The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-25
TOPICS FOR FARMERS.

TOPICS FOR FARMERS.
A Cure for " SeOurs.'-" Scours,"
says correspondent, is disease that is
caused by various circumstances, such as
sudden changes of the weather, or from
dry or green food, which is such as to
cause irritation of the bowels, and il not
attended to in time will become chronic
and be difficult to cure. The following
has always proved an infalible cure for
any case Of that kind that | have had
under my care: For COW or OK |
make cruel Of starch or wheat flour
boiled to the consistency of thick
starch, such as is made to starch linen,
and give it to the COW two or three
times each day as much as / think
needed, judging by the severity of the
disease. While administering the Cruel
| do not give anything to eat that has Il
tendency to cause looseness of the bowels
until ! see that / have put check to
the disease; but if see that | am likely
to stop the scours too suddenly, / give
linseed or some other substitute that is
lubricating for the bowels, until they
become natural. For calf that has the
scours, caused by giving the milk too
hot, or early new mown hay or rowen, /
give a Tablespoonful of starch dissolved
in its milk, until cured.
Keeping Winter Squashes and Saving
Seed.-Keeping squashes in winter
seems to be attended with considerable
difficulty. They cannot be kept where
it is damp, as in most cellars, or where
frost can reach them, nor will they keep
so well where it is very warm. The best
condition for keeping them seems to be
whe e the air is cool and dry, yet safe
from frost. An attic chamber until
winter; then closet near the chimney
where the frost cannot reach or the
temperature does not rise very high, is
the best families can command. Exten-
sive market gardeners often keep them
in houses built for the purpose, where
they can maintain an even temperature
by the aid of fires and ventilation.
Great care should be taken to save
seed only from perfect specimens, which
are up to the standard requirements of
their kind, and as much superior as posi-
BILE. When two or more kindsare planted
near together the seed should not be saved,
as the product will only be mongrels,
owing to the readiness with which they
mix. But it is better to plant each
variety by ITSELF and to save our own
seed, for the squash can be wonderfully
improved by good cultivation and care
full selection of seed do not believe
in changing seed for the sake of change.
l have some variety of squashes, the
seed of which ] would not exchange
with any one, and | take great care to
keep them pure. The seed of a squash
should not be saved unless the quality
and flavor prove satisfactory at the table
When thoroughly dry, the seed should
be carefully marked with the name of
the variety and the year. The special
characteristic of the specimen, if it has
any, should also be marked, as extra
dry, extra sweet, or extra large.
hardening in the California Tules.-
The Stockton independent says the mar
ket gardens of the tule lands bordering
on the San joaquin River, both above
and below Stockton, are rapidly coming
into formidable competition with the
gardens of the Santa Clara Valley for
the trade of supplying the San Francisco
markets. The profit of tule gardening
seem enormous when one hears of the
almost fabulous productiveness of this
land. For instance Joseph Hafe, whose
ranch is on Robert Island, bordering
the river but few miles above Stockton,
informs us that last year he sold $l49
worth of string beans from one-eighth of
an acre of ground. Another piece of
ground containing Il few acres was
sought for by some parties who desired
to rent it, and offered to pay $40 an acre
; f)r years rent He refused, however.
to rent the land for that sum, and put
1T into onions, potatoes, etc. From
one and half acres onions he gathered
44O sacks, weighing twenty-seven tons.
Some of these sold for SO sack, some
for 81. so, and some less. The whole
netted about 800, which was consider
ably more profitable than to rent his
land for $40 an acre. He had in al
twenty-five acres in onions, beans, and
potatoes last year. The levee around
the island had not been completed when
the flood came, covering all the land but
about ten acres of onions. From these
he sold $4,000 worth of onions, netting
an average of 1920 an acre. This wear
he has dug and sold an acre of new
potatoes, which brought him $S5, and
the land had been repIanted to sweet
potatoes. From the 18th to the 31st of
last month he sold $237 worth of T" garden
truck, +" and one could no more tell where
it came from than he could tell if few
roses had been picked from full rose
bush. Three years ago his neighbor, Mr..
Horeo, sold 81 800 worth of onions from
four acres of ground; and the next
year, from the same piece, he sold 81, 900
worth. On the Sardine ranch, below
MIR. Hale's, there was raised and sold last
year $500 worth of string beans from two
acres of ground.
DOMESTIC HINTS,