The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
FARM AND HOME.

ed to making gllt-edged Dutter.
BLACK lead and tallow is one of the
best lubricants for friction wheels or
brakes.
A WISCONSIN farmer boasts that he
has raised this year one hundred lambs
from seventy-fve ewes; only six have
died.
Few things are more beautiful than
clean white outbuildings and fences, IN
connection with the rich green of bud
ding spring.
SOME farmers do not recommend Pc
ruvian guano for renovating grass
lands, alleging that it acts too quick and
is gone too soon to be OF any permanent
benefit.
In state of health the pulsations per
minute of the horse are 80 to 3S, OK or
COW 80 to AZ, sheep 20 to rs, goat 70 to
70, dog 80 to 100, duck 100, hen 14O,
cat 10 to 100.
THE practice of sailing around pear
trees to prevent blight is becoming gen
eral in Central New York. Yearly APP
plications of 400 to 600 pounds to the
acre is the custom.
CoMMoN salt is valuable manure for
most crops, and has been used from
ancient times. Near the sea it is of no
use, as the spray from the sea is carried
inland and falls upon the soil but out
of the reach of sea vapor it is a useful
application and ingredient of composts.
CLEAN the harness. Unbuckle all
the parts and wash well with soft water.
Turpentine or benzine will remove
gummy substances. Warm the leather
and then oil well with paint brush or
swab. Neat's-foot oil is the best.
Hang the harness up until dry.
PLANT a sunfower in each hill of
beans and you will get suitable bean
poles. The stock grows in advance of
the vine and makes an excellent sup
port. You not only obtain good bean
pole gratis, but you have large amount
of valuable seed for your fowls in the
fall.
LIME should be applied when dry
slaked and caustic, on a dry day, when
the land is dry enough not to lump it,
and be well worked in with n fine har-
row. If there are many Jumps, from
the size of a pea to walnut, those
Jumps will rapidly disappear by expos
ure to the sun and air.
Tn watering-pots much used in the
garden often become rusted at the lower
corners, and begin to leak. It is not
necessary yet to throw them aside, as
the holes may be ti1ectually stopped
without going to the tinker's, by COW
ering them inside with a small piece of
linen dipped in copal varnish, the tin
being previously thoroughly dried.
When the varnish hardens by drying
they are perfectly alright.
THROUGHOUT he entire country there
is almost entire freedom from disease
among horned animals. A little muir
rain III the South in one town in
England a slight disease prevails among
calves. The fQot-rot seems to be pre-
vailing all over the country among
sheep, and many focks have been
thinned by it, where it has not received
a prompt check by pairing the hoofs and
applying thorough remedies.
MANY valuable animals are lost by
hoven or bloat, which might be pre-
vented with little care. In the first
place no creature should be allowed to
fill the stomach with new grass when
first turned out, but should be allowed
slight feed each day until fully ac-
customed to it. Second, every animal
when turned to grass should have a
constant supply of salt in some place
easily accessible. These precautions
will save a great deal of trouble, and
often the lives of valuable animals.
MANY persons who would like to have
hay for their stock have no land set in
grass fit for moving. Sow millet. The
best variety for this purpose s'what is
known as Hungarian grass. The ground
for this crop should be naturally good,
or very heavily MANFRED. 1t should be
nicely prepared. Sow one-half bushel
of seed per acre, and cover by passing
a roller over it. If the season is favor
able, from one and half TO two and a
half tons of good hay may be cat from
an acre.
An inexpensive but durable method
of painting old buildings is as follows :
First give them coat of crude petro-
leum, which is the oil as it comes from
the wells, and can be procured for
about 81 to So barrel in almost any
town or city. Then mix one pound of
metallic paint" which is brown or red
hematite iron ore finely ground. to one
quart of linseed oil, and apply this over
the petroleum coat. The petroleum
sinks into the wood and makes good
ground work for the iron and oil paint.
The color of the iron paint is dark
reddish brown, and is not at all dis
agreeable it is color not readily
soiled, very durable, and is fire-proof
By the following methods l have sue
cessfully destroyed the currant worm /:
Spread from gill to half pint of car
bolate of lime around the currant bush,
near the stock then jar off the worms.
They will Immediately attempt to re-
turn, but unless branch touches the
ground beyond the barrier, as II bridge
for them, not a worm will get back, but
they will perish in their attempts to
pass through the lime. Care should be
taken to obtain the article in its full
strength, which can be bought for about
ten cents per pound, by the ten or fif-
teen pounds. Much of the carbolate
of lime sold for DESTROYING insects is