Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-11-25
EARN NOTES.


| itOuu uuht hnoulu NC putncIcu nc
fore tho season closes. This Is often
the most convenient absorbent the
farmer can command, and q few bar
rcls of IL will save large amount of
ammonia in the hcnneiy, the priyy,
and the stable. Hens should have a
large open box full OF il under cover,
where they may dust themselves at
their pleasure. 1t is an excellent thing
to have in the stable, and when satu-
rated with brine makes valuable fer
tilizcr The fincness Of the dust, con-
tinually ground by the iron tires and
horse shoes, is one cause of its favora-
bic action upon crops. That gathered
from a clay soil is best; indeed sand,
whether from the road or elsewhere,
is Of but little use as deodoi1zer or
absorbent.
KEEP THE HOGS OUT OF THE WATER.
A correspondent Of the Colonial
fhvmer, whom the editor declares to
be practical breeder, writes that to
handle hogs TO the best advantage
pasture is needed of green grass
clover, blue grass and timothy-and il
is the better if there is no running
water or stock ponds in the lot. Hogs
do better where there are no branches
or stock ponds TO wallow in. In place
thereof, have well water pumped for
them. Have troughs made and nail
strips across, eight inches apart, to
keep the hogs from lying down in the
water and let these troughs be placed
on floors, to keep them from digging
up wallowing holes. If feed be given,
lit should be soaked in swill barrels for
twelve hours before fceding--no long
Grand fed TO them as drink.
| CHICKEN CHOLERA.
Mr. IL. Hales, of New Jersey, claims
to have had perfect success with such
birds rs he treated lin time) in the fol
lowing manner: He placed the ailing
birds in boxes on clean straw and cut
away such feathers as had become
soilcd by their excavations, and as a
means of sustaining life fed them twice
a day with oatmeal Cruel, into which
he put some finely chopped rue. This
of course, had to be poured down the
throats of the sick birds In addi-
ton, he sprinkled carbolic powder up
on'the straw in the boxes where the
fowls were placed, busted some into
their feathers and gave them tea
spoonful or two of water slightly i'm
Ipregnated with carbolic acid, which
can be obtained of any druggist. The
ailing fowls were kept apart from the
ones in health, and after the admins
tration of this remedy rapidly recov-
cred He treated two or three dozen
in this way, and thinks he should have
lost all of them had they not been so
treated.
SAVING CARRIAGES.
The plan we haye adopted for a
number of years seems TO answer the
purpose as well as any with which we
are acquainted. This we have made
known ON several occasions and II may
not do any harm to repeat il. 1t isl
simply: Select a dry part of the gar
den, dig trenches of sufficient depth to
receive the cabbage roots and stalks
up to the head into these trenches
transplant the cabbages-heads up of
course-fill in the dirt carefully about
them up TO the heads-plantfour short
posts, two Of them being higher than
the others to give pitch to the roof
lay upon these number of bean
poles, and upon these throw straw,
corn-fodder, or bean haulm, protecting
also the sides, and your cabbages will
keep until May.
Where there is q fence only two
posts will be necessary. that being en-
ployed as the apex of the cover or
roof. Germantown Telegraph.
YELLows IN PEACHES.
If you dig around peach with the
yellows you win be first struck with
"mushroomy" smell Picking out the
roots, and examining them with
lens, you will see millions of thread
like fibres, which are the Mycelia of
fungi. These cat the young fibres, and
leave only the main roots, through
which all the nutriment of the plant
has to be gathered; and as an old root
is unable to do much more than TO
draw in water, the tree becomes in
measure starved, and the leaves be-
come yellow just as they would be il
growing in poor soil, which, though
the plant might have plenty of roots
and no food is equivalent to having
plenty of food and no roots. The ef
feet on the plant is just the same
Hence remedies which look to the
destruction of this root parasite are
employed Hot water has done it
so has a weak solution Of salt. 9th
eis have found a solution Of potash
succeed. The exact nature of this
fungus, so far as we know has not been
investigated to entire satisfaction
Fungi are very polymorphous. This
one may enter into the circulation of
the plant, and exist in that case as an
apparently distinct species, extending
through the tissue, and destroying as
il goes. This seems likely from some
experiments by Mr.. Thomas Taylor,
of the Department of Agriculture, re-
ported sometime ago by us.--Gdrden-
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