The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-22
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Notes.


power of termination.
THERE is a great deficiency in far
mers' gardens of the medical and useful
herbs. Norwood, tansy, sage, thyme,
summer savory, etc, are frequently
needed, and are sometimes troublesome
to obtain.
SURE CURE FOR CATTLE LIcE.-Take
one heaping teaspoonful of copperas
mix with bran or any other kind of
meal. If you haven't any meal, mix
with salt. Two doses will drive them
entirely away. 1t will not only kill the
lice, but it will keep off diseases and
give the cattle an appetite. have tried
it twenty-five years, and never knew it
to fail.-Erchange.
The profits of farming should con-
sist, in large measure, in the improve
ment of the farm itself and it's belong
ings, and there can be no better invest
ment than this. That is very poor
farming, if worthy to be called farming,
which, though it may originally show
cash balance, leaves the homestead in a
worse instead of better condition than
it found it.
PLowING UNDER CRoPs.-A CORE
spondent of the Farmers AdvOcate
gives these directions Fasten one end
of chain on furrow end of dOuble-tree,
and let chain lie down in the furrow
fasten the other end round the plow-
beam, and give length of chain accord
ing to height of grass plowed under.
Now, 1 think you will understand my
plan of doing it. plowed under Ohio
corn this summer, about five feet high,
and put it all out of sight, which would
be impossible to do with ball and
chain. A cutter shear will work the
best to pillow under very long grass.
SALT FOR HoGs.-The Agriculturist
says The unrestrained appetite of
swine will often lead them to consume
things that are highly injurious to them.
Cases of poisoning by partaking of ex-
cessive quantities of salt often occur
among hogs at this season, when beef
and pork barrels are emptied of the old
brine and refuse salt. A case in which
several hogs were thus lost in England
was recently noted. Hogs require d
certain amount of salt as do other ami
mails, but it should be given to them
with caution, and either evenly mixed
in their feed or scattered very thinly
about their trou9hs. SO that one more
greedy than another cannot take more
than its proper share.
FACTS IN FATTENING CATTLE. --Bous-
singault estimates that an OK weighing
74S pounds, fed upon forty pounds per
diem, will increase in weight about two
pounds daily. According to Mr.. Low,
an OK weighing no pounds and consum-
ing 223 pounds of turnips per week, if
he thrives, will gain in the same time
nearly stone, fourteen pounds, in
weight. Allowing 100 pounds of hay,
worth 676 pounds of turnips, the in
crease is still about two pounds day.
Mr.. Dubois says the quantity of
green fodder consumed by an OK during
the eight months when he is fattening,
is equivalent to $500 pounds of dry
hay. The average ration of green for
age per diem, he calculates, therefore,
as equivalent to about y pounds OF
hay.
But this average is evidently too
small, particularly for cold weather,
which was proven in the valley of Auge
in Normandy.
Mr.. Stephenson estimates that 81 per
per cent. of the whole animal will be
butchers meat; s per cent. tallow 6
per cent. hide and 20 per cent. entrails.
This of course depends upon the condi-
ton of the beef-a fat one will yield q
greater per cent. than lean. Others
give the per cent. of meat 53 to 81 pei
cent.
Household Helps.
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with boiling new milk until you have q
thick batter put in the patent pans at
once, and bake for twenty or thirty
minutes.
TEST q cake to see if it is done, by
running q clean straw into the thickes
part. If it comes out dry and clean
the cake is done.
To MEND AND CLEAN KID GLOVES
Turn them on the wrong side and sew
They will last longer and look better, L
mended on the wrong side. Turn then
back again, and go over them with
clean towel dipped in skim-milk, wear
ing them during the process and unit
they are quite dry.
AMERICAN RAISED WAFFLEs. On,
pint of sweet milk, one heaping teacup
full of butter, three eggs, teaspoonfu
of thick brewers yeast, one quart o
-four, and another teacupful of swee
milk, in which is dissolved quarter o
teaspoonful of soda. Let it rise anti
light, then bake as other waf1les. Serv
with butter and sugar.
, GRAHAM BREAD.-Four quarts of IN
J bolted wheat teacupful Of yeast hal
cup of molasses one tablespoonful G
> salt mix with warm water enough I
; make stiff dough; let it rise six o
> eight hours, wet your hands in col
water to put it into the pans let it ris
an hour, or until it has risen an inch
S and bake two hours. 1t should be yer
S we'll baked.
:. WHY DOES THE IRON STICK Some
times the iron will stick in name
perfectly unaccountable if it isrubbe
i, on board on which fine salt has bee
= sprinkled and then pressed over brow
!, paper with wax in its folds, the stickin
/, propensities will be checked A boy
|, of clear water and clean old linen clot
!, are useful to remove any specks I'll
!. linen may acquire before or after bein
> ironed.
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