The Lake County star., 1875-10-28
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

says: Founder In 1ts worst form can DC
cured by standing your horse all day in
water deep enough to come over his back.
Running water Is best"
A LITTLE WORK ADvIsED.-The Wes-
tern Rural sensibly says that after the
long summer of hard work by the farmer,
necessary to provide himself and family
with food and raiment, he takes his sea-
son of comparative rest. If little Of
this spare time were properly employed
in adOrning home and its surroundings,
as much or more pleasure, perhaps, might
be derived, from an aesthetic view of the
subject, as could be given by the same
amount of work bestowed in any other
way. The bread and the meat which
supply the physical wants of man are not
ali the things we should live for. The
enjoyment Of even these things, can only
come through the refining influences
which tend to elevate our higher ma
lures. We are creatures of circum-
stances; the soul becoming the reflex of
what surrounds us. In the light of these
facts will it pay to neglect the refining
and soul-inspiring influences, and endure
the unsightly and disordered farm house
and surroundings which can be nothing
less than a perpetual annoyance to re-
fined taste?
The farmer who neglects these things
and spends his time in the village saloon
or upon the street corner, hunting pleas
ure, wastes that which belongs not only
to his family but to his neighbors, and
time which, if properly applied, would
bring mutual results in happiness, a we'll
spring of joy for lifetime, to all con-
cerned. We have known farmers and
their wives to do work enough to make
things delightful all about them, but for
want of system and proper care all was
chaos. The walks were incomplete, the
trees broken and dead, because set in a
hap-hazard.w and left to shift for
themselves without mulching; the fences
dilapidated and down, with the lawn and
flowers laid waste by the feet of the ami
NAL whose proclivitics are to "roOt, hog
or die :" the buildings brown and unin-
viting from the lack of paint. The same
system of neglect extended into the house
as we'll the walls bare, neglected and
without ornament.
This is all wrong. Some time should
be employed in providing for the happi-
ness and pleasantries of home. In fact,
the pleasant associations are the princi-
pal things which constitute home.
Bright faces and light hearts form the
silken cords which unite families to-
gether, and prevent many a wayward
youth from running riot in the ways of
sin. The best way to prevent such evil
results is to "make home happy" Flow
ers are cheap, and gladly send out their
rich fragrance beneath the most lowly
roof. Paint of many colors is abundant,
and like charity, "hides multitude of
SINS" Time is plenty, when used Alright,
and if some farmers would use little as
indicated above, and protect and preserve
the work done, it would aid largely in
lengthening out their days.
FALL PIGs.-Pigs that come in the fall
months, especially the latter ones, are
Improbable stock. In the first place,
they are in the way of the fattening
hogs, and from their inability to "stand
from under" are trampled under foot,
have every disadvantage to contend
against, and wear dwarfish appearance
from which they never recover. Besides,
they generally weigh less than any hogs
in the fattening pen. Take early spring
pigs, and in addition to their regular
allowance, give them the same quantity
rs that consumed by pigs coming four or
FIVE months earlier, and they will make
more and better pork, and not be charge
able with one-fourth the trouble of their
seniors. Perhaps the most profitable use
that could be made of them would be as
roasters, or to feed them high through
the winter and sell them to the butcher
in the spring when pork is scarce. But
for the most profit, always take spring
pigs, and feed them plenty of milk, meal
and clover through the summer time,
and if they are a good breed they can be
made to weigh at eight months old, or at
killing time, from two hundred to two
hundred and fifty pounds, and sometimes
more, which is as much rs the generality
of hogs from twelve to fifteen months old
will weigh.
When we'll fed, spring pigs will gain
and be found much the cheapest pork the
farmer can raise. To make them attain
their greatest weight, however, at eight
months old, they not only require the
best of varied food, with plenty of
skinned milk to begin with, but must
also be one of the best breeds-no Gland
pike" need be SO fed with the expecta-
ton of weighing down any such figures.
Nor should the mother SOW be any thing
but thrifty and well kept through the
year. The best breeds will deteriorate
by neglect or short feeding, and the pigs
OF SOW that has been half fed during
CESSATION will be puny and slow growing,
however plenty the subsequent feed
may be.
FALL PLowING.-Fall plOwing is a
popular method for treating stubble
fields, yet we have known old farmers to
object to it, arguing that so much expo
sure of the soil to the sun and drying
winds causes large part of the fertility
to escape thercfrom. The saturated and
dry condition of the soil being alternated
from too much exposure to the heat of
the sun and drying winds hastens the
decomposition of the organic matter, or
manures in the soil, and converts the
vegetable molds into gases, the only form
of nourishment fit for plant food, so rap
idly and i'm such abundance that the soil
is unable TO contain it all. This surplus
fertility passes in the atmosphere to re-
main until carried down by rains to en-
rich other farms.
However true this argument may be,
there are other claims in favor Of fall
plowing sufficiently valid to more than
overbalance all the objections toit, If the
work be properly done. There is much
to be gained by early plowing, before the
weed seeds have time to mature their
germs of perpetual annoyance to the vigi-
liant farmer. In this way both the Pc
rennial and annual varieties may be effec-
tually eradicated. Fall plowing destroys
the hiding places of noxious insects,
which feed upon the growing crops, and
puts the rubbish in shape to be converted
into manure, which upon spring plowiDg
remains in raw state, to "frc' the crops,
and causes no little damage during very
dry seasons. :,
The ground also becomes thoroughly
disintegrated and settled by the freezing
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