Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

A market gardener of Lake County,
ILL.,, saws that he has the most re-
markable success in the use of salt upon
his tomato plants He applied it at va
rious times during the season, and In
every case its effect is marked in the in
creased growth of both plant and fruit.
In some cases he lays the roots OF back
ward plants bare, sprinkles them with a
tablespoonful of ordinary barrel salt, and
covers with soil. Plants treated in this
way take an immediate start, and develop
the fruit.
WIN. A. Woodbridge, of Flayweods,
CAL, writes to the Farm Journal as fol
lows ST see in the April number OF the
Journal an article on smut in wheat, also
remedy Now we raise any amount OF
wheat in this country, but never have IL
smutty. But we bluestone it, as 1t Is
called here. Take box or trough ABOUT
ten feet long by two wide, and two deep;
put in about 500 pounds of wheat; then
take a pail, put in about one pound OF
blue vitriol; fill with hot water, and let
stand until the stone is dissolved; then
pour ON to the wheat, and mix well unCll
the wheat is we'll dampened with the solu-
ton; then take it out in sacks and let 1t
stand until dry before sowing. The Tar,
mers here all bluestone their wheat, and
are never troubled with smut"
Benefit of Plaster.-At meeting OF
Rosendale (Wis) Farmers Club, one
member stated that he sowed plaster on
field May 90, and obtained three times
the grass on this field more than on that
where it was not sowed. He used to
raise only one ton of hay per acre; now
raised, by plaster, two or three tons per
acre; always top dressed it on grass
lands. In discussion it was stated that
when plaster was sown on clover, the
clover all cut and hauled off, and the
ground broken and sowed to oats, every
cast of the plaster made in sowing it
could be plainly seen in the field of oats.
Also that when plaster was applied to
corn, in the hill, the place of every hill
could be seen in crop of wheat which
followed. In drought, dew would be
found on the ground where plaster had
been sown, while all other ground was
dry and hard.
Where corn is worth less than forty
cents per bushel it will pay aoeH, even at
the present low price of pork, to make
the hogs fat before selling them. Pack
ers want small, fine boned pigs, but they
want them Wellfattened. Store pigs
should be kept growing rapidly. The
prospects are favorable for an advance
in pork another year, and farmers, es-
pecially in the West, should feed their
young stock literally. Breeding soWs
should have as much exercise as you can
make them take in searching for food.
But, at the same time, they should be able
to find as much as they need to keep them
in vigorous health and good condition. For
thoroughbred sows, which keep easily,
and are apt to get too fat, the food should
be of rather bulky nature, such as bran,
turnips, etc. Do not allow young and old
pigs to run together The young, growing
pigs should have all the food they will eat
and digest. If they are of the right kind,
that mature early, they must have good
food, and plenty of it, while young, or
they will not be healthy. a rS-
ctItursSt.
--"What shall I do for my hair?" is a
question that comes to our sanctum from
various quarters every month; and were
it as convenient to engraft artificial hair
as to insert artificial teeth, hair doctors
would be as plenty as dentists. No one is
to be reprimanded for desiring brilliant
and vigorous growth of the hair, for it in
dicates good vital condition; nor for en-
vying wavy or curling disposition of
the natural head covering, for it is useful
as well as ornamental. But the health of
the bodily integument and appendages
are developed from the organs within; all
vital structures are developed from the
center to the circumference, hence the
normal condition and integrity of the hair,
as well as that of the skin and nails de-
pend on the general health. Stimulating
viands and irritating condiments, the ex-
cessive use of salt, pickles, saleratus, ETC.,
predispose to disease of the scalp and
badness. Many young persons injure
and finally destroy the roots of the hair
by frequent washes or oily preparations.
These may produce soft, glossy appear
ance for time, but premature decay is
the sure and not very remote result of