The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-12
FARM AND HOME.
Practical suggestions.

cut.worms in corn fields by placing
Z" a tablespoonful of salt on each hill
after it is planted and before it is up. "
So LONG as dairymen travel through
the country, pick out the best mixers,
and keep them for milk till they grow
old without raising a single calf, no i'm
provement of our milking stock need be
expected.
AN experienced onion-raiser drives
maggots from his growing crop by form
ing shallow trench with the corner of
his hoe alongside the infested bulbs,
and pouring in suds made by dissolving
two or three gallons of soft soap in
barrel of water, previously adding one
pound OF copperas to the soap.
OH and repair the harness. I'm
buckle all the parts and wash clean with
soft water, soap and brush. A little
turpentine or benzine will take off any
gummy substance which the soap fails
to remove. Then warm the leather,
and, as soon as dry on the surface, APP
ply the oil with paint brush or a
swab. Neat's-foot oils the best. Hang
up the harness in warm place, to dry,
but do not let it burn.
DIR. DICKIE told the Doylestown Club
that he keeps lice from his hen-house
"by hanging up near the roosting- place
an old piece of clothe saturated with
coal oil or carbonic acid" Mr.. Barber
recommended free use of water by
means of hose. Mr.. Tergo cures bad
cases by "applying coal oil about the
roOst, and then setting fire to the oil. "
Mr.. McNair destroyed the parasites by
application of fish brine with white
wash brush.
ONE poultry fancier cured chicken
cholera by feeding every other day for
two weeks bran mash, i'll which was
liberal dose of the common garden pep
per. One old biddy was determined to
die. She was crouched in an out-of-the-
way spot. He sought her, gave her a
whole pepper in doses an hour apart,
kept her in a warm place, and in the
course of a few days she gave notice
that she could take care of herself. -
Exchange.
To MAKE grating wax, take five parts
of rosin, one part of beeswax, one part
of tallow. Melt these in skillet, tin
cup, or metal vessel the skillet being
preferable, as it can be handled better,
and the wax keeps warm longer in it.
Melt these over the fire and mix to-
gether well. When the scions are set
say as many as twenty or thirty, or as
few as are wished-have the mixture
ready and apply it warm, with small
wooden paddle. See that every part is
covered and the air completely excluded.
1t requires no bandage.
LUCIUs DUNBAR, of West Bridgewater,
Mass, tells the Poultry bulletin that
he has never failed, in a long experience,
to cure rcup in fowls by the use of
" solution of chlorinated soda. He
takes four or five drops of it in tea
spoonful of cold water and turns it
down the throat while another person
holds the bill open. 1t is also well TO
wash the bill and nostrils thoroughly
the better with warm water containing
a few drops of the same drug, after
ward rinsing it out of the eyes of the
bird. In bad cases it may be neces-
sary TO administer the treatment two or
three times daily for several days.
ECONOMY may be practiced in a thou.
sand ways, and one way is in our fuel
Wood that has been summed few days
after cutting and splitting it, and then
housed four months or more, is worth
for the family purposes of warming,
cooking and washing, almost twice as
much as when green. But few farmers
realize the value of dry wood, especially
during the winter season, and hence but
little wood is stored during the sum-
mer. Be sure to furnish plenty of oven
wood. This should be piled in part |
of the wood-housc by itself. 1t will !
promote kindly feeling in the family
will save time otherwise lost in kindling |
fire with green wood. Then let us pre-
pare a good supply of dry wood for
winter, full six months before wanted
for use.
SOME timely hints relative to the SOW
ing of clover were given at meeting of
a farmers club in Scotland. The speaker
said that owing to the small size Of the
seeds large proportion of them are
buried too deeply and fail to terminate.
It had been found by experiment that
The greatest success with red clover is
attained when the seed is covered with
only half an inch of soil when covered
one and half inches deep, fifty per
cent. of the seeds terminate, but at a
lepth of two inches not single plant
appeared. White clover will not show
above the surface if the seeds are COW
red one and half inches deep, and at
of an inch only fifty per
,ent. of the seeds produce plants. 1t
S necessary, therefore, to prepare care
ully soil for clover and to SOW and
,over it with discretion. Rolling helps
o secure fine seed bed, aud conse-
luently an even distribution.
A POTATO culturist says he was edu-
,ated to plant three or four good-sized
ubers in hill. but, much against his
he was finally induced to cut
he seed, and for seven years past has
,een cutting closer and closer each sea-
on, until now he cuts as near as posi-
de to single eyes, and plants in rows
hree feet apart and ten or twelve inches
n the row. His success has been greater
ince he adopted this plan. Each spring
he sells from half an acre of land 100
bushels of surplus, having used liber-
lily in his family during winter, and re-
erved enough for seed. He prefers
Carly Rose, and his soil and his tillage