The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-20
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
FARM HAKINGS.

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They listen to the fattered bird,
The wise-looking, stupid things;
And they never understand a word
OF all the robin sings.
THE farms of a country may be in a
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,
COW which had suddenly become seri-
ously bloated from eating cucumbers
too rapidly, by giving a tablespoonful
and IA half of ammonia in half pint of
water. The relief was immediate and
complete.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural Sun
says Founder in 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 q certain cure for Spanish Fence,
a disease common in Mississippi, Louis
lana and Texas.
PROTECTING ORCHARD TREES. Mulch
the roots with straw or coaase manure
and litter, being careful, however, not
to throwit Immediately about the bodies
OF the trees. No matter how heavily
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 wood
pile, not next summer And let it be
ample. 1t should be large enough to
last one year. 1t is poor economy to
burn green wood, but if your supply
gives out 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. 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 $lS per ton, and the whole
crop had averaged him $50 per acre, OF
$3.50 for the whole six acres and he
believed wheat to be better paying
crop than tobacco.
FARMERS AND RoADs.-There is nc
single item in connection with the farm.
ers' business that attracts more of his
attention-that more excites his ire, OF
gives him greater satisfaction than
good or bad roads, and yet there is nc
subject in which he is more persistently
perverse and careless. Who ever heard
of two farmers agreeing upon the
proper time to repair roads. or the best
means of doing it? Road-mending with
us is, in most instances, merely spas
modic outbreak of misdirected labor
applied without a definite object, anC
regardless of all recognized laws of me
chanics 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 anC
everywhere. injuring alike the appear
ance of the growth. Do You wish tC
remedy this difficulty? If so, use thu
chain and ball to your pillow. No mat
ter what kind of a pillow you have, try
them. A piece of ordinary trace chair
, will do very well. Fasten one end of i
to your coulter and to the end attach
, round iron ball of two or three pound
weight-leaving the chain long to per
nit the ball to reach back to about tn,
, middle of the mold board, and there lie
, it drag along, on the off side, of course
Canada Farmer.
CHANGE OF SEED.-Ihe america,
AgricuLturiSt answers a correspondent
by saying With all other grain thai
corn change of seed now and then i
considered advisable. Potatoes are es
, pecially improved by change procure
from different locality and soil. Blu
? corn has not generally been found t
deteriorate by long planting on tn
, other hand there are many farmers VIII
are now planting seed produced fror
the corn their fathers plan ted genera
ton ago. Running out of the corn i
more likely to be the result of impover
/, ished soil, and the best method of In
provement would probably be n crop c
clover upon the land, to be plowed III
: der, or some other substantial fertilizer