Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-18

or three ears of corn to each hog daily
But as keep but few stock hogs through
the winter, the gleanings of the cornfields,
&c, is generally good feed for them, except
when snow covers the ground. | fatten
three months on corn and pumpkins. A
considerable saving of grain-I think about
one third-can be made in grinding and
cooking, and mixing cooked pumpkins or
potatoes with it. The economy of cooking
depends upon the relative price of corn,
pork and labor, and the convenciences at
the place of making the trial.
To DESTROY LICE ON CATTLE.-A ia
blespoonful of sulphur given COW or OK
every other day for a week, will completely
destroy them. Cattle will readily eat it
when mixed with salt-G. E. K, Carmel,
ny
Our Baltimore correspondent, j. Wilk-
inson, sends us the following remedy, which
he had contributed to a South Carolina
paper Apply dry wood ashes to the ami
nal from head to tail. The most conven-
lent mode of application is to attach light
wooden hoop sieve about eighteen inches
in diameter and four inches in depth, with
wire cloth bottom with about one-eighth
inch meshes, to the end of a light, tough
pole, say ten feet in length, and with it APP
ply the ashes by sitting over the animal
its entire length. Two to three quarts is
sufficient for one application on a large
animal.
have found the remedy most active and
efficient where | applied it as soon as the
animals were thoroughly dry after rain,
that the ashes may not be washed off by
rain for several days after it is applied; but
four or five days after an application it is
desirable to expose the animal to drench-
ing, warm rain.
AS soon as the hair is dry apply again,
and treat as before. The third application
is generally sufficient, and l have never
known the fourth to fail. -Four to six days
should intervene between the applications,
as the nits hatch in from eight to ten days,
according to the position on the animal
they occupy. The ashes of hard wood,
those containing most alkah, are best.
The ashes of pine wood will not destroy
lice
David Whyborn, Mexico, n. Y, writes
There is a remedy that have used on cats
dogs, cattle and horses more or less for fifty
years, with good success. 1t is perfectly
safe, whetherapplied inwardly or outwardly
Saturate thoroughly the parts Of the ami
NAL where the lice are with warm butter
milk (sweet or sour twice week for three
weeks in succession, and the lice will dis
appear l have never known it to fail
L. Pickering, Central Ohio, writes =
''Take one pint of fiaxseed oil, pour it OF
the ANIMAL commencing at the back ofth,
head and continuing along the back bon,
to the root of the tail, and the lice vii
soon disappear. No danger in the abov,
remedy"
J. c. Crandall says: Feed onions If
you have plenty, or wash in the liquor il
which you boil meat, onions, cabbage anC
potatoes. "-Rural Ne,r Yorker.
Hollow HORN IN CATTLE-PREvEN
TIvE-to prevent cattle from having tn
hollow horn use the following remedy. viz
Commence awhile before calving an,
give one teaspOonful of pulverized coppera
in a little slop for three mornings in sue
cession and then miss three, and on un
til you feed about one-half pound to each
We have found this to be sure remed
for twenty four years. l.. PICKERING.
POTATOES. - Nothing indicates NOR
, certainly the importance and value of tn
potatoe crop, than the great speculatiO
which has prevailed of late in fancy variC
ties Formerly, such a thing would hay
been impossible A few years since an
f there was never any doubt about pOtatoe
1t mattered little when, or where, or VIII;
kind, was planted, a good crop was consiC
cred a sure thing. Now it is the revers
: If it is too hot or too cold, too wer or tC
i dry, the crop is in doubt, and rust an
p rot are after them everywhere.
One good result may follow from Il
. present pOtatoe fever, and that is, increa
: ed attention to varieties and cultivation
e On this point there is much to be learne
V and if pains are taken to make careful o
. servatiOns and report them, we may yet
b" able to realize good crops. A difference
If soil and treatment for different varieti
r may be so well understood as to lead
, good results, where otherwise there mig
- be a failure. A few hints we have recen
" seen may be of use in selecting al
IL planting seed the present season:
% Wet seasons, it is said, make the tube
d sprOggly; ashes in the hill on moist Ian
makes them scabby muck mixed with m
nure, makes them smooth. Different va
'e cites, it is also said, require different d
5 grees of fertilization. The Jackson Whit
# do well on rich land, Davis Seeding a
,o Jenny Lind on poor, Red skinned potato
. do best on sandy plain. An equal propC
t ton of hen manure and potash, a sm
s. handful to the hill, is said to be a go
e. fertilizer. We have used plaster and ash
ID one part of the former to three of the L
ter, to good advantage on light soils. Ha
III had, however, the best success with 90
r. superphOsphate.
ne If our farmers will make note of tn
" method of cultivation the coming seasC
= the varieties used, soil on which they
~ planted and the result, and report to
Ell next autumn, much valuable informant
n, may be gained. The potatoe crop has
X come so uncertain and consequently so &C
ly, more careful attention must be p;
to its cultivation to make it in any "
NO profitable Woodstock Standard
lc READ THIs.-A good farmer will
ed rely on his neighbor for the tools necess.
he for his business, nor for seed to plant VIII
ri, he can as well raise for himself.
Ii A farmer says that coughing in horse
'ge caused by fine dust from the hay, detacl
by pulling it through rack. Take av
the rack and feed from bin on the fC
nis and the coughing will cease.
he
nm SALT.-A table spoonful of coarse
:. dropped on each hill of corn, soon a
~ planting, is far better to keep off cut wo
TINS than soaking the corn in gas tar. The
ng, is carried down by the rains, and acts
let fertilizer, besides destroying the wor
,o+ Unless the season is very wet the coat
- of tar interferes with the absorption by
eli corn of the necessary moisture for germ
out alton.
ana PASTE THAT WILL KEEP A YEAR
two solve teaspoonful of alum in quar-
net, warm water when cold, stir in as much
rec as will give 1.-THE consistency of thick ere
being particular to beat up all the lun
reu stir in as much powdered rosin as will