The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-07-30
HOME. FARM AND giRDFS.

-ENence OF p~ennyrpyal freely
sprlnklsl about a house will, II Is said,
drive feas away and keep the house Tree
from their visits.
TO Obtain a Good Nights Sleep
Sponge the entire length OF The spine with
hot water for ten or fifteen minutes; this
win rcduce The circulation, quiet the ner.
vous system, and Induce sleep better than
any drug.
One Of the oldest and best physicians
In Connecticut constantly recommended
eating rlpo fruit. II each In Its season Is
pariakon Of when fresh, there is little
lear OF any of the summer diseases that
are 50 common In some sections, and
which cause 10 much trouble and so much
expense.
Among tho various methods for keep
ing and making water cool, none Is much
better or easier than that prscticed in the
East. The water is put into jugs, bottles,
or vine coolers, which are placed In
buckets filed with sslt and ~saltpetre, and
then turned rapidly until the water al
most reaches the freezing point. If the
weather Is very hot the buckets are re-
plenished several times q day, and the
turning process repeated.
Good Word for Orchard Grass.-A
writer in the st. Louis Journal Of 1gri.
culture slys:I have 10 remark, that for
years | grew orchard grass with red
clover. | s0wed two bushels Of orchard
grass seed and six quarts of clover TO the
acre. My soil was a ~gravelly clay, and |
cut year after year two crops in q season,
cutting Just as The grasses were in flower
for they flower togethes-mowing in
the morn ng or forenoon; raking and
cooking In the afternoon leaving it two
days in the cock, if the weather allowed,
then opening 1t out in the forenoon and
drawing it in the afternoon. No animal
cow, horse or sheep-all Of which /
then had-but would eat 1t ~rayenously,
and always picked the orchard grass from
the cloyer--if any was left in tho manure
It was sure to be clover.
"A mechanic gives the following
method Of 30 putting tires on wagons,
that they will not get loose and require
resetting 81 ironed q wagon some years
ago for my own use before putting on
the tires, | filed the iellocs with linseed
oil, and the tires have worn out, and were
never loose. My method is al follows: !
used q long cast iron heater, made for the
purpose; the oil is brought to a boiling
heat, the wheel Is placed on q stick, SO as
to hang in the oil, each lelloe an hour,
The timber should bedry, as green timber
will not take the oil. Care should be taken
that tho oil is not made hotter than 8
boiling heat, or the timber will be burned
Timber filed with oil is not susceptible t.
injury by water, and Ia rendered much
} more durable by this process"
, 1t may not be known to farmers il
= general that 1t is a common practice, il
some of the potatogrowing districts |,
turn q flock OF sheep into potato fiel
Tor the purpose 81 ealing down the weed
TIE sheep will not touch the potato win,
! This p~asturing with sheep is very advar
! tagcous when the crop is late plante
! one, so that the hoeing cannot be CON
, pleted until the hsying or harvesting
! finished. AT the growing season it is sh
: farmers aim TO keep down the grass an
! weeds, so that they may be covered by tn
! ! cultivator and hoe, when these are uset
, Pasturing with sheep will attain this oh
! iect Early planted crops the cultivatio
l of which Ia completed in the early pal
/ of the summer, frequently become grass
and weedy before the time of digRin,
/ whent the size OF the tops precludes cultivf
! ton. In this Stage the sheep are econon
!. ical weedess. 1t is hardly necessary {
! mention that the feed thus given to th
sheep makes . double profit, inasmuch a
1t costs absolutely nothing, while labor
saved and weeds prevented from seeding
! -Growing Onion Sets-0nions ffor
seed area very uncertain crop Ia man,
localities and soils. The onion. maggc
will often destroy the crop if SOW,
= early, or in time TO have the onions com
to maturity, and some other system has
be adopted for producing this yegetabl,
VIZ have tried the following plan wit
good success, and believe that 1t will Civ
e very good results almost anywhere. Pr,
y pare a piece Of good soil by thoroug
! blowing and narrowing, and If not rics
:, make it 50 with the best material at han(
In July or first OF August, SOW the onio
} seed in drills, and cultivate the same q
though sown IN early spring. When th
| onions are as large as small marbles, pas
! a roller over the tops aud break the:
down ; about a week after, pull up til
II onions, and spread them out where the
y will dry. II the weather is hot, a shsd
place must be selected, or the bulbs wi
y DO softened and ruined by the sin. Vine
Y dry, cut of the wiited tops, and put ava
I the bulbs in $ dry, cool place, and ne,
!, spring plant the same IS ~top-ouion
Those little onions viii grow rapidly, an
9 produce large bulbs long before a Gro
can be grown from seed, besides avoidin
the attacks Of the onion.iy. Trv i
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