The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-04-06

Around the Farm.

If anything is needed by the family
and You have not the money to pay for
it, see If you have not some commodity
which you can exchange for it. Every
farmer should have many products for
sale. If you cannot get it in this way
see if it cannot be done without. Under
no circumstances create debt unless it
be positive necessity. You can endure
privations better than you can the duns
of creditor or the visits of an officer.
To Nix PATNTs.-In mixing paints,
observe that, for outdoor work, you
must use principally, or wholly, boiled
oil, unless it is for the decorative parts
of houses, ETC., then mix as for indoor
work. For indoor work use linseed
oil, turpentine, and little dryers, OBJ
serving that the less oil the less will be
the gloss, and that for fiatted white, ETC.,
the color being ground III oil, will
scarcely require any further addition OF
that article, as the object is to have it
dull.
An excellent liniment to apply to sores
on horses backs, legs or elsewhere can
be made as follows Take inner bark of
the ordinary white oak boiled down in
an iron kettle until it is as black as ink
while boiling, drop in n piece of alum
about the size of hens egg. Never
use brass kettle to boil it in. This
liniment is to be applied with a sponge,
and, indeed, it is good for any sore or
bruise. 1t is safe thing to keep in
any ones barn ready to use when oc-
casion requires.
RULES FOR MuKNG.-The following
rules are issued from New York cheese
factory for the use of its patrons, and are
worthy of a wider dissemination l.
Mich cows should have free access
at all times to good running water. 2.
They should never be heated, by being
run, stoned or dogged. 3. The utmost
cleanliness should be observed in milk
ing, and by no means wet the hands in
the milk while milking. 4. No can of
milk should stand where it will absorb
the barnyard or stable odor, or any other
scent. 5. The milk should be strained
and well aired Immediately after having
been drawn from the cows. g. Some ar
rangement for effectually cooling is at all
times very desirable, and, when the milk
is kept at home over night, is indis-
pensable. 7. Scalding all vessels used
about milk at least once a day with boil
ing water and rinsing with cold water at
night, is essential.
PLANT EARLY PoTAToEs ONLY.-Prof.
McAfee, of the Iowa Agricultural Col
lege, advises the planting of early varie-
ties of potatoes only, in order to cut off
the supply of food for the potato beetles
late in summer. This, we think, is an
excellent suggestion, and for other rea-
sons than those named 10y Prof. McAfee.
There are, at least, two broods OF this
insect in a season throughout the greater
part Of the Northern and Middle States,
and in some favorable localities three.
Now, if none but the earliest varieties of
potatoes are planted, the tops will be
ripe by the time the first brood of beetles
have come to maturity, The second
brood not finding it's favorite food in
abundance, q large portion must perish,
for, say from the 1st of August until the
following spring is rather too long time
for the mature insect to live, especially
if short of food. 1t is generally the sec
ond or last brood of the season which
hibenates, passing through the winter
in safety; but by cutting off the supply
of food we may at least lessen the num-
Der which are to pass over to the follow
ing season. 1t is worth trying; in fact,
anything which is likely to lessen the
number of this great pest should receive
due attention at this time.-RovaI Ne,0
Yorker.