The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-07
Farm, Garden and Household.

In6Te Is no way VI
gad-fy laying its eggs in the backs of
cattle but keeping the cattle in stables
during the day in August or Septem-
Der, which is the season when the fly
lays its eggs.
Spear-mint may be killed by pairing
the surface where it grows and remov-
ing the seeds to the compost or manure
heap, then raking up the surface with
heavy hand rake and sowing timothy,
redtop and clover seed upon it. This
should be done in May.
Good farming pays we'll. Bad man.
agement in farming, as well as in every
other business, will not pay.
We read that farmers in willamette
Valley, Oregon, are selling their cows
at So to $40 per head, and plowing up
their pastures to make room for more
wheat.
A bloated animal may be relieved, SO
they say, by administering half tea
cupful of finely powdered charcoal, well
mixed in bottle of water.
Mr.. Dickie told the Doylestown Club
that he keeps lice from his hen-house
"by hanging up near the roosting
place an old piece of cloth saturated
with coal oil or carbolic acid" Mr..
Barber recommended a 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 whitewash brush.
One poultry fancier cured chicken
cholera by feeding every other day for
two weeks bran mash, in which was
liberal dose of the common garden pep
per. One old. biddy was determined to
die. She was crouched away in an out
of the way spot. He sought her, gave
her whole pepper in doses an hour
apart, kept her in warm place, and in
q few days she gave notice that she
could take care of herself.
This is the report from the counties
King and Queen, Va: The colored men
prefer wood chopping to farming, and
the white people are learning tc put
their hands to their own plows. Dys-
pepsia and dependency are being
worked off by field labor, and the
country is assuming a cheerful, Guilt
waited appearance.
A correspondent tells Moore'S R,.ral
that he stored / LIT weighed bushels of
potatoes in cellar last fall, and Feb Is
they had decreased so bushels by
shrinkage. Variety, russell.
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.
Useful Hints.
To PREVENT RUsT.-If rusty iron is
rubbed with boiled oil. in which some
red lead has been mixed, on a warm
day, the rusty process will be at once
arrested.
Brown BREAD.-One quart rye meal,
two quarts Indian meal, two table,
spoonfuls of molasses. Mix thoroughly
with sweet milk, let it stand one hour,
then bake in a slow oven.
BISCUIT. some of the bread
dough in the morning, as much as
would make a loaf of bread, add one
cup of butter; mix well, let rise, then
make into biscuit, let rise then bake.
TEA RUsK.-One-half pint new milk !;
one cup of hop yeast set the sponge
at night; add -four to the above to
make batter in the morning, add
one-half pint of milk, one cup of sugar,
one of butter, one egg, one nutmeg,
flour to make it sufficiently stiff; let
rise, then roll it out and cut it out let
rise, then bake.
Treatment of InfantiIe Cholera.
DR.. Wertheimber, of Munich, advo-
Gates the following means in the above
cases: First, the use of preparation
of ammonia for neutralizing in the
stomach the excess of acid formed by
the fermentation of undigested milk !;
second, tea, which acts beneficially on
cerebral activity, and surely against the
drownsiness, and which, besides, abates
the sickness and diarrhea. DIR. Wer-
theimber's favorite preparation is: De-
coction Of root of salep, -four grains two
ounces of water liquor ammonia with
spirits of ainseed, ten or twelve drops !;
syrup, one drachm tincture of opium,
two to three drops. One or two tea
spoonfuls every hour, according to the
age of the child. The quantity of tine
ture of opium may be increased if there
are no symptoms. The author con-
siders the disease to be an advanced
degree of previous acute gastro-en-
teritis.
Separating Grain.
A Duanesburgh IN. " farmer has
perfected newinventionf for separating
different grains that get mixed in grow
ing, and it is said to work especially
well in separating barley and buck
wheat. 1t consists of spreading thinly
the barley and buckwheat on barn
floor, after it has been threshed, and
turning the fowls in upon it, when they
will pick out all the buckwheat before
they will touch the barley. A Duanes-
burgh farmer lately purchased barley
and buckwheat mixed for eighty five
cents bushel, and, by the use of this
invention, separated them and sold the
barley portion for 81. 60 per bushel.