Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-10-05
Farm, Garden and Household.

lime water and linSeed Old These simple
agents combined form q thick, cream
like substance, which effectually excludes
the air from the injured parts, and allays
tho inflammation almost instantly.
Tor DRAINING THE WHEAT FIELDS
where needed, is of great importance,
and it is better to do it as soon as the
wheat is sown than to wait till the rains
come. There are fields where it is neces-
sary to pillow out every dead fuTow but
ordinarily all that need to be done is to
make burrows from the lower parts of the
field where water accumulates. Secure
good outlet from these, and the upper
portions, unless there are hollows, will
not need furrowing.
A CURE FOR RUNAWAY HORSES "A
gentleman exhibited before the Farmers
Club, patent device for stopping the
noses of horses so as to prevent them
from running away when so inclined
lie said it was very etlectual and wanted
five dollars for each specimen of his
device. Mr.. Ely suggested that the plan
would do as well for donkeys and asses
mails came forward to be operated upon,
the Club was unable to pass an opinion
upon the practical working Of the patent
VoRAcITY IN HORSES. A subscriber to
i'll flesh, but with an enormous appetite,
which prompts him to eat the litter, asks
what to do about it. This inordinate
appetite is q symptom of disease in the
digestive organs, or Of the presence Of
worms. If no worms have been OBJ
served, the first may be supposed to be
the cause. A simple remedy is TO feed
to the horse a handful of wood-ashes,
one ounce Of sui phur, an ounce of
common salt, mixed in his feed every
other day. II worms ale troubling the
horse, give the following one dram sui
plate of iron, powdered, one ounce Of
tlaxseed meal, and the same of sugar.
Give this for one dose in q bran mash at
night and repeat in forty-eight hours.
RoTTING AND SWEATING APPLES. -
Samuel Wilson, of Dodge County, Mimi,
tells the Farmers Club, that he reserved
twenty-five barrels of large Spitzenberg
apples about the Goth of last November,
and although he put them away in a
cool place, wheE he looked over them a
month later, nor more than quarter of
the entire lot was sound. He wanted
to know whether the barrels in which
the apples were stored should not have
had holes in them. Mr.. Ely said it was
not the custom Of large dealers to store
apples in perforated barrels, as in cold
weather the changes of temperature
tended to make them rot Mr. Fuller
said apples generally sweated after they
had been picked or had fallen, and that
if they were packed before this operation
had taken place they would be very
likely to rot.
The POULTRY "STANDARD OF EXCEL
LENoE. Some people ridicule the con-
ventional points of high-bred fowls,
which fanciers consider of so much i'm
portance, and which determine the
awards of prizes at the shows. They
repeat the adage, GA good horse can
not be of bad color" and ask whether
an egg from an old-fashioncd fowl is not
as good as one laid by IL bird possessing
comb, wattles and so on, of just the
prescribed proportions. 1t may be said
in reply, that it has been found neces-
sary to establish n set Of conventional
points for Jersey cattle, in order that the
breed may have an external badge as n
sign of their intrinsic merits and the
gcnuineness of their lineage and if an
animal relatively so large and of such
slow breeding, needs scale of arbitrary
points, there must be more advantage
in having an indellble token affixed to
fowls, because their descent is more open
to doubt in many cases, owing to their
comparatively insignificant size and
value, and their quick increase, and the
facilities for their transportation to parts
of the country remote from the parent
stock.
STORING WINTER APPLEs.-A cores
pondert of Laws of Life, who claims to
have extended experience is "decided-
ly of the opinion" that apples keep far
better when put into close barrels or
boxes, and secluded as much as posi-
bic from the air. When thus stored, he
says they will come out in the spring
full and plump as when taken from the
tree Many varities, as the Tallman
Sweet, Spitzenberg, and those kinds that
are not considered as long keepers, and
shrivel badly, will do well treated in this
way. | have, he continues, found uni
versally that they keep better to let them
lie without picking over. 1t is much
better to pile them into a large bin
across the cellar, say six or seven feet
high and four or five feet wide, and
cover them up tight, than to lay them
on shelves. | once saw such bin that
man had kept through the winter.
About the first of April he thought he
would open the windows on the side of
the cellar next to the bin to let in the
air, that they might keep better. 1
was at his place and he called my atten-
ton to the fact. Two windows over the
bin were opened about ten days or two
weeks, and the apples exactly opposite
the windows, about one-third, rotted
for as much as foot in depth, and the
remaining part on either side, were not
rotted at all
How APPLE TREES GRow.-If we
make deep hole with a crowbar in the
substratum of the earth, fill it with
sand and mellow soil and plant apple
seed in autumn near the surface of the
ground where the hole was made; the
next spring the seed will throw out a
root directly downward, until the end
reaches the strata of perpetual moisture,
provided the earth is not so firm that a
root cannot extend further and a stem
will commence pushing upward, at the
same time bearing the apple seed on its
end, to the surface, where the kernel