Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-08-23
Farm. Garden and Household.
Live Fenee-Posts.

j. B. Allen says, in a letter to the
Prairie Farmer: 81 see in your paper
a good deal is said about live fence
posts, and no one gives practical idea.
i have seen quite a number of live
fence-posts. growing. If any of your
numerous readers wish to try it, let
them get either willow, cottonwood, or
Lombardy poplar, large enough for
posts, cut it off the right length, space
it off the width they want the planks
apart, take two-lnch anger, bore two
or three holes-to suit the board for six
inch fence-plank two holes are enough
then chop out the centre with a long.
narrow bit-ax, point the plank so each
end will pass into the post, dig the
holes, set the posts in early spring as
soon as the frost is out of the ground,
taking care not to injure the bark, and
either of the woods named will grow.
Get young, thrifty timber, not too
large. Cutting holes through the post
does not injureit from growing, and the
plank remains firm, if not broken, for
years. know of posts and rails made
IN this way that have been in use fifty
years, and good yet; the post of willow
and the rails of white cedar. The CEN
tire post, If inch plankis used, will have
to be bored with an inch auger and cut
out to let the plank slip through. If of
poles Tor good rails are best) then only
the ends want pointing to pass in the
post"
Swine Breeding.
Prof. G.. W. Jones, in the Farmers
Home Journal says: "For the health of
swine, L have counted the following con-
dltion essential:
Abundant, nutritious, and varied food
at regular intervals.
Comfortable shelter from rains. hot
suns and cold winds.
Pure water and pure air.
Access to fresh earth.
Exercise and sunshine.
Which of these conditions is most i'm
portant, do not know, but l am sure
that failure in any one of them will work
mischief. L have myself carefully at.
tended to them all, and so far have NO
sickness, no sows to die in narrowing
no sows to eat their young, no broken
down foot joints, no barrenness; but as
l look about among my neighbors. [ see
frequent failures. One gentleman has
recently lost forty five out of forty-eigbt
pigs, mostly at three to five weeks old
upon examination, found they were
confined in small foored pens, with nc
access to the ground; other pigs neal
by which ran out, but received the same
treatment otherwise, were doing well. ]
believe fresh earth would have helped
tnem. Another gentleman has his pigs
stlnted; they are in small lot, with in
sutlclent shelter and are fed mainly Oh
corn-meal. A large range, better shelf
them. ' NV wv "
Preserving Meat.
Moisture is necessary to the decom
position OF any organic matter. A per
feetly dry atmosphere will prevent the
putrefaction of flesh for an indefinite
time by absorbing or removing the mois
ture or. water from it. The hanging O.
meat at considerable elevation would
have no effect in preserving it from de
composing. One reason why ventila
zion assists IN keeping fresh meat il
better condition than it could be KEEP
IN close apartment is simply that mois
ture is removed by the passing curren
OF air, but that is the whole effect O.
ventilation. 1t is probable that in thu
absence of ice, meat NAV be preserved
short time by keeping it in tigh
pox suspended over a layer of freshl,
burned lime, which has great affinit,
Tor water. This would render the at
mosphere of the box dry and help t,
Keep the meat. Freshly burned char
coal would have the same effect, or an
other rapid absorbent of moisture.
Harness Polish.
The Carriage Journal gives the fol
lowing mixture for harness polish, viz.
5pounds of stearine, u pounds of oil o
turpentlne, and one ounce of bone black
The stearine is beaten, cut into thil
sheets, the oil of turpentine is the
poured over it and Incorporated with it
the mass is then melted in water bat
"a vessel surrounded with hot water
and while liquid the bone black is stir
red into it. 1t is then allowed to COO
being well stirred until cold. In usinj
1t small portion is put on thick wool
en- cloth, and rubbed on the leather
after standing an. hour or two fin
polish is obtained by rubbing with a
old silk handkerchief. By this polls
an Old harness may be made to look a.
most equal to new.
Bad For The Bugs.
The method of preparing the lin
and carbolic acid powder for the cal
bage worm is as follows: "Take lin
and water in the proportion of % pound
OF lime to 8 pounds (or pints) of waite
(any less quantities in the same propo,
tlon) when the lime is fresh. Mix on
ounce of solution of carbolic acid 6
sold IN the drug stores GO parts of W.
ter to / of crystallized acid) to ever
quart of water. Pour the water an
acid upon the lime in pail, by whic
it will fall to pieces and become r,
duced to fine powder. This powdt
is known as carbolate of lime, and is
very good remedy against almost ever
insect pest, especially the cabbaa
worm, squash bugs of all sorts, and tt
striped cucumber bug.
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