Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-07-31
HOUSEHOLD AND COUNTRY.

Take care OF your plow, and your plow
Will take care of YOU.
pigs good rock salt twice a week In their food,
Dry cOpperas strewed about ant nests Will
induce them TO leave and not return. SO says
one who has tried ~.
The farmers generally of Addison CO., W..
are storing their word, refusing to accept the
present low prices offered.
The cbIrrup of the cricket is sign of fall
weather, but the cry of the tree-toad indicates
ram.
"A dairyman informs the Maine Farmer
that having tried various things for sore teats
on cows, b. finds lard best, the most healing
ard sol shIng.
Able bodied Cinnamon work In China for
about two dollars month. and are glad to get
that. They are coming here 10 Try their luck
as farm hands.
Sow ten bushels Per acre of wood ashes on
your wheat field at tn time OF sowing the
seed. Scarcely anything would be better
Scatter by hand, broadcast.
An English Iarm-r, by picking over his
seed heat with the utmost care, and planting
a gram in place, at intervals of foot each
way, produced l"1 bushels 10 the acre.
To protect cabbage plants from cutworms.
take last year ls1ves-oik is good-make moist
with water, wrap once around the stem, when
uansplanting. extending from roots To a little
above the l. at stem.
No psint, believe. wristbands ssthe
tooth Of tim,' better than Venetian red. There
are houses N some country towns painted red
so long time ago that the mernoTy OF man
Iunneth not TO the contrary, and thew look
fresh 10 this day.
To keep bugs from melons pumpkins and
cucumber vines, mix Hour of sulphur and fine
coal dust together, sprinkle the vines with
alter, and dust them with this mixture IL
death TO all bugs.
Make your lard as rich "a possible; and
then v hen the weeds show themselves. apply
the following eompoInd, VIZ: Brains, all you
have TO spare muscle, ali you can muster
:
Experience proves that Cras ses should be
cut for hay when the stalks are IN bloom. The
best time Of all, both f5rciOv-r and Other gra SEES
- Just when III full bloom, an1 the earliest
blossoms are be ginning TO iade.
One cause # ths abundance of sorrel on
our arms may fa'rly b. imputed TO Its seeds,
whtCn ave Introduced IN the grass seeds that
are SoHn- AID Eot only sOrrel - eds. but
others, which -prlDg up and Infesf the land
and plague the armsT.
1t l. al unusual thing to make starch in
the spring. bat % plenty Were the potatoes
that more rnag Hoo bushels We're carried IN a
single DAY IN Nav 10 the factory of Mr. ]
Page, Charleston, VI, who has made twenty
three tons # starch, using DIS bushels OF po-
I&tOeS.
The Independence Beige mentions that ex
Pe-Ims 1ts, hanging over period OF &c years,
prove that salt mixed with all kinds OF manure
tends . ncrFass NE power o: production In
the ratio of 20 Per cent. Common Sc s-water
where costly Obtsirable, Is equally different.
In COZ. equencs Of the instructive appetite
CT the toad Tor living iu- cts, rapid digestion
ana c4pa ciOus E1smbrdneous stomach. capable
OF remarkable distentiOn. loads are very Us aful
10 the gardener by projecting his under vines
1rom the no. -drnai depredatloLs.
The West MItoa Cheese Factory is now
using i3ttJ pounds OF milk daily. from some
OF the t5~t daiTies in Vermont. Many OF these
diaries have native cows which average thirty
three pounds daily. The factory is turning out
each day twenty one aud 'wenty-fiva caess-s
aNeTagiI < about sixty pounds each
S-OyeT iCOO tons, or :. Geo bags of cstton seed
nave I'm consumed during The season. III
CiHCiI EatI. IN the manufacture o: oil. Tner.
e. alzO a cotton seed OIL man uiactoIy at Ho-
bile and Others at various PLACES, North and
SCU1I- Planters will Doubtless soon be called
GEJh - CCrsiter the question whether or not
n IS more profitable 10 sell their c.tton seed for
cal aud ~ -uanO fOT feTtiI,zing.
No on can succred 10 farming on 4 prairie
without taTiLdt Where shall the poor gO,r'
u tImtrT, country, wnsrS. upon your own
land grows The Itwtsr TO make your OWL
fencing and your own bui ding: where YOU
may, II you are not prout, even erect YOUR
own dwelling without any outlay, except FOR
the nails which tack IL together.
"A Yves ern hOrIiculturIst has "discoyersd"
mat grape cuttings on a sunny and sandy
slope root earlier than elsewhere, ami he pro-
poses 10 get out patent 10 prevent others from
using souls thus fayOTabIy situated. he has
also Invented" cellar of the right tempsra-
Iure and moisture for preserving vegetables,
&c ana proposes To patent that also.