Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-17
FARM AND GARDEN.

would become a power to rule the
world. He who puts good agricultural
book or paper in the hands of his neigh
Dor, and awakens thought Ill his mind,
causing him to rise to a knowledge OF
his duties, is public and private bene-
factor.
THERE is no better time to thresh
grain than when it is hauled from the
field. but on most farms this plan is
hardly practicable. As soon as suffi-
GENTLY cured, pack away in the barn or
in well-formed stacks and let it stand
until it is done heading. Save the straw.
If there is not room for it In the barn,
stack it well and rake the stack down
thoroughly so that it will shed well.
IT is not advisable when planting a
hedge to SOW the seed In the row. It is
better to SOW them in nursery bed and
raise the plants while the hedge row is
in course OF breaking and preparation.
Then plants of equal vigor can be select
ed which by trausplanting are made to
have stronger and more fibrous roots !;
while if raised in the row from seed
there would be q great many weak
plants and the hedge would be very ir-
regular.
To DESTROY MoLEs.-Bryan Tyson,
Washington City, gives the following
method for making pills to destroy
moles Make astiff doughsOf corn-meal,
mixing with small quantity of arsenic.
Make hole with finger in the rum
ways. drop in lump of dough about the
size of marble, and then cover over
with lump of earth to exclude the
light. After the first rain, go over the
field again and deposit in all freshly
made roads. once concluded to plant
a piece of sandy bottom land in sweet
potatoes; but as it was much infested
by moles, my success depended on first
DISCRIMINATING them. A few doses of
arsenic given in the way described
brought the desired result, and it was
a very rare circumstance tosee the track
of a mole in this piece of ground during
the entire summer. -,Scientifc Anaeri-
can.
TESTING EGGs.-We will tell you the
way in which we and many others try
eggs, in some instances by the thou
sand. After five or more days incuba-
ton choose sunshiny day; get into
dark place, such as an clubhouse with
out windows. open the door a little to
admit strong ray of light; take the
egg in the lett hand, and form a tele-
scope with both, the right hand being
nearest to the face. Place tn, eye clio
to the hand, and look at the sun through
the egg. You must not look for any
defined form, but simply for that
change which betokens the beginning
of life. This can be so fully depended
upon that many, especially among
pheasant-re alers, try the egg from un-
der three hens in this way by discard
ing the unfertile ones they put two
heats of good eggs under two hens, and
supply the third with an entirely fresh
nest.-Colege Gardener.
WATER IN THE HoUsE.-A prominent
writer says: "Let nobody be deferred
from bringing water in the house by
any fears of failure and perplexity. You
might just as well stop the circulation
of blood in the body because it is SUBJ
ject to arrangement, as to refuse the
circulation of water in the house be-
Cause now and then pipe overfows and
your frescoes are ruined. Good work
men will prevent any such accident, but
If they cannot, give up your frescoes !;
do not give up your life blood. When
/ see the farm-houses, the diaries, the
kitchen, whose only source of supply is
the well in the yard or the hogshead at
the back door, how life would be length
ened and sweetened If all this heavy
and hard and slow ater-bringing could
be supplanted by turn of q screw, /
wonder that we do not manage to intro
duce it, somehow, into our marriage
contracts. What an increase of vital
force would ensue what diminished
demand for divorce what strengthen
ing and up-buildipg of the family bond.
If the girl should refuse to marry until
there was an inexhaustible supply of
water, at least in the kitchen A house
sidered as incomplete in the country as
III the city"
WHAT LIME DoEs.-We agree with
the american Farmer in the opinion
that the chief value of lime as a fertil-
izer consists in its chemical action upon
compounds containing plant food. 1t
says:
eve find from analysis that lime, in
some of it's combinations, forms con
stituent part in nearly all plants. but
varying much in quantity in different
plants. By direct ABSORPTION it is nec-
essary to the perfect development of
vegetation. Its chief office, however, is
in assimilating the properties already
in the soil to the plant. Vegetation
lives only on digested or decomposed
food in the form of liquids and gases
The soil may contain all the constituent
elements of the crop intended to be
raised, and yet it may not be in q condi-
ton to be appropriated. Most soils do
contain carbonates, sulphates, and
phospates of potassium, sodium and
magnesium in combination with silica,
In the form of earthly rocks, feldspar,
etc., but in such condition as to alb
sorb only as they are slowly decom-
posed by exposure to the gases of the
atmosphere and the rays of the sun.
Many of the manufactured fertilizers
make fair showing. by analysis, and
contain the elements which should. sus-