The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-30

Farm, Garden and Household.


halta pound OF sallpeire and half apound
Of soitsoap in one gallon ofwatGr, aud let
it simmer on tho fire for two hours, and
when cold wash the animal with 1t,
and the hcas will die Immediately they
are touched. Alter which wash with
warm water, when the dogs coat will
become bright and glossy.
PRESERVING FRulr IN GLAss.-Now Is
the time to preserve fruit. The best and
cheapest preserve dishes are of glass.
The only trouble is they break so when
being filed with hot fruit. This is
remedied by folding towel, or making
mat of cloth about six folds thick, com.
pletely sAturatlng itwith cold water. Set
your glass jar on this mat dry and cool,
when the fruit can be poured In boiling
hot and the glass will not break or crack
more than tin or wood.
FENcISo.-At the Orleans County On.
W farmers meeting Mr.. Smith said the
laws Of New York did not compel O
farmer to fence bis farm. He thought
the appearance OF the country would be
much improved II fences were abolished.
Judge Sawyer said II this were done and
grass grown to the edge of the road, and
mown the production Of weeds would be
reduced very much Il not altogether pre-.
vented. Mr.. Trip thought in such cases
the roadsiles could DO planted with fruit
proiltably, as cattle would not then de-
stroy them. A. 0nderdonk said It would
pay farmer better to pasture COW for
a poor yillagcr free than have 1t on the
road.
Why ANIMALS NEED ,sALr.-ProG
James E. johnson, of Scotland, says that
halt the saline matter of the blood (76 per
cent consists OF common salt, rs this Is
partly dissolved every day through the
skin aud kidneys the necessity Of con.
tinued supplies of ITO the healthy body
is sufficiently obvious. Tie bile also
contains soda (ono Of the Ingredients Of
salt) as Especial ard indispensable const,t-
uent, and so Of all the carriages of the
body. Stint the supply of salt and
neither will tho bile DO able properly to
assist digestion, nor the carriages 70 be
built up again as fast as they naturally
waste. II Is better to place salt were
stock can have free access to 1t than to
give 1t occasionally, In small quantities.
They will help themselves to what they
need, II allowed 10 do so at pleasure,
otherwise, when they become salt hungry
they may take more than Is wholesome.
MuK AND BUrTBr.- leo. Geddos, in an
article on the cost Of butter, says l will
quote from Transactions Of the N. Y.
State Agricultural Society for the year
1860, page $780," the Hon. Zadok Pratt's
statement of the ayefnge quantity OF
milk required to mako pound Of butter
for four years, in pounds, and in quarts,
MS follows In tho year 1867 IL took 80
2O.lO0 pounds, measuring 20 quarts. In
1853 it took 80 33.l0Opounds, measuring
lG lG.100 quarts. In 1859 it took 90
pounds, measuring II 50.1O0 quarts, and
in 1869 1t took only % 80, 100 pounds,
measuring II 20.100 quarts. | think !
am nowjustifed in saying that to begin
with, pound Of butter costs ii quarts
Of average milk. II, in answer to this
estimate, some person shall state that
by high feed and selection of the cows
that give the richest milk pound of
butter has been made from much less
milk-cvCn one-hali this II quarts-I
shall not dispute the assertion, hut /
shall remain Of the opinion that the
geXeral average is rs high as ] have
stated. t- ~
IrEMs FRoM AMERICAN AGRICULTURE.
IsT. '-I wish something could be done to
make dwarf apple trees better known,
They cost but little and IL they were
planted only as ornamental shrubs, their
flowers In spring would be quite rs salts.
flying as those OF many things grown for
their flowers alonO. Then they bear
fruit, and 1t is very pleasant to pick
dozen or two apples from n little tree.
One of my eordons not three feet long
ripcncd 28 fine Duchess of Oldenburgs.
The apples were almost as close as they
could stick, Mind, | don't recommend
these trees for profit but as airording
pleasure in fruit growing.
Young lambs or calves may DO pastur.
cd If necessary, but II is most costly
economy to turn horses or cows on to
newly sown clover or grass, or to newly
lnown fields. But considering that the
fields nro in danger Of becoming poached
while sOdden with rain by even the light.
est hOofs, 1t will be found cheapest IN the
end to keep all stock of from tile fields to
be mown next seasOn.
Many Of us must turn over new leaf.
We must make Our land cleaner, DRYER,
and richer. We must get rid of stagnant
water, kill the weeds, aud mellow the soil.
We must keep better stock and feed 1t
more literally, and thus make more and
better manure, We must grow more and
better grass.
In England, summer following as a
means OF enrichlng land Inns been pretty
well abandoned. Land IL high and meat
in great demand, aud 1t pays better 10
keep large amount Of stock, aud bny
American Oil.cake, cotton seed cake, and
corn, to feed out, and make great GuOn.
THY of rich manure than 10 adont the
slow method Of enriclling the land BY fal.
lowing. They have also another advan.
t0ge over ia, They can buy artificial
NATURES 0t something like what they are
worth. The tilnO will come when we can
do 50 here, aud then we shall use them
In enormous quantities.
III were dairyinaB, ! should not only
feed all the grain and bran could afford
to buy, but should keep sharp lookout
TO see II few tons Of artificial manure
could not sometimes be obtained at rea.
sonable rates. Kainlt (ulphate of POTASH
and nitrate Of soda ohglt to he sold here
for about the same price as In England,
and / do not SEQ why mineral super phos-
plIato from the Charleston phosphatts)