The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-04-09

best fertilizers used upon the farm Tor
all the cereal grains and root crops,
may be made in the following manner:
Take one barrel of pure, finely ground
bone, and mix it with barrel of wood
ashes during the mixing add about
three pals full of water. The heap
may be made upon the floor of an out
building, or upon the barn floor; and
by the use of hoe the bone and ashes
must be thoroughly blended together.
The water added is just sufficient to
liberate the caustic alkalies, potash and
soda and those act upon the gelatine
of the bone, dissolving the little atoms
forming kind of soap, and fitting it
for plant aliment. In this way the
most valuable constituents of the bone
can be made Immediately available,
and the addition of potash and soda
aids in the formation ofa fertilizer of
inestimable value. A gill of this mix
ture placed in a hill of corn, will work
wonders. 1t is also excellent for gar
den vegetables and for all kind of roots.
1t will be ready for use in a week after
it is made.
Stray Grains for Chicke1,s.-Feed
your poultry on raw onions chopped
fine, mixed with other food about twice
a week. 1t is better than dozen cures
for chicken cholera. Fowls exposed to
dan1pness are apt to be troubled with
catarrh, which will run to Group, if not
attended to. Red pepper mixed with
soft feed, fed several times week will
remove The cold. Pulverized charcoal,
given occasionally, is preventive of
putrid affections, to which fowls are
very subject. Setting hens can be cured
by putting water in a vessel to the
depth of one inch, putting the hen into
it, and covering the top of the vessel
for about twenty-four hours. The ves-
sci should be deep enough to allow the
fowl to stand up. This is the best
rem edy l have ever tried. PuIverized
chalk administered with soft feed will
cure diarfhea. This disorder is caused
by want of variety in the food, or by
too much green food. Garlic fed once
or twice week, is excellent ic:r iHcGr colds
English Paper.
Experiment ia Feeding C0,cs.-In the
correspondence of the Obia Fhp,a,ooy nc
ours the following: Il have had twen-
ty-five cows to milk, and found tino-
thy and wild grass the best. To feed
in winter, use shorts, ground oats,
shorts and corn meal oats ground do
better than either; but corn meal with
shorts makes richer milk, but no more
of it. have fed potatoes largely they
do tolorobIy well, but milk day or
two old gets strong. .Ruta-baga turn
ips and carrots would not do for me to
make butter from hemllk; but ofali the
roots l ever tried, sugar beet is the
best. l heard pumpkins were good to
make milk and tried them. 1 had
twelve mixers / divided them;
fed six with pumpkins three
weeks, and ali run on grass alike.
Those that had pumpkins gave not
a gill more milk than the others, but
| believe it was little richer"
Il Thousand Dollar Receipt. Take
one pound of sal-soda and a half a
pound of unslacked slime, put them in
gallon of water, and boil twenty min
utes let it stand till cool, then drain
off and put in a stone jug or jar. Soak
your dirty clothes over night or till
they are we'll wet through, thon wiring
them out and put on plenty of soap ;
and to a boiler of clothes well covered
With water add one tablespoonful of
washing fluid. Boil haitian hour brisk
ly, then wash them thoroughly through
one suds and rinse we'll in water, and
your clothes will look better than the
old way Of washing twice before boil
ing. This is an Invaluable remedy,
and we want every poor, tired woman
to try it.
Soil for the Grdpe.-It is a curious
fact that very rich and highly manured
land has rarely produced grape that
would yield a high quality of wine.
The grape that contains the most sac
charine matter will make the best
wine, and the different varieties differ
widely in the proportion of sugar. In
Italy and in Sicily the very finest and
sweetest grapes grow on loose, rocky
soils, or along hill sides covered with
rocks are often the best. These facts
ought to teach US not to select the rich
est soils, and not to stuff them with
organic manures, for the grape.
Horses are often injured by their ex-
ertions to draw heavy wagons out OF
of miry spots in the road. Spavins are
frequently caused in this way. After
such exersion, the horses legs ought
to be hand rubbed for an hour day,
for several days. This is gentle fric-
ton of the hand up aud down the legs.
Coarse horses seldom require it, but
high ones are benefited by the
operation.
To relieve from the terrible effects OF
running a nail in the foot of man or
horse, take peach leaves and apply
them to the wound, confined with a
bandage, and the cure is as if by mag
ic. A renewed of the application gen.
erally does the work. This remedy
has cured both man and horse in few
hours, when they were apparently on
the point of having lockjaw.
| A clergyman in Vermont, being ar-
prehensive that the accumulated
weight of the snow upon the roof of
his barn might do some damage, re-