The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-01

TICKS ON SHEEP.
No good farmer who keeps
sheep will allow them to become
covered with ticks and make no
effort to destroy them. Here is
the way successful wool grower
manages his sheep: "Seven years
ago, two weeks after shearing, ]
immersed my lambs in tobacco
water, being careful to keep their
eyes and noses out. AS soon as
they were dry, / commenced feed
ing sulphur to my sheep with
their salt, being careful to feed
soon after q storm in order that
the sheep might not get wet while
the pores of the skin were open
from the action of the sulphur.
During the past seven years ]
have avoided driving my sheep
into a sheep wash until the yard
has been empty at least twenty
four hours. ] have seen but seven
ticks on my flock of 1G0 during
these seven years, and they were
introduced by the purchase OF
rams"
ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION.
Some fowl breeders are restless
under the ordinary way of hatch
ing chickens, and are looking
around for an artificial incubator
to hatch out 500 to 1000 at q
time. To such men 1 would say,
don't look any further, as it is en-
tirely useless to think that you
can succeed with such ''machine.' u
There are several artificial. incu-
bators now advertised for sale in
the United States; none of them
will give satisfaction when we
have changes in the weather sud-
denly from 80 to so degrees, as
we often do. The fact that such
incubators have been in the mar
ket, from time to time, for forty
years, without anyone having been
able to succeed permanently with
them, ought to show that they are
more interesting in theory than in
practice. Keep your money and
use hens.
A CHEEP WOODLAND FENCE.
Take unsharpened rails, make
the fence three rails high, as fol
lows: Let one end of each raj
rest on the ground, raising the
other end as high as you want
the fence. The first rail is Sc
cured in its place by two stakes
driven into the ground In the
form of an Y. The next rail is
placed some feet behind the one
staked, so that when two stakes
are driven into the ground, and
resting on the rail already in po-
sition, they will support the sec
ond rail at the proper hight, and
thus the fence Is continued, the
stakes supporting the upper rail
and also holding the next under
one firmly to its place.
CARPENTER TOOLS FOR FARMERS.
Farmers should always have
certain useful tools to enable them
to do any little job on rainy days
or in the winter season when one
has no outdoor work to do. A
plane or two, bits and brace, one
or two augers, chisels, files, draw
ing knife, screw driver, two good
saws, one small for fine work, and
a few other things will make q
good ''outfit" for farmer. Then
go to the hardware store, and buy
q years supply or more of vari
Gus kinds of mai Is, screws and
e boards suitable Cor all kinds Of
"tinkering," and you will be sure
to use them sooner or later. Buy
screws by the gross, and the finer
kinds of nails and brads by the
paper, as they cost but little, and
are always worth their cost. Far
mers owe a duty to their sons to
learn them to use such tools be.
fore they go out in the world tC
make their living, as no man ever
regretted the time spent in his
boyhood to learn how to use car
penter tools, because there are
often things to be repaired O
made that any man ought to bt
able to do, and not send for me
chanic.
SETTING POTS.
From many experiments made
it appears that the upper ends O
pots, as they grow, when set il
the ground, last much longer thai
the butts do. The reason is, tina
the pores Of the wood of the up
per ends, when turned down, car
ry out the water, while the pore
of the butts carry it into thu
wood.
If you have fruits for sale, an
can get a fair price at home, @
at q near home market sell then
and not run the risks of sendin
them TO n distant market, wher
perhaps half the price they sell 70
goes for freight and commission
An Ohio peach grower give his e1
perience as follows: ''the cost {
crates, nails and stencillings wa
20 cents per burshel; of gather
ing, sorting and packing the frui
and hauling two miles to tn
depot, 20 cents, express freigh
average, so cents-making in a
81. Then the selling price in tn
cities ranged from S1.50 to $40
per bushel for the average elias
Of fruit; but at some times in no
weather, a glut in the marke
would bring the price below cost
and often large quantities woult
spoil from being kept over night
so that after paying the commits
sion, ten per cent, and the con
tingencies of postage and trave
the net return was not over % t
80 cents per bushel-not hal
enough to pay the cost of grow
ing.
PACKING FOR SHIPPING.
Shippers of fruits, butter, chees
and other productions are not a.
ways aware of the advantage O
having clean, new and cookbook
ing packages. If a really goo,
thing be sent in a moor rouol