Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-16
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes.
Eighteen cubic feet of gravel or earth
before digging, make twenty-seven cubic
feet when dug.
Salt, SCOT and lime, mixed with the
manure, make good fertilizer for
celery.
aIsS5 p%eel S2fh ssfffreetc6ed over the can, thus
straiHing the milk twice. This double
straining of milk is to be recommended.
Cleanliness costs but little trouble, and
will add greatly to the value of your
dairy products, whether you sell your
milk by the can or manufacture it into
butter or cheeze.
Do not allow ashes of any kind to be
wasted. 1t will pay to haul leached
ashes several miles, when one has his
own team and a laborer at fair wages.
Coal ashes, when spread around berry
bushes of any sort, or around grape-vines,
will aid materially in producing large
and fair fruit.
Feed your land before it gets poor.
Give it all the manure you can make
and haul, and it will enrich you. Starve
it by taking off crops continually and re-
turning nothing and it will bankrupt
you. Feed the land literally and it will
feed and ciothe you.
A New York correspondent of the Ell
mira Farmers Club says he raises one
hundred bushels of turnips per acre, in
the hill with corn. He does it by man
uring the corn in the hill. When hall
fha 1ool af &c l.,
scatters two tablespoonfuls of turnip
seed over it, and about the same quanti-
ty when the load is full.
The best preventive for worms in eel
cry is to mix plenty of salt, SCOT and
lime with the manure that is to be EN-.
ployed in trenches. This should be
added to the manure some weeks before
it is used, during which time it should
be turned now and then. The mixture
of the celery, which will lift clean and
spotless compared with that grown in
the ordinary way.
Health Hints.
An ounce of cream-of- tartar in pint
of water drank at intervals is said to be
q CuIo 1OI pOA.
Vigorous motion of the Jaws as il
masticating will stop bleeding at the
nose.
Tincture of benzoin is highly laudec
as simple and most effective DRESSING
for fresh wounds. Its application il
much more healing to recent wount
than either water dressings or any form
of fat.
A thick cream of common WHITING
and water is excellent for burns o.
scalds.
To CURE A FEnoN.-Prof. Hunter, o
Berlin, cures bone felon or whitlow b,
first probing the swelling of the finger
making small incision where the pail
appears greatest. The pain of tn
operation may be lessened by the loca
application of ether or inhalation O
chloroform, The after treatment j
equally simple. The small wound i
to be covered with lint and carbolic acid
and bathed morning and evening il
tepid water. In few days it is per
fectly healed.
REMEDY FOR EARAoHE.-The Journa
Of Health gives the following: Their
is scarcely any ache to which childre
are subject so hard to bear and Difficult
to cure as the earache. But there is
remedy never known to fail. Take bi
of cotton, put upon it pinch of blac
pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip i
sweet oil and insert into the ear. Put
flannel bandage over the head to kee
it warm. 1t will give immediate relic
Remedies for Insects,
David Landreth & Sons, of Philade
phia, give detailed accounts of remedie
for some of the insects which prov
troublesome or destructive in garden,
and more particularly to cabbages, til
substance of which we condense: '"O
The greenish-black jumping beetle,
tenth of an inch long, feeding on bot
cabbages and turnips while young,
kept in check by busting with sulphr
and plaster, or by applying slightly
solution of whale oil soap or tobacC
water. Sowing thickly and repeated
may secure crop, or by selecting di
ferent localities. (2) The insect whic
causes the club foot in cabbage may b
repealed by lime and wood ashes, but
change to fresh land is better. (3)Wil
worms, cut worms and grub worms me
be killed by the slow process of diggir
around the injured plant for them; bl
the best way is to give clean land, we
cultivated and enriched, with frequel
waterings to stimulate growth, whic
will tend to ensure against these unde
ground enemies. az The green worn
are best cleared from cabbages by han
picking. (5) Plant lice are driven {
by whale, oil soap, sulphur, plaster,
bacco water, ETC., if applied early, 80
not to injure the taste of the cabbage
AS rule for guarding against insec
generally, make the ground rich, ke'
it clean and mellow, cultivate ofte
and water freely"