Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-05
FARM, HOUSEHOLD, AND KITCHEN
FARM HINTS.


FARM HINTS.
THE English and Continental farmers
know the value of bone dust, and the
Americans Will soon find it out.
Mr.. NJ. =. SULLIvANT, the great Hi
nois farmer, of Livingston county, has
contracted for the erection of fifty tene-
ment houses on his farm at Gibson.
Or guano, as a permanent fertilizer,
there is some doubt; but as stimulant
of growing crops, on good soil, 1t is IN
valuable, either on grass or arabic lands.
Mr.. HANSON Ordway of West New
bury, Mass, raised one hundred and
eighty-eight barrels of onions last sea-
son ON seven-eights of an acre. which he
sold in Newburyport for 81, 900.
Soor is most valuable manure, eth
er for grass or for turnips, as it quickly
forces the plants, it prevents the fly
from committing its ravages. 1t is also
excellent Tor destroying the grub in
onion beds.
The Country Gentleman recommends
inseed oil meal for horses that are
never allowed to run out to grass, being
slightly apreient. A handful in each
feed, morning and evening, is about the
quantity usually fed.
A GRINDsToNE should not be exposed
to the weather, as it not only injuries the
woodwork, but the suns rays harden
the stone and render it useless. Neither
should it stand In the water In which it
runs, as the part remaining in water
softens SO much that it wears unequally.
An Ohio farmer suggets that the
oranges set themselves about introduc-
ing the English sparrow for the protec-
ton of fruit-growers. The sparrows
breed fast and eat good deal. A pair
of sparrows having a family to bring up
Will consume over three thousand cater
pillars week.
A MAN in Woodbury., N. Y, raised
and marketed from five-eighths of an
acre on his farm, elephants which sold
for Sf99 10; radishes which sold for S7S
making a total of S577.15 cash in
hand. Besides this his family was sup
piled and some given away. There
were 1899 hills of the elephants, 81 by
4 feet apart.
PEOPLE who, at husking time, have
barked their sore fingers and broken
their worn nails in the effort to make
space to start shovel in a wagon load
of ears which they desire to transfer to
the crib, can thank The Journal
OF the Farm for this suggestion of s.
better way /: In loading corn take to
the field piece of pine board six feet
long and little wider than your shovel;
place an end on the tailboard close to
one corner of the wagon and the other
on the bottom end; fill up as usual.
In unloading, shovel down the board to
the bottom of the wagon, and not an
ear need be touched by the hands,"
To cure a wart on a horse, take a
common suture needle, large sewing
needle will do, but if slightly crooked
at the point, better thread it with a
double cord, each one containing three
threads of fine saddler's thread well
twisted and waxed. Pass the needle
through the center of the wart close to
the skin, drawing the thread half way
through. Cut the cord next to the nee-
die, and tie each half separately with a
surgeons or other secure knot. as
tightly as possible. Cut the ends eff
close to the knot, and the wart will soon
disappear. If the wart is small at the
base, the cord may be tied around it as
close TO the base as possible, and the
same end Will be accomplished.
IT is mistake in wheat culture to
SOW inferior seed. Indeed this is very
foolish In regard to any and every crop.
Like begets like. Weakness and dis
ease are propagated in the plant world
very much as they are transmitted from
parent to child in the world of human
beings. The greater pains should be
taken to procure the choicest seed that
can possibly be had. It will pay the
farmer who depends upon his own
growing of seed, to cut out the best por-
tions of field, when there is a per-
ceptible difference, and devote them to
this important use. Indeed, it is wise
policy to select the earliest and finest
heads, and from these grow seed. 1t is
also well to obtain change of seed
from time to time, as successive sowing
In the same soil and climate seems to
induce more or less degeneracy. The
farmer should never grudge little ex-
ira outlay in the purchase of choice
seed. Such outlay is pretty certain to
be well rewarded.