The Osceola times., 1878-05-04
Around 1he Farm.

The best farmer Is the farmer VINO
cultivates himself.
The Massachusetts, Horticultural So
ciety appropristes for prizes, this year,
the princely sum of $4,675.
A MINNESOTA gardener asserts that
skinned milk, sprinkled on the infested
bushes, Is death to currsnt worms.
THERE are more than $50 named varie-
ties OF wheat, but in many cases the dis
tinctions between them are very slight.
SHEEP will eat what no other stock
will eat, and thus save the labor required
by the thrifty farmer to keep down nox-
ious weeds
In the San Jacinto valley, California,
wheat has been an un.ailing crop for
twenty six years, even producing a fine
crop last year in spite of the limited
rainfall.
The Stockton Independent says that
attempts have been made in the different
portions of California to cultivate Gotten,
but in most cases the results have been
unsatisfactory.
PROF. BEAL tells the Michigan Farmer
that, for a prime, long.lived orchard,
where the soil, drainage, climate, etc,
are all favorable, he would rather set the
trees more than forty feet apart than
less.
A CALIFORNIA physician cleared his
premi.es Of rats by saturating one with
carbolic acid and turning him adrift.
| He thinks kerosene or any other strong>
smelling liquid would have the same
effect.
ADMINISTERED in time dose Of paint
will save farm implements from an ex-
pensive attack of ricketts," when other
wise they would become, by exposure,
loose -jointed and brittle as to woodwork,
and rusty as to iron.
Coon dairymen contend that milk is
partly absorbed when kept for long
time in the udder, also asserting that
csws MIXED thrice daily produce more
milk and butter, than if they were only
milked twice day.
A COW can yield far greater weight
in butter than she can store up in fat.
An animal might give the product OF
two pounds OF butter day, while one.
half that quantity could not be laid on
In fat, if ted for the purpose.
THIS Is the time when unthrifty farm.
ers save ten cents by refusing to invest
in paper OF tomato seed, because times
are so hard and money scarce, and when
the country peddler comes around at the
end OF the summer it will take the price
of an acre of wheat to pay him for what
might have been raised on a dozen steps
square. Such economy is the road to
poverty and beggary.
FARMERS TO THE FRoNT.-No Con
necticut legislature in late years has had
40 large q proportion of farmers and so
very small a proportion of lawyersas the
present; yet 1t seems the nearly unani
nous opinion throughout the state that
it has accomplished more work OF a
practical, needed kind than any of It's
predecessors in recent days. There has
been less "chin-chin," less useless yer.
biase, less discussion of fine points of no
practical Importance, and less prophecies
about possible contingencies than usual,
but more Of the work for which legisla-
tors are elected and paid. This is a
thoroughly utilitarian country, and what
| the vast bulk of its Inhabitants want Is
plain, practical common sense, in word
and deed, not fne.spun theories or ele-
CANT verbosity.
No foot, no horse :" although every
farmer knows this maxim, it seems as it
many (by the size they keep their ami
mails feet at) expected to double their
teams by contrary Interpretation of it.
A hoof spread out of all likeness to its
original form, cracked nearly to the
quick, the frog pared till it is as thin as
paper; the sole cut away till the frog
touches the ground at every step, toes
turned in, and sore knees from frequent
stumbles, are no credit to farmer now
adays. If every man who is guilty OF
causing the above defects were compelled
to keep his own feet in similar manner,
there would be a revolution somewhere.
1t is not necessary to employ fsrrier to
trim horses foot. A plank to stand on,
a sharp twoinch chisel, and q COED
mallet, in the hands of a careful man
will, it used once month, keep hools in
perfect order and improve them con-
/ .tantlv r Mnora'a Purul