Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-08-11
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

How TO CURE HAT.AA correspondent
of the N. L. Farmer saws: process OF
curing hay has been adopted and followed
by several farmers OF my acquaintance,
which. as far as can learn, has proved
! very satisfactory for several years. The
hay is all crt in the afternoon, when en-
tirely free from external moisture. Next
day, after the dew is all of, it is turned
After dinner it is raked and got in with
out delay There is no cooking at night
and opening next day. All such labor is
saved. One man who las practiced this
several years is justly considered one of
.he best farmers in town. His stock look
well, and produce as much as any. His
farm improves yearly, and he makes an
annual investment every year outside.
lie considers his bay to be better than
when cured the old-fashioned way, and it
certainly looks and smells as well as any
/ ever saw
CRANBERRIEs FOR PoTs AND HANGING
BASKETS correspondent of the Califor-
MIA Farmer makes the following excellent
suggestions: do not see how any one who
has ever noticed the delicate foliage aud
howers OF the cranberry, even when wild
and uncultivated, could fail to be struck
with its beauty. But my object now is to
call the attention of your readers to its val
ne when cultivated in pots, in the house,
or still better. in hanging baskets. When
thus grown, the lonA, slender stems, droop-
ing from the basket, together with the rich
fruit, form most beautiful object Let
those who mourn that they cannot afford
to purchase foreign novelties, make rustic
basket and put few cranberry plants into
it. and hang il in thewindow, and they will
say they never saw anything more beauti-
ful. il rnsssl ail lrl .afii-'-a > ..f p
SHEEP WEST OF TIE MISSOURI RIVER
We have recently conversed with a highly
intelligent gentleman just returned from
business trip through some of the central
and southwestern counties of Missouri,
and are sorry to learn from him that large
majority of the fiocks of fine wooled sheep
driven into that state are doing badly He
reports a mortality of from 20 to 80 per
cent as the extremes, with probable av-
erage of 80 or 35 per cent. But small per
cent. of lambs have been raised; and he
predicts that the wool clip of that state
will be materially less this season than in
1863. Our informant attributes this unde-
sirable state of affairs, primarily. to the
| depressed and unremunerative price of
wools, which has begotten among the
farmers neglect of their focks, allowing
diseases, dogs, and all the other enemies to
successful sheep husbandry to hold sway
among them. r. Western Rural. .,t
WATER FOR HoRsEs.- In the English
Farmers Journal, Mr.. Benjamin Cartledge,
of Sheffield, q member of the Royal Veter-
mary College, calls attf ntion to the very
common mistake made by keepers of horses
IN limiting the supply of waterto their ami
mails. Many owners of horses, most
grooms, and others who have the charge of
them, profess, he says, ito know how much
water horse ought to be allowed. and,
when a poor, thirsty. over-driven animal
arrives at his journeys end, he is treated
TO very limited supply, and the pail is taken
away before its necessity is half met. 1t is
mistaken notion that cold water frequent
ly produces collie / have often known
it cure the disease. When cold water does
cause abdominal pain, it is from long ab- |
stinence, and when the horse drinks to ex-
cess. But even this is rare. / allow my
horse to drink from every trough I meet /
on the road, if the water be clean, and, in
my own stable, Inever had a case of collie. |
At home, my horses always have water be- |
fore them. A friend of mine, to whom, |
the other day, gave this advice, directed |
his servant to adopt it. The servant shook |
hisihead, and said he thought he knew as
well as Mr.. Cartledge when his horses re-
quired water, and how much The owner, |
in reply, told the servant that might be so,
but he must allow his horses to drink as |
often and as freely as be did himself"
How TO MANAGE SPRING PIGs.-In an
swer to this question. put by one of its |
contributors. the American AgriculturIst |
has the following: 1. depends on the |
breed, the food at command, the conye-
niences for feeding, the probable price for
pork next fall, and the price year hence. |
We should premise, however. that in any
case the pigs should have all they will eat |
of some kind of food. The only difference |
to be made between growing pigs and tat
tening pigs is in the character of the food. |
A fattening pig requires rich, concentrated
food; growing pig more bulky and less
nutritious food; but in either case the |
pig TO do well, must have all it will |
eat. If you have small boned well bred |
pig, such as grade Essex or Berkshire or |
Suffolk, we think it would be far more prof |
liable as a rule to fatten spring pigs than to |
winter them over. Let them have the run |
of a clover pasture. all the milk and slop |
from the house, and all the corn and other |
grain in water "A hours before feeding If |
well bred, such treatment should give you |
pigs that will dress 800 pounds by the first |
of December. On the other hand, if you |
have a coarse, large-boned breed of pigs, |
the better plan will be to winter them over. |
In this case, give them the run of good |
clover pasture, plenty of water, what waste !
from the house you have to spare, and q
title grain to keep them growing as rapid |
ly as possible. '
CORN STALKS AS FopDER.-Levi Bartlett, |
writing on this subject in the Republican !
IN. a.. Statesman, says: 'sCorn grown |
in hills, three feet by two, for fodder, is
much mere nutritious than when grown |
thickly in drills or broadcast, as is usually
the case. Some of the early varieties of
sweet corn are more valuable for cattle /
than the large, late southern, or even our |
common kind of corn. The sweet corn |
contains much larger percentage of sac
charine matter than the two kinds above
mentioned, and consequently has more of
the butter-forming constituents Last year |
grew five or six varieties of sweet corn
early, middling or late. Of the several
sorts think Olcott's preferable, both for
table use and for cattle feeding. The late |
twelve rowed sweet corn grew very large, |
and the plants when fed required cutting |
into six-inch pieces, while the smaller |
sorts were readily eaten the whole length |
of the plant. This fodder was freely fed at
night for many weeks, to my cows in milk,
from early September. The remainder
was cut and stocked before injury from
frost. and lasted until some time in No
vember. 1 am satisfied that the result Of
this extra food to cows more than paid for
all the trouble a-t1- $50 90 -"
The quantity of green foliage that can be
grown in drills Gu good land with proper
culture is enormous. Mr.. Nathaniel
White, q few years since. on his highly
cultivated farm, about one mile from the
State House, Concord, grew at the rate of
sixty tons an acre of green corn of the large
southern kind. do not know how much
the shrinkage on such fodder would be,
when we'll dried in the shock or barn; but
doubtless the dry fodder would afford many
tons more to the acre than the heaviest
crop of grass grown on our best farms.
Some farmers say that ton of well saved
corn fodder is worth as much as q ton of
fair stock hay. = w gsE ~
A AREcESr accident in an English printing
Office holds out hope for Chicago Ascamp
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