Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-02
AgRICuIruRAL.

| PLANTING CRAZE VINEs.-The In
crease la the production Of grapes In
this country during the past few years
is simply enormous, and the indications
are that at no distant day the quantity
of wine which can be supplied from
our own vineyards will supersede the
necessity of importing at the expense
of so many millions of coin, or its
equivalent, the products of the vine
which we now buy from foreign coun-
tries. The great secret OF the wealth
of nation is the supply of all its wants
within its own borders; and the people
| of the South are now discovering the
mistake they made i'm former times Of
discOuraging manufactures in their
States, and which, happily, they are
now endeavoring to remedy by the es-
| tablishment of cotton mills and other
factories alongside of the products of
the soil required for their operation.
What we want now to impress upon
every householder, as well as the far
mer, Is If they can do nothing more,
they should at least plant out vine or
two in their yards or gardens, as every
one who owns a small piece of ground
can have plenty of the best varieties of
grapes, at no cost at all, simply by going
in the fall or early in the spring of the
year to farmers who have then, and get
ting some of the trimmings. Take them
and spade up strip of ground on the
north side of the fence; take the vines
and put two or three buds in the ground
leaving one out; keep the ground loose
and the weeds away, and when the
shoots get ten or twelve inches long,
4 =: Il rsl~ tl<.c fall l. xt-ill ma
ture better, and next spring plant out
eight feet apart each way. But before
planting, gather up old bones out Of
the woods, etc. Dig your holes three
feet square, and two feet deep, throw
ing the soil cn one side to itself. Now
take the DO. .es, throw into the holes; (;
| next a little ashes, then the soil, then
the grapes, and las. fill with other soil
close around, not using the clay. We
will guarantee grapes to thrive and do
well, and always bear when treated
| this way.
WINTER FOALs.-Like all other young
and growing animals, they require an
abundance of fresh air and exercise,
and should have free opportunity of
| indulging in the gambols and frolics,
and races to which their nature prompts
them, and which is so essential in order
to propeoly distend the lungs, swell
the veins, invigorate the entire system,
and make a hardy, healthy, active
horse. Give muscle and bone-forming
food in abundance, but feed corn spar
ingly, and, if at all. only in the coldest
weather. Oats and wheat, bran and
grass, and hay in abundance will make
the colt grow; and exercise, with pro-
lection from severe storms, will keep
him healthy. 1t it is indispensable
that he shonld run ont and take all the
orms As they come, which, by the
way, should never be permitted, give
more coru with the feed, rs that pro-
duces fat, which is protection from
the cold. Wire we TO be compelled 10
choose be ween the Two extremes of
cluse confinement, with high feeding
OIL heating grain, and no exercise, aud
the other OF running at large in the
fields, exposed to the mercile>s storms
of winter, with free ac'ess to the corn
crib, we should urhesitatingly take the
latter course rs likely to develop the
harder, healthier, stouter horse, be-
cause We regard the opportunity for
abundant exercise as absolutely essen
tial TO healthy, harmonious develop
ment in all Young animals. But gen-
erous feeding and secure housing from
inclemcnt weather is not at all incom-
patible with plenty of exercise, and
such a coarse of treatment will bring
the youngster through the winter in
perfect health, with constitution unim-
paired and growth Wilkes
Spirit.
KEROSENE HORSE LINIMEST.-A cor
respondent sends the following: lit is
not as generally known as it ought to
be that kerosene oil is one of the very
best remedies for strains, sprains, or
bruises that can be applied to the flesh
of beasts. knew an instance in VIII ch
a young colt got cast on its back i'll a
manger; when taken out it was utterly
unable to stand or move its hind limbs,
and so continued for some time, when
two or three applications of the oil,
twelve hours between, completely re-
stored Ii. This and similar facts led
me, when studying drugs several wears
ago, to concoct the following, which
named kerosene liniment: Kerosene
oil, one ounce; aromat spirits ammo
mia, three drachms; tine. stramonii,
two drachms; oil origanum, two
drachms; olmenthe, twenty drops
chlOrOform, one drachm; spirits cam
phOr, two drachms. This article is in
comparably superior to anything of its
kind for bruises, soreness of the mus
cles from any cause, or nervous pains.
Its value however, will best be known
by its use. Many a prescription has
been sold for $50, which. compared
with this. was not worth the paper il
was written on. Equally good fol
beasts or men,"
SUMNER FALLOwING.-This practice
is gradually and deservedly falling into
disuse. Farmers are beginning to find
by experience that there are other
methods of cleaning the land and get
ting rid of weeds that are equally ef-
fective, and less costly. The blowing
and cultivation which are found useful
in cleaning foul land cali also be made
equally useful in producing a crop at
the same time if the right crop is Sc
lected, and the proper culture bestowed.
For the loss of time needlessly incurred
in summer following there is neither
reason nor excuse, as we intend 10
show hereafter. The farmers land is
his capital, and If he expects to sue
ceed in his business he cannot afford to
be carrying over idle capital from year
to year for a purpose that may be
equally effected in another and better
way. The amount of loss incurred by
this practice is much greater than we
supposed, and it is quite time for far
mers to look into it.
FALL PLowINd.-A correspondent of
the Rural Home argues thus about fall
iplOwing: If land where there is no
sod is plowed i'm the fall and heavy
snow comes upon it before being frozen
it is found about as hard as land not
plowed and no good comes of it; but if
clay soil is plOwed when dry in the
fall, and is frozen hard during winter
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