The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-10-06
Rural Topics.


Written for the News by q
farmer and fruit grower of great
practical experience.
GOOD wHITEwAsH.
When oil paint cannot be affor-
ded for fences and out houses, a
good whitewash will look well
and be durable. The following
wash is excellent:
Take clean barrel that will
hold water. Put into it half a
bushel of quicklime, and slake. it
by pouring over it boiling water
sufficient to cover it four or five
inches deep, and stirring it until
it Is slaked. When quite slaked,
dissolve it In water, and add two
pounds of sulphate of zinc, which
may be had at any of the drug
glsts, and one of common salt,
and which in a few days will cause
the whitewash to harden on the
woodwork. Add sufficient water
to bring it to the consistency of
thick whitewash.
To make the above wash of q
pleasant cream color, add three
pounds of yellow ochrc.
For fawr color, add lbs. UNI
her, lb. Indian red, and 1 ID.
lamp-black.
For gray or stone color, add 4
lbs. lumber, and , lbs. lampblock.
The color may be put on with a
common ~hitewssh brush. and
will lie found much more dnrable
than common white wash.
TFFIiS| NII,r cows.
All this season ot the year wuen
pastures are short from d.oash,
or otherwise, COWS should be fed
q little meal or bran daily, unless
you have some late green crop
that can be cut for them. This
feeding should be done, not only
for the benefit of the cows, but
for the money il puts into the
pockets of the owner. Two pounds
Of Indian meal, worth at most
three cents, and the same quantity
of wheat bran, or middlings, not
costing any more, say five cents,
for all, fed daily in q slop to n
cow, will keep her in good condi-
ton, when her pasture is very
poor, and her increase of milk
will be double the cost of the feed.
An experienced dairyman is pre-
pared to give extra feed ut this
season of snort pasture, begin
ming generally in August, and to
keep up the flow of milk, then thc
flush feed which comes later in the
fall will keep up his profits from
milk almost equal TO the early
feed of spring. The result of q
whole season-protit or loss-often
depends upon the management of
n few weeks at the period of short
pasture. If the diaryman has not
some green food, such as oats or
corn, to supflX this deficiency,
then he should FEED grain in small
quantity to carry them over. Corn
meal and wheat-bran in equal guam
titles, or bran alone will answer
the purpose-keep up the condi-
ton of the COW and her flow of
milk"
800 POULTRY CHOLERA.
Poultry cholera is prevalent in
many places, and the remedies
prescribed do not always effect a
cure The following are said to
be effectual:
l. "Take equal parts of sui
phur alum, resin, and cayenne
pepper and copperas. Powder all
ingredients not purchased in a
fine condition; mix thoroughly,
and add about two tablespoonfuls
OF this mixture to six quarts of
meal, mixing it thoroughly with
the meal and wetting it. If they
do not eat readily, keep other feed
away from them, and they will
soon come to terms"
2. Make mixture of two
ounces each of red pepper. alum,
resin and Hour of sulphur, and
put it in their food in proportions
OF one tablespoonful to three pints
OF scalded meal. In severe cases,
give about ons-third of a teaspoon
full in a meal pellet once a day to
each fowl, putting a small lump of
alum in their drinking water. /
have tried tho above ingredients
with marked success; have cured
fowls in the last stage of the dis
case. i make it practice now to
give my fowls some OF it once or
twice week, and no symptoms of
any disease amono them