Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-22
Farm, Garden and Household.
Farm Notes and Gossip.


Nine times out of ten good horses are
raised by good men.
Every spindle in a cotton factory will
earn IS for each farmer in the vicinity,
A man in Dunleith, ILL.,, who cut off 8
colts ears with his iack-knife, was fined
S5 and costs.
If wealthy business man loses mon.
ey on farm it is all right-it goes back
where it came from.
One might as well skin horse and
expect it to work for him, as to skin q
farm and expect it to grow crops.
It is said that a great source of mis-.
fortune to men springs from their not
knowing when they have good homes.
Labor saving implements give the
farmer power and time. Power to cul-
tivate the soil-time to cultivate the
mind.
It is estimated that fully 200, 900 farm
ers in the Western States have organized
for mutual protection during the past
few months.
The prediction is made that corn will
be worth 30 cents bvshel in Central
Illinois next August, and year hence
twice that sum.
In recent public address, a speaker
said that we are debtors to birds even
in the winter and early spring months,
for then they destroy insects.
The Fairplay (Colorado) Sentinel
boasts that it is published at greater
altitude than any other paper in the
world-10,060 feet above the level of the
sea.
If the people of New-England would
apply tenth part of the ingenuity to
farming that is bestowed on machinery
they would have the first farms in the
world.
II hired man will adopt good habits,
keep neat, and spend his time in read
ing, he will be treated as an equal of
the family, or he will have family of
his own that will be superior.
An infant was recently ushered into
this perplexlng world in house, in
Lewiston, Me-, which holds as its ten
ants, the child's parents, two grand
mothers, two grandfathers, four of its
aunts and an uncle.
The last idea about fencing is to plant
treesfor posts, and when they are strong
enough, string wires from one to anoth-
er. The kind of tree is unimportant,
but of course fruit, nut and maple trees
will be more profitable than deciduous
trees. On the plains where fruit trees
will not grow without shelter belts, cot
ton wood and white or golden willow
may be planted.
The following plan proved perfect
cure for paving horse: Iprocured q
leather strap just long enough to buckle
around the fetlock joint, to which I at
tached piece of small iron chain about
a foot long. After one or two applica-
tions the horse was entirely cured, the
whipping of the chain against his legs
proving SO unpleasant he soon ceased
to indulge himself in his favorite pas
time.
To break COW of kicking, hit upon
the following plan, which has worked
to charm upon two bad kickers, and
two that would step away from the
mixer flom six to dozen times while
being milked: / fastened them by the
head, so they could not run away then
every time hind foot was raised, hit
with stick smart tap on the fore leg.
Two days lessons cured in each in
stance.
White clover is not at all adapted to
the manuring of lands. Its value is
principally for pasture and for helping
to fill up the bottom of timothy mea-
dows. The top is too small, and the
roots do not go deep enough in the
ground to be of much value to pillow
into the soil. But red clover has mpch
top and long top roots, and is of all
known plants worth the most to plow
into the soil for enriching it. Timothy
should be sown in connection with red
clover in case the land is to be pastured
or moved previous to plowing in red
clover crop.
Early Potatoes.
A little care will secure early potatoes
two or three weeks before the time they
will be ready to use if planted the common
way in open ground. Cut the pieces OF
the earliest sorts, and place them underan
inch or two of earth in hot-bed, so
closely in drills that they will touch, so
as to economic room. When the open
ground is dry enough, set them out.
They will come on rapidly. If frost
should occur after they are set out,
they may be protected with newspaper,
but we have never known them to be
materially injured, even if the tips were
nipped little by frost. Next to hot
bed, they may be easily sprouted in q
warm room. Even when the sprouts
grow accidentally, potatoes may be had
some days earlier by carefully preserv-
ing the sprouts in setting them out
Country Gentleman
Small Cabbage for Market.
The Cottage Gardener, in answer to
an inquiry, says: All the cabbages
grown for the usual supply of the Lon
don markets are of the common Batter
sea variety. Their size depends on the
time of the seed being sown, and of the
cabbages being cut. For autumn and
early winter use the seed is sown in the
spring of the same year. If you wish
for an especially sweet and small cab
bage, cultivate either the Nonparel or
the Little Pixie.
silver Rot"
An English farmer who has kept
sheep for forty years, says he has found
rock salt a valuable adtidote for liver
rot, and that these animals cannot be
too literally supplied with this saving