The Red Cloud chief., 1874-06-18
RARM AND nOnH,

man F0rmerly al necessary qualities.
ton was physical development.
FARxEm must arrange 80 Is to culti-
vate their farms without having
their houses crowded with hired help.
DosALL work Ias chesply as possible
this year, but do it thoroughly. The
prospect il good for remunerative prices,
II economically produced.
TaE CHECK is it that 80
many Of our farmers, and nearly all Of
our city c~artefs, insist upon nsiDg a
tight rein on working horses? When q
horse, left 10 his natural inclination, has
q heavy load 10 pull, he can best exert
his backbone in one continuous line,
and this he will invariably do If notpre-
vented by a tight check-rein. Some
claim that it prevents the horse from
falling down, and when q nan can raise
himself over . fence by q lift on his sus-
pendcrs we will believe it. When q
horse falls, q tight rein will most effect
uaily prevent him from getting on to
his feet again. Try it without the rein,
and zee if we are not correct in our
practice and theory both.
WASTED FKKrMIzKRA-The Farmers
Home Journal says : On every old
place in Central Kentucky there are
such things as old wood piles, where
chips have accumulated and decomposed
for fifty years ; then there are oldpiles Of
ashes sometimes three or four feet deep,
which have been accamulating for the
same length Of time ; then there are old
straw piles and heaps Of stable manure
which have never been hauled ont ;
and there are deposits under the hen
roosts, sometimes two feet deep, which
are equal to the best Peruvian guano,
and when these are all hauled out, We
will go to an inexhaustible supply of
rich molds and alluvial deposits of de-
cayed vegetable matter, which have
been collecting for ages, in places on
branches and creeks which run through
most farms. We have still another sup
ply yet, in the muck mud, which, if dug
out m the summer time, when the
marshes and swampy places are dry and
hard, can DO hauled close to, il not
quite to, where il 10 wanted, and the
winter freezing viii pulverize it and put
it in fine condition for a crop the next
season.
PRESERVING PosTa-Every farmer
who has TO fence his land knows too well
how quickly posts planted in the earth
become rotten, especially in q damp
spot. All of them will welcome the fol-
lowing process to prevent r~ottenness,
a process as wonderful in its effects as
it is simple and almost costless. 1t is
taken from lie Bien Public, of Dion,
France:
Stake linseed oil, boil it, and mix it
with charcoal dust until the mixture has
the consistence of 'an ordinary paint.
Give to. the. post a single coat Of the
mixture or paint before planting them,
and no farmer, even living to the age of
the patriarchs of old, will live
long enough to see the same posts
rotten.
"'Some years ago I discovered q
way of rendering wood more durable in
earth than iron ITSELF says the author
of the communication, bnt it seemed
to me 80 simple and so inexpensive, that
/ did not think it worth while to make
much ado and fuss about ts~nsWT'H
soft wood thus prepared @i
after remaining seven yearsin the earth,
ahd weref0und as sound as when plant
cd. The only precaution to take is
to use only .well-dried posts before
covering them with the charcoal
paint. vT f
FARMKRs' FoOD.--In the last report
of the Massachusetts, Board of Health,
DR.. J. +. A. Adams, OF Pittsfield, one
of the most accomplished physicians
in the State, has presented q long and
valuable report upon the health of
farmers, in which he combines his own
experience with that of the leading ply
sicians in the State, to whom he sent
circulars containing twenty questions,
to which they responded. DR.. Adams
concluded that the following are tho
diseases to which farmers are most liza
bic, and the liability is in the order
named: First rheumatism; second,
dyspepsia; third, fever !; fourth, acute
lung affections /: fifth, consumption. In
answer to the question : what causes
tend to ipjure the health Of farmers and
their families 2" overwork n mentioned
ms the first, improper diet the second,
exposure the third, sanitary defects in
barn-yards, hogpens, priyles, arsinn1.
ISIi1tsI ISE15h L kisS: want q
recteotion, cleanliness, md other causes
are mentioned, but re 1tle four srethe
Upen Che sabject of5ere4s de. pr.
Adams comed 10 sef6fAl Cancellations,
The full force q which our Western
iarmeEs viii sPpeeciate fully. Il is
not msine21Q1 fhak wives OF Western
FARMERS era 6forior 70 their sisters ct
the East il - psaclice 81 the eulinar
~ ITS, bel hgye beon In
the habit q W6paring the - q inst
such . way 1hnt Is 8 di1l0dk % make
> chanee AZ 70 farmsrs' diet, d..
Adams artises - these eight conclnr
ooea bsS.a Ssspsres. nd = se0
Z. There & TOO litSlo variety in food.
3. Neat Is too ap. 70 be fried
4. BAKED beans and salt-pork, al
though . highly nutritious dish, arc
too generally peed. being i~pdiSestible.
for many perp0nA. 8N5
Psa(sy and cahef16e -
highly ipjudicioaS extezk
& Too itt1s ims = allotted for
.. Ouabs end tea, especially the lat
ter, 90 to ffesly nsed q bcveragek
Water i cd in ezoeeA
sDr. Rnodookis romAzAs On this point
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