The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-08-10
Farm and Garden.

OF Jlncture Vi Iuupaio, opAA
camphor, tincture of cayene pep
per, landanum, essence OF pepper
mint, and mix well. Dose, ten to
thirty drops every half hour until
relieved.
Wash for Fruit Trees.-"Take
four parts Of quick or unslacked
lime and one part Of common flour
of sulphur; break up the lime in
small pieces, then mix the sulphur
with it in an iron pot or kettle;
pour on them enough boiling wa
ter to slack the lime to a powder;
cover the kettle as soon as the wa
ter is poured on"
To keep earth worms from pots
correspondent gives the follow
ing remedy: II put ten drops of
carbolic acid In a pint of water,
and poured that on the earth i'll
the pots. and it acted like a charm,
killed all the worms, and the plants
improved at once. 1t has been
three weeks since it was applied,
and they are all in a nice growing
condition and I think it is time
enought to show what it will do"
A woman whose child had the
diphtheria was told by the doctor
in attendance that everything de-
pended on keeping the throat
clean. She wrapped piece of
| old linen around her finger, and
putting a cork between the jaws of
! the patient, proceeded to wash the
child's throat with salt water and
alum. This mode of treatment,
though severe, was very effective,
and has since been recommended
by the physicians as superior to
| the use of O swab.
Fly Poison.-Take four ounces
of quassi wood chips, boil for half
an hour in one pint of water, and
when cold strain and add water to
make one pint; also, alcohol, two
fluid ounces. Place this decoction
in shallow dishes, where the insects
are troublesome, adding to each
dish one teaspoonful of molasses.
This is sure death to flies, and is
perfectly harmless to persons, quas-
STA, as we all know, being an old
fashioned tonic.
Hen manure should be mixed
with earth. seeds are lost by
planting them where too much hen
manure has been dropped. Pias-
ter is good to mix with 1t, Int IA
better way tp use hen manure, es-
pecially for the garden, is to put it
ill barrels, half filling them, and
then pour in soft water until full.
Take the liquid after the manure
is well soaked and apply it when
needed. Be sure to use soft water
rain water is best. The Lord never
sends hard water down in rain.
If hard water were better for
plants it would come down as rain.
"Rival, jr.." of the Chicago Tri-
bune, urges all who have any I'M
occupied land to plant strawber-
ries, and adds: "Don't be stingy
about the matter and set out a
dozen or a hundred, but put out a
thousand. No farmer should think
of planting less than that. Set the
rows three feet apart, and the
plants fifteen inches in the row.
Cultivate and hoe as often as you
do corn, anil, our word for it, you
will be well repaid. Wilson Al
bany and Charles Downing are
standard varieties. The Prairie
Farmer and Camargo Seeding are
worth trying. Plants may be sci
until the fruit is ripe. Don't neg
lect it.
A member of the Elmira Farm
ers' Club stated at recent meet
ing that he had raised potatoes
very successfully by ploughlng in
the seed. He related his expert
ment as follows: Il dropped the
pieces in every third furrow; they
were covered by the next; when
the field was planted I rolled it
When the potatoes began to come
up [ narrowed the field thorough.
. ly. The crop was good and it was
I raised at a small cost of labor
They were planted about five inch.
es deep. OF course tue potatoes
came slowly, but that gave the
weeds good chance to start, and
the harrow destroyed them more
readily"
A Fable.-An honest farmer once
led his two turkeys into his grana