Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
The Farm.

A correspondent OF the Farmers
Home Journal, who keeps 100 fowls
among his apple trees, says they
destroy every insect that can injure
the fruit, and he thinks "they offer
the best way of getting our orchards
in good bearing condition"
Tegetrneier prescribes as follows
for diarrhea in fowls: Five grains
powdered chalk, the same as rhu-
barb, and three of cayenne pepper;
if relaxation is not speedily check
ed, grain Of opium and one of
powdered ipecacuanha may be Civ
Ell every five or six hours.
A down-east doctor says, in the
Homesteod, that he never fails to
cure grub in the head of sheep by
pouring into the sufferers ear once
4 day for two or three days, as the
case may require, a teaspoonful OF
butter, melted and mixed with the
same quantity of spirits of turpen-
tine.
When poultry or other meat is
fresh and good, it has firm, hard
feel, and is elastic; tainted meat
feels soft, and returns to its shape
slowly when indented, like dough
when pressed by the finger. Fresh
meat, well killed, does not moisten
the finger; tainted meat does, and
has Shiny feel.
Carefully conducted experiments
have demonstrated the fact that sea-
soncd wood, well saturated with oil
when put together, will not shrink
in the dryest weather. Wheels
have been known to run many years,
even to wearing out the tires, with
out having to be reset. Crude pc
trolcum on even old wheels, will
produce like benefit.
Soap suds should never be vast
ed. 1t is well to have grape vines
planted so that the waste liquids
from the house can be used to fer
tilizc them. If there is any food
the vine especially loves, it is the
soapy liquids which. accumulate on
washing days in families. Vines
drenched every week with these
fluids will flourish astonishingly,
and extend themselves so as to COW
err large buildings, every branch
bearing fruit.
In the last report OF the Ameri-
can Pathological Society, an Iowa
orchardiSt communicates the fact
that he has been engaged for TWEEN
ty-fvc years in growing pears, and
has lost in that time by blight fifty
times rs many rs he now has grow
ing. III 1864 he ceased to cultivate
his trees, and allowed them to grow
to grass, which he kept down by cut
ting every few weeks; and to keep
the sod open he spread barrow
load Of manure around each tree in
autumn. Since that date, eight
years ago, he has not lost single
tree
A correspondent of the Rural
C"roii"io", gives the following rule
to measure grain in bin: First get
the actual number of cubic feet,
which is done 10y multiplying the
interior length, breadth and depth
then eight-tenths Of the
cubic feet will be the number Of
bushels that the bin will contain, or
eight tcnths of the cubic feet of
grain will be the number of bushels.
To get cight-tenths, multiply the
cubic feet by eight (s), place a
period before the first right hand
figure, and you have the bushels and
the tenths of the bushels. If you
corn on the cob, allow one
lalf for the cob, SO that four-tcnths
IF the cubic feet will be the num-
Der of bushels of shellcd corn. Illus
rate: Bin l0xlOxlO feet, multiply
hesc together, product Il ,ooo) one
Of which sum eighteen
lbs or O.S will be bushels, and four
enths or O.4 if corn in the ear; that
s, 500 or 400 bushels, rs the corn
nay he shcllcd or on the cob.