Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
Farm HdEiRgs.

Farm RdkiRgs.
THE Progressive Farmer insists that
in no way can you as well impress upon
horse the fact of complete subsection
10 the viii 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 dis
ease, of a mixture of equal parts of salt
and slaked lime. Salt alone will prevent
other cattle from taking the disease.
A THOROUGHBRED bull should be found
in every neighborhood. Wide awake
farmers see the necessity of this. Far
mers should club together and buy such
an animal where no one is able to pur-
chase alone. 4 farmer who is not MAX
ing any improvement IN his stock is
losing ground all the while.
CLOVER groun. Intended for corn
should not be pas:,Ired any in the spring
before it Is broken. When good growth
worm goes down to feed on it, and don't
generally return to injure the corn until
il is beyond their reach, or until TIE
weather is too warm for them.
1t has been found by careful expert
ments that 100 pounds of trlrnips, 80
pounds of potatoes or carrots, % pounds
of sweet milk, 9 pounds of oatmeal, Z
pounds of barley meal, 8! pounds of
bread or flour, pounds of lean meat,
or 81 pounds of peas or beans, will pro-
duce one pound of flesh. These expert
ments were made upon animals that We're
in suitable condition for laying on
flesh.
\ CORRESPONDENT of the NeW En-
gIand Farmer gives the following
method of treatment for animals who
may have gorged themselves with grain:
keep the animals from water. Put a
quart of wood ashes into 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 III this way the horse always Goes
well, and after days treatment water
and feed as usual.
IRONING WHIFFLETREEs. VI. W.
writes to the Country Gentleman as fol-
lows: eff the end of the whiffietree is
rounded SO that it will not catch on trees
or posts, and fiat bar of mon as wide as
the thickness of the whifiietree be
wrapped around the end, reaching far
enough back from the end to allow two
bolts or rivets to go through them and
the whiffietree-about 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
a nut on the back end, and an eye and
hook on the front. Whenever these are
worn, they can be replaced without tax
ing off the iron from the whiffietree.
DIFFERENTIATION OF THE THISTLE. =
The Berlin correspondent of Land and
IIater publishes piece of information
that VIII be welcome to many farmer.
Who ever knew" SAYS he, of two
plants being SO inimical to one another
as one to kill the ether by mere touch !.
This, however, seems to be the case when
rape grows near the thistle. If field is
infested by thistles, give It a turn of rape
seed, and this plant viii altogether
starve, suffOcate and chill the thistle out
OF existence. \ trial was being made
with different varieties of rape seed in
square plots, when it was found that the
whole ground was full of thistles, and
nobody believed in the rape having a
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 fowsr-pots and garden beds, and
the thistle always had to give in, and
was altogether annihilated, whether old
and fully developed, or young and ten
der.
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