Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-07-31
The Currycomb, Card and Scrubbing
Brush.

Brush.
These stable implements are not used as
often and REGULAR as they should by the
generality of farmers. A good dressing
down Of the horse each morning with the
currycomb and brush, is fully equal in
health giving power and elasticity Of move
ment to two quarts of oats. 1t is a CRATE
full attention, repaid many fold by the ami
NAL which is the stated recipient Of it.
But while bestowing this care upon the
horse as most persons do, knowing its BEN
eticial effects, they very generally seem to
forget that oxen aud cows are equally BEN
fitted by daily application Of the card.
There is no room for doubt on this sub
ject with, those who have been accustomed
to bestow this attention on their dairy and
working stock A free use Of the card
gives repose to the animals, enables them
to enjoy and digest their food in quiet in
stead Of raking their bodies against posts,
trees and fences, as opportunity offers, for
alaying the irritation produced by an ac-
emulation of dust, hay.seed, and other IT.
ritants common to the stable and barn-yard.
Even young colts, calves and yearlnSs are
greatly benefited by the use of the card,
while its daily use is step in the break
ing or training process by which the SER
vices of the animals are made more readily
available when properly matured for la
Dor.
1t may seem absurd to scrub fattcning
porker, but those who have practiced it
concur in its utility. One reason why
hogs are fond of immersing themselves in
pools of stagnant and filthy water is found
in the fact that their bodies get encrusted
with dirt, causing an itching which the
pool they seek allays. This irritation rem.
dcrs them restless and retards the process
Of fattening very materially. This can be
prevented by an application Of soap-suds
aided by splint broom commonly used for
cleaning stables and cross-waks. a liber-
al application Of suds and good scrub
bling daily will allay irritation, and give
that repose to the animals which is essen
tial to a steady and rapid accumulation of
flesh and fatty matter. The labor Of pre-
pairing and applying the wash, at least
once day during the milder portions Of
the season, will be amply remunerated
in the increased weight Of the animals
when the slaughtering season arrives
Nev England Farmer.
EY The three great objects of tillage
are: First. to enable the roots of plants to
force their way through the soil as freely
as possible in search of food !; second, to
produce this food in the soil and third,
to keep down weeds. 1t is found that in
every one hundred parts of soil of average
fertility, not more than one part is in fit
condition to noursh plants. This explains
why manure containing, in an available
state for plants only small quantity of the
constituents of the soil, produces great
effect. 1t also shows the Importance of
deep, early and good tillage.
REMEDY FOR BURNS AN ScALDs.-
The most efficacious remedy 1 ever tried,
says correspondent, was to employ CON-
mon starch, just moistened with cold wa
ter, and spread on a cloth to effectually
cover the wounded part. A little girl who
was badly scalded, was instantly freed from
pain by the above remedy. Keep the
starch moistened, and in few hours the
inflammation is gone, leaving the scalded
part perfectly white. After the inhama-
ton is out, apply linen cloth dipped in
sweet oil. 1t is speedy cure.
~ The Japan clover is attracting much
attention in some portions Of the Atlantic
States. 1t resembles white clover, but is
much smaller, and covers the ground like a
mat. 1t is said to grow on poor soil, to be
spreading each year, and that it has al
ready become so valuable as to make beef
and pork, and to give life and sustenance
where without it neither would be possible.
Ia At recent meeting of Western
New York Farmers Club, member stated
that as an experiment he marked off equal
strips OF land, applying different manures
TO each horse manure to one, cow manure
to another, the sweepings of barn yard to
third, and leached ashes to fourth. The
last produced the most favorable results.
,,nT Cows in milk should be kept quiet
all the time. Chasing by dogs or rude
boys Is one OF the most harmful things in
a dairy. Docility, quiet life, is the life
lcr brlndle She will give more milk, will
give 1t readily; will love to be MIXED, if
kindly treated. -
~ Wood-ashes contain all the morgan
&c ingredients which growing trees extract
IRON the soil, and in consequence are Just
~ regarded as the best fertilizer for an.
pies, pears, plums, &c.
q An English farmer, by picking over
ms seed wheat with the utmost care and
plsntlng grain in place, at intervals of
a foot each way, producing 1872 bushels to
an acre.
sr When COW or OK gets choked, it
Is said that immediate relief may be OBJ
tanned by strapping up fore leg and CON-
polling the animal to jump.