The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-03-01
Around the Farm.

When anything about the farm gets
out Of repair, see 10 it at once and
don't let it remain until il is all gone
to pieces. A large expense can be
saved to every farmer annually by at
tention this.
As showing the value of manure in
England, a company advertises that
they will furnish boxes of horse-stable
manure, each containing flfty-six
pounds, at the sum Of sixty cents, box
and delivery included, to gardeners or
persons who need the article for COM
posts.
One of Mr.. yick's correspondents
gives the following as his way of test
ing seeds: A sod cut from an cid pas
ture is placed, grass up, in pan or on
board, and boiling water poured on;
on this is laid piece of straw paper,
and the seed is sprinkled on this and
covered with another paper, then an
other sod, grass down, well wet with
warm water. Keep wet and warm,
and in a few days the eeed, if good, viii
sprout.
Do not be in to much of hurry to
uncover your strawberry beds in the
spring. Leave them until the ground
is entirely done freezing at night, ana
until the plants are about ready to be-
gin their seasons growth. 1t is posi-
bic that this will make the fruit two
or three days later in ripening, but on
the other hand, the fruit will escape
all harm from the late spring irosts.
When the covering is removed the
ground between the plants should be
hoed and coat of fine manure or ash
es applied.
Colmaas Rural World, in discussing
the diseases of horses, is responsible
for the following, which has never be-
fore been made public: 1t is almost
universally believed there is no cure
for stringhalt. Every veterinary sur
geon will say il cannot be cured. But
we saw a gentleman in Greene county,
Missouri, last summer, who says he
can cure every case. His method is,to
90 into stable having dirt floor in.
the stall, where the horse stands, and
dig pit about four feet deep under the
hind legs of the horse, the fore feet
standing as high as formerly, This
throws all the weight of the horse on
the hind legs. The horse is compelled
to stand in this position about half
day, and suffers great deal of pain,
his legs frequently swelling badly.
But when taken out of the pit he is
cured, and is never known to have
strInghalt again.
The New York Times, in answer to
a question for a remedy for roup, gives
the following: Take all the sick fowls
and put them in a warm, dry, clean
place, the floor of which is sprinkled
with lime and then with water, in
which one ounce of carbolic acid to
the gallon of water has been dissolved
Wash the head of each fowl with
warm vinegar, and then touch the eyes
| throat and nostrils with feather dip
ped in a solution of ten grains of car
bolic acid IN one wineglass full of rain
or snow water. Take two ounces of
CASTLE soap, half an ounce of hyposul-
phite of soda, half an ounce of ground
| ginger, half an ounce of cayenne pep
per, and grind the whole together with
enough warm water to work it up in
to stiff paste. Mix thoroughly to-
gether, and divide into pills the size OF
peas. Give each sick fowl three of
these pills twice day.
Do not neglect the pigs and leave
them to "root hog or die" during the
winter. The less roofing they have to
do now the better off they will be in
the spring. Help them to grow
through the winter months and they
will be able to help themselves through
the balance of the year. Do not allow
them to occupy the same straw fer
bedding longer than q week at time ;
burn up the old leaves aud replace
them with fresh bedding; this viii
prevent them from becoming lousy. A
bed in an open lot away from shed
of any kind, and where the rays of the
sun can reach it, is preferable except
in severe weather. 1t will secure them
from the dust that is sure to accumu-
late in a bed under shelter. Keep
them clean and well provided with
fresh water and plenty of food, and
you will have no occasion to look for