Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
FARM AMP HOUSEHOLD.


time without rotting by incasing each
apple IN case of tissue paper and
putting them In l,th crates, in a dry
place, where free circulation of ali is
obtained. Each crate should not con-
tain over bushel and half, and if
set together space of ten inches should
be between each crate.
GET SEED CoRN.-As soon as the corn
is hard and has fine gloss over the
kernel it can be gathered for seed. The
best ears should be selected and broken
OFF, the husks stripped back and used
to hang the ear by, when it should be
hung In a dry, airy place, not too warm,
and allowed to thoroughly cure. Corn,
if well cured and dry, Will resist 80 de
grees OF cold and still terminate it is
wet and greenness that kills corn. Be-
sides, by sele ting the best ears, grown
upon the best matured stalks, the
grower IS all the time improving his
corn, and this Is an item worth looking
after.
A CHEAP FmTER.-Take a whisky
barrel, cut holes IN each end large
enough to admit the house spout. In
the lower end have tin spout to empty
into the cistern the water flowing
through the barrel. Fix the spout
firmly into the head, and cover it with
fine meshed wire cloth. Fill the barrel
one-third full with clean charcoal, then
place over this a piece of wire cloth,
very fine mesh, and over this put coarse,
clean sand enough to fill the next third
of the barrel then screen of coarse
cloth Eli tho Loot +hfr1 MA
charcoal, put In the head, turn on the
spout, and your filter is complete. If
galvanized wire cloth is used it will be
much better, as it will not rust.
SALT FOR HoGs.-An English agricul-
tural paper, the Gardeners Chronicle,
relates the death OF one SOW in pig,
another with a litter, and of eleven
small pigs, of what was called 'strike on
the brain. The pigs were taken with
what seemed to be epileptic fits; they
suffered great pain, uttering occasional
shrieks, and constantly throwing back
their heads ccnvulsiyely. they died in
few hours after the first seizure. On
examining these pigs the brain was
found all right; the stomach and intes-
tines were infanled in large patches,
o4lOMluf, tAtc8t tAACll uCfst11 WIS Dl
irritant poison taken IN the swiil. The
lesson to be learned is that while dry
salt is good for pigs when taken volun-
tarily, when it is given IN excess in such
a way that they are obliged 10 take it,
it is deadly poison.
Conference.-The following expert
ments Of NJ. Lebouf, of Argenteuil,
upon the value of coal ashes, shows that
in the ashes alone, without any mixture
of soil or any manure, plants may grow
and come to maturity Thus having
filed three pots with ashes, he planted
in the first wheat, in the second oats,
growth was accomplished during the
summer. The wheat and oats ripened
and produced full, heavy grains.
The straw of the wheat attained a
height of about feet inches, while
that of the oats grew TO about B feet
inches. The experiments have been
several times repeated with the same
success.
THE HORSE PETITION. following
is "The Horse Petition TO his Driver, "
as published by the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals. 1t is
the desire of the lady managers that
all children should commit this pretty
appeal to memory:
Up the hill. whip me not /;
Down the hill, hurry me not
In the stable, forget me not
OF hay and corn, rob me not;
With sponge and brush, neglect me
not;
OF soft, dry bed, deprive me not
If sick or cold, chill me not;
With bit or reins, jerk me not;
And when you are angry, strike me
not.
CLOVER HAY AND STRAw.-A cor
respondent says 81 am now feeding
clover hay put into the NOW last sum-
mer about half-cured. About one foot
thick of clover, spread evenly over the
NOW, then the same amount of straw
again clover alternating with straw.
Putting several loads IN this manner,
it becomes nearly as green as fresh cut
grass or clover, perfectly free from dust
or smoke. All stock eat it with great
avidity, mich COWS doing splendidly
upon it, eating the straw nearly as well
as the clover. / think juices of the
lover are TO a certain extent absorbed
by the straw, making it nearly as good
as the clover, and preventing the latter
from heating, and preserving its color
and sweetness"
FEED Fowls A LITTLE AND OFTEN
1t is very careless method of feeding
fowls where the grain is thrown down in
great heaps on the ground or floor. II
is not only wasteful, but injurious to the
fowls, because they get over-fed, and it is
in an important respect contrary to theil
habits, for their nature is to scratch. y
Watch the old hen with brood when
she is just let out of the coop. She
hardly stirs from the spot, but as soon
as she realizes her freedom, down 60 hel
claws into the scd, and afterward, when
ever you see her, she is at it.
Always feed, then, no more than can
be eaten at once, and take care that it is
so scattered among some light rubbish
that they may have the luxury OF
scratching for it. If feed is buried in
the fresh earth, then they get, with
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