Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-12-28
Around the Farm.

And shrI lark carols clear from her aerial tower.
-Bedttie.
Around the Farm.
ANf farmer can build a wood-houee,
and the saving in time and quality of
wood will pay for the lumber in one
year. 1t is convenient place to spend
awet day, orbe protected from the storms
OF winter.-Iowa State Register.
A CANADIAN farmer missed q valuable
heifer, and, after several days unavail-
ing search, found that she had eaten her
way thirty feet into a straw stack. She
had taken a winding course inside the
stack, which accounts for her not having
eaten her way through.
In feeding oxen, it must be remem-
bered that they are ruminatirg animals,
and need to be fed differently from
horses. Having large stomach, an OK
needs coarse food to fill it. An OK,
therefore, is not refreshed by a feed of
fine meal, but is by one of cut hay or
straw and meal mixed, and the noon feed
for oxen should be of this kind. Give
ample time for feeding and rest at the
noon spell
lHE OQTutNcF y ONTOJtfCfC ItldttS II
case of an orchard of apples and pears,
plums and cherries, which was planted
in heavy clay, trenched down to an iron
pan on which it rested. For few years
the trees grew very well, that is to say,
as long as their roots were near the sur
face and got the warmth of the summers
sun, but as they advanced downward
tho growth became small, and by de-
grees less and less, till at last the trees
ceased to grow, and nothing fourished
except gray lichens, with which the
branches soon became covered.
A RECENT writer has compiled the
following table of weights and measures
for ready reference: A bale of CHINA
mon weighs 92l pounds. A ceroon of
cochineal weighs 140 pounds. A last of
corn measures 80 bushels. Diamonds,
1914 carats make / ounce, troy. A
German mile measures 5 500 English
yards. A dicker Of hides is 10 skins.
A last of hides is 20 dickers. A dicker
OF gloves is 10 dozen. A gallon OF
honey is II pounds. Indigo, 81 mauds
are 260 pounds. A pocket of hops is
$50 to 200 weight. A cade of herrings
is 500 fish. A Gran of herrings is 37l
gallons.
To REMEDY the fault in horse which
carries the tail on one side, simple op-
Grafton may be resorted to, which is
neither painful nor injurious. 1t is to
cut through the skin, on the side of the
tail to which it is desirous to draw it
over, few scores close together, re-
moving the skin between two or three
of the scores or, the skin may be fired
with n sharp-edged instrument, and a
few scores made close together upon the
side required. Then thick pad should
be placed on the crupper, so as to force
the tail into the proper position and
kAap il there until the skin on the side
that the tail will keep its proper posi-
ton.
THE milk of cows soon after they have
calved contains more butter, and is much
more easily churned than it is afterward.
About five months after calving the milk
undergoes a change, and the cream is
not only less In quantity, but the butter
giobules are smaller. The reason why
milk froths in churns is that when It
sours alcohol is formed by the decom-
position of the sugar of milk, and this
causes the milk, when shaken or beaten,
to foam or froth. II this froth exists TO
a large extent, butter VIII not come. and
the milk Is useless for churning purpo-
ses. The longer COW is MIXED after
calving the less is the yield of butter,
and the less nourishment is there con-
tanned in her milk.--Land and Water.
The fact that stock which is not pros
pering is just a machine for the de-
struction of farm produce ought to
startle many man who will read these
words. Let him remember, too, that
all live stock are inevitably machines for
destroying csrtaln portion daily, which
is as directly daily wasted and burned
up in every animal that feeds, as if it
had been put on the fire. How much
greater the premium, then, ON keeping
cattle, whose fattening is done in life
time of 700 days, than on keeping those
whose fattening requires 1900 days or
more. The wedding of the flock and
herd upon farm is part of live stock
management which needs as much
promptitude and decision as the weed
ing of our crops and ds.-EnQlish
Gazette.
| In the spring, move back the soil and
gravel, roll the walks nicely. and they
look as clear and fresh as If new. Before
finishing the walks, clip the edgings so
as to have them only six or eight inches
high. Treated in this way, the top of
the edging is sometimes slightly frost
ed, but no more is injured than is desir-
able to cut Of in clipping. Ihave prac-
tised this method, says q correspondent
in the Practical Farmer, and have seen
others do the same for two score years,
and have never seen a failure with it.
For dividing walks from beds, both in
the kitchen and flower garden, no other
edging is as good or as lasting as this.
1t should never be allowed to grow more
than ten inches high, and six inches high
and thick is better. When over foot high
and thick, IL looks clumsy, Injuries the
crops near il. takes up too much room,
and Injuries the appearance of both
walks and beds.
About the House.
A PIECE of charcoal boiled in the water
with "high meat or fowls will render
it or them quite sweet. A piece of char
coal or powdered charcoal should be
kept in every larder. Hams, after being
smoked, may be kept for any length OF