Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-08
Agricultural Items.

By the Tariff act passed at the last ses-
sion of Congress, foreign-made steam
plows and machinery may be imported
free of duty for two years and no longer.
A SHEEP with sore nose may be made
happy by the application OF tar and
sulphur to the parts affected.
BREAD soaked in porter and well
busted with cayenne pepper is excel
lent food for fowls out of condition.
A MASSACHUSETTS cultivator says in
Secretary Flint's report that he has no.
ticed is his garden THAT that portion
which is hoed or cultivated with the
dew upon the ground produces better
crops than that hoed in the heat of the
day."
AN Australian newspaper says that
the practice has been very successfully
adopted in gardens of sowing rows of
common lark-spur, the leaves of which
attract grasshoppers at once, and when
eaten is certain death to them, and that
thousands of grasshoppers have been
seen thus lying dead.
ELI STINsoN, President of the Wool
Growers Association, has proved to a
demonstration that his flock of 1900
sheep has enabled him to produce eli ht
or ten more bushels of wheat to the
acre than is grown on the average lands
of Wisconsin, where sheep industry is
not auxiliary to wheat farming.
HEARTH AND Hone objects to the very
common practice of dumping manure
in heaps on the farm, leaving it to be
spread at leisure afterward, and details
single case of injury to wheat and
oats from lodging, rust, etc., on the
spots where the heaps had been made.
We have often noted much the same
result both on grain and grass land.
Even when not allowed to remain long
enough to infiict actual damage to fu-
ture crops, it always results in unequal
fertility; the site of the heaps will ex-
hibit three or four times the productive
ness of the adjoining land. The best
way is to spread Immediately.
THE Country Gentleman gives the fol-
lowing as cure for quinsy in hogs; l.
Take an ear of corn, and besmear genu-
inc pine tar upon it, and give it to the
hog. No other food must be given un-
| til it is eaten. You can repeat the same
until a cure is effected. 2. Take hog
manure and lard, equal parts, say four
ounces of each; heat the lard, then add
the manure; stir until cool and mix
the whole with one ounce of spirits
camphor. Drench the hog with the
mixture. If the first does not prove
efectual. repeat as often as necessary.
These two receipts have been used for
twenty years, and proved to be good.
THE white hairs that often appear on
horses from the use of wear of saddles OF
harness are very unsightly. A core
| spondent of the Massachusetts Ploaonar
recommends the following remedy
which is certainly very simple one
Take piece of lard large enough to
give the spot thorough greasing; rut
the same with the hand until it become.
right hot, repeating the operation a
least three or four times, and the white
hairs will soon come out, and hairs o
natural color take their place. l hav,
tried this on several horses, and l neve
knew it to fail. l think the best tim,
to do 1t is in the winter, before the new
coat starts.
In our New England education o
farming we grew yearly crop of tur
nips among our corn. After the las
hoeing, brush to fit the row was pre-
pared, and, the seed being sown, it wa
drawn between the rows.