Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-05-07
Odds and Ends.

The Progressive Farmer insists
that in no way can you as well i'm
press upon horse the fact of COM
plete subsection to the will of the
master, as by riding him.
Murrain may be prevented in cattle
by giving them two tablespoonfuls,
twice week during the prevalence
of the disease, Of mixture of salt
and slaked lime, equal parts. Salt
alone will prevent other cattle from
taking the disease.
Clover ground intended for corn
should not be pastured any in the
spring before it is broken. When a
good growth of green is turned un-
der this late the worm goes down to
feed on it, and don't generally return
to injure the corn until it Is beyond
their reach, or until the weather is
too warm for them.
1t has been found by careful expcr-
iments>that 100 pounds Of turnips, so
pounds of potatoes or carrots, 25
pounds of sweet milk, 8 pounds of
oatmeal, pounds Of barley meal, 81
pounds of bread or flour, pounds OF
lean meat, or 81 pounds Of peas or
beans, will produce one pound of
flesh. These experiments were made
upon animals that were in suitable
condition for laying on flesh.
A correspondent Of the Ne'c En-
9lund Farmer gives the following
method of treatment for animals who
may have gorged themselves with
grain: "Kecp the animals from wa
ter. Put quart Of wood ashes into
a pail Of luke-warm water, stir it up
and let the horse drink one or two
quarts of this alkali water at intervals
Of one or two hours, and in this way
the horse always does well, and after
a days treatment water and feed as
usual"
IRONING WHIFFErREEs.- +. NJ
w. writes to the Country Gentleman
us follows: eff the end OF the Whit
fetrce is rounded so that it will not
catch on trees or posts, and flat bar
of iron rs wide rs the thickness OF
the whitllctree be wrapped around
the end, reaching far enough back
from the end to allow two bolts or
rivets to go through them and the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. four inches-this
part of the ironing is then finished
to last until the wood is worn out
The rivet or bolt nearest the end
should have Il nut on the back end
and an eye hook on the front. When
over these are worn, they can be re-
placed without taking off the iron
from the whiffictree."
DIFFERENTIATION OF THE THISTLE.
The Berlin correspondent Of Land
and Water publishes piece Of in
formation that will be welcome to
many a farmer. "Who ever knew"
says he, "of two plants being so in
imical to one another rs one to kill
tne Othef Dy mere toucn: ms,
however, seems to be the case when
rape grows near the thistle. If Il
field is infested by thistles, give it a
turn of rape seed, and this plant will
altogether starve, suffocate and chill
the thistle out of existence. A trial
was being made with different varie-
ties of rape seed in square plats, when
it was found that the whole ground
was full of thistles, and nobody be-
lieved in the rape having fair run.
But it had, and as it grew the thistle
vanished, faded, turned gray, and
dried up as soon as the rape leaves
began to touch it. Other trials were
then made in fiower-pots and garden
beds, and the thistles always had to
give in, and was altogether annihila-
ted, whether old and fully developed
or young and tender.