The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1869-09-01
HOUSE AND FARM.

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To RELIEVE CHoKED CATTLE.-When
an OK or COW gets choked, strap up fore
leg and make the animal jump. The Oh
struction will fly out.
SooT-This article is highly recommend
ed for keeping the striped bugs from vines
1t is good thing as protection from in
sects, and as manure for most garden
vegetables.
Good farming is thus defined: 1t consists
! n producing as great quantities as possible
f vegetables that do not exhaust the soil,
I'D selling them in an animal rather than a
vegetable form.
Three definitions To mulch soil is to
cover with some vegetable refuse; to manure
is to blend with the soil substances rich in
plant food; to cultivate is to stir often and
EoOt out weeds.
Lands that are overstocked not only yield
less food, but the animals pastured upon
them make less yield in beef or milk than
when the stock is in proportion to the Ca
pacity of the lands for producing food.
A hungry light sand isnot good for apple
trees, neither is heavy clay. Potatoes and
corn furnish about as good an analysis of
soils for apple trees as any of our chemists
can. Wherever they grow well we expect
that apple trees will do the same.
Take sharp wire, watch your trees re-
gularly, and dig out the borers the moment
you see signs of their work Haul the earth
stubble, grass and weeds away from the
crown of the root so that it will be exposed,
and you can see the enemy whenever he
makes mark.
Tor DRESS THE MEADows.-H possible
apply manure to your meadows Immediately
after clearing them of hay, especially on
those places where the grass is light. Even
muck is a good application for this purpose.
We think it one of the most economical
methods of using manure to apply it to
meadow lands in the fall, or on grass lands
intended for corn another year. Its value is
confirmed by the practice of our best
farmers.
The following ant-trap may probably be
used to advantage: Procure large sponge,
wash it well and sponge it dry, which will
leave the cells quite open; then sprinkle su-
gar over it, and place it where the ants are
Troublesome They will soon collect upon
the sponge and in the cells. 1t is only neces-
sary to dip the sponge in scalding hot
peat the process and it will soon clear the
house Of every ant.
Docs SUCKING EeGs.-A correspondent
Of the Country Gentleman says: Give the
dog rotten egg boiled. The manner in
which it should be done is this Take the
egg from the boiling water, put it in the
dogs mouth and shut his jaws together,
crushing the egg. 1t must be done before
the egg gets cool, so that it will burn him.
Be sure to let the dog see the egg when you
/ put it in his mouth.
How to apply manure. After the field
has been ploughed and dragged down the
manure is loaded on wagons and taken di-
rectlyto the field and spread on the land right
from the wagons. In ploughing each land
Is laid off about twenty-one feet wide. By
driving the load in the middle of the land
it can easily be spread from furrow to fur
row, and the men being on the wagon can
at once see when they get it all even.
The newest thing under the sun is graft
ing potatoes. The mode OF operation is to
take two potatoes, one of each variety, the
good qualities of which it is wished to com
bine With pocket knife cut all the eyes
clearly out of them, and substitute in their
stead the eyes cut out of the other. The
eyes to be inserted should be sprouted and
cut in the form of wedges and inserted into
cuts of the same shape and size in the other
potato; they are held in their place by hair
pins, and bound with bass mating or twine
A steam plow experiment in New Jersey
lately was entirely successful. In view of
the scarcity and changed condition of labor
In the South, the probabilities are that even
tually farmers having large tracts of lands
to cultivate they will triturate the soil with
ploWs driven by steam. Why should not
every very large farm have its steam engine,
the power to be applied to a multitude of
services upon the place? A little ingenuity
might make small portable steam engine
to do so much general work that farm of
thousand or two acres could be run by q
very few hands.
PICKLNG CUcUMBERs.-1h have, after try
ing various ways to save cucumbers, found
the following the best. Make q pickle as
follows: one part vinegar, two parts water,
three parts salt, to which add four ounces of
horse radish for every half barrel. Fill the
eask, or whatever vessel is to hold the pick
les half full of this pickle; pick the cucum-
Oers with the butt OF the stem on, and wipe
and put them into the vessel. When it is
inll, place cloth over the eucunbers and a
BOARD nicely fitted over the cloth. A stone
should be placed on the board to keep the
cucumbers under the pickle. When needed
lOr use, soak and put them into vinegar, as
usual.-COr. of the Country Gentleman.
REMEDY FOR CABBAGE LIcE.-A writer
II the Farmers AdUocdts says that cheap
knd effective remedy for this insect is within
reach of all. As soon as the plant be-
sesi or as soon as the louse makes
~ appearance, open the leaves carefully
=. the fingers and sprinkle common salt
tween them. This is said to be an infali-
ne remedy. We have used it with entire
success. Plants used in this way produce
larser and more solid heads than those left
to themselves
CURE FOR BLoAT OR HovER.-A Pennsyl-
vaian communicates to the New York Far
mrs club the following remedy for cows
bbated from eating clover: "Take half
PIT ofsalt and cover it with wss:sssTT, and lay
ibn the animals back over the kidneys,
al have the skin thoroughly impregnated
th the brine, particularly where the
pnch adheres to the pleura, on the left
ie, just back of the last long nib" This
said to be infallible if given fifteen
nutes before the animal would otherwise
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MORE FLAX WANTED.-The cultivation
fax is daily increasing in importance as
product of western SOIL Its value hither-
has been greatly underestimated, mas
= lch as it was raised for the seed only,
hi lile the fibre was allowed to go to waste !;
&c t within the last few years machinery has
& en- constructed to work up that article to
:. vantage and the product is now exten-
us 'ely used for covering bales of cotton.
fec cover a crop of So 00O,000 bales of cot
onen 2O, ,O0o, 900 yards of bagging are required,