The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-27
FARM, FIELD, AND FAMILY.
FARM TALK.

FARM TALK.
Scions for grating may be cut at any
time previous to the starting of the buds
In the spring, and when cut should be
kept In cool cellar, where they will not
dry up.
DIFFERENTIATION OF TREE-BEETLEs, ETC.
An old, scalded barrel, smeared inter
nally with tar, having properly pro-
tected lighted lamp in the bottom, will
collect large quantities of beetles during
night.
IT is said that Mr.. Hustled of Lowell,
Mich, has tried with success the plan
of putting bands of one thickness of pa
per around the stems of his apple-trees
to catch the moth. When woodpeckers
have torn the papers into shreds in their
search for the concealed enemy, new
bandages are applied.
To cure collie in horses, melt pint
of hogs lard over slow fire, add SCOT
from the chimney until it becomes as
thick as cream, add two or three pods of
red pepper, pour the mixture into n
bottle and give to the animal. If the
horse is not quickly relieved, repeat the
dose.
The Agricukurist gives this remedy
for founders : AS soon as the horse is
found to be stiff swab the legs and feet
with hot water-so hot that the hand
cannot bear to touch it, but not so hot
as to scald After a short time the legs
should be rubbed dry and the horse
gently exercised. Has never known this
to fail to remedy the trouble.
How TO CHOOSE Coop Cow.-A
writer in the Northeastern Farmer says:
1.-The crumpley horn is a good indica-
ton; full eye another. Her head
should be small but short. Avoid the
Roman nose; this indicates thin milk,
and but little of it. See that she is
dished in the face-sunk between the
eyes. Notice that she is what stock men
call good handler-skin soft and loose,
like the skin on dog; deep from the
loin TO the udder, and very slim tail.
A COW with these marks never fails to
be a good mixer"
PERMANENCE OF ORCHARD GRAss.-A
writer in the Philadelphia Press SAYS
that he has had field of grass over
thirty years, that still gives bounteous
crops, "breast high at maturity" The
soil is :. strong sandy loan. It was
originally seeded in connection with red
clover and timothy, which were long
ago ruH out, and there is now some
white clover and blue grass, which aids
to make thick and nutritious bottom
growth; but the orchard grass maintains
the supremacy, and he knows Of moth
ing--lucern excepted-which will yield
annually so much cattle food. But it is
even superior to iucern, because better
adapted to the climate of the North.
FEEDING Com TO Hoes. As another
evidence of the increased profit of feed
ing corn on the farm to swine, over
selling the grain in market, n writer in
the Cincinnati Gazette gives the follow
ing testimony: In August, 1872, /
bought thirty-seven head of hogs at
four dollars per one hundred weight,
the average weight being 1875 pounds.
Cost of the lot $1S6 As. On December
10th, when [ sold them, the average
weight was 270 pounds; or a gain of
Ia pounds per head. They ate twelve
bushels of corn apiece. This at twenty
five cents per bushel would be three
dollars. The total cost of the hogs,
when fattened, was, therefore, $267. 40.
l sold them at four dollars per cwt.,
amounting to 1899. so. Balance in favor
of feeding, $l01.12. BY feeding my
corn, it brought me nearly IS cents per
bushel.
SHEEP AND Cows TOGETHER. cor
respondent of the Practical Farmer
writes | have been farming and keep
ing sheep nineteen years. During the last
seven years [ have been keeping thor
oughbred Southdowns, carefully selected
from some of the focks in the country.
My lambs have averaged me so piece,
and the wool 81 for each sheep. think
/ can keep one sheep and one COW to
every acre, on given amount of pas
ture land, just as well as to keep the
COW alone. In regard to alleged iniu-
rious effects affirmed by some of l-eep-
ing sheep and dairy COWS in the same
pasture, | will state that | have never
observed them. And if there were any
injurious effects resulting from the
practice, it would be confined to the
short space of time intervening between
first turning to pasture and harvest, say
from the the first of May to the middle
of July. Sheep prefer and will cling to
the old pasture, while COWS are con-
tinually seeking and longing for new.