Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-05

and oiling it.
Never, under any circumstances,
leave your milk-strainer at the barn
oyer night.
If you will plant seed of the castor
bean where moles are most troublesome
it will drive them off.
Insects on vines can be driven off by
sprinkling the vines with plaster, SCOT
or air-slacked lime.
This is the time of year to plant Man
gel Wertzel seed. 1t is great mistake
to plant two or three inches deep. One
inch is enough
do not trim up your trees five or six
feet. Let the limbs of the tree come
near the ground. In other words, short
en- in your tree.
The great English agricultural writer,
and practical farmer, Jethro Tull, living
and writing 100 years ago, held that FREE
quent blowing and stirring the soil was
equivalent to liberal cost of manure.
Worms in horses are caused by hard
work, poor food and general neglect.
For ordinary cases of worms. common
salt, nutritious food and pure water
will prove satisfactory. Salt should
always be kept in the stalls of horses.
Caulifower should be transplanted in
rows some two feet apart, leaving about
two feet between the plants. Cultivate
as cabbage. Aid the growth by liberal
Imanuring, and protect from the sun by
breaking its leaves over the head when
in flower.
A simple remedy to prevent the pres
ence of moles in and around hot-beds
was told to us few days since, viz:
Stick pieces of green elder bushes in
the ground in the premises infested,
and these troublesome creatures will
give it wide berth.
The Chinese, with whom agriculture
is held in higher estimation than with
us, were the first to use night-soil
They forbid it's waste and furnish re-
ceptacles to receive it. They mix it
with clay and then make dried cakes of
it it, which can be transported any dis
lance, or preserved any length of time.
Those W no buy currant or gooseberry
bushes as late as this, will do well to
cut them severely back. No fruit would
be borne this year if this were not done.
and the expanded leaves not receiving a
suficiency Of sap from the roots, will
exhaust the stems and cause weakness
from which it may require year or so
to recover.
10 wash the wool on the sleeps back
is not profitable practice. The wool
is not half washed, and the difference in
price will not pay for the loss in weight,
to say nothing of the trouble and risk
Tor both men and flock. If the sheep
are kept reasonably clean, and the wool
free from rubbish, it will be found bet
ter than having to wash them to get rid
OF unnecessary filth.
An Eastern farmer says; "After ex-
perimenting with all the varieties of
corn saving IN broadcast, in drills. and
cultivated by hoeing it, have come to
the conclusion that the best and most
profitable way to raise corn fodder is to
plant sweet corn; put your rows three
feet apart, plant thick, not more than
three feet apart, put in six to eight
stalks in hill, manure heavily. keep it
clear OF weeds, hoe two or three times,
and you will have an abundant crop
OF the best kind Of fodder for milch
cows"
A man tn Bethlehem, Conn.,, has had
patented new instrument for milking
cows. 1t consists of four small silver
tubes, about the size of a knitting nee
die, with holes in the sides, the ends
rounded and very smooth. The tubes
are inserted into small india rubber
tubes about six inches long fastened
together at the lower end. When the
tubes ara inserted into the teats about
an inch the milk will Immediately flow
in continuous stream until the last
drop is drained.
The large crop Of fruit throughout
the West this year will be blessing to
all classes, and growers, it is to be hoped
will carefully sort their fruit and pack
fine choice fruit together, and if the
green worthless stuff must be sold, pack
it by itself-it will pay the producer, as
better prices will be paid for all choice
fruit, and more Of 1t will be bought with
that growers brand when it proves to
be a choice article. Too much care can
not be used in sorting fruit for market
to get the best prices. Western Agrt-
cuitUrtst
To wash strawberries make box ten
or twelve inches square-only sides and
ends; put piece of wire cloth, one inch
meshes, on for bottom; sink it in a tub
of clean water, level to the top; pour
the berries into the sieve; raise and low
err it twice or three times Your berries
will be clean Set them in the shadow
to dry and drip, the sun will fade and
wilt them. | have fourteen sleeves to
wash in. By pouring so that they fall
into the water, there is no bruising them
at all. They need not remain in the wa
ter over one-fourth of a minute.
The internal vital organs of the hog
are very much like those of man. Hogs
are subject to many diseases that men
are subject to. A severe cold frequent
ly produces pneumonia in man, and in
hogs it produces the same disease. Tens
of thousands of hogs die yearly by this
disease. The preventive is good feed,
good shelter, warm and dry bedding. IF
hogs lay out on the cold, wet ground, if
they and their bedding are exposed to
the rain aud sleet and snow, Is it any
wonder that they take cold, ret the
pneumonia and die9 Men subject to
the same treatment would die. The hog
has not fur or wool, or hair, or if called
hair, very coarse article it is to shield
it from cold and storms. Hence good
shelter, dry beds and kind treatment is
very essential to keep hogs healthy and
thriving
A correspondent of the Land and
Water describes process Of skimming
from the bottom instead of the top of
the vessel. In one of the large diaries
Yorkshire the milk is act In pan three
feet long, two and half feet broad and
8 inches deep. The bottom of the pan is
one or two inches narrower than the
top. In the bottom Of each pan, near
the corner, a hole is made, to which is
soldered small pipe reaching below the
pan some two inches. This is stopped
with cork. When she wants to get the
cream, the dairymaid places vessel un-
der the pipe, removes the cork, and al
lows the milk to flow in rapid stream
till it is nearly all drawn, when the cork
is withdrawn, and the cream is found in
the bottom Of the pan. Some of the
processes in use in this country for sep
arating the cream are, in principle, the
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