Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-02-15
Farm and Garden.


Corn Meal as a FeriEizer.-A New Eng
land farmer writes to one of our West
ern agricultural papers, in regard to the
use of corn to enrich the sterile and
worn-out farms of the Connecticut Val
ley. He says: 's
"The production of maize upon the
fertile prairies of the West, to be used
as manure to sustain the fertility, or in
crease the productiveness of garden
fields in the valleys of New England,
promises TO become an important branch
of agricultural industry. .. .~
The difference between the fertiliz-
ing effects of the richest, and the infe-
rior manures, Is not 30 great as that be-
tween corn meal and the richest stable
manure the meal having lost, by being
consumed, about sixty per cent. of its
dry weight, and a much larger proper
ton of its fertilizing elements.
Repeated experiments have shown
that corn meal can be proftably used in
the Connecticut Valley as fertilizer for
special crops. The valley farmer finds
it difficult to produce fine grade of
tobacco because his soil is deficient in
organic matter; the prairie farmer
1abors under similar difficulty, because
his soil is not adapted to the growth of
tobacco; yet the Western farmer can
produce a superior crop of corn, which
applied to the valley farmers soil will
enable him to produce crop of tobacco
whose quality will be a passport that
will admit it to any European market
on the most favorable conditions. The
interests of both the Eastern and West
ern farmers have been promoted by the
operation, and the prosperity of the
nation must wax and wane with indi-
vidual interests" 81. .r--..
arsenic and the Whites Of Eggs for Rab-
bits.-A correspondent of the Rural
World saves his trees from rabbits by the
use of arsenic mixed with the white of
eggs. He takes the limbs or twigs of
trees, smears them with the egg and ar
senic mixture, and lays them about
among the trees. The rabbits prefer
the tender bark and buds to the harder
bark on the stems of the trees, and one
meal suffces for all time. "It kills
them sure" No doubt this plan is
good one, for we, know that the simple
distribution upon the ground of tender
brushwood about tho orchard or nursery
| is a great protection to the standing
trees. We think rabbits prefer the bark
| of the apple tree to that of any other.
A EAle Of this kind of cheap feed may
be spared from the tops of any orchard
just as well as not, and may save many
| dollars worth OF trees.
Make Home Pleasant.-A farmers
daughter thus vigorously protests against
small and illy-lighted kitchens:
| Will farmers never understand that
the surest way to stop the tide of young
men and women rushing toward the
cities, there to swell the throngs of pow
erty and too often of vice, is to make
the country homes so attractive that
the boys and girls will love the country,
and never long for the false pleasures
and excitement of city life? The re-
| form should be commenced in the
kitchen; for the girls must have en-
ployment- have it, good or bad
and our first efforts should be to keep
them pure and womanly. s'"-ia
Choose bright-tinted paper for the
| walls; hang pretty pictures over that;
paint the floor some cheerful shade;
make the kitchen as bright and attract
i've as any part of the house, and your
wives and daughters will learn to love
their cooking the table will be con-
stantly supplied with well-prepared
food, contributing to the health and
long for change, and the family be
spared many "shadow" from the
grave-like room yonder, only waiting
till the hasty, tasteless meal is swal-
lowed, to engulf-strength, cheerfulness
and all-the tired, disheartened woman
who sits so istlessly at the head of your
| table, longing and yet unable to take
an honest pride in her Housekeeping.
.Ro,o Hog iSs0eats.-Not like a horse or
a man, but through his fore legs. There
is a spot on each leg, just below the
knee, in the form of a sieve through
this the sweat passes off, and it is neces-
sary that this be kept open. IF it gets
| closed, as is sometimes the case, the hog
will get sick To cure him, simply open
the pores. This is done by rubbing and
washing with warm water.
Girdzed Trees and a Remedy.-G. w.
Chapman, of Williamsburg, Kansas,
says: have a remedy for saving trees
| that have been girdled by mice or rab-
I affirm. l made composition of
grating wax, beeswax, rosin and tallow
| in equal proportions, then procured old
cloth, such as calico, or muslin, and
made it into strips an inch wide, wound
it into balls, just as nursery men do for
grating, and boiled it in the compost
ton until well saturated then wound
it around the wounded trees, and al
though 400 or 500 were injured and many
gnawed all around and quite through
the bark, 1 believe only one was lost.
All have made good growths. 1 may
add, that having used all the wax l
could get, l used the rosin and tallow
alone for some, and have discovered
no difference except in the cheapness
of the latter. In doing the winding
the hands should be creased to prevent
sticking.