Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-04-07
HEARTS BEFORE PURSES
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

RAISING CELERY-Physicians tells US
that if one would eat freely of the bleached
foot-stalks of celery, it would not only pre-
vent, but actually cure nervousness that
one who is subject to trembling limbs would
| find sure relief in its use This one truth
should be sufficient to encourage all of US to
raise this iue plant. But, in addition to
this. there is nothing more appetizing, Or
better to eat with roast meats, especially
turkey, duck or chicken. But many of us
are deferred from trying to raise it, think
ing it difficult to do so; many have tried it
and utterly failed. True, it is more difficult
to manage than many other things. the
greatest trouble being to get the young
plants from seed, as they are quite small and
require good care in sowing. | have always
succeeded, and will here tell you how to
succeed every time youstry but you must
practice what l preach.
First, then, be sure you get paper of
fresh seed, say Landreths White Salad
If you have not bed Can every one who
has garden should have one or more) SOW
your seed ia very shallow drills therein, six
inches apart Sow the seed as thinly as you
can, ami slit very rich, fine chip manure, or
other rich earth, over the seed, and then
press the drills lightly with brick or other
heavy smooth substance !; cover with sash
and give plenty of tepid water, put on with
very fine rose to your sprinkler. When
the plants show themselves (Which will re-
quire quite long time) water, not very cold,
must be added every evening or two, and
elephants aired on every warm day. When
they are about three inches high thin them
to about half an inch apart. When they
are large enough say five Or six inches high,
transplant them at evening in trenches a
foot deep and two feet wide, with the rich
est earth you can get, in the bottom Of the
trenches Shade them for week entirely,
with boards, plank or boughs, and put plenty
of water in the trenches, three times or four
times week but do not pour the water d.
rectly on the plants About the 10th of
October (not sooner) tie string loosely
around each bunch, near the top, and bank
up the plants with dirt, leaving only the
green tops uncovered. When hard frost
appears cover all over with straw, six inches
deep and dirt over this five inches deep, and
at Thanksgiving Day you can treat you,
friends and yourself to roast turkey Gf you
have one) and delicious, aromatic nutty
celery - Woodnan, IN Farmers Journal.
POINTS OF Coon PIa-Mr Stearns, an
English breeder, gives the following as the
points of good Suffolk pig 'The chief
points are rather small head, with wide,
heavy chaps. short snout, broad deep chest.
cars rather small and thin, with the ends
sharp and pendulous, pointing little for
ward, roundness of rib, shortness of leg,
and small feet, long body, the thigh well
dropped close to the back, shoulders and
hams thick, the neck rising well behind the
ears, small bones in proportion to the flesh,
broad or straight, or slightly rising back,
tail small and curved and placed high, hair
thin, long, fine and silky. AS much or
more attention should be given to the boar
than the SOW. He preferred sows for breed
ing to be rather larger than the boar, and
good sized animals, they being more likely
to have large number of pigs He consid-
cred ten or twelve pigs sufficient in the gen.
eral way to bring up. A SOW for breeding
should have ten or twelve paps.
CARROTS FOR Fl )RsEs.-The virtues of
this root are not sufficiently known, whether
for contributing to the strength aud endu-
rance of the sound horse or the rapid re-
covery of the sick one. To be healthy they
should be sliced in chaff Halt bushel
will be fair daily allowance. There is lit
tie provender Of which the horse is fonder.
The following account of the value of the car
rot is not exaggerated: 'This root is held in
much esteem There is none better nor
perhaps so good When first given it is
slightly diuretio and laxative, but, as the
horse becomes accustomed to it, these effects
cease to be produced They improve the
state of the skin. They form good SUBJ
stitute for grass, and an excellent Alternative
for horses out Of condition. To sick and
idle horses they render grain unnecessary,
They are beneficial in all chronic diseases
connected with breathing, and have a mark.
ed influence upon chronic cough and broken
wind. They are serviceable in the diseases
of the skin, and, in combination with oats,
they restore worn horse sooner than oats
alone"
An agricultural exchange thinks that five
per cent, and perhaps ten, could be added
to the milk product Of the COWS of the coun-
try if the following rules were observed:
l. Never hurry COWS in driving to and
from the pasture.
2 Milk nearly at equal intervals; at
half-past five in the morning and six at
night are good hours.
g. Be especially tender of the COW at
milking time
4. When seated, draw the milk as rap.
idly as possible, being certain to always get
it ALL
5. Never talk or think of anything be-
sides what you are doing when milking.
8. Offer SOHO caress, and always sooth.
ing word, when you approach a COW and
when you leave her.
FARM RAKINas.--Let the good housewife
put bones and ashes in barrel, half and
half, and keep them constantly moist with
soapsuds, the stronger the better, but not in
such quantities as to leach the ashes. In a
few months the bones will have become dis
integrated, and the whole mass may thus be
thoroughly mixed, and will make an excel
lent fertilizer for the flower border or the
kitchen garden.
To Color FURs BLACK OR BROWN. --Take
ten grains of gallo acid, ten of tincture of
iron, and one ounce of acetic acid Dissolve
the gallo acid in the tincture Of iron, and
add the acetic acid, and apply with fine
comb. If black is desired, the furs must
be moist, not wet, but if brown, the furs
must be dry.