Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Should any water stand upon the sur
face of the orchard, surface drains should
be opened.
House plants usually suffer more from
dust and dry atmosphere than from any
other cause, and the only remedy is to
shower often, and to occasionally sponge
the foliage of the smooth-leaved plants,
such as camellia, ivy, etc.
If any pruning is to be done, it is bet
ter to select mild days during early win
ter than to delay until spring. When
large limbs are removed, the wounds
should be covered with a varnish of gum
shellac, or with melted grafting-wax.
Select from your poultry the hens and
cocks you intend to keep, and fatten the
rest. If you wish eggs in winter, pro-
vide with warm quarters, and feed more
or less animal food. Keep the hen-house
clean, and see that the hens do not want
for water.
DO not allow bean-poles to remain
exposed to the weather. With shelter
they may be made to do service for sew
eral seasons. Pea-brush seldom lasts
more thon one season, though, occasion
ally, with care, it will do the second
spring.
Introducing Queens.-Take a frame
partly filled with comb and honey, and
put on side and bottom bars the same
width as top bar. Tack wire cloth over
both sides and over mortises in top bar.
You thus have a wire-cloth cage the size
of frame, with plenty of honey in it.
Put the queen in with few bees. insert
the frame in the center of the hive, and
in thirty-six hours you can release her
with perfect safety Bee-Keeper's Maga-
sine.
A correspondent of the Country Gen.
hendn recommends the following as an
ink for zinc only, that will endure for
years, cuts slightly into metal, has black
color, and is as legible after a dozen
years as when newly written: Take one
part verdigis, one part sal ammonia, half
part lampblack, and ten parts OF water;
mix we'll and keep In bottle with glass
stopper; shake the ink before using it. 1t
will keep any length of time. Write it
on the label with steel pen, not too fine
pointed. 1t dries in the course of min
ute or two"
Horses Names and Coats.-Middy
Morgan, the horse-woman and stock re-
porter, says: give the following recipe,
which l have personally proved to be
efficient in restoring a healthy growth of
Corrosive sublimate (hyd. bichloride)
oxymuriate of mercury, each four grains
in one ounce of distilled water. Wash
the parts where the hair is thin with warm
water and soap, then rub dry with linen
cloth, and Immediately after rub in some
of the above iniment. If the hair has
been rubbed off by the animals own en-
deavors to allay cutaneous irritation,
then dress with the following ointment:
One ounce of fine flour sulphur, one
ounce of pulverized saltpeter, made into
soft ointment with fresh butter or fresh
rendered hogs lard; rub in at night and
wash out in the morning with warm water
and soap; repeat three or four times. If
the hair is scant from natural debility of
the capillary organs, then simply use
cold water applied with a soft sponge;
avoid all combing or brushing, and clean
the name and tail as the Arabs do, with
a coarse flannel rubber.
"A National Convention of Swine
Breeders was held at Indianapolis, Ind.
when the following standard as to what
constitutes the most perfect hog was
adopted: 1t must have small, short
head; heavy jowl; short, thick neck; ear
small, thin, and tolerably erect, but not
| Objectionable if slightly dropping for.
and well down to knees in brisket; OF
good length from head to tail; on the
back broad; ribs rather barrel shaped,
and must be slightly curved in the back,
from the shoulder to the setting on of the
tail; the tail small; the ham long from the
hook to letting off at the loin, and broad
and full shoulders, not too large, but
enough so to give symmetry to the ami
NAL; hair smooth and evenly set on; skin
soft and elastic to the touch; legs short
and small, and well set under and space
between broad; good depth between bot
tom and top; good, quiet disposition
weight not to exceed three to four hun
dred pounds gross at twelve to eighteer
months. Such hog should measure at
many feet from the top of the head to the
root of the tail as he does around the
body, and will measure as many inche:
does in feet around the body, and the
depth of the body will be four-fifths o.
the height.
The most successful breeders o.
horses, cattle, sheep or-swine, know from
experience that although they may pos
sess the best breeding animals, they will
not be successful in producing superior
stock if continual growth of young ami
mails is not kept up. In order to begin il
time at this indispensable preparation fol
success, the brood mares, COWS, ewes an(
sows are most carefully and suitably fec
while with young, and as soon as the
young animals make their appearance
they are taken the greatest care of, the
dams being suitably fed while sucking
and when the young ones are weane(
they are not supposed to want for food ol
drink single hour. By this means ;
continuous or rapid growth is kept up
and the animals attain a large size anC
heavy weight at an early age. WheI
breeding animals are not properly fed anC
comfortably sheltered in winter, the baC
effect of such treatment is not confined t.
their own want of condition-it is shared
by their progeny, and can never be RENE
died. When young stock are not fec
well aud comfortably sheltered in winter
their growth becomes stunted, and NJ
subsequent amount of good treatment cal
repair the damage. Young animals mal
suffer for want of proper provender il
summer and autumn, as well as in winter
and when this happens it stops continu
Gus growth and prevents ultimate success
in the objects of the breeders,
| Flowers in Winter.