Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-10-06
Farm. Garden and Household.

Farm, Garden and Household.
ScALps. --A correspondent says that
the readiest aud most useful remedy for
scalds aud burns is an emhrocatton al
lime water and linseed old. These simple
agents combined form thick, cream
like substance, which effectnally excludes
the air from the injured parts, and allays
the Inflammation almost Instantly.
Tor DRAINING THE WHEAr FuuDs
where needed, is Of great Importance,
and il il better 10 do il as soon rs the
wheat is sown than TO wait till the rains
come. There are fields where il is neeeS-
Sary 10 plow out every dead f1rrow, but
ordinarily all that need to be done is b
make furrows from the lower parts ofthe
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.
He said il was very e1ectaal. and wanted
five dollars for each specimen OF his
device. Mr. Ely suggested that the plan
would do rs well for dos4keys and asses
as for horses but as none of the ami
mails came forward TO be- operated upon.
the Club was unable 10 psss an opinion
upon the practical working of the patent.
VoRACTTx IN HORSES. "A subscriber 20
Hearth GRd Hena who has . horse thin
IN flesh, but with an enormous appetite,
which prompts him 10 eat tlle hitter, asks
what to 10 about IL This inordinate
appetite is symptom of disease in the
digestive organs, or of the presence of
worms II no worms have been OBJ
served, the first may be supposed 10 be
the cause. A simple remedy is 20 feed
10 the horse a handful of wood-aShes,
one ounce of sulphur, an ounce Of
common salt, mixed in his feed every
other day. IL worms ale troubling the
horse, give the following one dram sui
phate OF iron. powdered, one ounce of
fiAxseed meal, and the same Of sugar
Give this for one dose IN hran-mash at
night and repeat in forty-eight hours.
RorTNG AND SWEATING APPLES
Samuel Wilson, of Dodge County, MINI,
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 d
month later. nor mere than quarter OF
hn fa,e y ~ .k-N
to know whether the barrels in which
the apples were stored should not have
had holes in them. Mr.. Ely said il 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, aud that
If they were packed before this operation
had taken place they would be very
likely to rot.
The POULTRY STANDARD OF Excel
LENCE Some people ridieule the con-
ventional points of high-bred fowls,
which fancieTs consider of SO much i'm
portance, and which determine the
awards of prizes at the shows. They
repeat the adage, a good horse can
not be Of bad color" and ask whether
an egg from an old-fashioned fowl is not
as good rs one laid by u bird possessing
comb, wattles, and so on, of Just the
prescribed proportions. II may be said
in reply, that it hAs been found neces-
sary TO establish q set OF conventional
points for Jersey cattle, in order That the
breed may have an external badge as a
sign of their intrinsic merits and the
genuineness of their lineage; and If an
animal relatively so large and of such
slow breeding, needs a scale OF arbitrary
points, there must be more advantage
in having en- indellible 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
" of the opinion" that apples keep far
better when put into close barrels or
boxes, and secluded as much as posi-
ble from the air. When thus stored. he
says they viii come ont in the spring
full and plump as when taken from the
tree. Many varihes, as the Tallman
Sweet, Spitzenberg, and those kinds that
are not considered as long keepers. and
shriyel badly, VIII do well treated in this
way. / have, he continues, found uni
versally that they keep better 10 let them
lie without picking over. II 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 Law them
on shelves. / once saw such n 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 10 the bin to let in the
air, that they might keep better. I
was at his place and he called NV atten-
ton to the fact. Two windows over the
bin were Opened about ten dnys 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 al
How APPLE TREES GRow.-If we
make deep hole with crowbar in the
substratum Of the earth, I'LL il 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 viii throw out a
root directly downward, until the end
reaches the strata of perpetual moisture.
provided the earth is not 80 firm ttnt q
root cannot extend further; and q stem
viii commence pushing upward, al the
same time bearing the apple seed on its