Connecticut western news., 1874-12-04
Farm, Garden and Household
Medical Hfntss

pulV0flZeQ alum III u l16bl0 mOlhSS0Ss lt is 8 simple remedy, one almost always on hand, and one dose seldom fails to give relief. If it should, repeat it after an hour.
 A SMALLPOX REMEDY, follow ing is said to be a certain cure fol smallpox. One man speaking of it, says: It is as unfailing as fate, and conquers in every instance. It is harm less when taken by @ we'll person. It will also cure scarlet fever. Here is the recipe as have used it, and cured my children of the scarlet fever here it is as have used it to cure smallpox; when learned physicians said the pa tient must die, it cured: Sulphate ot zinc, one grain ; fox-glove (digitalis), one grain; half teaspoonful of sugar mix with two tablespoonfuls of water. When thoroughly mixed, add four ounces of water. Take 8 spoonful every hour. Either disease will dis appear in twelve hours. For a child, smaller doses, according to age. If counties would compel their physi- cians to use this, there would be no need of pest-houses. If you value ad- vice and experience, use this for that terrible disease.
 TREATMENT OF HEADAoHE.-Dr. l.. Brunton writes "The administration of brisk purgative, or small dose o1 epson salts, thrice day, is most effectual remedy for frontal headache, when combined with constipation but if the bowels be regular, the nor. bid processes on which it depends seem fo hn ohnn1nI and %hn haoInnh4 moved even more effectually by nitro before meals. If the headache be i'm mediately above the eyebrows, the acid is best; but if it be little higher up, just where the hair begins, the al. kalies appear to me to be more efec' tual. At the same time that the head ache is removed, the feeling of sleepi- ness and weariness, which frequently leads the patients to complain that they rise up more tired than they lie down, generally disappears.
 l--. Leached Ashes.
 We have used this fertilizer largely, but mostly on tillage land when seed timable value to the farmer, and not a bushel should be allowed to go out of the State. Use from 150 to 300 bushels to the acre, according to condition of soil, and the catch of grass-seed - whether on low or upland exceed that obtained in any other way, and every dollar invested will come back in the grain and first hay crop; after that the extra result will be clear gain; as the effects of the application will last from six to eight years. Applied as a top dressing, leached ashes are highly beneficial, but land should not be too much run out i; if it produce only 500 pounds of hay, blow rather than top dress; if it produce one ton of hay to the acre, apply 200 bushels of ashes, and in two years you will cut two tons of hay under ordinary circumstances. Whether it will pay or not, will depend somewhat on the price of the ashes, the distance to be drawn, or any other fertilizer of equal value being obtain. ed cheaper. r.-Ma6ne Farmer.
 Rules for Grinding.
 Fhe Iowa Mi1lers' Association, at it's recent meeting, adopted the following rules of exchange:
 No. l prime wheat, weighing 60 lbs. per bushel, allow 33 lbs. of four per bushel.
 No. 2 prime wheat, weighing 59 lbs. per bushel, allow 33 lbs. of flour per bushel.
 No. 2 foul wheat, weighing 58 lbs. per bushel, allow 30 lbs. of four per bushel. .
 No. prime wheat, weighing 56 lbs. per bushel, allow 28 lbs, of four per bushel. s-tl
 No. 8 foul wheat, weighing - per bushel, allow 26 lbs. of flour per bushel, with lbs. of bran and lbs of shorts.
 Other grades below this according to cash value for shipping wheat at whole sale rates.
 Grist mills to grind for the eighth, taking actual amounts so as not to mislead customers to think they have more than they really have according to actual weight of wheat.
 The Second Crop of Glover.
 It is not an easy matter to cure the second crop of clover well and there are few farmers who know how to do 1t. Even among those who succeed, there is 8 difference as to method. Those most successful cut the crop in the morning after the dew is off, let it wilt, and cock it before the dew falls at night, and allow it to remain in cock two or three weeks, and open it slight ly on a sunny day, and store it in the barn ; or cut and cock it, as above, and after allowing it to remain undisturbed in cock two or three days, open it slight ly in the middle of the day when the whether is fair, and cock it up again before the dews falls, repeating the operation until sufficiently cured to store. The second crop of clover thus cured, if fed to milch COWS in winter, will produce butter as yellow and sweet as if made in June, provided the proper care is taken to keep the COWS and the milk clean.
 Keeping Winter Apples.
 A member of the Michigan Pomo logical Society stated, at late Adrian meeting, that he was very successful il keeping winter apples, and had secured sound, fresh fruit in May, by the fol lowing treatment :. He picks the fruit in October, and places it in heaps ir the orchard and covers them with hay These heaps remain untouched til DecemOer, Lhe SHgnG moisture or Ghe earth and the few inches of hay pre- venting any injury to the apples, ever during sharp freezes. They are ther assorted and packed in barrels, which after heading up, are placed in colo cellar, which is kept at a temperature of about thirty-two degrees, and if il should happen to be few degrees lower for short time, the protection of the barrels will prevent any injury They come out sound in the spring.
 Keep the Hogs Out of the Water.
 A correspondent of the Cozonia Farmser, whom the editor declares tc be 8 practical breeder, writes "Tha to handle hogs to the best advantage, ;, pasture is needed of green grass clover, blue grass and tinnothy-and i