The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.
Around the Farm.

Around the Farm.
RED PEPPER FOR FowLs.-C Cayenne
pepper, mixed in the cooked food of
fowls, will make them lay many more
eggs than if not so fed. Make n pudding
daily, winter and summer, of Indian
meal or meal and bran, and season it
strong with pepper, and it will pay well.
One who keeps dairy of twenty COWS
for milk alone says: 81 find after sew
eral years experience that shipstuffs and
corn bran mixed are the cheapest and
best feed have ever tried. feed one
peck per day; shipstuffs weighing thirty
pounds per bushel and corn bran about
twentyfour pounds per bushel."
IT does not iniuro the best grasses on
any permanent pasture to Craze close;
for those that will not bear to be eaten
down may as well die out and make room
for those that will thicken into perfect
mat, like the sward SO often met with in
England, where there are rs many as
seventy distinct varieties growing on any
square yard in field.
FLAX is often sown with barley. The
barley should be sown first, and har-
rowed in; afterward the flax is sown, and
rolled or covered with brush harrow.
In this way yield of from fifteen to
twenty bushels of barley and from ten to
twelve of flax can be obtained; and, by
the use of proper screens, the barley and
flax can be readily separated.
AS remedy for lice on pigs, carbolic
disinfecting soap is recommended. Any
10 ~ INV &c
crystal carbolic acid with half pound
of hard soap. No brush is necessary for
its application. The cake may be taken
moist and rubbed on the animal till a
thick lather is formed. Or, one ounce
of carbolic acid mixed with half pound
of lard makes compound which may be
rubbed ON with good results. Only one
application is said to be necessary in
! either
The editor of the Journal of Horti-
culture, London, says sawdust is good
thing for earthing celery, placing it be-
tween the rows and around the plants
after the leaves and stalks have been
brought together, pressing the sawdust
about them SO as to compact and insure
blanching perfectly. 1t is better, he
thinks, than soil, not being SO liable to
cause stalks to rot, and is good pro-
lection against frost. The only obiec-
ton is that some sawdust may impart a
taste to the celery.
A FARMER writes to the Live Stock
Journal that he has two-year-old grade
short-horn heifer which slipped and fell
and lost her calf lately, though it was
not due for some months yet. When he
began milking her to relieve the infiam-
nation and oppression of the bag which
ensued she gave at first two and after
ward three quarts day. The editor in
forms him that this is not an unusual
case, and advises him to go on milking
her, as that will undoubtedly be better
for the COW, while there is no reason why
the secretion, being perfectly natural,
should not also be wholesome.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati
Gazette sends the following tables pre-.
pared for his own use and that of his
boys, by which he claims to be able tc
determine with some considerable degree
of accuracy the quantity of corn to the
acre. OF course in calculating the yield,
one must make allowances for missing
hills: Square feet in one acre, $500
corn planted feet inches square gives
1904 hills to the acre. Each hill occupies
IA square feet and q fraction over
Hence-100 hills to the bushel, 30 97-10(
bushels to the acre; Is hills to the
bushel, Al 22-75 bushels to the acre; &C
hills to the bushel, 81 $3.50 bushels tc
the acre; 60 hills to the bushel, 81 47-5(
bushels to the acre; 40 hills to the bushel
II 17-40 bushels to the acre; 30 hills tC
the bushel, 103 7-30 bushels to the acre
Corn planted feet and inches square
gives 8. 555 hills to the acre. Each hill
occupies 123 square feet, 100 hills t.
the bushel, 35 55-100 bushels to the acre
rs hills to the bushel, At 30-75 bushels t,
the acre; 60 hills to the bushel, SO 15-6I
bushels to the acre; so hills to the bushel
II $50 bushels to the acre; 40 hills I,
the bushel, SS 35-40 bushels to the acre
80 hills to the bushel, 11S 1880 bushel
to the acre. Planted feet and inche
square gives us 4,124 hills to the acre
Each hill occupies little over 101 squar
feet; 100 hills to the bushel, Al 21-10
bushels to the acre; rs hills to thu
bushel, 55 bushels to the acre; 60 hill
to the bushel, 6S 44-60 bushels to tn
acre; so hills to the bushel, 80 24-5
bushels to the acre; 40 hills to the bushel
103 40 bushels to the acre; 80 hills t.
the bushel. 137 1870 bushels to the acre
For old upland, 1 plant 3 feet and
inches square, marking with four-poin
marker, and thin to three stalks to til
hill, with satisfactory results. For ric
ground, feet inches, or feet inche
for very rich. In all cases thin to thre
stalks in the hill.