The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-28
Farm, Garden and Household
SeasonsbIe Hints,

ally S0WH on q clover sod. Rows %
feet apart, and four or five beans in n
hill IL or Is inches apart, or if drilled
in with grain drill, drop the beans
about two inches apart. Plow the land
carefully and harrow very thoroughly,
and roll before planting. Use the cul-
tivator freely aud keep the crop clean
Ii you can not do this, do not 20 ex-
tensively into bean growing.
Moving land should be got ready for
the machine. Pick off stones. Put n
stake by the side of any stone that can
not be removed, so that you will not
run the machine against it.
Sow plaster on clover and on dry up-
land meadows-say one to two bushels
per acre.
Pastures are frequently injured by
turning stock on to them before the
grass has got good start. Keep the
stock ON grass land intended for corn.
potatoes or beans until the regular pas
lures afford good bite.
Young clover, when the dew is on,
is very apt to produce hoven in cattle
when first turned out to pasture. The
green, wet clover ferments in the
stomach.
Mich COWS will be longing for green
grass before it is ready for them. We
do not believe in the notion that If thew
once taste grass they will not eat hay
afterwards. It is not true. Gut M
hay, moisten it with water. sprinkle on
q quart of corn-meal and q quart of
bran to each bushel of the hay. and
let the COWS have all they viii eat.
night and morning. Continue this feed
after the COWS are turned out to pss-
ture as long as they will eat any of it.
1t will pay.
Calves should be fed liberally.
Nothing, of course, is so good as new
milk ; next fresh skinned milk, with
haxseed tea or oilcake tea. A little nice
early-mown hay, bran, oatmeal, corn
meal, oilcake, sliced mangels, carrots,
or parsnips are all good for calves, in
addition to run in sunny, sheltered
pasture.
Let ewes and lambs have the best of
hay and sliced mangels if YOU have
them. Dock and castrate the lambs
when three or four weeks old. Tag
the old sheep, and keep sharp look
out for any symptoms of foot-rot. If
any are affected, pare and dress the |
feet of the whole flock Immediately |
with crude carbolic acid or saturated |
solution of blue vitriol. Do the work
thoroughly, and repeat in three or four
days.
Swine should have rings in their
noses and be turned out to pasture |
every day. Glover is best for them,
but they will do very well on grass.
Young, growing pigs should have some
grain in addition to the grass. Pork is
likely to be high next winter, and it
will pay to feed literally.
To Destroy Insects.
Hot alum water is recent sugges-
tlon as an insectcide. It will destroy
red and black ants, cockroaches, spi-
ders, chlntz bugs, and all the crawling
pests which infest our houses. Take
two pounds of alum and dissolve it in
three or four quarts of boiling water
let it stand on the fire till the alum dis.
appears then apply it with brush
while nearly boiling hot, to every Joint
and crevice in your closets, bedsteads,
pantry shelves, and the like. Brush
the crevices in the floor of the skirting
or mop boards, if you suspect that they
harbor vermin. Ii in whitewashing a
ceiling plenty Of alum is added to the
lime, it will also serve to keep insects
at distance. Cockroaches will flee
the paint which has been washed in
cool alum water. Sugar barrels and
boxes can be freed from ants by draw
ing wide chalk mark just around the
edge OF the top of them. The mark
must be unbroken or they will creep
over it; but a continuous chalk line
half an inch in width will set their
depredations at nought. Powdered
alum or borax will keep the chintz bug
at respectable distance, and travellers
should always carry package of it in
their hand bags to scatter over and un-
der their pillows, in places where they
have reason to suspect the presence of
such bedfellows.
Diseased Fowls.
Apoplexy in fowls is recognized by
sleepiness, dropping, staggering gait.
and blindness. The fowl mopes. or.
when moving, falls helpless, and gener-
ally dies in few hours. The remedy
is to bleed from vein beneath the
wing, and give some pills of cayenne
pepper, and CASTLE soap. When q fowl
nas the pip it refuses to eat, in fact, can
1ot eat, because of the soreness of the
;ongue, the end of which becomes blis-
cred and covered with horny scale or
'cab. From starvation it becomes fever
I'd, the feathers are ruffied, and it lin
5ers and slowly gets weaker, until at {
asst it dies miserably. The remedy is
o remove the scale from the tongue,
md give the bird two or three pills
made of ground black pepper and but
er. 1t should be fed by putting soft {
'alls OF bread and milk down its throat.
Growing Onions.
An account of successful growing of !
MONS was made by Herman Glass, be- {
ore the Monroe County, N. Y, Farm :
rs Club. Most of his soil was sandy, q
ut he had O few acres of muck land !
which had been wholly unproductive, y
nd it was given up to Soft Naples and a
Inns. In 1909 he cleared one-fourth of 4
n acre of this muck and planted it to +
nions OF the Yellow and Red Danvers +
ariety, and he was so encouraged that \
e has continued their cultivation ever !,
lnce. Last year he had five acres, +
hich yielded 2,310 bushels, and which =
Did for $2, 1875, an average of little n
yer 80 cents bushels. The cost for +
of which unleached wood =
shes is best, and seed and labor were
3cents bushel, and of harvesting 10 !,
ents, total 23 cents. leaving profit of 67 F
ents. The onions are sown in rows IA n
16 inches apart and the land is q