Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-03-10
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Domestic Recipes.


Domestic Recipes.
Take of coriander, orris root, and cal
anus arom .tI sus, four ounces each; of Ia
vender flowers, eight ounces; efrhodium
wood, one ounce; and of musk, 20 grains.
Reduce to coarse powder, and bag it. The
recipe is said by good authorities to be an
excellent one.
-Glycerine as an application to burns is
recommended by j. Fuchs. Through the
explosion of a spirit lamp the greater por-
ton of his face had been covered with rath-
er deep burns, which healed in a week by
the immediate and oft-repeated application
of glycerine, without producing blisters or
fostering, or leaving any scar,
A physician, in a very sensible article
upon bathing, says: "For the wind in
the stomach children are thought to have,
for their tiresome crying. aud for the rest
lessness and worrying OF night with which
they are afflicted, if the warm bath wasre-
sorted to oftener, and the dosing of sooth-
irg syrups and worse nostrums less, it
would be better for the children"
Tor DRESSING LAND.-A correspondent
of the Freeport Journal says: A few years
ago made an experiment that fully salts
fed me in regard to the way to apply man.
ure. had piece of ground which in
tended to put in wheat the next year. 1t was
plowed in the usual manner. In the fall
hauled out five or six loads of fine man.
ure, and spread it on about an acre. The
piece of ground-about eight acres-was
sowed in wheat the next spring. and at
harvest it stood at least foot higher; and
more than twice as thick, as it did where
it was not so MANFRED. The next season
it was again sown in wheat and seeded
down with clover. The second crop show
ed the manure as plainly as the first, and
also the clover this last summer.
FEEDING TOO MUCH CoRN-A correspond
ent of an eastern paper, referring to the
fact that pork is sometimes found of yell
low color, says that it results from the too
free use of corn for food. He saws
that about the time hogs are finished of,
farmers often make mistake in feeding
too much unmixed grain. The result is
bad digestion and yellow fat. Mixed feed
should be given to the last-roots, pump
kins, apples, with corn. AS rule, YOU
can get them TO eat more grain and take
on more flesh than by diet of rich food
only.
COLLECTING MANURE. collsctiona
and application of manure should 90 I'd
continually, for the grasses and Gee also
all kinds of cultivated plants make an an
nual draft on the soil fer the ingredients
which enable them to build up their stems
foliage and seeds. No liquid or solid man.
ure suited for enriching the soil, should be
allowed to go to loss about the homestead
Soapsuds, wood ashes, SCOT, charcoal. saw
dust, etc, may be applied to the soil with
much benefit to the crops. Leached wood
ashes are very useful for top dressing grass
land, deepening the color of the plants and
increasing their prodnGtiyeness, so much
as to double the agreeable yield of hay when
ever they are applied in sufficient qIaIti-
ties.
PRoFiT OF FATTENINa Hoes. In Ken
lucky the practice largely prevails of per-
sons not directly engaged in farming, buy
ing store hogs and corn, with the design
of making pork for the market. This year
those who have gone into the business
have realized very large profits. The Shell
| by (Ky.) Sentinel says one man bought 30
hogs and I'm to feed the same, for So, 263,
| fed and sold them, averaging 1923 lbs, fol-
the handsome sum of 5000, and refused
the offer of 1854 for Ill shoats that be
raised from them. Another man and his
sons fed and sold 1872 hogs averaging 3Os
lbs. upon which they made an outlay Of
about 50, 600 for the around sum of $24,
| co.,
PIGs.-The time to commence fatteninc
swine is as soon as they are born. This il
the verdict of the most successful managers
of men who make the most money from
their grain. They do not begin operations
on lank, raw-bone animals in September
III spring pigs are to be killed the same
year. they commence fattening in spring.
If they are wintered over. they are W, II fed
and cared for all winter. The great point
is to have no cessation in their growth. At
they are once under way it is great loss
of momentum to stop them, and it requires
greater time to get up motion again than
it does for railway train or steamer after
stepping.
The largest pig in England, if not in the
world, is now the property of Mr.. Lloyd, OF
Bredon, Worcestershire. who purchased il
Of q Deighbor. when two months old, fos
less than five dollars. This wonderful ami
NAL is now % months old, and measures
nine and one-half feet from the end of the
nose to the tip of the tail. five feet around
the body, and stands four feet high.
COOP SUCCESS IN POULTRY KEEPISG.-A
correspondent of the Buck county, Penn.
Intelligeneer, in 1869, kept 30 hens and
cocks, a cross between the Cochin Chinas.
and Eight Brahmas. These hens laid 9, 9S3
eggs, 796 being laid three months of win.
ter. This is average of 1872 eggs each
for the year. There were sold no young
chickens.
SOUTHERN paper mentions the case OF
an eighty-acre farm, that had become 80
exhausted as to yield but or 8 bushels
of wheat per acre, but by the use of clover
as green crop, it was made to produce
this year from 90 to 25 bushels of whea.