Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-08
Farm, Garden and Household.
The Danger, of Paris Green.

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The following timely precautionary
instructions are given in the Paint and
oil Journal As the handling and
using of dry Paris green, especially by
persons unaccustomed to its use, is at
tended by considerable risk, and often
followed by serious consequences, we
make the following suggestions, founded
on ouf experience as manufacturers
All packages, whether large or small,
should be plainly marked poison.
There is great danger In the mixing
of this green for potato bug and cotton
worm poison, owing to the fine dust
which arises in the process, which is
inhaled and also rapidly absorbed by
the pores of the skin, especially if the
person using it should be a 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 in
gredlent. AS it penetrates and poisons
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 anything in barn
or stable which cattle or horses could
have access to, in which the article
may have been mixed, or from which it
had been used, should be carefully set
aside, and never again used for any
other purpose.
Malignant sores are not unfrequently
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 farm
ers, planters, and otkers, when pur-
chasing, should be duly cautioned to
exercise the utmost care in using it.
AS remedy for the poison, the free
use of milk as beverage is recon-
mended, but we have found hydrated
peroxide of iron "a simple, harmless
remedy the best antidote. Sores caused
by the green should be we'll covered
with it, as with an ordinary salve, and
o teaspoonful in a wine glass of water
should be taken twice day internally,
while working with the green. This
remedy can be obtained from any drug.
gist or chemist.
The consumption of Paris green has
largely increased within few years,
and the article is now applied to such q
variety of purposes, that carelessness
IN It's use or Ignorance of its highly
dangerous properties on the part OF
those who use it cannot fail to produce
the most deplorable results.
Value of Fodder Corn.
At meeting of the Massachusetts
Cheese Factory Association, Addison 3
Holland, Barre farmer, read an essay
on fodder corn. With seventeen cows
he experimental to see what its value
was in producing milk during the
month of July he turned his COWS into
good pasture, after having fed then
with fodder corn, and they showed {
large falling off in milk. He then
through August, soiled them in the
stable, feeding fodder corn, and there
was a gain in the production of milk
In September they were again turned
into the moving Qull field, and they
fell off Mr.. Holland cures his corn by
spreading it upon the stone walls, ant
regards it as valuable feed for milcf
cows when well cured. He thinks fod
der corn the best crop there is to bridg,
over dry time with fed sixty OF
seventy pounds per COW when they wer,
kept in short pasture.
Tran for Cut-Worms.
The american AgicuJturist give
the following: An old shovel handle i
split for about foot with fine saw
The SPLIT portion is soaked in boilin,
water to soften it, and the ends are in
serted into holes made in a hoop O
ring of wood two inches wide, one incl
thick, and eight inches in diameter. Ii
the bottom of the ring there are insert
cd number of pieces of an old broom
handle, projecting two inches, and plac
ed not more than a quarter of an incl
apart. When this is pressed into tn
earth around hill of corn or cabbag
plant, it leaves circle of smooth rount
holes two inches deep, with compac
sides and bottoms. The cut-worms fal
into these holes in their nightly ram
bles, and may be found and destroye'
in the morning.
Hints for Stacking Hay.
The Pacific Rural Press says
SNAKE your stacks long and narrow
1t will cure better, and there is les
danger of it's becoming musty beside
it will be easier baling. The press cal
be moved easier than you can pitc
from the rear of a wide stack. I
building the stack unload alternatel
on different sections of the stack thi
will allow the air to circulate throug
each load before it is settled down b
another placed upon it. About tire
gallons of salt thrown into load of ha
will perserve it's sweetness. Thre
quarts are recommended by a ha
farmer"
Drinks for Haying and Harvest.