Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-09-04
Farm, Garden and Household.
Live Eence.Pogts.

u. ID. Alien says, In letter TO the
Prairie Farmer, "I see in your paper
a good deal is said about live fence
posts, and no one gives practical idea.
I have seen quite a number of live
fence-posts growing. If any of your
numerous readers wish to try it, let
them get either willow, cottonwood, or
Lombsrdy poplar, large enough for
posts, cut it off the right length, space
it off the width they want the planks
apart, take two-inch auger, bore two
or three holes-to suit the board for six
inch fence-plank two holes are enough
then chop, out the centre with long,
narrow bit-ax, point the plank so each
end will pass into the post, dig the
holes, set the posts in early spring as
soon as the frost is out of the ground,
taking care not to injure the bark, and
either of the woods named will grow.
Get young, thrifty timber, not too
large. Cutting holes through the post
does not injureit from growing, and the
plank remains firm, if not broken, for
years. I know of posts and rails made
in this way that have been in use fifty
years, and good yet; the post of willow
and the rails of white cedar. The CEN
tire post, if inch plank is used, will have
to be bored with an inch auger and cut
out to let the plank slip through. If of
poles (or good rails are best) then only
the ends want pointing to pass in the
post"
.F0'9 Swine Breeding.
Prof. G.. W. Jones, in the Farmers
Home Journal says: ..For the health of
swine, L have counted the following con-
dition essential:
Abundant, nutritious, and varied food
at regular intervals.
Comfortable shelter from rains, hot
suns and cold winds.
Pure water and pure air.
Access to fresh earth.
Exercise and sunshine.
Which of these conditions is most i'm
portant, do not know, but I am sure
that failure in any one of them will work
mischief. 1 have myself carefully at
tended to them all, and so far have no
sickness, no sows to die in narrowing,
no sows to eat their young, no broken
down foot joints, no barrenness; but as
1 look about among my neighbors, I see
frequent failures. One gentleman has
recently lost forty-fve out of forty-eight
pigs, mostly at three to five weeks old.
Upon examination, found they were
confined in small foored pens, with no
access to the ground; other pigs near
by which ran out. but received the same
treatment otherwise, were doing well.
believe fresh earth would have helped
them. Another gentleman has his pigs
stinted;. they are in a small lot. with in
sufficient shelter and are fed mainly on
corn-meal. A large range, better shelf
er and greater variety of food would save
them"
Preserving Meat.
Moisture is necessary to the decom-
position OF any organic matter. A per-
feetly dry atmosphere will prevent the
putrefaetion of flesh for an indefinite
time by absorbing or removing the mois-
ture or water from it. The hanging of
meat at considerable elevation would
have no effect in preserving it from de-
composing. One reason why ventila-
tion assists in keeping fresh meat in
better condition than it could be kept
in close apartment is simply that mois-
ture is removed by the passing current
of air, but that is the whole effect of
ventilation. 1t is probable that in the
absence of Ice, meat may be preserved
a short time by keeping it in tight
box suspended over a layer of freshly
burned lime, which has a great affinity
for water. This would render the at
mosphere of the box dry and help to
keep the meat. Freshly burned char
coal would have the same effect, or any
other rapid absorbent of moisture.
Harness Polish.
The Carriage Journal gives the fol-
lowing mixture for harness polish, viz.
pounds of stearine, u pounds of oil of
turpentine, and one ounce of bone black.
The stearine is beaten, cut into thin
sheets, the oil of turpentine is then
poured over it and incorporated with it;
the mass is then melted in water bath
"a vessel surrounded with hot water)
and while liquid the bone black is STIR
red into it. 1t is then allowed to cool,
being well stirred until cold. In using
it small portion is put on thick WOOL
en- cloth, and rubbed on the leather
after standing an hour or two a fine
polish is obtained by rubbing with an
old silk handkerchief. By this polish
an old harness may be made to look al
most equal to new.
Bad For The Bugs.
The method of preparing the lime
and carbolic acid powder for the cab
bage worm is as follows: "Take lime
and water in proportion of 2Spounds
of lime to 9 pounds (or pints) of water
(any less quantities in the same proper
tion) when the lime is fresh. Mix one
ounce of solution of carbolic acid as
sold IN the drug stores GO parts of wa
ter to ! of crystallized acid) to every
quart of water. Pour the water and
acid upon the lime in a pail, by which
it will fall to pieces and become re-
duced to q fine powder. This powder
is known as carbolate of lime, and is a
very good remedy against almost every
insect pest, especially the cabbage
worm, squash bugs of all sorts, and the
striped cucumber bug.