The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-05
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
NIedIcnI Hints.

Medical Hints.
BRUIsR- SWELLING. To cure SWELL
ing from bruise, foment it for half an |
hour, morning and evening, with hot |
cloths dipped in vinegar and water as |
hot as you can bear it.
CURE FOR WAITS. Warts may be re-
moved, says celebrated physician, by
rubbing them, night and morning, with
moistened piece of muriate Of ammo
mia. They soften and dwindle away,
leaving no such mark as follows their
dispersion with lunar caustic.
To PURIFY THE BLOOD. Strictly diet
on oatmeal porridge, lean beef, plain
vegetables, fruit and Graham bread.
Eat no wheat bread or pastry or pud-
dings no butter or grease whatever.
Butter and cheese secretly poison many
| systems. Drink weak lemonade. Eat
regularly, and the. dryer the food the
| better. Food floating in grease refuses
to digest. Substitute clear water-not
| ice water-for tea or coffee. On retir-
ing, apply cold cream or beef fat to the
complexion. Take the oils externally
instead of internally.
A REMEDY FOR OArARRH. "A farmers
daughter says Dry and powder mullen
leaves as fine as you would powder sage;
then smoke as you would tobacco, let
ting the smoke escape through the nos
trils instead of the mouth. This is cne
of the best of remedies for catarrh in
the head. 1t has entirely cured q case
of over twenty years standing, when
every other remedy heard of has failed
to do 80. It may require a little prac-
tice to let the smoke escape through the
nostrils. Mullen will be stronger gath
cred before the frost Injuries it, but will
answer even if dug from under the snow.
1t will also be found an excellent reme-
dy for cold in the head.
Flowing and ManurinR.
A correspondent of the american
Farmer says: (: The above constitutes
two first essentials in the production of
good crops, and should receive special
attention at the hands of every one who
would cultivate and produce a good
crop, let it be corn, tobacco, cotton or
potatoes, etc.
Thorough plowing consider the more
important of the two, for unless the
ground is we'll plowed, the best manur-
ing will have comparatively little effect,
whereas landwell and thoroughly plowed
with light fertilizing will produce fairly,
but with better manuring will produce
at profit; still there is limit beyond
which profit ceases, and just where this
limit is the cultivator must be the Judge,
after experiment; but generally there is
little danger of exceeding it.
Flowing, to be thorough, should be so
performed that the soil shall be broken
and made as fine as possible; you cannot
pulverize too much.
Plow deep is relative term, and may
mean very differently on different soils,
for while four inches may be deep foI
one soil, ten or twelve may be less 30 on
others, so that here we must be governed
by the nature of the soil plowed. Sub.
soil ploughing is a distinctive difference
from the common acceptation of the
. term plowing, yet is often used with the
same meaning. Sub-soiling on most
soils, in connection with good plowing,
a is one of the essentials of certainty of a
good product; the deeper and more
, thoroughly the sub-soil is broken the
better, rs no crop will be likely to suffel
. the effects of drought or wet where thu
ground is sub-soiled, as where only sur
face plowed.
: In plowing under manure it SHOULD
!. not be turned down to the bottom of th'
a turned soil, if we wish the benefit o
q any portion of it in the present crop.
The nearer the surface, and have i
n covered in the soil, we keep manure, th'
greater benefit the crop will receive from
. it. Herein lies one benefit of plowinl
q under the manure shallow, and again
a plowing the same ground trihe deeper
q which, while it mixes the manure witt
n the soil, still keeps the greatest portion
near the surface, just where the roots o
n the young plant will be benefited by il
4 and as the water OF rains dissolve an,
a wash down the portions of the salts
ETC., the later roots of the same plant
i find and appropriate what they most re
> quire, and thus the manure is equalize,
through the soil
Southern men have informed me tina
Il it would not answer to plow deep, a
with their sudden powerful showers tn
, land would go seaward, from washing,
n suppose; however that may be am M
= able to say, as 1 have no experienc
"a there; but from what read of the eX
10 perience of the most successful South
~ ern planters, think / should venture
h trial and see the result. know here q
a the North the more shallow plowe
ground washes worse than that which
: deeply worked, and also crops grown o
~ shallow worked soil are less certain an
n more subject 10 the vicissitudes of th
. season, wet or drought, than where tn
2. ground is deeply worked.