The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-10-11
FIRM IND HOME.
Farm R0Eia1S.

Farm RaEiags.
SCRUBBING-B BRUSH FOR CLEANING
HoRsEs.-I find the best thing tn clean
horse with is a broom-corn scrubbing-
brush. 1t never can scratch his legs, as
the curry comb of tin does, while it does
more work in the same time than curry
comb and brush put together.-Farna-
Gs Advocate.
|, A CAREFUL citizen of Champaign
county, ILL.,, county originally as rich
as any under the sun, has been trying
the benefits of using broadcast nitrate of
soda and sulphate of lime. He used
I25 pounds of the first and 100 pounds
: slacS..A latter on the meadow and pasture
lands last year, and has repeated the
application this year. He now reports
that be has blue grass on one and timo-
thy on the other equal in depth and
color to any wheat field-Ioaoa State
Register.
BARLEY MEAL VS.. CokN MEAL.-Bar-
ley meal is largely used as daily food
bya great number of people in the North
of Europe and in the South of England.
Agricultural laborers are partly paid in
meal or grain. Ninety per centum of
the outdoor laboring population of En-
gland use barley meal. 1t is cheaper
food than wheat. but dearer than corn.
Europeans recognize Indian corn as
cattle food rather than food for man.
The corn cake is to them novelty
Canada Journal.
PREVENTION OF OVER REACHING
clicking noise caused by the toe of the
hind shoe striking the heel of the fore
shoe when horse is trotting is the eff
feet of what is known as over-reaching.
This may be prevented by lengthening
the toes of the hind shoes, and shorten
ing those of the fore ones, enabling the
horse to lift the fore feet a little quicker,
and slightly retarding the hind feet; but
it is enough to clear the fore foot. A
very small fraction of second, proba-
bly, hundredth part of one, will be suf-
fcient gain of time to prevent the con-
tact.
A TOMATO FARM.-Mr. J. NJ. Lewis,
of King William county, Va, writes
that he plants his tomato seeds in Feb
ruary, IN hot-beds made of rich earth.
He seldom waters, as they will stand
drought better and bear transplanting
more successfully if not too succulent.
The early plants are set-out in fve-feet
squares, from the Goth Of April to the
1st of May, each square receiving good
supply of manure. For late crop the
seeds are planteI in these squares, fur
rows having been run five feet apart each
way. The yield is an average of peck
to the hill. The greatest enemy to the
plant is the tobacco worm, but he grows
large droves of turkeys, which act as
scavengers of this pest.-Southern
Planter.
The wholesale destruction by grass
hoppers is undoubtedly caused by the
thinning out of such birds as grouse, prai-
rie-hens, ETC., which feed upon them.
The great and inestimable service done
to the farmer, gardener and florist by
the birds is only becoming known by
sad experience. Spare the birds and
save your fruit. The little corn and
fruit taken by them is more than COM
pensated for by the quantities of noxious
insects they destroy. The long-perse-
cuted crow has been found, by actual
experience, to do far more good by the
vast quantities of grubs and insects he
devours than the little harm he does in
the few grains of corn he pulls up. He
is one of the farmers best friends
Western Farm Journal.
A CERTAINTY of improving stock can
only be secured by slaughtering, selling
or castrating all scrub and half-bred
males. Many man is tempted by the
beauty of half bred bull calf, young
ram or boar, to keep him to perpetuate
his good qualities, but there is no hope
of his doing this even with tolerable GER
tainty. The mongrel blood will con-
stantly show itself in the most exasperat-
ing manner, and the only assurance of
certain improvement in the breed of any
race of animal lies in the use of males
with clean, recorded pedigrees. There
must be positive knowledge that, fo1
generations, no impure blood has crept
into the veins of their ancestors. This
once ascertained seek in the object OF
your choice the most perfect develop
ment of every valuable quality; but
without this the finest type of outward
appearance may be a delusion and 6
| snare.
Domestic Economy.
| ICE-CREAM CAM.-Two cups white
sugar, one cup butter, whites eight eggs
beaten to froth, one cup corn starch
two cups -four, two teaspoonfuis baking
powder; flavor if you wish.
GonD CAKE.-To be made the same
time the above is. One cup sugar
three -fourths of cup butter, yelks o
eight eggs, one-haf cup sweet milk, on,
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