Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-02-04
Farm aud Annsehold.
Farm Items.


From Hearth and Home.
Which Rots First ?-Of three kinds Of
timber used for telegraph-wire supports,
the chestnut poles decayed first, The ce-
dar next, the locust are still sound.
An Incredible Wheat Story.-The CAL
ifornia papers report crop in Los An
gelos county that yielded eighty bushels
to the acre. How can eighty bushels of
wheat stand on an acre.
Fodder for Mich Cows.-A Maine
farmer, after many trials, says he gets
the most milk, and the best butter when
he feeds his cows sweet corn, cut green,
and well cnred in the shock.
Special Potato-Fertilizer.- cask Of
lime Stacked in water, bushel of salt
added, and ashes, or fine garden mould
enough worked in to make five barrels
in ali. Throw half pint in q hill at
planting.
-Hills.-A CORRESPONDENT OF the
American Eniomslogist SAYS that few
sliced onions, hurried in the ant-hIii,
will cause the ants 10 leave IL. giu oI
kerosene-oil, poured into the orifices OF
the nests, will secure the same result.
Tipe to Feed Poultry-Is not in the
morning. Let them do the best they
can for themselves in the early part of
the day, but just before they go to roost,
fill their crops with pudding. Active
digestion can go on in the crop and giz-
zard of chicken while it is asleep.
Keeping Apples and Pears.-They
should he kept from air and light. Shut
teIs should be placed in the windows to
exclude the air. a few days before use
ing, dessert apples and pears should be
removed to somewhat warmer atmos-
phefe, and have air and light to give fia-
vOr.
Five Rules for the Butter-M Maker.-1.
Get your milk from rich old pastures,
free of weeds. = Set the milk i'll a
moist, pure air, and keep the heat of the
room unchanged 3. Churn the cream
at So 4. Work out all the buttermiik
without injuring the gain OF the butter
D. Mix the salt even, not over an ounce
to the pound. Pack in oak or hemlock
tubs. l.-1-.
To Make Butter Come.-RetractOry
cream, says Z. l.. Bragdon, of Port On
rario, may be corrected by adding two
ounces OF dissolved alum to two pals OF
cream, There is good story told OF the
daughters of Sir Thomas Moore. Their
cream was very refractory. They took
turns in churning. ami repeated the 18th
Psalm to make the time pass. They
got tn, ough the chapter before the but
ter came. II they had known about
aium,s they could have cilosen shorter
psalm.
! Curculio-Proof Plums.--There are Two
kinds of plums which are claimed To oe
quite proof against the ravages OF the
curcuiio--the Columbia and the Hinck-
ley. In the former, the curculio depos-
| its its egg as in other piuins, but when
the Larvae are matched, they are general
iy drowned by AN unusual flow OF juice.
| In the Hinckley, the eggs never hatch
out, and when the crop is abundant u
considerable proportion oil the plums
whslly escape being stung.
Subsoiling.-It should be remembered
that the object of ubsOii-pioughlng is to
loosen the under-sOil, to permit The
ameii0rating action OF light ami air upon
it; consequently. the subsoiling should
not be undertaken too soon after drain-
ing. The ground should be allowed to
first become comparatively dry, o,her-
wise it will sink back in a short time to
it's original condition. From this it may
be inferred that it will be best, in prac-
tice, to lay the drains in the spring, that
the succeeding summer may dry the
ground, and then run the subsOiier deep
in the fall, in order that the frost may
jdisintegrate the broken particles, and
make a still finer tilth.