The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-08-01
hGRICuLTURAL

had inquiry for u good paste that
will keep; in reply | will say that af-
ter an experience Of oyor thirty years
daily, ! may aay hourly use, | have
found none 80 good w flour paste
mndo with alum water; say II plocG
Of alum large ~ a small walnut to n
CIV drops Of oil Of cloves added to
tho paste when made. Tho alum
prevents the fermentation, and tho
oil is destructive 30 vegetable mould
PnBto mado this way will keep for
weeks im the warmoBt weatIIcr. Add
the water to the -four cOldand bring
10 II boil,
CAHE or FARM IMPLEMENTS, Every
farmer is or should DO var Of the
fact that all substances expand by
heat and contract when parting with
it, and that different substances OK
pand and contract in diff, rent ratios,
and still with this fact before them
hey will leave plows, harrOws, cul-
tivatorB, wagons, &c, composed OF
iron and wood, exposed TO q sum
mer's sun, forgetting that the expan-
sion Of tho iron nj noon and it's COZ
traction at night must DO forcing the
parts from oqch other with an un-
comfortable force, aud destroying the
implement aB rapidly III it III con
slant use.
FLIST. in biz "Grnsseg and PlArts'
recommends tho following mixture
for moving on light lands; Orchard
grass, four pounds; June grass, throe
pounds; hand f%escuc, three pounds;
tail Dat Grass, three pounds, meadow
soft GRASS, three pounds; red-lops,
three pounds; Italian rye grass, four
pounds, Perennial rye grass, six
pounds, English bent, tTo pounds,
Perennial red clover, three pounds;
black madir, two pounds; white Glow
cr, four pounds; and Sanfoln, two
pounds. There Is nothing to be said
AGAINST this mixture. The greater
tho variety of nutritious grasses the
farmer can get established IN his soil,
tho better, and the more enduring
and productive will lho pasture or
mepdow be, if it ~ property feet and
taken are Of.
A correspondent mt Palestine, ill.,,
asks what kind Of grass - best to
SOW ON sandy land? Jllrt muat tie.
pond upon condition, hFandy land
has been property enriched with veg
etablo matter with leaf mold, muck
Or coarse manure-a mixture OF
orchard grass, red-topG. June graea
red clover aud white clover, equal
parts, makes a good god and yI'ldf
u good crop for both pasture and
moving. But if the soil il not rich
~ IulmuG, w0 should rs we have
seed moro heavily with r"d clover
The red clover roots and the foliage
which viii fall will help to enrich th'
soil and render it productive. II RED
clover were aown first and pIow"'
under III June or July, about the
time IL " in blossom, on just before.
and then mixture such us We have
Gown, n better, permanent grass and
would ho secured.
A stock raiser, writing from Iiar,
> din, Iowa, to tlo Agricultural De.
parlmcut, says hes has allowed In
cttiIo the Eprairjo range with ln'
noighbors, and has mover lost II SIN
Clio animal by discnso; whilo cvory
one # his nei&hbo'H, without cSrop
} ton, has lost a greater or less mum
, Der. Ilo yards his animals every
night, and gives tlom az much salt
as they will eat. This is tho only
difference III tho treatment. Th"
wunto OF salt, and more, exposure to
low, damp quarters ut night, give
stock the fatal disease called "bloody
murraIn."
Drinking stagnant water, and go
ing too long without any, causing
engagement, are prolific sources If
disease and death. Bottor dig wells
like Jacob did, and initiate him in
the management Of LahanB cattle,
using . p'cnty Of salt, than neglect
stock till they die like rotten sheep,
l.. i'll I'lanlatlOn.