The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29
Farm and Garden.


Esprit of salt) and apply to the top OF
the wart with "A thin, pine stick, morn
ing and night. The acid forms crust
which is easily taken oil each day until
the wart is gone. 1t causes no pain,
and in due time the hair will appear on
the spot. Keep the acid we'll corked
and out of reach of the children.
Interfering HorSeS.-It is very seldom
that horse interferes when barefoot
and it should be the aim of the horse
sheer to have the horses foot, after the
shoe is on it, as it was before it was
shod; so instead of heavy shoe make
one as light as possible shoe the
same as running horses have. Shoe
them close and there will be no trouble.
Rye for Hog Pastmes.-A correspond.
ent OF one of our Western agricultural
papers says;
have sown fall rye for a hog pasture
with the best results. 1t makes an ex.
cellent feed, may bepastured as soon as
it is large enough to furnish "a good
bite" and besides being excellent for
the growth and health of the hogs, it
furnishes q vast amount of feed at
small cost. When grain is high priced
there is great economy in rye pasture.
If it is not eaten too close it will mature
part of the grain, and this may be
gathered by the hogs, or il may be used
for seeding by being plowed under.
Glover will grow very well with rye !;
better, perhaps, than with any other
grain, as the shade is less upon the
growing plants. But your correspond
ents who propose to pasture rye and
young clover with hogs, must take
them separately. The hogs will pick
out the tender clover and scarcely a
single plant will escape them, even
though IA large share of the rye should
be left to mature.
have no experience with spring rye,
but presume it would be later in start.
ing, and less valuable on that account
Growing rye is, believe, the most nu-
tritious of all green food, and though
especially adapted to feeding swine, |
have no hesitation in recommending it
as a most valuable and economic food
for cattle.
Beauty Your HomeS.-A correspond.
ent of the Prairie Farmer makes the fol-
lowing sensible suggestions:
A word to my brother farmers little
out of the line of agricultural discussion (:
! wish TO make you believe that ii will
pay TO take little more pains TO add to
the personal appearance of your home
surroundings. Have you ever thought
how desolste and uninviting a majority
of them now appear, and how much
more attractive, pleasant and home-like
little judiciOus care and labor would
make them?
That there may appear show of rea-
son in what | say, take a survey of your
nei ghborhood, or ride ten miles in any
direction, and observe if more than half
our country homes do not present a
general slovenly appearance.
A country usually gets much of its
reputation from the reports of strangers
passing over it, or from transient Wis
itors. The general untidy appearance
of neighborhood, would in measure,
indicate to them lack of thrift or en-.
terprise, with corresponding influence
on the reputation of our otherwise more
than average community.
Suppose the reverse TO be the case,
and our passing friends comment with
enthusiasm upon the thrifty appearance
Of our beautiful homes would not this
tell upon the value of our farms? and |
am glad to present this important ques-
ton with little pecuniary advantage,
and | am of the opinion that if we
wished to sell our farms, that it would
be a profitable investment to put ten
per cent. of their value into what many
would call fancy improvements, mean.
ing good fence around the house, a
well-kept orchard with q good and
abundant list of small fruits, a kitchen
garden we'll titled and fenced, neat
lawn, with shrubs and flower beds in
abundance, and many things else that
the fancy of self or family may dictate.
Only keep this in view while attending
to the useful. Don't forget the orna.
mental, and try and so combine them
that one lends TO the beauty Of the
other.
1t always seemed strange to me that
men who cultivate their fields well, who
are successful in growing good crops,
and make the farm pay, will persist in
allowing their house.yards and gardens
TO grow up the most foul and uninvit.
ing spots on the whole farm, and we
all know of many farms where this is
exactly the case.
This will not apply to all, but to alto.
gether too many, and most particularly
to men who know have lived on the
prairies of the West dozen years, and
not tree or shrub of their planting
marks the spoil for men who have
turned down and trodden upon thous-
ands of prairie flowers, and not planted
or cultivated single one or who have
cleared up acres of forest and not
planted single tree in atonement who
have lived on for years, taking no note
of the progress of the age toward the
belief that the world was not made
simply that we might live in it to mar
its beauty, but with little of our time
and labor, help to make it more beauti-
full. Z. $. III.
EDGEFIELD FARM, Delavan, Wis.