Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-21
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


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And monarch of all you survey.
But stay on the farm awhile longer,
Though profits come in rather slow,
Remember you've nothing to risk, boys,
Don't be in hurry to 60.
WHEAT seeds can bear for several
hours a temperature as high as the boil
ing point of water without losing the
power of termination.
THERE is a great deficiency in far
mers' gardens of the medical and useful
herbs. Norwood, tansy, sage, thyme,
summer sayory, ETC., ara frequently
needed, and are sometimes troublesome
to obtain.
SURE CURE FOR CATTLE LIcE.-Take
one heaping teaspoonful of copperas (;
mix with bran or any other kind of
meal. If you haven't any meal, mix
with salt. Two doses will drive them
entirely away 1t will not only kill the
lice, but it viii keep off diseases and
give the cattle an appetite. 1 have tried
it twenty-five years, and never knew 1t
to fail.-Erchange.
THE profits of farming should con-
sist, in large measure, in the improve
ment of the farm itself and its belong
ings, and there can be no better invest
ment than this. That is very poor
farming, if worthy to be called farming,
which, though it may originally show a
cash balance, leaves the homestead In a
worse instead of better condition than
1t found it.
PLow1Ne UNDER CRoPs.-A CORE
spondent of the Farmers Advocate
gives these directions Fasten one end
e IL g. Is 80
and let chain lie down In the furrow ;
fasten the other end round the plow-
beam, and give length of chain accord
ing to height of grass plowed under.
Now, / think you will understand my
plan of doing it. piowed under Ohio
corn this summer, about five feet high,
and put it all out of sight, which would
be impossible to do with q ball and
chain. A cutter shear will work the
best to pillow under very long grass.
SALT FOR HoGs.-The Agriculturist
says The unrestrained appetite OF
swine will often lead them to consume
things that are highly injurious to them.
Gases of poisoning by partaking of ex-
cessive quantities of salt often occur
among hogs at this season, when beef
and pork barrels are emptied of the old
brine and refuse salt. A case In which
several hogs were thus lost In England
was recently noted. Hogs require 6
certain amount of salt as do other ami
mails, but it should be given to them
with caution, and either evenly mixed
in their feed or scattered very thinly
about their troughs, so that one more
greedy than another cannot take more
than its proper share.
FACTS IN FArTENING CATTLE. --Bous
singault estimates that an OK weighing
748 pounds, fed upon forty pounds pei
diem, will increase In weight about two
pounds daily. According to Mr. Low,
an OK weighing 40 pounds and consum.
ing 223 pounds of turnips per week, il
he thrives, will gain In the same time
nearly stone, fourteen pounds, IL
weight. Allowing 100 pounds of hay
worth 676 pounds of turnips, the in
crease is still about two pounds day
Mr.. Dubois says the quantity O
green fodder consumed by an OK during
the eight months when he is fattening
is equivalent to $500 pounds of DIR,
hay. The average ration of green for
age per diem, he calculates, therefore
as equivalent to about q pounds o
hay.
But this average is evidently to,
small, particularly for cold weather
which was proven in the valley of Aug
In Normandy.
Mr.. Stephenson estimates that 81 pc
per cent of the whole animal will b.
butchers meat; per cent. tallow;
per cent. hide and 20 per cent. entrails
This of course depends upon the condi
ton of the beef-a fat one will yield
greater per cent. than lean. OtEer
give the per cent. of meat 50 to 81 pc
cent.