The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-15
FARM. HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN.
The Farm.


"Let me see, she murmured "Ah, yes, know !;
II was there by the pasture gate.
That Robin with milking pail aud stool
For my coming used to wait.
! IL was just a week Of our wedding day
That he fell so sick-and died;
And laid my heart ia the grave with him,
And loved none other beside.
"But. all it was for my fathers sake
That welded Farmer Grey,
And we've both been tender and true and kind
As the years have slipped away.
But wonder much when the hour comes
That my soul be called above,
! Shall l. as the wife of Farmer Grey,
Seek Robin, my only love ?"
And the sun went down in the golden west
And the COWS came safely home,
As Grandmother Grey by the window sat,
While her thoughts seemed yet to roam,
But the angels came for her waiting soul
While the twilight shadows fell,
And Grandmother Grey, the farmers wife,
With Robin has gone to dwell.
We have faith in future prices to be-
lieve it will pay to feed hogs tifty-cent
corn.
DRIVES and walks should not be in
jured by heavy teams when they are
soft with spring rains.
HoRsERADIsH should be about every
mans premises. 1t is delicious relish,
especially in early spring.
THE way for farmer to trust in
Providence is to do faithful hard work
and attend strictly to his farm.
A HoosIER farmer says that we should
select white seed corn with white cobs,
and yellow seed corn with red cobs.
LET all good men lay down this rule,
that when the men stop for lunch or
supper, the horses should be fed also.
CALVES are very apt to scour after
learning to drink. Now, nine times in
ten, this is not diarrhea, but simply in
digestion, and little rennet with their
milk will effectually obviate the diff
Guilty.
GEORGE F. WILCOX, of the american
Rurat Home, says his experience rs to
the effect that in draining land tie ex-
pense of properly laying stone and fill
ing up the ditch is more than flat of
buying and putting down tile.
SCRATCHES IN HORSES. Take white
pine pitch rosin, beeswax and honey,
one ounce each; of fresh lard, one-half
pound melt well together over slow
fire stir till thick, SO that the parts
may not settle and separate. This also
makes an excellent application for
harness gals, cuts and sores of all kinds
on horses and cattle.
SOME paper has stated that sulphur
fed to sheep will prove a sure remedy
for ticks. This is true under favorable
circumstances. An occasional feed of
one tablespoonful of sulphur TO one
quart of salt will prove beneficial to
the general health of sheep, and if they
are in good order will keep ticks away
without fail. But no amount of sui
phur will kill the ticks on sheep which
are already overrun with them and
pinched up with little food. A daily
feed of grain will prove of more bene-
fit by interposing layer of fat between
the muscles.
AN English gardener suggests what
seems good plan for Kidding houses of
ants. 1t is at least safer than scattering
poison. Bits of dry, clean sponge,
sprinkled over with sugar, are placed
iii the vicinity of the ant runs; they
quickly fill all the interstices, and may
be dipped into boiling water for a few
seconds, and again used III the same
manner on second crop. Bones with
a small portion of meat attached prove
also an excellent bait, and bottles con-
tanning a little sweet oil, placed near
the nests, will entice ants in consider
able numbers.
The New York Herald says there is
no use in manuring land to growweeds;
i'll buying tools to rust out under
stone wall in erecting buildings to rot
away for want of paint and care in
buying animals and leaving them to
the unhindered action of disease; in
accommodating manure to fill the air
with its exhalations and the brooks |
with its teachings in raising forage to
floor barn with +; Ill buying land to
yearly lose it's strength and virtue; in
growing crops to feed unheeded insects. |
Yet more than one of these defects may
be seen on almost every farm in the |
country, and the extent to which they
lower the average success of our farm |
ers is greater than would be believed.
CUT WORMS. We have succeeded in
greatly reducing the numbers of this
pest by enticiEg a flock of poultry into
the field while it was being plowed.
The fowls followed the pillow closely, |
picking up every cut-worm exposed,
ana searching every furrow for more.
There is no other way of Kidding the
fields of these vermin but by encour-
aging their natural enemies-crows and
black blrds. While these creatures are
killed or driven off we shall suffer from
H.. donredatiOns of the insects which |
are their natural prey. To prevent the
of the young corn by the
,ut-worms to some extent, the seed
should be rolled III common pine tar
md then dried in plaster before it is
York Times.
Household Suggestions
If YOU are buying carpets for dura-