Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-03
FARM AND GARDEN.

fed tonight.
That first one with the snow-white horns is just as
She and my pet first saw the light the same soft
summers day.
tender creature was sne, weak and cold and
thin,
John said she was not fit to raise. said it was
To cast her OF for Maybud's sake. John laughed
and asked me whether
thought il best upon the whole to rear tlro calves
together.
But she was spared, and so was May 1t some
times seems to me-
In starbrights soft and gentle eyes, Mays pleading
love the creature-you may smIle-perhaps my
fancies mock,
the flock.
There's May, her round starbrights neck
the girl is nine to-day,
frOlcsome and genial thing, at study or at
play;
The darling in falling years, the spring in
A fair white jewel blazing in our fading coronet.
But see. John let's the bars down; in clover deep
With glossy tanks, and backs as straight as yonder
table-land
The fragrance OF their breath pours in like am
Dergr-S and myrrh
They just the neatest cows to milk. John says,
they never stir.
They know his tOne--tis seldom loud: the- know
his iou ,h-tis kind;
81 John hes way the neighbors say, to make
dumb creatures mind;
Perhaps-I only know that L, through all these
Have never seen the moment when his voice has
brought me tears.
As a general rule of farming it is
good economy to apply the most ma
azure to the crop which requires the most
labor.
WEEDS in lawns and yards may be
killed by cutting close to the ground
and then applying few drops of oil
of vitriol 70 the cut surface of the
plants.
KEEP your hoes constantly bright and
sharp spades also; and if you have a
power grindstone it will pay well to
grind coulters, cultivator and
plow-points.
Do not throw pillow points, cultivator-
teeth, wheels, coulters, harrow teeth, |
chains and pieces of chain, rings, |
clevises, extra whippletrees, neck-yokes,
etc., into some dark and dusty corner. |
but put some wire around them and |
hang them up where they can be seen.
GROWING and transplanting flowers,
take good, thick paper, and three-cor-
nered, and double it In the shape of a
funnel; fill with dirt and plant a seed
IN each one bury it in box filled with
earth. The seeds will soon terminate.
When the plants are ready to remove to
the fower-bed, lift the paper out and
plant it Ike roots. The paper will soon
rot and the plants will never wilt.
JONATHAN TALcorT gives a statement
IN the Boston CuttiratOr of an expert
ment performed on Suffolk pig, where
sugar beets were largely employed for
fattenlng. The animal was about a
year old, and the feeding on boiled
sugar beets, tops and root, began on
the 10th of August, and was continued
three times day until the LIST of Oc-
tober, after which ground feed was
given, consisting of two parts of corn
and one of oats, three times a day,
until the animal was slaughtered, the
meal being mixed with cold water. The
result was, on August Is, when the
sugar-beet feeding was begun, that the
weight was $50 pounds /; September 1,
800 pounds October l, $50 pounds;
November 1, $40 pounds.
A CORRESPONDENT, who asks for a
remedy for itch N sheep, is informed
that the following has been recon-
mended "Shear off the wool about
the pustules, then let the scab be re-
moved with knife or comb, after which
diseased parts must be washed with
soap and water; then apply the follow
ing mixture One pound of plug to
bacco to four gallons of water, which
should be thoroughly boiled then add
the same quantity of lime-water with
one pint of spirits of turpentine, or in
these proportions if less quantity is
needed. After the diseased sheep is
shorn of its wool, as well as ali the
sound ones, prepare a decoction of the
above, and with sponge, wash we'll the
entire body, which will prevent a re-
currence of the disease, even if
turned in the old pasture.
The nature of fowls requires their
feed to be comparatively dry. Grain
and cracked corn, when not fed dry,
should be scalded till swollen and dried.
Bran and mixed feed of every kind
Should be kept to crumble, not CONCEAL.
Salt, cayenne or black pepper, meat
scraps of any kind, fresh or freshened
fish and chopped cabbage once or twice
a week added to their ordinary feed for
variety and healthiness, during cold
weather. Feed twice day, regularly,
sufficient for health ndvigor, not more.
except while fattening the fowls. and
tainted or stale iood is very desirable.
Mashed bones, shells and crockery are
excellent for hardening the shells. Sand.
ashes and common earth are each good
for fowls to roll in, and sulphur sprin.
kled where they rod and roost serves to
keep away vermin. Lime is also sery-
iceable; while pure water and air, sun.
light and cleanliness are always indis-
pensable.
THE head of horse for farm work
should be comely, but not so small as
that of the running horse, as it enables
the animal to throw more weight into
the collar. He should be bros d and fat
In the forehead, have neat, well seton
ears, prominent placed eyes, thin eye
lids, large nostrils, neat neck, and deep