Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-17
Agricultural and Domestic.

Prof. Beal tells the Michigan Farmer
that, tor 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.
There is prospect of a large en-
Ilgration OF English people, discouraged
by stagnation in business, resulting from
strikes, etc, to the mineral and agricul-
tural lands of Alabama
The London E.camiiner discovers that
the change of dinner to late hour has
been great aid to temperance among
the upper English classes, by allowing
little time for long carouse.
A California physician cleared his
premises OF rats by saturating one with
carbolic acid and turning him adrift.-
lie 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 wood
work, and rusty as to iron.
What trees have the power of pre-
clpltating most general moisture from
the atmosphere and the greatest rain
fall from the clouds? The French Com
mission reports decidedly in favor of
firs and pines, with their pinnacle tops
and electric condition.
1t is said that filthy man, with filthy
hands, milking a filthy COW, in filthy
coral, into a filthy pail, and setting the
milk in one corner of hot, filthy kitch-
en-, is the perfection Of filth in butter
making, and that the product will be
anything but ''gilt-cdged"
This is the time when unthrifty farm
ers save 10 cents by refusing to invest
In paper OF tomato seed, because times
are so hard and money scarce, and when
the country pedler 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 dozen steps
square. Such economy is the road to
poverty and beggary
Every farmer should keep a pot of
mixed paint in his workshop, and
should apply it literally to plows, wag-
ons, harrows, reapers, and all Implements
that are exposed to the weather. This
will cause them to last twice as long as
usual. Farming tools and implements
are less frequently run out by hard
service than used up by useless expos
ure to the weather when they are not
in service
An orchardist, who creased trees with
lard to keep rabbits away, tells the
Gardeners Monthly that the application
caused the bark to peel, and that new
bark grew, on a part of them A neigh
Dor rubbed carbon oil on fine lot of
trees for the same purpose. and the
next summer they were dead as door
nails. He adds that when he wants a
young tree to make a fine growth he
ties hay or straw from the branches to
the ground, and thinks he has thus in
sured the life of several which could
not otherwise have been saved
Alonzo Crafts has found good use
for sour cider. He had SOW with a
litter of nine pigs, which she would not
own, and toward which she was very
violent, and but for their timely re-
moval the little pigs would all have
been killed. He gave her two quarts
of sour cider, and in few minutes she
lay down evidently the worse for liq.
uor. While she was in this condition
F., the pigs were twice put to her to suck
and when she recovered from her de
bauch she acknowledged the little ones
and how seems exceedingly fond OF
| them
NO foot, no horse;" although every
farmer knows this MAXIM it seems as
if many (by the size they keep theil
animals feet att expected to double
their teams by contrary Interpretation
oft. \ hoof spread out of all likeness
to its original form, cracked nearly tc
the quick, the frog pared till it is a,
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 not credit to
farmer nowadays. If every man who is
guilty of causing the above defects
were compelled to keep his own feet in
a similar manner, there would be q
revolution somewhere. 1t is not neces-
airy to employ farrier to trim horse s
foot. A plank to stand on, sharp
two-inch chisel, and a good mallet, in
the hands of careful man will, if used
once month, keep hoofs in perfect or
der and improve them constantly
Moores Rural.