Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-07

The wise-lpOking. stupid things;
And they never understand a word
OF all the robin sings.
The farms of IL country may be III
high state of cultivation, the houses, or
chards and barns be every way admira-
BILE, and yet, if the roads are bad, all
these things lose much of their value.
AMMONIA FOR BLoAT.-A California
farmer recently cured, almost instantly,
Il COW which had suddenly become seri-
ously bloated from eating cucumbers
too rapidly, by giving tablespoonful
and Il half of ammonia in Il half pint of
water. The relief was immediate and
complete.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rur0i Sun
says: Founder i'll its worst form can
be cured by standing your horse all day
in water deep enough to come up over
his back. Running water is best. This
is also certain cure for Spanish Fence,
a disease common III Mississippi, Louis
lana and Texas.
PROTECTING ORCHARD TREES. - Mulch
the roots with straw or coaase manure
and litter, being careful, however, not
to throw it Immediately about the bodies
vi tiit tlttS. W. Ilulttl no" IltuNlIN
you mulch. Then to protect the bodies
of the trees from sun and frost alter
nately, as well as from rabbits, bind
them about with corn-stalks stripped of
the foliage.
Now IS the time to prepare a wood
pile, not next summer. And let it be
ample. 1T should be large enough to
last one year. 1t is Il poor economy to
burn green wood, but if your supply
gives ont next fall, green wood will
have to be used till it seasons. If you
prepared Alright last winter you are still
burning of that supply. No good
farmer neglects his woodpile.
WHEAT PROFIT Henry M. Clark, of
the Hampshire Institute, Massachu
sets, said he had had good success with
wheat, the present season, had raised
thirty bushels per acre on SIX acres.
which he had sold at 81 per bushel, and
the straw at SSlS per ton, and the whole
crop had averaged him $50 per acre, or
1880 for the whole six acres and he
believed wheat to be better paying
crop than tobacco.
FARMERS AND RoADs-There is no
single item in connection with the farm
ers' business that attracts more of his
attention-that more excites his ire, or
gives him greater satisfaction than
good OF bad roads, and yet there is no
subject in which he is more persistently
perverse and careless Who ever heard
of two farmers agreeing upon yhe
proper time to repair roads. or the best
means of doing it? Road-mending with
us IS, III most Instances, merely spas
modic outbreak of misdirected labor
applied without definite object, and
regardless of all recognized laws of me-
chanlcs or nature
PLowING IN GRASS. notwithstanding
the utmost pains and care in blowing,
the grasses, especially if long, will bris-
tie up boards and tufts here, there and
everywhere. injuring alike the appear
ance of the growth. Do you wish to
remedy this difficulty? If so, use the
chain and ball to your plow. No mat
ter what kind of pillow you have, try
them. A piece of ordinary trace chain
will do very well. Fasten one end of it
to your coulter and to the end attach
round iron ball of two or three pounds
weight-leaviug the chain long to per-
NIT the ball to reach back to about the
middle of the mold board, and there let
it drag along, on the oil side, of course
-(an0da Farmer.
CHANGE OF SEED.-Iho american
1griculturiSt answers a correspondent
by saying With all other grain than
corn Il change of seed now and then is
considered advisable. Potatoes are es-
pecially improved by change procured
from q different locality and soil. But
corn has not generally been found to
deteriorate by long planting on the
other hand there are many farmers who
are now planting seed produced from
the corn their fathers planteda genera
ton ago. Running out of the corn is
more likely to be the result of impover-
ished soil, and the best method of I'M
provement would probably be Il crop of
clover upon the land, to be plowcd I'M
der, OF some other substantial fertilizer.
USEFUL IMPORTATION.
To clean silver mix two teaspoonfuls
of ammonia III quart of hot suds. Put
i'll your silverware, and wash, using an
old nail-brush or tooth brush for the
purpose.
PRESERVING STUFFED ANIMALs.-R ub
the flesh side of the skin with compo-
sition of one pound OF tobacco ashes,
one-half pound of alum, two pounds of
dry Stacked lime.
In removing ink spots from delicate
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