Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-22
FARM AND GARDEN.

For you see the weeds he has cut away
Whistle and hoe,
Sing you go,
Shorten the
BY the songs you know.
Not word of bemoaning his task hear,
He has scarcely time for growi, know,
For his whistle sounds SO merry and clear,
He mast find some pleasure in every row.
Whistle and hoe,
Sing as you go,
Shorten the row
By the songs you know.
But then while you whistle, be sure that you hoe,
For, If you are idle, the briars will spread;
And whistle along to the end of the row
May do for the weeds, but is bad for the bread.
Whistle and hoe.
Sing as you go,
Shorten the row
By the songs you know.
CoLTs may be taught to eat a little
meal or bran, and to be handled freely.
The gentlest possible treatment should
be given to all young stock this season,
and careful attention.
A WRITER In the Northeastern Farmer
gives the following hints to those about
purchasing milking stock: A GRUMPY
horn, full eye, head small and short,
dished face, that is sunk between the
eyes, skin soft and loose, deep from the
ioin to the udder, and very slim tail.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Poultry
World recommends the administration
of sulphur for gapes in chickens. He
vets the tip of feather (the rest being
stripped to the quilD, and rubs it in the
sulphur, aud then introduces it into the
trachea of the sick chicken. One apph-
cation is found sufficient.
A SANDY or gravelly soil is usually
best adapted to the use of plaster, but
Astounding in vegetable matter. A clay
soil has the power of absorbing ammo
MIA from the air, which is one of the
Offices of plaster, and therefore plaster
is not as beneficial upon a clayey as a
sandy soil.
Old PoTAToEs.-AnE Eastern exchange
gives this advice Potatoes, to be
coed, should never be exposed to the
light, but be kept in as dark place as
possible. After they begin to sprout in
the spring, they should be taken up
or barrels. If you have few barrels
saved out for family use, instead of
picking them over and spreading them
every few weeks, put them into enough
barrels so that you can easily turn them
from one to another. Have one extra
barrel, and once every week turn them
all out frem barrel to another. This
keeps them moving so often that the
sprouts cannot grow enough to do much
harm. The sprouts which come out
from the potato use up the nourishment
it contains, and leave it soft, watery
and inslpid. By treating them as pro-
posed above, they may be kept in con-
dit;on for the table several weeks longer
than by sprouting them, and at the
same time save deal of work"
HEAyy Corn CRoP.-The Practical
Farmer thus notices the corn-field of
Alexander Scott, of Delaware county,
Pa. Ninety bushels to the acre of
shelled corn Is a common crop on this
farm, which will no doubt be exceeded
this year, as it is variously estimated by
different persons at from 100 to 100
bushels per acre. This field of thirteen
acres was managed as in other seasons,
q tough green grass sod of about ten
years standing being first plowed down
to the depth of from six to eight inches.
On the upturned surface fifty bushels
of lime was spread, and seven hundred
pounds of bone to the acre. The soil
being naturally of best quality, it is
difficult to conceive of a more appro-
pirate pabulum for a heavy corn crop.
The corn crop was planted AKA, and
when We saw twas of rich, dark green
color, uniform IN size, many stalks hav-
ing two ears on When this corn-feld
is husked and gathered, We shall give
the results to our readers.
KEEP Few BEEs-Every farmer
should at least keep one or two colonies
of bees so as to have honey occasion
ally on the table, and there IS no good
reason why most farmers should not
keep enough to have honey a common
article of diet. Millions of pounds of
honey go to waste every year, just for
want of bees to gather it. 1t is
estimated that one acre of good
buckwheat in blossom will yield twenty
five pounds of honey per day. When
Eastwood is In blossom the yield is i'm
mense. Wherever white clover a5ounds,
there is a sure cror of honey. Nothing
but ignorance cen account for the great
scarcity of bee-keeping farmers. Now
a-dayS the women are beginning 60 take
this matter in hand. The good wife
who posts herself ON the subject need
have no great trouble in obtaining
honey enough to place upon the table
whenever company comes and some foi
for everyday use besides.
CLOVER Hay FOR HoRsEs.-The New
York Herald says: Many farmers are
strenuously opposed to red clover as
feed for horses of any kind, as they con
tend the poisonous dust which rises
from the dead stalks and dry leaves fire.
quently causes the heaves. For many
years we have kept horses almost ex.
clusively on clover hay through our long
winters, and if the clover was cut wher
about one half the blossoms had turned
brown, and the hay mostly cured in the
cock in good weather, so as to retain
most of its leaves and heads, ans
green appearance, We have never known
It to produce either cough or heaves
We know of no reason why it should
produce q cough in horses any more
than red top or herd grass. Clovel