The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-05-23
FARM AND HOME,
New Way OF watering Plants.

FdIM AND HUME.
New Way Of Watering Plants.
The Agriculturist gives an account of
the mode adopted by some successful
raisers of big tomatoes and magnificent
roses for feeding the plants with sewage
water. Pipe tiles are placed so as to
run directly down the body Of the roots,
and down these pipes the water is poured
whenever the weather is dry. This pre-
vents the crusting and baking of the
surface, resulting from the common
mode of watering. The Country Gen
ttenaan suggests an Improvement of
some impoftance, namely, to fill the tile
with ibrous litter or coarse manure,
which will allow the water to enter, but
prevent the roots from becoming dry
by the escape of moisture up through
the chimney which the tiles would other
wise form.
For most crops such an arrangement
would hardly be worth while, except
with those who are ambitious to raise
big tomatoes and magnificent roses. ("
But something like it pays in celery
culture. After the earthing up begins,
the roots are almost certain to suffer
for want of moisture. Sprinkling the
surface does no good, as the water can
not penetrate to the roots, and is apt to
rust and injure the leaves. But if pipe
tiles are set upright in the rows at in
tervals of two or three feet, they keep
open passage for water to the roots
after the plants are earthed up.
Cure for Horses Legs.
Few men who handle horses give
proper attention to the feet and legs.
Especially is this the case ON farms.
Much time is often spent in rubbing,
brushing and smoothing the hair on the
sides and hips, but at no time are the
feet examined and properly cared for.
Now be it known that the feet of horse
require more care than the body they
need ten times as much, for in one re-
spect they are almost the entire horse.
ALI the grooming that can be done won't
avail anything if the horse is forced to
stand where his feet will be filthy. In
this case the feet will become disordered,
and then the leg will get badly out Of
fix, and with bad feet and bad legs there
is not much else of the horse fit for any.
thing. Stable prisons generally are ter
ribly severe on the feet and legs OF
horses, and unless these buildings can
afford dry room where q horse can
walk, lie down, or roll over, they are not
half SO healthy and comfortable to the
horse as the pasture, and should be
avoided by all good hostlers in the
country. @
improvements Pay.
A correspondent of the Rural Sun
writes I often hear it asserted that il
does not pay to improve land if you
wish to sell. "The profit you receive
will not pay for the improvements" ]
think every days labor will pay man
two dollars. purchased small tract
of land for 800 cash, remodeled my
new farm, reset the fences, set out 15O
fruit trees, and sowed my woodland in
grass, sowed a nice meadow, and after
all was done, 1 was offered in cash for
the property 81, 200. I therefore think
it will pay every farmer to improve his
land. Every man who has farm can
always find something to do that will
eventually remunerate him. Fill up the
small gullies, which, if left, would soon
be large ones; cut side branches; clean
out the fence corners, so that stock may
not be tempted to push it over, and
that the fence may be kept dry and pre-
served from rotting; haul out the manure
that lies around your barns wasting and
giving your horses the scratches.
Good Conee.
The american Rural Home of Roches-
ter, one of the most reliable papers,
gives the following advice as to good
coffee, in which all are interested: For
long time used the coffee ground as
coarsely as it is usually sold in the shops,
Although procuring the best berries
possible, did not uniformly succeed in
obtaining at the breakfast-table first
rate beverage. I consulted many wise
acres, some of whom said that the water
used should be hotter, others that the
coffee should be soaked in cold water,
ETC., etc. By accident, one day I hap
pened to have the coffee reground to the
fneness of snuff. Herein lay the mys-
terry. I have never since failed to obtain
strong, full-favored beverage, and
that, too, without using SO large quan-
tity of coffee.
To Extract Grease-spots from Books o,
Paper.
Gently warm the creased or spotted
part of the book or paper, and then
press upon it pieces Of blotting-paper,
one after another, 30 as to absorb u
much of the g. ease as possible. Have
ready some fine, clear, essential oil, ol
turpentine, heated almost to q boiling
state warm the creased leaf q little,
and then, with soft, clean brush, wei
with the heated turpentine both sides o.
the spotted part. By repeating this ap
plication the grease will be extracted
Lastly, with another brush dipped II
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