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

Medical Hints.
BBUIsR. SWELLING. To cure q 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 Warts. Warts may be re-
moved, says a 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 flt to the
complexion. Take the oils externally
instead of internally.
A REMEDY FOR CArARRH. "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 enc
OF the best of remedies for catarrh in
the head. 1t has entirely cured case
of over twenty years standing, when
every other remedy heard of has failed
to do 3d. 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 Manurina,
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 1 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 thoroughlyplowed
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 cultiyator must be the Judge,
after experiment; but generally there is
little danger of exceeding it.
Flowing, to be thorough, should be 80
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 for
one soil, ten or twelve may be less 30 on
others, 80 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,
is one of the essentials of certainty of
good product; the deeper and more
thoroughly the sub-soil is broken the
| better, as no crop will be likely to suffer
the effects of drought or wet where the
ground is sub-soiled, as where only sur
face plowed.
In plowing under manure it should
not be turned down to the bottom of the
turned soil, if we wish the benefit of
any portion of it in the present crop.
The nearer the surface, and have it
covered in the soil, we keep manure, the
greater benefit the crop will receive from
it. Herein lies one benefit of plowing
under the manure shallow, and again
plowing the same ground q trihe deeper;
which, while it mixes the manure with
the soil, still keeps the greatest portion
near the surface, just where the roots OF
the young plant will be benefited by it;
and as the water of rains dissolve and
wash down the portions of the salts,
etc., the later roots of the same plants
find and appropriate what they most re-
quire, and thus the manure is equalized
through the soil.
Southern men have informed me that
it would not answer to plow deep, as
with their sudden powerful showers the
land would go seaward, from washing, /
suppose; however that may be am un-
able 70 say, as have no experience
there; but from what read of the ex-
perience of the most successful South
ern planters, think should venture a
trial and see the result. know here at
the North the more shallow plowed
ground washes worse than that which is
deeply worked, and also crops grown on
shallow worked soil are less certain and
more subject to the vicissitudes of the
season, wet or drought, than where the
ground is deeply worked.