River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-07-03
HOUSE AND FARM.
rarn and Garden notes.


To maintain herd of cows successful
" it is as we'll to have one sixth of them
two years old, one sixth three. and the
same number of the ages of four, FIVE,
six and seven years.
There is no reason why green peas
should not be eaten during the entire
summer. The majority of the people,
however, who have gardens content them
selves with one or two paintings of this
wholesome and delicious vegetable
Frequently we see grape tgellises made
wholly of wooden bars, which the vine
tendrils cannot clasp or climb on. Verti-
cal wires, eight inches apart, are neatest
and carry the weight Of shoots loaded
with fruit without yielding, but light rods
or neat twiggy brush answer well for the
vine to climb by, and such support is es-
sential for free and perfect growth.
Some sensible writer truthfully says
that "most diseases of cattle are produced
| by wrong treatment--too much feed at
one time, too little at another; too rich at
one time, too poor at another, etc. If all
horses and cattle were fed and watered
and used properly there would be little
disease, and all silments could be cured
by simple remedies, which every man has
or may have at hand.
Ploughing green crops into the ground
| to act as manure was long practised by
the ancient Romans, and is done in Italy
and many other countries where the soil
and climate are favorable. This mode of
fertiiizing is specially suited TO warm
countries where vegetation is rapid and
/ luxurious. In the southern countries of
| Europe the harvest is early and the crops
removed in time sufficient to allow the
maturity of the green plants the same
season.
/ The best time to cut wheat, according
to Missouri farmer, is 'when it is pass
ing out of stiff dough, or when the kerr
mel is plump yet soft enough to mash
with the hand; but when so cut it must
not lay many hours in the hot sun to
cure, but should be bound Immediately
and set up in shocks very soon after. u
wheat stands on the haulm until dead
ripe it will make less and inferior flour,
because the bran will be thicker and
/ harder and will cut up in grinding, thus
/ giving the flour darker shade. The
| sheaf should be made of medium size
and be laid by the binder either to right
or left as need be, so that four or five
swaths are thrown together, which will
save much time in shocking.
i This timely item appears in the South
ern Husbandandn. To destroy bugs on
squashes and cucumber wires dissolve a
tablespoonful of saltpetre in a pailtul OF
water, put pint of this around each hill
shaping the earth so that it will not
/ fha 10
more saltpetre, if you can afford tit is
/ good to vegetable but death to animal
! life. The bugs burrow in the earth at
I night and fail to rise in the morning. 1t
| is also good to kill grub in peach trees =
only twice as much, say quart to each
tree. There was not a yellow or blister
ed leaf on twelve or fifteen trees to which
it was applied last season. No danger of
/ killing any vegetable with it--a concen-
trated solution applied to beans makes
| them grow wonderfully.
To Tell a Fully Rtpened Water-Nel
When the melon begins to change
color inside, and its seeds to turn black,
i a small black speck, scale, or bliste~,
begins to appear on the outer cuticle or
rind. These are multiplied and enlarged
as the fruit natures. A ripe melon will
show them thickly sown over the surface.
A partial development only indicates
half-ripened fruit. A full crop of blisiers
reveals its perfect ripeness. When hun
dreds of melons are strewn along the
side walk, you will have to look pretty
sharply to find one that exhibits salts
factory " escutcheon,' TO borrow term
from M. Guenon. But it is unfailing
when found, and by 70 glowing this guide
you may walk away with your melon
with the most entire confidence. The
blister is only to be seen upon close in
spection, but is plainly visible when that
is given.
Poultry Notes.
! Powdered hellebore and sulphur, mix
ed, is good to sprinkle around the nests
of sitting hens.
Arrange for placing chicken coops
among your garden vegetables. for the
chicks will keep in check the insect pest
Gapes in chickens or turkeys can be
cured by giving them mixture of hens
oil and camphor-two drops of camphor
mixed with three drops of OIL. Open the
chicks mouth and drop the mixture
down its throat, then rub oil on The out
side of the neck. Red pepper mixed
with the food, weekly, will keep the
fowls in healthy condition.
To bring chilled or wet chick CT
young turky to renewed life, hold it overa
smudge or smoke from wood fire. This
remedy will resuscitate a chick when SC
far gone as to appear lifeless.