Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-01-11
Around the Farm.

! Thou soon wilt disappear.
| Around the Farm.
PRUNINe.-For wood, prune in the
winter for fruit, prune in the summer
not too much. Keep trees from stan
scraping, and spread them out.
A PERSON who has had experience in
fattening swine on barley says that il
makes most excellent pork: that it il
not oily, not quite so firm as that made
from corn, but has milder, pleasanter
flavor.
If you wish to drive the rats away
alive, take pulverized potash and nut
plenty of it into all their holes about the
house and barn If the potash is pull
verized and left to the air, it becomes
pasty, and can be daubed on barrels,
planks, etc.
LACK of ventilation makes as much
difference in the healthfulness of poul-
try-houses as in that Of human dwelling
houses. No poultry-house should be
without the means of admitting o con-
slant current of fresh air, both by day
and by night. Foul air breeds disease
and encourages vermin.
A SUCCESSFUL English farmer attend
ing the Centennial was asked how he
managed to keep up and pay the enor-
nous rents necessary to be paid In his
country. Easily enough" said he;
81 do it by feeding my land before it is
hungry, resting it before it is weary, and
weedlng it before it is foul"
SOME people favor whitewashing the
body of fruit trees. It is no better
than washing with weak lye, or clear
lime water, and there is not the unnatu-
raj color of white trees. The lye is a
good wash for trees, and destroys the
eggs of many insects, and makes the
bark bright and healthy. A wash of
linseed oil is also highly recommended.
The american Agriculturist saws
" The best grain for horse is certainly
oats the next is barley corn as a
steady feed is not wholesome at ali.
Oats have about the requisite quantity
OF nutritious and indigestible matter to
be healthful, and barley approaches very
near oats in this respect. Tne actual
values of these grains are as nearly as
possible equal to their usual market
values, the latter being in reality based
upon the former"
THE Scientific Farmer says "The
greatest OF wastes on the farm is the not
using of our brains, for this is at The
bottom of all other wastes. A little
thinking often saves much labor. After
accomplishing almost any kind of work,
the most of us can look back and see
how we could have improved ON it, if
We had but thought. The wastes aris-
ing from ignorance can be very readily
diminished, and are in large part ex-
cusable, but those arising from care
lessness are not deserving of SYM
pathy."
How TO KILL HoGs.-Turn the ami
mai on his back, and let one man stand
astride of him and hold the fore legs
firmly against the chest of the hog.
The sticker then places one hand on the !
under jaw OF the SWINE and presses it |
down until the mouth of the squealer is |
closed. Let the jaw be held down !
firmly. Then with sharp knife cut a |
slice two inches long midway between
the jaw and the breast bone, IN the mid !
die Of the throat. Now aim the knife I
directly toward the root of his tail and
thrust it in to the handle and draw out
the blade quickly. When stuck in this
manner We never knew hog fail to
bleed satisfactorily.
"ScARcELY mail, says the Journal
Of Agriculture, +" but brings us some in
quiry about sick hogs. Some tell us how
the hogs are affected, while Others wish MS
to publish cure for the disease. We're
We feeding or raising hogs, we would
feed, water and salt regularly. Were
any to get sick, would remove them at
once. We are inclined to the opinion
that worms or parasites are the primary
cause for the so-called hog cholera, and
our medicine would be such as would be
prescribed by veterinary surgeon or
physician. Copperas, charcoal, wood
ashes and turpentine are to some extent
worm destroyers, and can be proftably
given to either growing or fattening
hogs.
A SUBSCRIBER writes to the London
Livc Stock Journal: "I have tried the
plan OF Matching hens eggs under tur-
keys, and find il an admirable one. In
fact, ii has quenched longing enter
tanned 20 possess an incubator, and in
future hope to use the poor foolish
turkeys, that viii bring out brood after
brood of chicks, and, far from firing of
the confinement, seem only too well
pleased when they find fresh nest full
of eggs, and grow fat and glossy as well.
Not SO foolish, perhaps, after ali for the
weather was very cold, and / fed them
we'll and kept them snug and warm.
set them early in Janusry, and kept them
sitting for over three months. / re-
moved the chicks at once on being
Matched, and have brought them all up. )"