kind should be washed
in suds and not riased.
Scotch snuff put in holes where crickets
Come out will destroy them.
IL your fiat irons are rough, rub them
with fine salt aud il will make them smooth.
Il you to avoid cold. keep your mouth
shut. The same plan also keeps the teeth
from getting sunbutn. aud people from no
tlcing them il they are.
Good fences, bars and gates. save much
time, prevent trespass, and consequent i'll
will among ncighbors.
There has been great dispute n The
South whether farm yard dung should be
applied for wheat directly in the autumn,
or whether il shoald be applied upon gras-
ses. Many advocate the putting III IL 90
the clover at mid summer; aud ia almost all
cases where i. has been so tried il has pro-
dncei good effect. Instead OF applying il
Tor wheat, in ordinary cases, when the
cheat is about 70 be sown, or on the clover
IN midsummer. apply i in The autumn or
spring before. upon The clover, The result
vi pursuing that course is this: You give
The cIO,era thoroughly good dressing. 50 a.
10 enable them 70 gro" with much greater
rap'dity, aud ID much greater volcano;
you have Tar greater amount 81 roots pro.
duced in the so,i; and the wheat derives
greater benefit from those rnols, 10 the shape
u manure, than IL YOU applied ihe manure
al mid summer, or when YOU plough up The
lshd in the autumn. Wherever this plan
has btsn tried--snd il mas been tried ia
many paees-il his been found cfIicaci0us.
Experiments have been made. distinctly
shaving that Il !. better 10 apply faIm.yard
dung 10 green than 10 corn crops.
Pref. Nesbaf II .7msrical.
For man who Is thoroughly in earnest,
farming offers grand field Tor ,Ifort; tut
the man who is only hall in earnest. Who
thinks that costly barns. imported stock
and nicely ruled lawn. are the great OBJ.
Jscts d attainment. may accomplish pretty
results. but they will be ANAL ones. So
the dileitante farmer, who has a smaitering
Of science, whose head is 6lled with aus.
trums, ~ho thinks hls salts sill do ii all,
who doses his crops now to feeblene,s and
nov 10 an unnatural exuberauce, who daE-
dies over his lernentaiiens while the neigh.
bnrs' oxen sEe4hFaekiny infn lii - ss.a.i.
with no managing oapacily, 10 breadth 81
vision, who sends two men 70 accomplish
the work Of oRe-Iei such man give MP all
hope % "-.Ling farming lucrative pursuit.
BAT u man, IS W. said, be Thoroughly N
--sss.ssl; i be have The sa.aeity 10 sss ~
"Ast ~ Ism; 20 syltemats1e It's labor. 10
carry out h. Dlaus pasctaalIy aud thu
roughly u ne is not above economics, nor
aeealess o. ue teachings Of science, nor
uncbsersant o. f,ogress elsewhere. MR.
neglectiol "ls0eh apIorlunitie. !. where the
Yale Agr,cbi,nrsI. Leets..,-Iet Them wors
Tor he will have his feasr,i. IA, even .a.b
~ one will never come 10 his lOu. IL b.nd
except they be colts u his own raising; y
iopriVaie concerts in his own grounds, 81.
cept what birds mske.-D g. Michel.