Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-24
Farm. Garsen and Household
Ten Rule. for Farmer.

Ten Rules Tor Farmers.
I. Take good papers and read them.
2. Keep an account of farm opera
lions.
s. Do not leave implements scattered
over the farm, exposed to snow, rain,
and heat.
4. Repair tools and buildings at a
proper time, and do not suffer subse-
quent threefold expenditure of time and
money.
5. Use money iudiciously, and do
not attend auction sales to purchase
all kinds of trumpery because it is
cheap.
6. See that fences are we'll repaired,
and cattle not grazing in the meadows,
or grain fields, or orchards.
z. Do not refuse to make correct ex-
periments, in a small way, of many new
things.
8. Plant fruit trees we'll. care for
them, and OF course get good crops.
3; Practice economy by giving stock
shelter during the winter also good
food, taxing out all that is unsound,
haIt rotten, or mouldy.
10. Do not keep tribes of cats and
snarling dogs around the premises, who
eat more in month than they are
worth in life time.
Hay Fever and Sneezinx,
The prescription OF Horace Dobell,
M. D., is as follows Chloral hydrate
and camphor, each 16 grains, carbolic
acid 20 grains, pure morphia II grains,
oleic acid enough to dissolve the NOR
phia) about 20 grains, castor oil (clean-
est and fnest) drachms. Rub we'll
together to make lotion, This NAV
be scented by whatever perfume the
patient likes best. As often as the
sneeze threatens the operation should
be repeated. The best continuance for
the efficient application of the above is
as follows: A lockwood case is made SO
tho.G it can be carried in the pocket, in
which a bottle must be tightly fixed ;
to the lid of the box is fixed the cork,
and in the cork is fixed a club.shaped
rod of polished ivory long enough to
reach to the bottom of the bottle, and
also to the upper extremity of the nos
tril. The bottle is to be kept about
half full of the lotion above prescribed
and the little rod immersed in it. Di.
rectly the patient feels the tickle or
other signal of coming sneeEe he I'M
corks his bottle, withdraws his ivory
club, wet with the lotion, and gently
pushes it up the nostril until it reaches
the seat OF the sneeze signal there it
should be gently pressed so as to apply
the lotion to the part.
Keeping Grapes Fresh.
A method of preserving grapes for a
long time, even from one autumn till
the next summer, has come into ex-
tensive use. The grapes are kept on
the vine as long as possible-in France,
where this device originated, to the
end of October or beginning of Novem-
Der. Before the first frosts appear they
are cut, leaving portion of the stem
of about two or three knots below the
bunch and two above it. The section
of the upper end is then to be covered
with wax, to prevent the evaporation of
the liquids contained in the pores OF
the wood; and after carefully removing
all the unsound grapes the lower end OF
the stem is inserted in small elongated
bottle filled with water, having a small
quantity of wood charcoal in the
bottom. The space between the stem
and the tightly fitting cork, through
which it is inserted, is to be filled up
with wax. The bottles thus fitted are
to b. placed on shelves in a dry room
and there arranged so as not to fall
over, this being best prevented by in
serting them in holes bored in frame
rs close together as they can stand con
veniently.
Prize Farms.
1t is part of the regular business O.
the English agricultural associations t.
offer premiums, frequently of $500 il
amount, for the best cultivated farms
Generally there are three premiums of
ferea for the first, second and thirG
best of the farms entered for competi
tion. In some parts of Germany, il
addition to the award OF prizes to the
best managed farms, the worst cult
waited farms are sought out, and the
students of the agricultural schools ar,
given the opportunity of comparing tn,
worst and best managed farms together
This is most valuable aid in thei
education. We commend the idea O
awarding premiums to the best-culti
waited farms of certain districts to tn
State agricultural societies, believin,
this would result in great good. TIL
prize farms might not be visited by
large number of farmers from a dis
lance, but the agricultural journal
would take pains to make known in tn
widest manner everything of interes
connected with them.
How Sheep are Taught TO Jump.
I have seen boys, and even men, who
in moving sheep from one field to al
other, would let down only one end O
the two or three top bars or rails, an
compel the sheep to jump over the res
thereby running the risk of breakin
their legs, and learning them to JUMP
The common-sense way to take shee
out of field is either to open wild
your gate, or let your bars or raj
clear down, and thus give the flock
clear gangway, and avoid further tror
BILE. Farmer.