Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-18
Farm and Garden,


ed as much for the good qualities of
their dams as for their individual excel
lence, and are allowed to remain with
the COW from two to three weeks. We
never remove a calf in bitter cold |
weather, as it's future welfare depends |
in a great measure upon the start 1t |
gets and if it is worth raising at all, 1t |
is worth giving good start. At first
it is offered warm skim milk. This II |
generally refuses the first meal, and |
sometimes the second, but rarely often |
er. We never allow them to suck the |
fingers, and save many cold and ach- |
ing hand They readily learn to eat by |
themselves, thriving better and cost
ing much less trouble. As soon as pos
sible a little bran is mixed with the
skim milk, and shortly afterward thick
milk is substituted for the skim milk.
The quantity is increased until the calf
receives about five quarts OF milk and
pint of meal twice a day. We use equal
parts of bran and corn meal, or corn
and oats. The drink is always warmed
in cold weather by mixing with hot
water.
Calves fed in this manner, and hav-
ing plenty Of good hay, will weigh from
500 to $50 pounds at eight months old.
Tney are then wean d, and continue to
thrive or good hay and grass alone, the
heifers having calf of their own at y
or % months old, and being fully
able to do so. This method is used on
an ordinary farm, with medium sized,
good milking, native and grade cattle.
-Rural New Yorker.
Cure for Mange.-Equal parts of sui
phur and cream of tartar, made into
ball with syrup or honey administer
daily for three or four days. Wash the
parts affected with carbolic soap, and
anoint with a paste of lard, sulphur,
and powdered charcoal ground to-
&c, .er.
SDavin.-The treatment of SPAWN is
simple enough, but far from being al
WAYS successful The owner of the
horse will neither consult his own in
terests nor the dictates Of humanity If
he suffers the chisel and mallet or the
gimlet, or the pointed iron or arsenic 10
be used; yet measures of considerable
severity must be resorted to. Repeated
blistering will usually cause either the
absorption of the bony deposit or the
abatement or removal of the intiamna-
ton of the hgaments or, as last re-
source, the heated iron may be applied.
-Tarf, Field and Farm.
HoLLo Horn Remedy.-The following
remedy can be relief upon: First, put
little turpentine between and back of
the horns; then take two teacups hall
full of salt and water, and pour one in
each ear-both at the same time-once
a day for three successive days. Thi.
tl,a boIIou- horn ayprV time
Tsseis on ,Stock.-A correspondent
SAYS H Reeds his stock teaspoonful o
sulphur to each animal, with then
salt, once in two weeks. When he has
done so, no vermin has troubled them
and his dairy cows have not been al
fected with garget, nor his sheep will
grub in the head. He has practicet
this for twenty years.
Breeding S0,oS.-A correspondent o
the Prairie Farmer says, that it is no
safe to pen up breeding sows and fee
them heavily on corn alone. Those lei
to run at large may be fed on corn ez
clusively, as much as they can consume
without injury.
SCOT as 4Nansre.-Although almost eve
since agriculture has been practicec
and that we believe is ever since tn
creation of the world, SCOT has bee
known to be valuable manure, an
yet in the 18th century there are hun
dreds of farmers who cannot be pc
suaded to believe this. 1t Is really 6
valuable as guano. Take hogshead {
water, and dissolve in it twelve quar-
of SCOT, and you will have a splendi
liquid manure for plants. Apply it
the root of course, and then watch tn
results.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
1t is said that hay can be made. I'll
proof by sprinkling a layer of salt b
tween each layer of hay. This proce
is recommended as serving the doub
purpose of a preventive against lire an
rendering the hay more conducive
the health of cattle and more agreeab
to their palates. s.4
If a tree is felled while in leaf, an
allowed to lie until the foliage withel
the wood will be the soonest seasone
as the leaves will draw all the sap b
fore they die.
It is related of an English farm
that he condensed his practical expe
ence into this rule: Feed your lal
before it is hungry, rest it before 1t
weary, and weed it before it is foul.
A bee farmer says: " / find by e
per1ence that hives painted with Yer
tian red or Prussian blue are in ma
ner exempt from the ravages of t
moth, and that white hives are the on
that suffer-"
A Western farmer says "My rene
for scratches ON horses or COWS is
ointment made of equal parts of tt
sulphur and lard, applied every di
l have never failed of effecting spec
cure.'
The highest farm in the world is So
to be situated four miles from Sherm
station, on the Union Pacific railros
1t has an elevation of eight thousa
feet above the sea level. Vegetab
and grain thrive well on the farm, a
two hundred young apple trees hs
been set out as an experiment.
The manure of birds is richer tn
that of animals as the solid and liqu
excrements are mixed together, it