Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-06-26
Ctr farm.
Farm Notes.

Come boys, have something to tell you;
Come here, | would whisper it low;
You're thinking of leaving the old homestead
Don't be in hurry to go.
The city has many attractions,
But think of the vice and sins;
When once in the vortex of fashion,
How soon the course downward begins
The farmer should be an educated
man. Formerly all necessary qualiti-
cation was physical development.
Farmers must arrange so as to cul-
tivate their farms without having
their houses crowded with hired help.
Do all work as cheaply as possible
this year, but do it thoroughly. The
prospect is good for remunerative
prices, if economically produced.
THE CHECK-REIN.-Why is it that
so many of our farmers, and nearly all
of our city carriers, insist upon usinga
tight rein on working horses? When
a horse, left to his natural inclination,
has heavy load to pull, he can best
exert his backbone in one continuous
line, and this he will invariably do if
not prevented by tight check-rein.
Some claim that it prevents the horse
from falling down, and when man
can raise himself over a fence by lift
on his suspenders we will believe it.
When horse falls, tight rein will
most efectually prevent him from get
ting on to his feet again. Try it with
out the rein, and see if we are not
correct in our practice and theory both.
WASTED FERTILIZERS The Farm
er's Home Jeurn0l says: On every old
place in Central Kentucky there are
such things as old wood piles, where
chips have accumulated and decom-
posed for fifty years; then there are
old piles of ashes sometimes three or
four feet deep, which have been accu-
mulating for the same length Of time:
then there are old straw piles and
heaps of stable manure which have
never been hauled out; and there are
deposits under the hen-roosts, some
times 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 decayed vege
table matter, which have been collect
ing for ages, in places on branches and
creeks which run through most farms.
We have still another supply yet, in
the muck mud, which, if dug ont in
the summer time, when the marshes
and swampy places are dry and hard,
can be hauled close to, if not quite to,
where it is wanted, and the winter
freezing will pulverize it and put it in
fine condition for a crop the next sea-
son.
PRESERVING PosTs.-Every farmer
who has to fence his land knows too
well how quickly posts planted in the
earth become rotten, especiallyin damp
spots. All of them will welcome the
following process to prevent rotten
ness, a process as wonderful in its eff
fects as it is simple and almost cost
less. 1t is taken from LIE Bien Pub
lie, of Dion, France:
ssTake linseed oil, boil it. and mix it
with charcoal dust until the mixture
has the consistence of an ordinary
paint. Give to the post single coat
of the mixture or paint before plant
ing them, and no farmer, even living
to the age Of the patriarchs of old, will
live long enough to see the same posts
rotten.
"sSome years ago l discovered a way
of rendering wood more durable in
earth than iron ITSELF saws 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
Posts of soft wood thus prepared were
removed after remaining seven years
in the earth, and were found as sound
as when planted. The only precau-
ton to take is to use only well-dried
posts before covering them with the
charcoal paint.
A REMEDY FOR HORSE THAT HAS
EATEN TOO MUCH CoRN-Is to give
him two tablespoonful of salaratus
dissolved in one pint of warm water,
being sure to see that it is all dissolv-
ed. In severe cases give half cup
full of salaratus and repeat the dose if
the horse is not relieved in thirty
minutes.