Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-29
Farm, Garden and Household.
Farm Notes.

Potato scholars confess that the potato
rot can no more be avoided by prevent
ives than the ague.
Suel Foster destroys cankerworms by
shaking them down upon straw previ-
ously placed under the trees, and then
burning the straw.
Pieces of potash dropped in the holes
and runs of rats and moles will, it is as
serted, effect among these rodents a
speedy change of base.
A Kansas correspondent declares that
during the past season he learned "that
COW, when well sheltered and watered,
can be kept on less than one-half of the
feed required when left to the exposure
of the winter storms"
Peter Ferris, in paper recently read
before the Rochester Farmers Club,
suggested the formation in Western
New York of Wheat Growers Associ-
alton similar to that for several years
past in successful operation among the
dairymen.
A writer in The Western Rural de-
clares that cut worms will not molest
corn treated in this way: "Take good,
sound seed, put it in a tub or some
other convenient vessel, take II pounds
of saltpeter per bushel, dissolve it and
pour it over the corn let it soak until
the corn is swelled rea3y to sprout, and
then plant"
A machine may be altogether too
powerful. Jesse Bailey of Pleasant Hill
had one of ten-horse power, for thresh-
ing wheat, and while it was in operation
tbe journal became heated, set the straw
on fire, and burned to death five of the
horses, the machine itself, and large
quantity of wheat.
Whether sandy land teaches or not
depends upon the purity of the land.
Pure white lake sand will allow water to
pass through it without filtering it. But
If charcoal or muck or loan is added to
the sand in sufficientquantity any liquid
manure passing through it will lose it's
color. Sow clover on sandy land and
plough the first growth in, and the sand
is supplied with substance which alb
serbs fertiiizing materials suspended in
water or liquid manure. Clover sup
plies carbon to the soil as well as nitro
gen.
How 10 make Soft Soap.
Keep your ashes dry, and when put
in the hopper preparatory 70 making
soap, have from half Geek to peck Of
unslacked lime put IN with the ashes.
Before putting tne grease in, swing the
kettle off the fire and let it hang for a
few moments. If there is any potash
In 1t, ts.ke a shovel and take it out; for
II there is too much potash in it will
not make good soap. Pack the ashes
well, adding water enough to dampen
them. Then put three or four buckets
of water on each day for two or three
days, until you think it sufficiently
soaked, and lastly, pour on boiling wa
ter to run the lye off. AS soon as there
has enoughrun off to commence boiling,
put your kettle over the fire, and boil
the lye as fast as it will boil, still adding
more lye as it boils down. Continue in
this way for a whole day. By evening
it will probably be sufficiently strong..to
eet feather in passing it three times
across the liquid. Now put the grease
in, all you think it will eat, still boiling
as fast as you can without its running
over. If its eats the grease all up, add
more. Leave the kettle to hang over
the fire all night. In the morning if
there are any scraps of grease that are
not eaten up, boil again for an hour or
two, and it they do not dissolve take
them out. Then take few spoonfuls
of the soap and set it away little
while to cool. When cold, if there is
no lye under it, and it appears free from
grease, set the kettle off, and hang an
other one to boil more lye. Managing
in this way, there can generally be made
from sixteen to eighteen gallons of nice
white soap in two days, and often in one
day and a night. By pursuing this
plan, or similar one, any one can make
strong, nice soap.
horticultural Hints.
When fruit trees occupy the ground,
nothing else should-except very short
grass.
Fruitfulness and growth of the tree
cannot be expected the same wear.