The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-04
Farm, Garden and Household,
Ualnu Parin Grpen

As the handling and using of dry
Paris green, especially by persons nm.
accustomed to its use, is attended with
considerable risk and often followed by
serious consequences, we make the fol.
lowing suggestions founded on our ex.
perlence as manufacturers
All packages, whether large or small.
should be plainly marked poison.
There is great danger in the mixing
OF this greenfor potato-bug and cotton
worm poison, owing to the fine dust
which arises in the process, which is
inhaled, aud also rapidly absorbed by
the pores of the skin, especially if the
person using it should be in q state of
perspiration. To guard against this,
the hands and face particularly nos
trlls) should be protected as much as
possible, and should be carefully
washed after working in it, or in any
OF the preparations of which it is an
ingredient. AS it penetrates and poi
sons wood gets into the seams and
crevices of articles made of metal
and even into earthenware that is at all
porous; all household utensils, or any
thing in barn or stable (Which cattle or
horses could have access to- in which
the articles may have been mixed, or
from which it has been used, should be
carefully set aside, and never again
used for any other purpose.
Malignant sores are not infreuuently
caused by scratching the skin when
itching or irritated from handling the
green. 1t should be constantly borne
in mind that it is more dangerous
and deadly poison than arsenic, and
farmers, planters, and others, when
purchasing, should be duly cautioned
to exercise the utmost care in using it.
Remedy for the Poison. The free use
of milk as n beverage is recommended,
but we have found hydrated peroxide
of iron Ga simple, harmless remedy the
best antidote. Sores caused by the
green should be well covered with it, as
with an ordinary salve, and q teaspoon
ful in wine-glass of water, should be
taken twice day internally, while
working with the green. This remedy
can be obtained from any druggist or
chemist.
How to Drain Bcgs.
A paper read before the Farmers
Club was in answer to q letter from Ell.
s. Sigourny, of Milton, N. Y, who de.
sires to know the best methods of re-
claiming bog meadows, which John B.
Sands, Walls Gate, Orange county, N.
Y, gives in substance as follows -
Keep your drains we'll opened See to
it that the descent is sufficient for good
drainage. The cultivated grasses will
soon die out in this land. The best
grasses for this purpose = what is call.
ed in Orange county the foul meadow
grass it yields heavy crop and makes
a fine quality of hay. Cattle prefer it
to any other. I woull recommend for
the working of this meadow the Bur-
lington pillow of New Jersey. It is
made of steel, and being ground sharp
cuts through the strong roots and turns
the furrow slice complete. I also rec
ommend good dressing of we'll rotted
manure, If not bone-dust. Sow tim
oth1y, red top, and foul meadow grass,
twice the quantity you would use on
uplands, so as to get a stiff sod. After
moving never pasture such ground, as
the aftermath will save the grass from
heaving out during frosty weather,
The depth to plow leave to each
"h ~ i u%gent There 1Pg Pgl2M @ch hramh a1fhcaEe aEe
in plowing such ground, the off
horse or OK being liable to mire in the
furrow. On the Chester bog meadows,
where they raise SO many onions, they
plow much with one horse, the horse
walking by the side of the furrow.
Another farmer, who knew nothing of
the plow mentioned by Mr.. Sand S,
said a steel plow of some kind must
be used. Still another thought the
great trouble in renovating these bog
meadows was that they were not sufi-
clently worked after drainage to de-
ve!op their fertility; should be much
cultivated. A crop of corn wRs good
for fertilizing then.
Butter Factories.
The american Grocer says Perhaps
three-fourths of all the butter mar.
keted might be made, with proper care
and system, worth twenty per cent.
more, and at actually less expense than
1t is now produced and something of
this sort the butter-makers must do to
compete with the artificial product. 1t
can, IN our Judgment, be accomplished
by the farmers adopting some plan of
co-operatlve butter-making, as is done
by cheese factories. We do not say
that the same plan may be suited to
every locality, but the principle, in
some form, is equally applicable to
every section. Where the population
is sufficiently dense, the regular butter
factory, taking the milk directly from
the farmer, may be adopted. Where
the difficulties of Transporting the milk
are too great to admit of this plan, the
farmers might churn their cream and
carry the raw butter itself to central
factory, to be manipulated by some such
method as is proposed by the Dake pro-
cess, by which all the different grades
OF butter could be thoroughly worked
over, and uniform quality and color
obtained. Factory butter, like factory
cheese, now commands an extra price. |
Preserving Posts.
Over 30 years ago set some white |
oak posts sawed 5x5 inches. They were
seasoned. Part of them L |
painted with coal tar at the ground end !;
with others, put around the exposed |
part a shovel full of leached wood ashes
from an old ashery. I had occasion to
examine the posts after being in the
ground more than 80 years, and found
those protected by the ashes and by the
tar equally sound, and to appearance
good for another generation. L have
tried many experiments to insure the
of fence posts, but none were
so satisfactory as those mentioned. If
gas tar is used it is very important that |
the timber be thoroughly seasoned. If
1 hada new post and rail or board fence
to build, would go to the trouble of
gathering wood ashes, and put good |
shovel full around each at the surfaca