The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-09-18
FARM AND HOME.

geon, if the inside of the ears and other
exposed parts of horses are painted with
a few drops of the empyreumatic oil OF
juniper, flies will not annoy them, the
odor being uncomfortable to these tor
mentors.
EFFECTS OF PLAsTER.-It has been
shown that at the Michigan Agricultural
College a single bushel of plaster added
a full ton of hay to the yield Of an acre
of ground in the five, most OF it in the
four mowings that followed-two crops
being taken off the ground each of the
two years succeeding the sowing of the
plaster.
TRAVELLING ON H FARM.-Did any
of you ever think of the amount of
travel it takes to raise a crop of corn?
I never saw an illustration in print, and
1 thought 1 would give you one. 1have
q 2O-acre field, 40180 rods. To break
this up would take 166 miles ; harrow
ing it, about 40 miles +; f~urrowing out,
80 miles ; planting, 40 miles, if with a
planter, and if dropped and then COW
cred, 80 miles. Thus you see it takes
about 800 or 900 miles of travel to raise
twenty acres of corn, not counting going
to or returning from the field. Besides,
there are %replanting, thinning, roll
ing, etc.-Cor. Indiana Farmer.
An IMPRovIsED HEN CooP.-A lady
who has a "handy man" in
her employ, asked him to make her a
hen coop for some temporary use. In
about five minutes he came round and
said he had made one. And so he had.
He had taken the hoops all off the end
of an empty flour barrel, which had al
ready lost the head from the same end
Then, putting the strongest of these
hoops inside the slaves and straining
them apart until the ends of the hoop
merely Tapped a little, he put a tack
through the lap and the stave, and
with two or three other lacks through
the hoop in other places, he had a good
airy coop ready for use.-COuntry Cen
Hemdn.
ORCHARD GRAss.-Farmers in the
East are speaking very highly of
the merits of orchard grass. A
writer in the Philadelphia Press says
that he has had a field of orchard grass
over thirty years, that still gives boun-
teous crops "breast high at maturity"
The soil is strong, sandy loan. 1t was
originally seeded in connection with
red clover and timothy, which were long
ago run out, and there is now annually
some white clover and blue grass, which
aids to make a thick and nutritious bot
tom growth but the orchard grass
maintains the supremacy /; and he
knows of nothing, alfalfa excepted,
which will yield annually so much cat
tie food. But it is even superior to
alfalfa, or ~lucern, as it is called some
times, because better adapted to the
more rigorous climate of the Eastern
States.
DAT MEAL IN DRINKs.-A year or
two ago We presented some state
ments regarding the use of oat
meal in water as a beverage. We find a
| reproduction of a commentator of the
preparation in another journal. The
| editor says: Last summer we at
tended a field trial of plws, and for drink
in thefield we had buckets of cold water
with oat mea. stirred in. which we found
to be bothvictuals and drink and mighty
refreshing" The Medical Jour-
nat of Edinburgh says that "in
its raw state, when it is mixed up
with water, it is becoming a ia
yorite dish. The brose of Aud
Scotland is becoming a favorite dish
and we are glad to note this, because we
believe it to be a healthy and muscle
forming commodity-by the hunters aud
trappers of the West, who are substi-
tuting oat meal in this form for parched
and Indian corn. The same brawny
fellows whose scorn of fatigue is
known to all readers of travel and natural
history-have found out hat a very &C.
ceptable drink is made by putting about
two teaspoonfuls of oat meal to a tum.
bier of water. This %they-the hunters
and trappers-aver to be the best drink
they can use, as it is at once nourishing,
unstimulating. and satisfying"