The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-05-14
FARM AVID PRESIDE.

, asking Information as 10 the best way OF
, saving clover seed. have been expert
menting with this for the last six years;
first with strippers, made for this pur-
pose, which ! found, after several years
use, did not gather the seed clean enough.
, then tried a mower, but found could
not get the clover up clean with a rake,
as the second crop, which is the one
bearing the seed, is generally very short.
My next experiment was with a self
raking reaper, which proved quite a
success, as IL threw the clover of in
punches. Do not let the clover get too
ripe before cutting for seed, else a great
deal will he wasted. Cut when the heads
are handsomely brown, and the stalk
dead, as there will then be scarcely any
waste, and the seed just as plump as II
cut later. When thoroughly dry, you
can cut Immediately, but IL you fail to
do this, put away where II will keep
dry, as damp clover is very difficult to
hull, and at the same time impossible to
get all the bolls of the stock. In order
to secure a good crop of seed, the first
crop Of clover ought to he cut by the
middle Of June.
FALSE EcoSoMY.-We do not believe
that any of our readers are guilty Of the
following practices, but will enumerate
a few that Farmers Wife," in the
New York Tribune complains of;
Stop putting lard in your butter; IL
we must eat hogs fat, pray give it TO us
pure, and not mixed with rapid butter.
Girls, stop dipping your fingers in the
bucket OF milk and wetting the cows
teats; Of all dirty habits this il the
worst.
Wives, stop setting the crcam;jar in
the family living-room to make the cream
sour.
Husbands, stop hanging your socks on
that same cream,iar to dry over night.
Women, stop putting your butter in
the back bedroom to stay till you are
ready to go to market.
Ladies, stop holding your noses when
you 60 into your cellar to attend to your
milk. Might as well smell the rat and
mould as to eat it daily in your butter
and cream.
Women. stop telling fibs when you
take your butter to the store. Did any
body ever know woman to sell butter
of over week oldg Stop coloring your
butter with annatto, and then asking
folks if they can't taste the blue grass
in it.
SPARE THE CRow.-Talking Of crows,
Bellair stage driver says the country
people are poisoning them with strych
nine, according to a time-honored reli-
gious custom at this season of the year.
The fatal dose is administered by being
saturated in corn, which IL scattered
around freely. Some of the crows die
on the spot, Others fly away and somer-
sault in the sky, and others 90 blind
and die of starvation and the stomach
ache. An instance is cited of one worthy
but wicked countryman gathering up
twelve hundred crows he poisoned, tax
ing their scalps and reaping his reward
from the county authorities, six and
half cents apiece-seventy-five dollars.
Crows, no doubt, perform a better part
for farmers than they are given credit |
for. Nature furnishes scavenger birds
and animals adapted to the wants of
every climate. In South America the |
condors perform this part, aided by the
buzzards, which latter birds are also an
important feature in preserving the san
itary equilibrium in the southern por-
tons of the United States. In Charles
ton, South Carolina, the buzzards are
protected by wise laws, which impose a
fine of five dsllars for every one slain.
The birds are 50 tame in Charleston that
they sit on the roofs of the market
houses on the watch to grab up every
bit of ofial that is thrown out from the
butchers stalls. In the summer time,
the birds, being very numerous, do a
large part Of the city's scavenger work.
In the same way crows, no doubt, are
beneficial to the country in this latitude,
as their name of "carrion crows" would
indicate, besides making themselves gen.
orally useful in roofing out the grubs
that hatch insects and destroy the labors
of the farmer. No doubt if the crows
were properly encouraged to do so, they
would be useful in destroying the potato
bug, lately 40 destructive in all parts of
this country. Who knows until we have
tried Baltimore San.
LAMPAss IN HoRsEs.-Veternari
in the Chicago Tribune, says: have
to say again what have said repeatedly
in these columns, namely, The swelling
or the succulent condition of the gums
and of the bars of the roof Of the mouth ,
Of horse, usually called lampass, does
not require any treatment whatever.
or cutting into those bars, is
useless quackery, Injuries the horse, causes
the latter considerable pain, and inter 1
feres more or less permanently with the
functions Of those bars, which seem to /
be there to enable the horse to swallow |
his food with greater facility, for the !
same constitute a valuable help of the
tongue, assisting that organ in moving i
the food backward and upward towards .
the esophagus
"But," the believer in lampass will {
say, eve have seen very often, in large '
number of horses, that the bars and the ,
gums were swelled; the former not sell ,
dom to such an extent as to make them ,
protrude below the lower border of the
incisors of the upper jaw; the fact is
there; nobody can deny it," This is all
right; in some cases, or in some horses,
such a swelling of the gums and Of the
bars does occur; in others 1t is only APP
parent. In a colt, or in a young horse,