The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-01-26
Farm and Garden.


that are ailing from some unknown
cause, it is best to act with caution
in giving physic. Generally warm cruel
or mashes, with a change of feed, in
which some faxseed meal or gently
laxative medicine has been mixed, with
warm shelter, will effect a cure when
violent and mistaken remedies would
be only a sudden means of death. AL
most all complaints spring from expo
sure or overwork or bad feed.
Bacon withom Skirpers.-For 1000
pounds of meat, take 10 quarts of salt,
pounds of sugar, pound saltpeter,
pound black pepper (ground). Dissolve
the saltpeter in a pint OF water, and
mix it with other ingredients; rub the
mixture over the meat on both sides,
and keep it in a cool place for ten days.
Smoke as usual. Then place the meat
in q box, and keep covered with dry
salt.
Borers IN Fruit 7reeS.-Upon this sub
.ject the Prairie Farmer says: We have
of late years taken very thick soft soap,
without diluting, heated it to the boil
ing point, and painted the trees with IT,,
applying it freely, especially near the
ground, and from thence up some dis
lance among the branches. When put
on hot, it strikes into the bark, 50 that
one application made about the lst Of
June perfectly protects the trees for the
season, killing any young borers or eggs
which hapnen to be at the surface Of
the bark. This is by far the cheapest
and best mode of keeping borers out Of
apple trees we have yet tried
,Shoeiaq HorSeS.-It would seem as if
the commonest things were the worst
done. Not one blacksmith in ten can
be got to shoe a horse without cutting
the frog away. This is all wrong. The
frog should not be pared one particle
You might as well cut away all the
leaves Of tree and expect it to flour
ish as to pare away the frog and have a
healthy foot. Do not allow a hot shoe
to be put upon the hoof to burn it to a
level. 1t always Injuries and contracts
it. Look for blacksmith who knows
his business well enough to level the
foot without using the "actual cautery,"
and employ him. 1t will increase the
health and working power Of your
horses.
Medicine for PoultrH-In ordinary cases
it will not pay to give medicine to sick
fowls. In the first place, but little is
known of the diseases of poultry; and
again, there is an equal dearth Of
knowledge respecting remedies. Be-
sides, the value of an average fowl is so
inconsiderable that treatment will not
pay unless very simple and very sue
cessful.
The best course respecting poultry
ailments is prevention. Try to secure
such vigorous breeding stock, and such
complete sanitary conditions for all the
birds ut all ages, that illness will be
rare. Then the strength of constitution
will be such that any ordinary disease
can be resisted without the aid of medi-
cine. if good nursing is given.
What we mean by nursing is this {:
Place sick fowls in dry sunny place,
out of the wind and safe from disturb.
ance. Then give them food easy of
digestion, such as mush, potatoes, and
meat, every article cooked, and warm
milk for drink. If, after all, they can't
make out to live, say to yourself, by
way Of congratulation, "there are so
many birds, not disease proof, that have
been weeded out of my stock, at any
rate. Country Gentleman.