Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-09
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

ueSlfON Ieu anu Dlack anus. cOckIOdCu-
es, spiders, chinch bugs and all the
myriads of crawling pests which infest
our houses during the heated term.
Take two pounds of alum and dissolve
1t in three or four quarts of boiling wa
ter let it stand on the stove until the
alum is all melted then apply with
brush while nearly boiling hot, to every
joint and crevice in your closet, bed
steads, pantry-she Ives, and the like.
Brush tie crevices in the floor of the
mop-boards, if you suspect that they
harbor vermin.
Lone FURRows. -A German agricult-
ural journal prints a plea for long fur
rows. The turning of the pillow and the
commencing of new furrow require
more exertion in the plowman and the
team than continued work on a straight
line and how great may be the loss of
time from frequent Interruptions in
short turns may be shown in the follow
ing calculations In field 225 feet long.
five and half hours out of ten are used
In redirecting the pillow with length
of SIS feet, four hours are sufficient for
the purposes and when the pillow can
proceed without interruption for 500
feet, only one and half hours of the
daily working time are consumed.-Ru-
raj Register.
CosT OF Crops. A Delaware county
(Ohio) correspondent of the Rural Ne,0
Yorker estimates the cost of growing
the different crops on land worth sixty
dollars an acre to be-corn, 80 bushel
per acre, 30 cents per bushel 60 bush
els per acre, % cents 40 bushels per
acre, 81 to 80 cents 80 bushelsper acre,
81 to 40 cents. Wheat, average cost,
one dollar per bushel Oats. at least 30
cents at 80 bushels per acre. Potatoes,
at 100 bushels per acre, 20 cents. These
estimates include manure, blowing,
narrowing, drilling, planting, thorough,
good cultivation and the stalks and
straw of corn and grain to pay for husk-
ing or threshing, and five dollars per
acre for interest and taxes on land.
WASTE LANDs.-The reclamation of
land and utilizing it, thus making waste
places productive, is one of the econOm-
ical M es a farmer has of reducing the
proportion of his taxes to production.
Thousands OF acres of most productive
lands lie idle and taxes are paid on them
IL almost every State. the net product
resulting from the reclamation of which
would pay the entire taxes of the farmer.
Often the best lands on the farm are
thus wasted-worse than wasted-for
the want of a little vim and enterprise
on the part OF the owner. 1t should be
rule with all farmers not to own an
acre of ground that does not pay him a
profit (elther by production or appre-
citation In yalue) on its assessed vaiua-
ton. No business man can afford to
keep such land if he has active profta-
BILE use for his capital.
HOUSEHOLD MEASURES all fami-
lies are Lot provided with scales and
weights, referring to ingredients in gen.
eral use by every housewife. the follow
ing information may be useful
Wheat flour, one pound is one quart.
Indian meal, one pound two ounces is
one quart.
Butter, when soft, one pound one
ounce is one quart.
Loaf-sugar, broken, one pound is one
quart.
White sugar, powdered, one pound
one ounce is one quart.
Best brown sugar, one pound two
ounces is one quart.
Eggs, average size, ten eggs are one
pound.
Sixteen large tablespoonfuls are half
pint, eight are a gill, four half a gill,
etc.
WET PAsTUREs.-A writer in the Lon
don Field relates his experience in re-
claiming wet pastures. He has found
shallow draining the N )st advantageous,
and that the tile MY be safely laid
either nearer the surface or further
apart than in draining arabic land.
Having tried lime and barn-yard ma.
nure as top dressings after drainage, he
was led to substitute bone-dusG, and
found it much more beneficial than
either or both OF the former. On 9
thin, light soil, LOCO pounds of bone:
produced fine, rich, thick heritage, IL
place of the coarse grasses and sedge:
that grew previous to the draining. Oh
heavier clay the quantity OF bones wat
increased with good effect. An outla,
of $40 per acre in bones, he found wa
returned in very short period, Will
the benefit was still apparent after thu
expiration of twenty years.
LEARN1NG FARMING.-The New Yorl
World says: Again and again-ant
ESPECIALLY dt illlo ScdcOu VI tuc
young men ask advice of agriculture
editors as to the best way to learn farm
ing. The answer In all cases is simpl
and brief Go to work on the bes
farm and under the direction of the bes
farmer you can find who will accep
your services. There is other way-n'
schools nor system of study that will 81
quickly make farmer of young man
but he should not neglect to study
Every agency that he can employ t
give him a better insight into the scien
tifc features of husbandry should
employed even when his bones ache wit
labor of the day, his mind may work
and two hours daily given to wise read
ing or study will enable him to acct
mulate vast amount of theoretical q
well as practical information from til
recorded experience of others.
CUT-WoRMs. New York Time
says: We have succeeded in great
reducing the number of this pest b