Connecticut western news., 1874-05-08
Farm, Garden and Household.
Farm Notes,

Farm Notes.
 There is no way of preventing the gad.hy laying its eggs in the backs oi cattle but keeping the cattle in stables during the day in August or Septem- Der, which is the season when the fly lays it's eggs.
 Spear-mint may be killed by pairing the surface where it grows and remov- ing the seeds to the compost or manure heap, then raking up the surface with heavy hand rake and sowing timothy, redtop and clover seed upon it. This should be done in May.
 Good farming pays we'll Bad man. agement in farming, as we'll as in every other business, will not pay. -
 We read that farmers in Willamette Valley, Oregon, are selling their COWS at $6 to BIO per head, and blowing up their pastures to make room for more wheat.
 A bloated animal may be relieved, so they say, by administering half 8 tea oupful of finely powdered charcoal, we'll mixed in bottle of water.
 Mir. Dickie told the Doylestown Club that he keeps lice from his hen-house "by hanging up near the roasting place an old piece of cloth saturated with coal oil or carbolic acid" MT. Barber recommended free use of water by means of hose. MT. Tergo cures bad cases by "applying coal oil about the roost, and then setting fire to the oil" MT. McNair destroyed the parasites by application of fish brine with 8 whitewash brush. s-. [
 One poultry fancier cured chicken cholera by feeding every other day for two weeks bran mash, in which was a per. One old biddy was determined to die. She was crouched away in an out of the way spot. He sought her, gave her whole pepper in doses an hour apart, kept her in warm place, and in 8 few. days she gave notice that she could take care of herself.
 King and Queen, Va: The colored men prefer wood -chopping to farming. and the white people are learning to put their hands to their own blows. Dys- pepsia and despondency are being worked off by field labor, and the country is assuming cheerful, culti- vated appearance. .ss,tst
 A correspondent tells Moore's R,.r0I that he stored l, 1,177weighed bushels of potatoes in cellar last fall, and Feb. 15 they had decreased 50 bushels by shrinkage. Variety, russet.
 So long as dairymen travel through the country, pick out the best mixers, and keep them for milk till they grow old without raising single calf, no i'm provement of our milking stock need be expected.
 
 To PREVENT RUsT.-If rusty iron is ribbed with boiled oil. in which some s red lead has been mixed, on a warm day, the rusty process will be at once arrested.
 BROWN BREAD.-One quart rye meal, two quarts Indian meal. two table spoonfuls of molasses. Mix thoroughly with sweet milk, let it stand one hour, then bake in slow oven.
 BISCUIT. Take some of the bread dough in the morning, as much as would make loaf of bread, add one cup of butter; mix we'll, let rise, then make into biscuit, let rise; then bake.
 TEA RUsK. half pint new milk one cup of hop yeast set the sponge at night; add flour to the above to make batter in the morning, add !one-haH pint of milk, one cup of sugar, one of butter, one egg, one nutmeg, four to make it sufficiently stiff let rise, then roll it out and cut it out let rise, then bake. -...... sEs Trestment of InfantiIe Cholera.
 Dr. Merchantmen, of Munich, advo- oates the following means in the above cases: First, the use of preparation 5 of ammonia for neutralizing in the stomach the excess of acid formed by $ the fermentation of undigested milk 1; second, tea, which acts benefcially on cerebral activity, and surely against the drownsiness, and.which, besides, abates the sickness and diarrhea. Dr. Wer- 5 theimber's favorite preparation is: De- coction of root of salep, flour grains two ounces of water liquor ammonia with spirits of ainseed, ten or twelve drops {: syrup, one drachm 1; tincture of opium, two to three drops. One or two tea spoonfuls every hour, according to the age of the child. The quantity of tinc- ture of opium may be increased if there are no symptoms. The author con- siders the disease to be an advanced degree of previous acute gastro- en- teritis.
 Separating Grain.
 A Duanesburgh (N. Y.) farmer has perfected a new invention for separating different grains that get mixed in grow ing, and 1t is said to work especially we'll in separating barley and buck wheat. It consists of spreading thinly the barley and buckwheat on a barn floor, after it has been threshed, and turning the fowls in upon it, when they will pick out all the buckwheat before they will touch the barley. A Duanes- E burgh farmer lately purchased barley 5 and buckwheat mixed for eighty-five cents bushel, and, by the use of this : invention, separated them and sold the barley portion for $1 60 per bushel.