The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-05
FIRM IND HOME.
Farm. RakiI,Ds.

Farm RahiItDs.
THERE is in the country a great specu-
lation in the fertilizer business. Forty
dollars a ton is charged for an article
which costs not over $15 OF $20.-Dc-
| troit Tribune
The practice of feeding working teams
with green peas, freshly cut, is, to say
the least, very questionable economy. Ii
it must be done, let the grass be
well dried out before feeding. An
animal fed on green grass soon becomes
enfeebled and unable to perform hard
labor Later in the season, when the
| plant has nearly attained it's grown, IL
does not have this weakening effect
Chicago Tribune.
SEVERAL correspondents write to an
nounce the complete extirpation OF rats
and mice from their cow-stalls and pig
geries since the adoption of this simple
plan: A mixture of two parts of we'll
bruised common squills and three parts
of finelychopped bacon is made into a
stiff mass, with as much meal as may be
required, and then baked into small
cakes, which are put down for the rats to
English Standard.
A VERY successful plan has been tried
by placing in Mr.. Crows way a number
of grains of corn with horse-hair run
though them. He is bound to swallow
one, and his note of alarm is soon
sounded. 1t is impossible for him to
dislodge- the grain, and it has been
noticed that after the note of alarm
has been sounded all the crows IN the
vicinity will leave the field and ap-
proach it no more that season. Forest
and Stream.
SCAB IN SHEEP.-Scab in sheep may be
cured by mixture made by boiling one
pound of tobacco In water, adding one
pound of sulphur after the boiling is
done and the water used for this
weight of drugs should be, when ready
to dip, five gallons. Add also, if The
water is hard, one-fourth pound of soda
for each five gallons. When dipping
the sheep, keep the liquor at 100 deg. to
ITO deg, and rub the sheep well when
immersed, keeping them in about ten
minutes, and rubbing all the time. Two
weeks thereafter dip and rub again, to
render The cure sure.
MANY farmers are exceedingly dissat-
isfied with their profession, and repine
at their duties. On.the other hand, Soc
| Pliers, said of it: agriculture is an
employment the most worthy of the ap-
! pl1cation of man the most ancient, and
the most suitable to his nature. It is
the common nurse Of all persons in every
age and condition of life it is the source
of health, strength, plenty and riches,
and of thousand sober delights and
honest pleasures. It is the mistress and
school of sobriety, temperance, justice,
religion, and, in short, of all virtues, civil
and military. Cincinnati Gazette.
A MARKET gardener had very fine
COW that was milked week after week by
hired men. He observed that the
weighed about pound more on each al
| ternate week. He watched the men and
tried the COW after they had finished
milking, but always found that there was
no milk left in the teats. He finally
asked the Scotch girl, who took care of
the milk, if she could account for the
difference. "Why, yes she says,
"when jim nlilks he says to the old
COW, SO, my pretty little muley, so;' but
when Sam milks he hits her on the hip
with the edge of the pail, and says,
| hist, you old brute. '"-,Sdcr0n1e1atO
| Record.
ADoRNMENT OF HoME.-Money which
goes to buy a picture, statuctte, or taste
| full bracket for home adornment is wise
| ly spent. The general character of a
| home will make great difference to the
| children who grow up III it, and to all
whose experience is associated with it,
whether it be beautiful and cheerful
one, or only a homely and bare one, OF a
merely formal and conventional one.
The relation of these things to education
is all that gives dignity or poetry to the
subject, or makes it allowable for a rea-
sonable man to give much thought TO it.
But it has q real vital relation to life,
and plays an important part in educa-
ton, and deserves to be thought about a
great deal more than it is. Seeming
trifies like this make life either happy OF
miserable Western 1yriculturist.