Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-23
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


Household Hints.
OATARRH. "A subscriber, who say
that there is no such thing as q sure cur
for catarrh in the head, recommend
full and frequent use Of water to cleans
the nostrils. When the head is YER
stufy and heavy, warm W ter should b
used with the occasional addition of
little salt. Pulverized or ground sugar
to DO used as snuff, is also recommend
cd. Another advised the application O
ground sugar with q cancels hair brush
Another says that II catarrh is no
chronic, but arises from recent cold,
liberal use Of cayenne pepper at meal
will effect cure.
To RID Rooms, BEDDING, ETC., OF
BUGS. from IN apothecary I
solution OF corrosive sublimate, calle(
"bug poison" Apply this with a brusl
to all the cracks in bedsteads, bureaus
behind bureau and washstand drawers
etc., once week, after the room ha'
been swept and busted. If the vermiI
are In the walls, wet some common
strong smoking tobacco, and with {
knife blade thrust into all the cracks
above and below the dashboard around
the room. This will eradicate the pests
as 1 have proved, il few weeks. The
rooms must be carefully looked over,
occasionally, until spring, when a few bugs
may appear in March, but after spring
house cleaning they will be gone until
new importation arrives with new
servants.
A VICTIM TO KITCHEN Stops. -Some
in Pennsylvania village built him O
house and store and commenced trad
ing. just beneath and to one side Of
the mans sleeping room was q filthy
pool several feet in diameter, caused by
the kitchen Stops which flowed from the
sink out through a leaden pipe. In the
spring following the occupation of the
premises, the wife was taken sick of
bilious fever, but after long illness
recovered. The next autumn the man
took the fever and died. The store and
goods were sold to satisfy the New York
creditors, paying some twenty-five or
thirty cents on dollar. Thus ended
the life and usefulness of young, ac-
tive, and highly respectable man, a
probable victim to slops. To be so ell
crossed in tho pursuit of earthly goods
rs to forget the simplest and plainest
laws of health and common decency, is,
to say the least, poor policy.
Quevions and Answers.
Has any successful treatment been
decided upon for curing or preventing
the foot and mouth disease among cat
tle2
1t is said that cattle affected with the
cowpox do not contract the foot and
mouth disease, even though living
among herd largely infected with it !;
therefore vaccinating them is considered
preventive.
Is there remedy for the white scab
on fruit trees2
DR.. Philips, of Oxford university,
recommends painting the trees thus
affected with linseed oil.
If lawn is defective from the growth
of coarse grass or weeds, what is the
treatment prescribed?
Either pull up all the noxious growth
Immediately after rain, when the earth
is soft, Or summer fallow the ground for
one season, taking care to keep the sur
face stirred and clean all the time
This last mode is reserved usually for
desperate ca es, as pulling up or cutting
out the weeds ID attended with less ex-
pense and loss of time.
Is there any cure for grub in the heads
of sheep?
Grub in the head is caused, as most
farmers know, by little fly that lays its
eggs in the sleeps nostrils these eggs
hatch out small worms, which crowd up
into the head. A remedy advised is to
blow tobacco smoke up the nostrils.
Many lambs die when about about
one month old without any apparent
cause. What is the cause2
The dying of lambs is often the re-
cult of taking too much milk, which
cOagulates in the second stomach of the
animal. A preventive is often found in
the liberal sailing of both ewes and
lambs; the treatment prescribed is turn
ing the ewes on thinner pasture, to
reduce the quantity of milk, and giving
the lambs small quantity of salts in
some ginger tea.
Does sawaust furnish Il satisfactory
mnnure2
Sawdust alone is not manure, but it
is an excellent absorbent, hence after
having been used as bedding, for in
stance, contains mammal influences,
which are due, of course, to the matters
bsorbed.
Fruit Ga den.
Most of the fruits cultivated in this
department., except grapes, will have
been already gathered, and the main
will be to take such care of the plants
as will secure an abundant crop next
year.
Ont away the old raspberry canes that
have been frnited, and bum. Tie up
the new growth to stakes or other sup
port, allowing only four or five canes to
each plant; shorten these to about four
feet, and the latorals at eighteen inches.
1t is well to give the rows dressing of
manure, leaving il on all winter.
Gut out the blackberry canes which
have fruited, and tie up the new ones
do not let them grow over five or six
feet nigh, and Keep tho laterals to
eighteen inches.
Mildew sometimes appears just as the
grape is about to color, when this hap
pens, dust freely with sulphur, and
trust to the rains to wash it off before
the fruit is gathered. In picking for
market do not handle the lunches
scissors are made which hold the bunch
after cutting it.
Apply manure to the surface to ferti-
lizs and mulch currants and goose
berries. If no manure is used, put on
mulch of litter.
Gather the fruit from dwarf trees as
fast as it natures. Do not allow pears
TO mellow on the trees, but when the
stem parts readily from tho tree pick
and lay away on shelves i'll a cool fruit
room to color and Observation-Disclosures.