Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-07
Fsry, Garden and III IuseL old.
Don't Borrow Tools,


than that of borrowing tools, and for
the following reasons First, One who
owns tools does not like 20 lend them,
and he thinks less Of the man who bor-
rows second, one never will como to
learn how to use borrowed tools nor to
Keep them in order and third, he who
borrows never can be G good farmer.
IL is true that young men just starting
may be allowed to borrow some, but
he should not establish the habit; or,
one may borrow a new implement to
see how 1t works. A man who borroys
Is not likely to use tool as carefully
as If it were his own, and, as a conse-
quence, he does not do careful. nice
work. What can man be thinking
about when he borrows a steel plow,
keeps it several days or q week, and
Drlngs 1t home, as will be most likely
the case, so dull as to be unfit for use
lie owner can only take it to the
shop and at his own expense get it
sharpened. If o man lends tools to
one there are several neighbors who
also will want to borrow and thus it
ls,a harrow, for instance, NAV be going
round through the neighborhood ali
The season. 1t is every way desirable
to cultivate what is called ''eood neigh
borhood," but this cannot be done
where borrowing is practiced.
spayin-Ia 1t Curabley
Is question asked in the WeSterr,
Farmer and answered by its veterinary
editor, William Horne, as follows:
20; SPAWN is not durable; never
was, never will be, the many quack as
sertions to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. At this advanced period of infor-
nation and knowledge in all such and
similar matters q man shows himself
behind the times when the question of
durability of SPAWN is not with him q
settled fact, as an incurable disease.
have been so often asked if SPAWN or
rlngbone can be taken off, that l am
impatient now the moment such a ques-
ton is asked, Neither can be cured,
but may be 80 mitigated that the horse
may be JT.st as useful as though the
exostoeIs of SPAWN or ringbone did not
The surest and with me the best
remedy is the actual cautery (hot iron)
In the hands of qualified man none
other. Next remedy is active blister
ing with the common cantbarides bis
ter ointment or biniodide of mercury.
or iodine ointment, or strong tincture
of iodine, applied for several weeks, but
firing is the best by far and most effec-
tive.
Bran for Horses.
The Journal of the Farm saws
Bran when FED to animals is laxative.
and on this account should not be fed
TO horses in any quantity when hard
wors. is at all required of them, because
Weakness is caused by this relaxation
of the bowels and greatinjury inflicted.
The theory that introduces bran into
the horses stables is as perniclous il
its effects as the indiscriminate use Of
bran itself as the within of the stable
man, and the theory is, that horses
sick or we'll, should be fed upon bran
mashes. A little bran with other and
more substantial articles of food may
however, be Occasionally given with
advantage. but always taking care no
to feed u in quantities to give rise tt
!ooseness of the bowels, nor be counted
TO the poor horse as so much othe.
solid food, for in doing SO you not onl,
deceive yourself, but cheat you
horse.
Cultivated and Grassy Orchard.
The Practical Farmer describes al
experiment made on the Eastern Elk
perimental Farm of Pennsylvania, in
standard Bartlett pear orchard On,
1oir i,,r -,
years and had formed a tough sod
This was carefully and thorough.
p!owed last year. Another portion hat
been cropped with vegetables unit
within two years, when it was seeded
to grass. Both portions had been alik,
dressed with fresh ashes year ago, a
the rate of one bushel per tree. Bot
set heavy crop of fruit this year. TIL
trees on the portion two years in gras
rlpened their fruit soonest, droppe,
their leaves prematurely, and the frui
was smaller than the other. The tree
on the portion plowed last year retain
ed their leaves late, the fruit was larg
and perfect, and sold at 81 per crat
wholesale.
To Cure wens on Cattle.
My cattle have a great many went
Some of my best COWS had them, bu
the COWS are as clear from wens now o
they can be, though they had them fo
years. have three different ways {
curing, but give such as can be ha
at any time and at any place. TAX
half pint of soft soap and dry slacke
lime in powder, mix them somewhs
thicker than a common whitewash
take piece of single, or somethin
similar, and rub in the mixture we
for four or five times day, or in g
many mornings let it heal of itsel
and by that time the wen is off an
your COW will lose neither milk nc
flesh under treatment. There is n
patent to this-it is free to all who ma
see fit to use it.-FdTnaer.
Straw Paper.
In manufacturing straw paper, til
machinery needed is one steam boiler
one bleech-tub ten by twelve feet, wit
false bottom one rotary straw-wasI
er, two engines six by sixteen feet
one machine not less than forty-eigh
inches wide. The straw is first packe
in the bleach-tub and saturated wit
lime-water at the rate of about barre
to ton then boiled for about lively
hours, or until it becomes soft and pl
able. 1t then passes through the wasl
er, which is well supplied with waite
to cleanse it from lime and dirt. The
1T passes to the engines where it