The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

IF every farmer and farmers son
would plant one tree each every year
and every farmers wife and daughter
cultivate half dozen flowers each, how
much brighter the country would be.
In Connecticut worn-out field was
nifty years ago planted in timber. The
held has yielded ten cords per year and
fencing for the farm for twenty years
past, and last year, when cleared, pro-
duced fifty cords per acre.
THERE is good authority for saying
that beets will do we'll if transplanted
when the roots are of size ranging
from half an inch to an inch in diameter.
1t is not safe to transplant if the roots
are smaller Democrat.
A MASSACHUSETTS cultivator says, in
Secretary Flint's report, that he has
noticed IN his garden that " that por-
ton which is hoed or cultivated with
the dew upon the ground produces bet
ter crops than when hoed In the heat of
the day
ACCORDING to a French veterinary
surgeon, if the inside of the ears and
other exposed parts of horses are painted
with few drops of the empyreumatic
oil OF juniper, flies will not annoy them,
the odor being uncomfortable to these
tormentors.
ARE you gong to make flower
bed here ?" asked young lady of her
fathers gardener. eyes, miss; ,them's
the orders" "Why it'll spoil our Gro
quet ground p Cant help it miss !;
your papa says he is bound to have this
plot laid out for horticulture, not hus-
bandry."
For stumbling horses, shoe the foot
as fat as possible, not having calks on
the shoe except in slippery going, and
then as low and short as possible and
yet prevent the horse from slipping.
The opposite foot should be shod like
the lame one. Never let the smith pare
the frog of the foot, whether sound or
otherwise.
ACCORDING to Endemann, meat cut in
slices and placed in room the air of
which is heated to 140 degrees, and only
allowed to enter and escape through
cotton filters, becomes so dry in three
hours that it can be ground, and, since
the albumen and fbrin are not coagu-
lated, it loses none of it's nutriti7e
properties.
AN observing farmer much prefers a
short-legged, broad-boned, full-bodied
COW that will keep in good condition on
good pasture to large, loose-built COW
that gives more milk in the season, but
will not yield so much taking the sea-
son altogether. He finds that the lar
gest mixer is by no means the most
profitable COW to own.
In case of looseness of the bowels
in horses we would give half an ounce of
prepared chalk and half an ounce of
ground ginger in the feed once day.
AS indigestion is probably the cause,
the feed should be carefully selected,
and what grain is given should be
ground. An ounce of salt should also
be given in the feed daily.
To CURE sleeplessness let the full
meal come in the middle of the day.
Two hours after it has been taken walk
three or four miles, or ride twice that
number. Eat light, easily digested
supper, and pass the succeeding hours
till bedtime in way agreeable, but not
exciting. Avoid causes of worry, and
sleep in fresh bed and well-ventilated
apartment.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman, after having experimental
to his hearts content with several kinds
of grease, tobacco water, kerosene,
ashes, unguentum, etc., for killing lice
on cattle, has arrived at the conclusion
that sulphur sprinkled on the animals,
and well rubbed into the hair, and a
tablespoonful given in meal daily for
week, is the simplest, safest, and surest
remedy he has ever tried.
A CORRESPONDENT of the NeW York
Tribune says: Hungarian grass or
millet may be sown for fodder crop as
late as the first of July. It should be
cut before the frostcuts it, and be cured
as hay, or Graded or raked up and put
in bundles, like oats. These will prob
ably be the best fodder crop to raise for
horses. No grain is necessary when
horses are not worked, if they have
plenty of this feed, which is nutritious,
if cut early.
For paste for wall paper take gal
Ion of water, and bring to boil in a
kettle, one quart of -four stirred up in
cold water, and strain through a sieve,
SO as to have no humps in it; stir we'll
into the boiling water. then add one
teacupful of West India molasses. Let
it boil up once, and remove from the
fire, stirring it up occasionally till cool.
This makes very adhesive paste, and
moisture in the room will not dampen
the paper through.
In making softsoap, first put in the
hopper about one bushel of ashes and
pound them down then sprinkle on
little lime, and put on more ashes and
lime and pound down and so until the
hopper is full. Then pour boiling water