The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-07-06
THE RIA NTiTION.

INlIlN Nl'' ''''''l ''J'' ~ 'llllllfl ll't
says! n you use purchased potash, re-
ducc II 10 you can bear your finger in IT
halfa minute or more without tingling
sensation, II you can obtain good soft
soap from the refuse grease and lyc ol
ashes saved up dry, then take il and re.
ducc ii Cthe soap down, not to suds, but
70 that it will not be ropy when used
by a soft whitewash brush. Use it freely,
and it matters net materially Just when,
but say at any time most convenient
until chc middle Of July but after that
time it is perhaps better to wait till the
next year before applying II,
FIGHT VERMIN.-A very important
duty Of the poultry breeder is to see
that his chickens are free from yer.
min, Sprinkle sulphur continually
over the chickens, roosts and houses,
the latter two occasionally washed
with kerosene, n you find the slightest
symptoms Of the presence Of ycrmin, get
rid Of them Immediately. Sometimes
careless breeders will lose whole settings
of eggs simply by not occasionally sprink-
ling the hen and nests with sulphur, or
other good insect powder, 10 that the
poor hens, unable TO stand the dreadful
pests, have iOrsakcn their nests, \ care
iuI breeder will never allow the subject
Of lice among his poultry to trouble him,
but will see that he " has none Of it,
So, FO"hry bunai.
WHAT CROPS LEAVE ~ TIIE Soil
Experiments made in Germany, by Dr.
Wclskc and other sayants, show that
the stubblc and roots in the earth, Of
crops that have been harvested, add to
the soil much more nutritiyc value
than IL commonly supposed. These
experiments fully explain the great
value Oh clover as n preparatory crop for
wheat and for all other crops that are
not MANFRED with nitrogen, potash and
phosphatcs,
The clover Of Il single acre ha4 been
found to leave nitrogen enough for one
hundred and sixteen bushels Of wheat,
phosphorlc acid enough for one hundred
and fourteen bushels, and potash enough
'Ior seventy eight bushels. Moreover, it
Is found that most of this valuable
material il left in the best possible con
diiion for isc. Whether the nitrogen Of
the clover comes wholly or partly from
the soil or from the air, il i, certainly
taken from a condition in which it is Of
l't'Io use TO most crops, ana rs converted
l,lo an a'aIIloIc"' 50 that, practically
me cover II a creator OF nitrogen IN the
soil, ~ it is also an efficient purycyor Of
potash and phosphorir acid.
SWEET CoRN.-N Mr.. j. NJ uuyucr
Of Lebanon. southern Ohin r,iscs
over five hundred acres Of sweet
coru annually. and disnosc, or his
immense crop ny ''I1I HfyIhH ana pack
ing u III D'rfrI'' Inc process Is very
S'''P'c. me 'Ic'i' ears ar" steamed FOR
1--WE minutes 10 SET ''' MIX, W" gram
u ~ " I'p',''y remover from the COP
M''n '',,''1 n"''lS ro'ra'' I!c''' ~ II
W." 'l.''' Wv Pr'Ioi'''' ",hc taoIcs,
I"' ',"O "PP'''' loI 'o"' o' I'VE hour'
',"'n '''E lu'"'rr,N, th' gram n''hG con,
a,'!'y 0,,'i'" "o''"S we process o.
u'S'"Y ~ y Wv" P''"'' III p'rr''S oI
,"''' o'''''H cacn Tor Shipment.
,''''1 'nL' Is Ir4u''c' I" nave" 'h' corn
!u', 1T ''' ''E", aye "n,' nave J, urea
w., '"p"Hn W. '''P well '"or O"'''''S
"' ,'''' r''" 1' 'nH con max" one
'',7'l,' "llo"' we Wholr'aIo price OF
W,l'Il II twenty doIlaIa \" twenty-five
dollars per barrel. The drying house
employs fifty persons. At fifty bushels
UI this corn to the acre, 500 acres would
yield 10000 bushels, which when dried
make $3.50 bushels, or 2,OS3 barrels, |
which at twenty dollars per buslcI |
amounts to the handsome sum of forty. |
one thousand six hundred and sixty
]IolIars,
as rms C,,r,nr ,,
q II WWLit 'LI'"h or ''"rN'NS'
uri.t ain h,Ljs - In""" 'E,''T'
r,c,ic n If r]aisina ] Eo"' CIV
nI Ln wr;,", ,6 l"'niN,n, Ip' Sto'N'
iyinr i.oynorio" " "I'u''' paper,
rcmn,uLrr hom -, ,,'a,o"S.
,naI ,nmnI, - "S younger oayS,
JIra'jj ~, "mr lr',ow pumpkins
nn rn,a, ~, L;J'S h'n'''' l"rll'h
rnnL,ry ~. maI, ''''' III
,"nlv Gr m;I,L WI "S Il EoodIy
n ,r and n,h'nr ,,, ,'"' I!Lt'l,,hS "'III',
~ r,aI 'u''N' why 'lc product
,.s ,ri,ed\ nm n, ,,I", ''nnc W IT n
''H P',L'') ! am unable to say; | only
.mltiyntcd, hon G afr less
rrohnhly tn" more "rncrn, "iSn SJ,,,'is,
the squash nso snhst;t",o "] ~
and family usc il the urinr;n,I """''r
culture of the uumnLin Tha
squash being so mucl, preferred for
'ah'e dish, lessons the dc.irabiIlty of the
pumpkin for similar r]urposcs StiIl thn
latter Is the more sure and easily grown
crop, when treated similarly. Pumpkiu4
were always planted among corn. and M
u rule there wa an equally good rrop Of
each as ifgrown atone, and | find Thar
similar results may be had now with
good culture. Perhaps our earn r,u nn,
be planted AS close in the row where
pumpkins are planted among rs wLcro
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