Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-04-09
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

THOROUGHBRED MALEs.--It is net within
the means of very large majority of farmers
in this country or in any other, to raise only
Or chiefly, expensive thoroughbred stock.
But it is within the power of every one
of them, or it soon would be if they
cared for it to breed only from thorough
bred males Those, belonging to fixed
type Or race, pefputuate their peculiarities
with much greater certainty than do mon
grel bred animals, and they will almost
always overcome, in a great degree,
the defects of mongrel females, thus con-
stantly, elevating the grade of the ami
NAL towards the type of the purcr race.
This rule holds good with reference to ev-
cry variety of farm stock, from horses to
poultry. 81 ;y-a iss s-451e a
Sir John Fenwick, in the reign of Charles
H., said that "every blooded horse, even if
he be the meanest hack that ever came out of
Barbary, is so infinitely superior in courage,
stoutness and quality, both of bone and
sinew, as well as blood, to the best cold
blooded mare that ever went on shoddeu
hoof, that he cannot fail to improve the stock.
whatever may be his comparative standing
among racers" And Sir John Fenwick was
perfectly right, as the history, not only of
running horses hut of trotters. has amply pro-
ven; for there is not to-day a successful
trotting horse in America who has not in his
veins very large proportion of thorough
blood derived probably through several gen.
erations from the side of the sire. t...l r
Cattle for the SHAMELESS are more ecoDomi-
cally fed and more rapidly raised to,a larger
size, if they have been sired by thorough
bred Short-horn. Cows for the dairy are
better and more profitable in proportion to
the number of thoroughbred sires whose
blood they carry. The commonest and
coarsest sow will give far more easily kept
and advantageously sold pigs, if these are
sired by a thoroughbred Essex, Seton, or
other boar of fixed type That the same
rule holds good in the poultry yard no breed
err need be told, And throughout the whole
range, the cost of securing the services of
thoroughbred males is as nothing compared
with the value of the result as shown in the
progeny.-Ame,ican Agricultmis
Too Much LAND. know farmer
who, ten year ago, owned $50 acres, and
was doing we'll; he now owns 500, and is
worse off than before. And why ? Because
this large farm is a great bill of expense to
him he cannot afford to keep it up in good
condition, and it hangs . milestone Of care
about his neck. His wife and children, both
sons and daughters, are obliged to work hard
to keep the great machine running. We
presume his boys declare they will leave
home as soon as they are old enough; and
his girls say they will die before they will
marry farmers. Neither sons nor daughters
are educated as they deserve to be, they can
not be spared for this from work on the big
farm. Now we declare that such farm IS
curse to its possessor and his family, and
an injury to tho whole agricultural interest.
If that man wants to save himself and his
household, he should sell at least one-half
of his land, improve the remainder to make
it more productive, release his children from
bondage and try to make his home COM
fort. He will live longer, lay up as good d
property, and will train up more intelligent
and happier family .-Ame,q;eon Agricu1fa1-
ist
WHAT Cu+TpRE THE PEACH REQUIRES
The peach is known by the best cultivators
as requiring great care in cultivation Few
things that grow out of earth will pay so
we'll for the care bestowed. And, without
care, the peach is failure This, we may
say, accounts to great extent, for the dis
couragements which attend the culture of
this most delicious of fruits It is tender.
and therefore requires care it must have it,
or it will fail. Not only the amount of the
crop, but equally the quality will fail with
out care Let no one attempt peach culture,
unless he intends to bestow the necessary
time upon it. The grass must not only be
kept out, but the ground must be mellow,
and mellow throughout, but especially at the
the top. Fruit growers in the East grow
corn or other crops, which require the stir
ring OF the ground until the orchard bears
Then, the trees are cultivated as one would
corn. The ground is kept we'll stirred no
grass or weeds are permitted This, aside
from the effect of the climate, is the prinei-
pal thing.
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KAIsoM1NINe. This is term given to
method of whitening walls. Tits Paris white
which is very fine whitening or chalk, to be
had at the paint and drug stores. and put on
with glue size The proportions are s
quarter of pound of eeAite glue to six
pounds of Paris white. Put the glue IN wa
ter enough to we'll covert it, and let it stand
until perfectly soft =, then put the vessel con
tanning the glue into kettle of hot water,
and stir it until it is thoroughly dissolved.
Put the Paris white into pail, add hot wa
ter gradually, string all the time, until it is
brought to smooth, creamy eonsistence
add the dissolved glue, and then water
enough to thin it sufficiently to work we'll
with the brush. 1t is applied in the same
manner as whitewash, and is used for hard
finished ceilings and walls that become dis,
Standardization Ag,scultuia. -.....
A VALUABLE FERTILIZER.-A most yalu-
able fertilizer can be- made BY mixing four
barrels of ground bone with one carboy of
sulphurie acid and two barrels of ashes
The expense of this amount will be only
about eighteen dollars a ton, and we do not
doubt the fertilizer thus made would be as
valuable as any purchased in the market for
forty dollars per ton. The expense may be
stated substantially as follows:
-Four barrels bone, at So, so per- Dbl, $1,000
l75lbs sulphuric acid, at 3cts. per h., 5,25
bbls. ashes at $1,25 per barrel, $50
-, $17,75
Tho process Of mixing is very nipple
Take the ground bone and after wetting it
allow it to heat, which it will do
in short time; then pour on the sulphuric
acid and afterwards add the ashes and sti,.