National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-06
Farm, Garden and Household.

is in the arm or shoulder.
LUNCHES FOR HORSES. In the grocery
stores in the city of New York, " horse
lunches in the shape of lunches Of
clover are sold. Could not farmers learn
lesson from lefty folks in this, and
provide their teams with "bite and
rest of ten minutes in the middle OF Il
hard forenoon's blowing?
HEARTBURN. The common and dis
tire, sing affection is generally connected
with Indigestion. To relieve it for the
moment, magnesia, soda or Setzerwatcr
or water aciduated with sulphuric acid,
may be employed. To cease the com
paint requires the digestive power TO be
strengthened by tones, hitters and some
preparation of iron. The application of
blister over the stomach may be OF
use.
PREVENTION OF DISEASE IN Fowls
There would be less need of publishing
instructions for the cure of disease in
poultry, if more attention were paid to
prevention. Ordinarily it is not worth
while to give medicine to "A sick fowl.
The value of the animal is so small rs
not to pay for the time spent. Besides,
so little is really known of the ailments
of poultry that treatment is uncertain.
The best way is to get sound, vigorous
stock at the outset, and secure for them
natural conditions, when diseases of all
kinds will be very rare.
CANARY BIRDS. Place the cage so
that no draft of air can strike the bird
give nothing to healthy birds but canary
4, Al
fish bone, and gravel on the floor of the
cage also a little water for bathing
The room should not he overheated.
When moulting shedding feathers) avoid
drafts of air give plenty of rape seed
slightly moistened a little hard-boiled
egg and cracker grated fine is excellent.
Bad seed kills birds. Cabbage and
sweet apples are good, as preventing
fevers.
BONE MANURE N. c. Bontelle asks
if ground bone is profitable to use at
SAG per ton, where barnyard manure is
worth $40 n cord delivered on land We
think it is, If got pure. dressing of
80 pounds per acre on grass land, es-
peciaIly if it is occasionally pastured,
would undoubtedly pay. 1t must he re-
substance carried off from the grass
land in the shape of fed cottle is the
bone, and if this is returned to the land
exhaustion is prevented, more especially
when occasional dressings of barnyard
manure are applied. As dressing for
grape-vines, pear-trees, and for general
garden use, it may be used at the rate
of 800 to 500 pounds per acre very
proftably. Erchanqe.
CURE OF RHEUMATISM IN Houses. -The
Scientific Anerjc1n prints this note from
correspondent Igive you the follow
recipe for rheumatism IN horses and [
will preface it by saying that | am in
debted to an Englishman (Mr r. Jack
som for the same also, that have used
the recipe upon my horse Whose age is
fifteen years. with perfect success driv-
ing him, daily, twelve miles, in all sorts
of weather thermometer from 10 deg
below 0 deg. Fair. in the Winter, to 1O4
deg. in the shade, in Summer rain or
snow About two months ago he was
so stiff he could not walk now he is as
active as eat. The recipe is
Crude coal oil, pint strong vinegar,
! pint; turpentine, pint, mixed, and
well shak' To be rubbed on mornings
ana nigh
SALT FOR WHEAT. 1t has been found
in practice that light application of
salt to newly sown crops has been Mt
tended with advantage. The soaking
of seed wheat in brine is beneficial. not
only in assisting the early and perfect
termination of the seeds, and afiorling
nutriment needed by the young sprout,
but as preventive of smut. Chlorine.
one of the chemical constituents of com
mon salt soda being the other, has
been discovered to exert when present
IN small quantities, fastening inhn-
ence on the germlnation of seeds while
the soda a solvent of silica doubtless
is the agent which produces the we'll
known effect of salt in stiffening the
straw of wheat. We have made it
practice to SOW one bushel of salt per
acre Immediately after sowing our wheat
In the fall and think we have been amplv
repaid for the very small expense incur
red for material and labor.
SOWING WINTER WHEAr-Some hints ,
were given on this subject in the last {
1qTfcHmta On good summer fallow {
that Is mellow and moist, it will make :
comparatively little difference whether
the seed Is s9$P rPF9a4G6SstG 4f E pRf on III DIV DIV
cloddy land, drill frequently makes the ,,
difference between good crop and n =
poor one. If sOwn broadcast. the seed =
lies among the dry clods, and much of :
1t VIII not germnate until we have rain
whlle drill can he set deep enough TO
deposit the seed in the moist earth be- q
meath the clods. And if the drill is fol- a
owed by roller to break the clodS. the $
moisture beneath will be retained. and I
he seed Will terminate and grow, even L
hould no rain fall for weeks Late sown
wheat requires more seed than when p
own early. Much, however depends il
m the condition of the soil. On good. V
ich land, in fine order. the wheat tillers p
o much that less seed is required. A b
hange Of seed is always desirable. As
rule, 1t is believed to be better to get W
from somewhat more southern lati- c,
lde, and from poorer soil Ct
Roof GRAFTING YOUNG TREES. g. IN
liner writes that nurserymen have been u
the habit OF grating apple scions on 81
ie roots Of seedlings. instead of on the
'ock, thus multiplying one into four, is'
We, or more /; and it appears that the al
suit has not been favorable to the dr
rowers of such frui. trees. however X
luch 1T may have redounded to the pecu In
larry success of the nurseryman. This We
what might have been reasonably an co
clpated by a vegetable Psychologist
he woody fibre, and also the bark of a raj
DOT, although constructed on the same RAJ
ian and growing much in the same tol
'anner, differ in texture considerably va
ON that of the scion. so that when We mr.