The Red Cloud chief., 1874-06-18
KARM AND HONE.


Come heyHb ] hsve something 70 tell you:
Come here, I would Whisper Il low:
Xcare thinking of leaving ths oia homestead.
Don't he In . burg 20 70.
The city hss msny Attractions,
But think II the vice and sins;
when ooce n the vortex Of fs6hion,
HOY sson the course downward begjnsi
Tn farmer should be an educated
man. Formerly all necessary qualifca-
ton was physical development.
FARxERx must arrange 80 As to culti-
vate their farms without having
their houses crowded with hired help.
DoALL work as cheaply as possible
this year, but do it thoroughly. The
prospect il good for remunerativep prices,
If economically produced.
THE CHECK RKH.-Wh is it that so
many of farmers, and nearly all of
our city carriers, insist upon using a
tight rein on working horses? When a
horse, left 10 his natural i~nclination, has
q heavy load~to pull, he can best exert
his backbone in . continuous line,
and this he will invariably do If notpre-
vented by q tight check-rein. Some
claim that it prevents the horse from
falling down, and when O man can raise
himself over = fence by O lift on his sus-
pendcrs we will believe it. When o
horse falls, q tight rein viii most effect
ua1y prevent him from getting on to
his feet again. Try it without the rein,
and see if we are not correct in our
practice and theory both.
WASTED FERrn1zERa-The Farmers
1x1suao L.sA~ aA-u In n~n-- oIl
place in Central Kentucky there are
such things as old wood-piles, where
chips have accumulated and decomposed
for fifty years ; then there are old piles OF
ashes sometimes three or four feet deep,
which have been accanulating for. the
same length Of time ; then there are old
straw piles and heaps Of stable manure
which have eve been hauled out;
and there are deposits under the hem
roosts, sometimes two feet deep, which
are equal to the best Peruvian guanO,
and when these are all hauled out, We
will go to an inexhaustible supply of
rich molds and alluvial deposits of de-
cayed vegetable matter, which have
been collecting for ages, in places on
branches and creeks which run through
most farms. We have still another sup
ply yet, in the muck mud, which, if dug
ont m the summer time, when the
marshes and swampy places are dry and
hard, can DO hauled close to, il not
quite TO, where il is wanted, and the
winter freezing viii pulverize it and put
it in fine condition for a crop the next
season.
PRESERVING PosTs.-Every farmer
who has to fence his land knows too well
how quickly posts planted in the earth
become rotten, especially in a damp
spot. All of them will welcome the fol-
lowing process to prevent ~rotteIness,
a process as wonderful in its effects as
it is simple and almost costless. 1t is
taken from lie Bicn Public, of Dion,
France:
"Take linseed oil, boil it, and mix it
with charcoal dust until the mixture has
the consistence of san ordinary paint.
Give to. the. post a single coat of the
mixture or paint before planting them,
and no farmer, even living to the age of
the pa~triarchs of old, will live
long enough to see the same posts
rotten.
"'Some years ago I discovered o
way of rendering wood more durable in
Garth than iron ITSELF says the author
of the communication, but it seemed
to me so simple and SO inexpensive, that
L did not think it worth while to make
much ado and fuss about it~DsGT. B
soft wood thus prepared ~@d
after remaining seven yearsin the earth,
aid werefound as sound as when plant
cd. The only ~precaution to take is
to use only .well-dried posts before
covering them with the charcoal
paint" T &
FARMERS FooD.--In the last report
Of the Massachusetts, Board of Health,
DIR. J. +. A. Adams, of Pittsfeld, one
of the most accomplished physicians
in the State, has presented q long and
valuable report upon the health of
farmers, in which he combines his own
experience with that of the leadipg ply
sicians in the State, to whom he sent
circulars containing twenty questions,
to which they responded. DR.. Adams
concluded that the following are the
diseases to which farmers are most liza
bio, and the liability is in the order
named: First rheumatism; second,
dyspepsia; third, fever ; fourth, acute
lung affections : fifth, consumption. In
answer to the question : what auses
tend to ipjurc the health of farmers and
their families 2" overwork 10 mentioned
as the first, improper diet the second,
exposure the third, ssnitary defects in
barn-yards, hogpens, privies, drains,
cellars, ETC., rank Is the fourth /;
want Of ventilation the fifth ; want of
recreation, cleanliness, and other causss
ere mentioned, but the first four arethe
principal.
Upon the subject Of farmers diet, Dr.
Adams comes to several conclusions,
she full force of which our Western
Sers will appreciate fully. 1t is
Nsinusted that wives of Weston
are inferior to their sisters at
in the practice of the culina-
\ gut they have been 90 Iona in
At Of preparing the meals d ma
y Nvay that it is difficult tSfmAke
y - As to farmcrsT6 3ct, DR..
arrives at thess eight conciu-
MOD bnat SIS espse. md Is too
slSptsa6r ysast