The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-08-24
Farm Notes.

III YOU are taking cold, grease
your nose, throat and breast, take
a glass of hot lemonade and cover
up warm in bed. Morning will
see you better.
Fruit Trees.-Nearly all fruit
trees are, on their trunks or among
their branches, affected with moss,
lice, various kinds of insects. These
can all be effectually cleared away
by wash of ley, made from pot
ash or wood ashes, of strength
sufficient to bear up an egg. 1t
will kill every noxious insect, and
will not hurt the bark. A pound
of potash to a pailful of water will
make it sufficiently strong.
To keep corned beef, cut up the
meat in suitable pieces. pack in a
cask or vessel, then make a brine
as follows: To one gallon of wa
ter add one and halt pounds of
salt and one ounce of saltpetre;
bring the brine to boil, and then,
while boiling hot, pour on the
meat; it will keep as much as it
will cover. The meat must be
kept entirely under the brine. n
the spring again boil, skin and
pour on the meat while hot. Some
add one pound of sugar and one
ounce of saleratus to 100 pounds
of corn-beef.
Shipping Peaches. = Carefully
lay the peaches in the box by hand,
and fill SO fnll that the lid or Stats
will press tightly Oh the fruit, TO
prevent its moving in the box du-
ring it's transit. Give the poor
peaches to your hogs and ship only
such as are sound and fair in all
respects. Have your name and
residence stamped on every box,
and always send a letter to the
commission house or elsewhere in
advance, advising whoever is to
receive them of their arrival at
such date, and insisting OF i'm
mediate attention. BY observing
these rules you will loose very lit
tie if any fruit, and realize much
larger returns Oh shipments.
Nothing will so thoroughly de-
stroy rose slugs as wood ashes.
The ashes must be sifted on early
in the morning while the leaves
are damp, the branches being turn
ed over carefully, so that the un-
der sides of the leaves, to which
the young slugs cling, may get
their share of the siftings. If the
night has been dewless, in order
to make the work thorough, first
sprinkle the bushes, and the ashes
will then cling to the slugs, to
their utter destruction. This may
be repeated without injury to the
roses as often as the pests make
their appearance.
Parties who ship packages of
honey should have the gross and
net weight neatly marked upon the
head. The address of the firm to
which the honey is shipped should
be SO marked as to take up as lit
tie room as possible. The initials
of the party shipping, or his shep-
ping mark. should be on the pack
age as WELL Neatness in marking
is very important. The shipper
should strive to have his honey
strike the eye of the buyer favora-
bly, at first sight. A stencil-plate
costs but trihe, and no one can
mark half as neatly as you with
the Use of one, to say nothing of
the convenience and time saving.
There is nothing so vexatious or
intolerable to commission house
as the receipt of consignmenss not
properly or distinctly marked and
advised. Every producer who de-
signs to make market for his
honey aud obtain good prices for
it, should have a mark or brand of
his own. By doing so he may es-
tablish a reputation for his goods
which will be valu ible to him, as
buyers will look for his brand.
To know how best to prepare
wool for market is what many OF
our sheep raisers have to learn.
Each may think his way the best,
but whether it is or not, if the
buyer cannot be made to think so,
it is of little avail. A fleece of
wool should be in such condition
that it may be unrolled or spread
out like. piece of cloth for ex-