The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-04-26
FIRM IND HOME.
Farm Rakin0s

FREQUENT washing with cold water is
good for CALLED shoulders on horses.
FAIL wheat and rye can be proftably
narrowed as soon as the ground is dry
enough.
SOME meadows can be greatly i'm
proved by narrowing and rolling. 1t
must be done carly.
Soft soap, diluted sufficiently to work
well with a brush, is said to be the best
wash for fruit trees.
IT is far better to have the corn frost
bitten in the spring than the fall. 1t
always gets over spring chilblains.
START with the season, and keep abreast
with 1t in all departments of the farm.
Then your work will not drive you.
The first ten days of May is soon
enough to plant corn. But have the
ground, seed and implements ready.
CLEAN out your cellars. One rottng
potato in a cellar below bedroom is
more injurious to health than thousand
poleeats.
APRIL ought to have sixty days in it
instead of thirty, there is so much to do.
But what it lacks in days must be made
up in vigilance.
DAIRYMEN would do a good thing for
the country if they would make neither
cheese nor butter iii April, but give all
the milk to the calves until grass.
In setting trees avoid one almost uni
versal mistake, that of setting too close
Trees upon lawn are beautiful alone
when they have abundant room to grow
in natural proportions.
Do NOT suppose that calves and colts
which are lousy will be all right as soon
as it is warm. Warm weather only adds
life and vitality to such parasites. and
they annoy and injtre animals. Use oil
or grease of any kind freely.
MANURE IN THE ORCHARD barn
yards are being cleaned of their rich
contents about these days Do not. give
it all TO the corn-field, but give little to
the orchard. It will bring a rich re-
ward. If but few trees oa11 be helped
in this way it is better to make a begin
ming. If an orchard is worth having it
is worth care, and no field ON the farm
will reward SO richly for labor expended
and food given.
WORK ON THE LAwN.-The roller, as
| tho frocf 1aouoC 10 oro11n1 cho1111 no
put over the lawn to crush down the
hillocks and smooth the surface. After
this is done it will be seen that there are
many inequalities that require leveling
up. A little good earth put in the hol-
| lows and smoothed down will be the
easiest and best process of mending.
| The grass will soon spring up through
it and cord it with a contint1otis sod. A
thin scattering of good composted ma
nure on the lawn will give the grass
quick start, and, although unsightly at
first, is soon incorporated with the soil
and lost underneath the green carpet.
| HORSES PULLING AT THE HALTER.-A
horse can pull more backward by strap
over the top of his head than he can pull
forward by the breast, and when he has
learned this he will break almost any
single strap of leather; but this is not
the worst of it, there is great danger of
his injuring himself as well as doing in
jury to the harness or carriage when
loose. There is much less danger of in
jury by using him with strap around
the neck when he cannot and will not
exert as much force. A handy way with
a carriage horse is to have a strong two
inch strap with strong buckle fastened
to an iron ring This can remain on the
horses neck, then have in your buggy
new strong rope with large knot on
one end that will not pass through the
ring. Draw this through the ring when
you tie him and he will try the strength
of it but few times.
NUMBER OF SHEEP TO THE ACRE FOR
PAsTURAGE.-H only sheep arc to bepas-
tured, and calculating one season with
another, eight sheep to the acre
will be found an average. A pasture
can carry COW or horse to each acre,
and five or six sheep, and after better
pasturage for both, than if only one kind
| is pastured in the land This is really
seeu by little observation in summer.
The COW and the horse will pass by the
little patches of weeds and briars, and
each will grow where they are pastured.
II nothing troubles the weeds and briars,
soon half the grass will be so shaded
that it is of little use as food. But the
sheep trims up all nlisances in the pas
tnre, giving the grasses the sunlight and
a much greater growth. The droppings
of cattle on grass cut down the grass as
effectually as if sod of the same size
was taken. The droppings of the sheep
take effect from the time the first dew or
rain touches it, and give vigor to the
grass around.
Domestic Economy.
INSECTS. TS.-Alcohol is a never-faiIng
poison to all insects, but is rendered still
mere efficacious by the addition of a lit
tie gum camphor.
JoHNNY-CAkE.-Thr cups sour milk,
three CUPS Indian meal three table