The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-09
FIRM IND HOME.
Farm RaEin0S.


lows: Use only the outer part of the
carrot. Scrape this off with knife, of
course after thoroughly cleansing the
root, and soak it for a quarter of an hour
In boiling milk. Strain through a fine
cloth and add to the cream before churn-
ing. Toronto Weekly Globe.
GRAPES FOR SWINE FooD.-It Will
take more pounds of grapes to make
grapes will fatten hogs faster than corn,
and they are much better than barley or
corn to feed young pigs when weaving
them from the milk of their mothers.
Indeed they are the best substitute for
milk. Those who have grapes and pigs
will use their grapes to better advantage
by turning the pigs into the vineyard
than by picking and freighting the grapes
to market at insignificant prices. Cali
foania Newspaper.
Cows PAsTURED on rye will fatten and
give greater quantity of milk than they
will when pastured on the wild range or
fed corn in the ear. Even in winter the
butter has a nice golden color and sells
well. Ii sown early on well-prepared
land rye will afford more pasturage to
the acre during fall, winter and spring
than blue grass or timothy. Rye pasture
is cheaper and easier to be had in winter
than root crops, and grow faster in the
on,J1r 4Ia,, ,ocf11
grasses. Sow in May for summer past
ure, and in the fall for spring pasture
NeaO York Tribune
RATS are in many instances the cause
of the cattle plague being carried from
farm to farm. After devourng any pos
sible remains of the diseased cattle after
the slaughter, they are known to desert
the stricken farm in body for another,
where there is at the time an abundance
of food. Is it not reasonable to suppose
they would carry the contagion with
them, and thus introduce the disease in
to perfectly healthy sheds? It is sug-
gested that where the plague breaks out
it should be deemed as necessary to ex-
terminate all the vernin on the farm, as
it is to slaughter the diseased CATTLE
hil6uy7a Times.
Growing EARLY POTATOES Tel
iez, a French horticulturist, practices a
method of growing early potatoes which
has attracted good deal of attention in
Fsance AT digging time, son I'D and
medium-sized tubers are chosen and
placed in a position i'll which they can
have plenty of cold air SO as to reJard
their sprouting. In August of the next
year they are planted and grown in the
ordinary manner, care being taken to
cover them thicllly with litter as soon as
the frost sets in Grown in this way,
NJ Telliez says that potatoes may be dug
from the beginning of January right up
to April Oh even May, according to the
quantity planted.
A CHEAP SMoKEHoUsE.- a narrow
pit from twelve to eighteen inches deep,
throwing the earth all out on one side.
From near the bottom of this pit dig a
trench of a length to hold one or two
joints of steve-pipe at such an angle as
will bring the end away from the pit to
the surface of the ground. Over the end
of this pipe set a common flour barrel OF
large cask, as may be needed, and, hav-
ing removed both heads, bank up around
it with the loose earth so that no smoke
can escape at the bottom. Hang the
hams, shoulders, etc., in it, using some
thing like broom-handle to run through
the string. Puttinga cover on top of the
sticks will leave space enough for draught
to let the smoke pass freely. Build a
smoke fire of corn-cobs, damp hardwood
sawdust, or fine chips in the pit, and
you will have a cheap, safe and efficient
smokehouse with very little trouble
RurdI NeaU Yorker.