River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-03-14
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm GIeanimgs.

If you don't look carefully after the
bits of your horse, you may one day
be looking after the bits of your
wagon.
A FARMER had a calf so contrary, he
said, that ne chad to pull his ears off
to make him suck, and pull his tail off
to make him let 60"
W. w. PLACE fed eighteen hens with
sour milk mixed with meal lin winter,
scalded). They produced in year
profit of $50, besides eggs and chick
ems used in the family.
A MEADOW irrigated by running
water is said to be double the value of
one irrigated by flooding; a flooded
one double the value OF a rich loan not
irrigated.
THE Wisconsin Farmer thinks the
Berkshire hogs have been over-esti-
mated. 1t says they are round, plump
animals, with large round hams and
shoulders, but they are hollow inside
and tough meated.
FLORIDA must be great fish coun-
try, if we can believe an Alabama
paper, Which says: "They are also
numerous small lakes OF pure water,
filed with fish, some of which are only
few rods in extent, while others are
from two to ten miles an length"
UNCLE BRoApACREs, after trying a
horse described as thoroughly broken
and afraid of nothing came to the
conclusion that there was no misrepre.
seDtation. He moved as though every
bone in his body had been broken, and
he was continually afraid, while, as
there was nothing to be afraid of, he
seemed to answer the description.
A GENTLEMAN addicted to scientific
inquiry has discovered that thirty
three days complete the cycle of the
potato bug generation; that 700 of the
critters are the average product of one
female, from which the family grows
in the second generation to 245, 900,
and III the third generation to s., 70O,-
900.
IT needs no argument to show that
a man who desires to cultivate the
land intelligently needs all the aid
which science can give, and indeed
science stops far short of bis needs; he
cannot succeed unless his plans har-
monte with the laws of light, heat,
growth and moisture, although he may
be Ignorant that such laws exist.
IT will not do hereafter to say of the
dullest boy in the family, that he can
be the farmer, because he is unfit for
anything else. He must have all the
elements of an earnest man in him,
with good reasoning and analytical
powers, and no slow blood or ill-direct-
ed brain or else, though he may make
poor lawyer, doctor or politician, it
is not at all probable he will succeed
~ a farmer.
The significance of the fact, "With-
out food without life, is of more inn
port than the words first convey.
Strike out of existence ten days sup
ply of food and the human race would
be extinct The houses we inhabit,
the monuments we erect, stand in some
cases for ages but our own frames, the
stout limbs and skillful hands which
perform this labor have to be built up
and recreated every day, and this must
be done from the fruits of the earth.
Everything else is comfort, convenience,
luxury-food is indispensable.
LET any one who has piece of land
overrun by Canada thistles treat it in
the following manner, and he will be
surprised at the result: Pillow as late
in June as possible, and give time for
the maturity of a crop OF barley. The
thistle will have attained quite a
growth, and by blowing and narrowing
thoroughly the roots will be pretty
well torn out. Sow the barley and har-
row in well. The warm sun will bring
up the barley at once, and before the
thistles recover from their rude treat
ment the grain will quite shade the.
ground, and nothing will be seen of
the thistles but a few sickly-looking
specimens. A good crop can be grown
on such ground, where little would
grow If early sown.
A CORRESPONDENT of the American
Farm Journal writes To exterminate
lice from calves, colts and other stock
afflicted with them, take good hand
full of the Towering annual, known as
larkspur, cut the stalks near the ground
and steep tops and all vinegar. When
cool, wash the animal thoroughly in
the liquid so as to wet every hair, and
you will find one application to destroy
both lice and nits entirely, and it is
not injurious to the animallike the use
Of sulphur, mercurial ointments, ETC.
Should few of the vermin escape the
first application, a second one will
thoroughly eradicate them.
Our of 40 families supplied with
milk from dairy in Islington, Eng,
seventy suffered from typhoid fever |;
16S occurred within ten weeks and
thirty died. An investigation showed
that the cows drank water from an old
underground tank, built of wood and
much decayed. The milk cans were