Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-08-05
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen.
tle01dR, formerly of England, thinks that
cheap labor alone cangot explain the large
profits Of English farmers and SAYS they
can only be accounted for by the great
amount of live stock kept and fed, thus
producing great quantity of plant food,
producing in turn, heavy crops
A RED lead manufacturer of France has
discovered that the use of milk at their
meals, which he has made obligatory on
his woIkmen TO the extent of one litre
(about quartz daily, preserves those EN-.
ployed in lead works free from any symp.
toms of lead disease He vouches for
the truth aud correctness of this COM
munication.
TIE Meeker County (Minn.) Ns,cs has
heard Of a new enemy to the potato bug.
A neighbor noticed that almost all the DO
tato- bugs in his garden had disappeared,
and short time after, he killed a large
striped snake with his hoe, and found that
1t was full of the larve of the potato bug.
1t had about cleared out the garden. He
says he will kill no more of those snakes.
|. THE Country Gentleman, in answer to
an inquiry, says that orchard grass may
be soWn at the end of summer or early in
autumn, provided the season happens to
be quite mcist-otherwise, and more gen.
orally, carly in spring-at least one bush.
el per acre; two, better. 1t will grow in
quite thin or open woods, if the surface
can previously be made quite mellow by
narrowing.
T. j. BUsBY, of Lancaster, Ohio, writes
to the Ohio Farmer that he has given soft
soap to his pigs at the rate of table.
spoonful TO a pig-for the hog cholera,
with very satisfactory results. On the sec.
ond day an examination of their drop
pings showed stringy substances, which
he thinks were the skins of worms. He
put soft soap into the swill for his other
hogs and it improved their appearance.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Southern CuI.
tiDat0F imputes rust to excessive moisture
in the soil, as he has never known it to
occur on wheat on side hills or on that
grown on clay land we'll underdrained. 1t
is observed that wheat, bordered by
forest on the south side of field, and thus
measurably excluded from the rays of the
sun shows strip of r1ated wheat, while
that on the north side of the same field Is
exempt from it.
As proof of the statement that strych.
nine and chloral are mutually antagonistic
in their properties, writer in the Lon
don Pharmaceutical Journal reports that q
dog of his accidentally took some meat
with strychnine on it, and he did not
know it until the dog began to show the
spasms characteristic of strychnine pois.
oning. When the dog was apparently
dying, 1t occurred to him to try choral.
About two-thirds of dram were admin
istered, and the cure was very speedy.
ORANGE MARNALADE.-Cut the orange
in quarters, turn out the pulp, and put
the peel in water for twenty-four hours.
Change the wGter several times; turn the
pulp from the skin, and pick out all the
pips; squeeze all the juice you can; boil
the peel until tender turn il out and let
it drain, then cuti crossways, very thin /;
and to every pound of fruit put two
pounds of sugar, and to every pound of
sugar put quarter of pint of water.
Let the syrup boil, and skim it then put
the fruit in, and boil very slowly for one
hour and halG-S. Piesse.
To DESTROY WM.Lows.-A correspond
ent of the Carolina Fdgmsr says: Farm
ers who have willow trees on their mead
ows acknowledge them q great pest. To
destroy them, any time in May or June,
cut loose the bark about live or six feet
from the ground with drawing knife or
sharp hatchet. Then strip the bark down
to the ground in strips of two or three
inches broad, leaving them fast to the tree
at or near the surface of the ground. Let