The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-11
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Domestic Recipes.

Take OF coriander, orris root, and cal
anus aromgtieUs, four ounces each; OF Ia
vender flowers, eight ounces; Of rhodlum
wood, one ounce; and of musk, 20 grains.
Reduce to coarse powder. n bag 1t. The
recipe is said by good authorities to be an
excellent one.
-Glvcerine 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 glyeerine, without producing blisters OF
fostering, or leaving any scar,
A physician, in a very sensible article
upon bathing, V ''For the wind in
the stomach children are thought to have,
for their tiresome crying, and for the rest
~lessness and worrying at night with which
they are afflicted, if the warm bath wasre-
sorted to oftener, and the dosing of sooth-
ing syrups and worse nostrums less, 1t
would be better for the children"
Top DRESSING LAND.-A correspondent
of the Freepsrt Journal says: A few years
ago 1 made an experiment that fully salts
fed me in regard to the way to apply man.
ure. l had a 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 roundabout eight acres-was
sowed in wheat the next spring, and at
harvest it stood at least a foot higher; and
more than twice as thick, as it did where
il was not so MANFRED. The next season
it was again snwn 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 oRN.-A correspond
eht of an eastern paper, referring to the
fact that pork is sometimes found of ayel-
low color, says that it results from the too
free use of corn for food. He says
that about the time hogs are finished of,
farmers often make a mistake in feeding
too much unmixed grain. The result is
bad digestion and yellow fat. Mixed feed
should be given to the iast-roots, pump
kius, apples, with corn. As a rule, you
can get them TO eat more grain and take
on more flesh than by q diet of rich food
only.
COLLECTING MANURE. The collsctiona
and application of manure should 90 I'd
continually, for the grasses and Gee also Il
all kinds of cultivated plants make an an
nual draft on the soil for 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 60 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 productiveness, so much
as to double the agreeable yield of hay when
ever they are applied in sufficient quanti-
ties.
PROFIT OF FATTENING HoGs.-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 210
hogs and corn to feed the same, for So, 263,
fed and sold them, averaging 1913 lbs, fol
the handsome sum of Sc, GAO, and refused
the offer of 1854 for Ill shoats that be
LllStu HUH luCu4s AhOAAOL mn UAh LIE
sons fed and sold 1872 hogs averaging 305
lbs. upon which they made an outlay OF
about 50, 900 for the around sum of S24,-
600.
PIGs.-The time to commence fa~ttening
swine is as soon as they are born. This is
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.
If spring pigs are to be killed the same
wear. they commence fattening in spring.
If they are wintered over. they are W, IL 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 a great loss
of momentum to stop them, and it requires
a greater time to get up motion again than
it does for railway train or steamer after
stopping.
The largest pig in England, if not in the
world, is now the property of Mr.. Lloyd, of
Bredon, Worcestershire, who purchased it
of a neighbor. when two months old, for
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 KEEPING.-A
correspondent of the Buck county, Penn.
Intelligencer, in 1869, kept 80 hens and 4
cocks, a cross between the Cochin Chinas,
and Eight BrahmaS. These hens lads, 9S3
eggs, 796 being laid three months of win
ter. This is an average of 132 eggs each
for the year. There were sold 10 young
chickens.
A SOUTHERN paper mentions the case of
an eightv-acre farm, that had become so
exhausted as to yield but 4 or 5 bushels
of wheat per acre, but by the use of clover
as a green crop, it was made to produce
this year from 20 to 25 bushels of wheat
per acre.