Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-04-10
FARM AND HOME


II PARSLEY, one of the best of the savoI
d herbs, is little grown in this countr,
Its seeds take six weeks to sprout, an
should be sown as soon as the frost il o,
It Of the ground; indeed, it has been su,
: gested that the experiment Of fall sowin
r be tried.
It IT is an obvious waste of forage
plough under a rich, s%ucculent growt
of clover. If it is fed or cut, and the
the stubb)e ploughed under, the value {
!, the forage is saved, more manure
= made, and the direct value of the Glove
e stubble and roots is nearly as that of til
entire crop.
DoN'T try to fatten your pig rapid
until you have first grown him. YoI
I cannot make a heavy hog unless yo'
!, first produce a lengthy pig. Weeds
I clover, meat, scraps, boiled potatoes
kitchen refuse, any and all %nitrogenou
or flesh forming foods, are preferabl
; during the early months of the pigs ex
istence, to the meal and grain or fat
forming foods which are required for tn
finishiDg-of process. Ploughmam.
AMONG the varieties of head lettuc,
is the Dutch butter, with leaves slightly
speckled, more visible in the immatur,
growth than in the head. 1t is moi
among the mammoths, but rather under
sized, and may, perhaps, be of less value
to the market-gardener On that account
than others; but for private family use
we recommend it confidently. One
valuable quality is its ability to resist
heat, and the longer condition fit for
table than some other excellent kinds,
which shoot to seed as soon a. the head
is fully formed.
EXPERIMENTS in sowing wheat at diff
ferent depths favor, in ordinary soils,
one to two inches. Samples of pure seed
sown one-half inch in depth came up in
eleven days, seven-eights of the seed
terminated; that sown one inch in depth
came up in twelve days and all the seed
terminating; two inches deep, seven
eighths of it came up in eighteen days;
three inches deep, three-fourths OF it
came up in twenty days; four inches
showed a growth of one-half, hat came
up in twenty-one days; five inches, only
one-half grew and came up in twenty
two days, while that planted six inches
deep came up in twenty-three days, but
only one-third terminated.
DR.. KINGSLEY, of Oneida county,
writes to the Country Gentleman that
6nely-powdered aloes will kill lice on all
animals, while the remedy is entirely
harmless, destroying the parasites by its
intense bitterness. The directions for its
application are as follows: Fill a large
common pepper box with the powder,
and sprinkle thoroughly into the hair,
on the neck, back, sides and rump of the
creature infested, and rub it thoroughly
through the hair and on the skin with
the ends of the fingers. Leave it undis-
turbed for a week; then card or curry
thoroughly, and apply as before, and so
continue at intervals of a week, until
there is not a living parasite. 1 have
used and recommended this extermina-
tor in numerous cases, without a failure;
and two different applications, if thor
oughly made, generally suffice.
THE following is a wash for fruit
trees used by William Saunders, of
the government gardens at WASH
ington: Put half q bushel of lime
and four pounds of powdered sui
phur in a tight barrel, stacking the
lime with hot water, the mouth Of the
barrel being covered with a cloth; this is
reduced to the consistency of ordinary
whitewash, and, at the time Of applica-
ton, half an ounce of carbolic acid to
each gallon of liquid. MI. Saunders
says: ~ generally applied it in the
spring, before the leaves made their APP
pearance, but / am convinced that it
would be more effective if applied later:
but then it is difficult to do 80 when the
tree is in foliage" MI. Saunders ap-
plies the wash, not only to the stem of
the tree, but to some extent, to the main
branches.
A LADY correspondent of a southern
paper, writing from Arkansas, gives the
following recipe to increase the flow of
milk in a COW. She says: "Tepid
water, slightly sailed, given twice a day,
will increase the flow of milk one-third
if the COW will not drink it at first trial,
scatter a handful of bran or meal over
the top of it. They soon become very
fond Of it, and will drink all you give
them. l tried this plan three years ago
with perfect success. l had only one
COW, and she was of the common scrub
stock of the country, and after she be-
gan to drink the water, prepared as
above, she furnished me twice a day two
ordinary water buckets full of milk, and
by feeding a little corn boiled with cot
ton seed, the milk yielded butter enough
to supply my table bountifully and
leave me a few pounds to sell every
week. gave her three gallons of water
twice a day"
CREAM grows more difficulty to churn
as distance from the time of calving in.
crcases, and the difficulty is enhanced by
feeding late-cut or ripe fodder. Ifearly.
cut hay and roots are used for winter
food, there will be no trouble with
churning in the winter, though it will
require a little more time than when
cows live OF grass and are nearer the
time Of coming in. The ease of churn-
ing cream depends chiefly on the size of
the fat globules of which the cream is
composed. These are largest in the
early part of the milking season, and
grow smaller as the period of milk-giving
is prolonged. Other circumstance being
equal, the fat globules are largest when
the COW has food, rich in fat, such rs cot
ton-seed meal, oil-cake, green grass or
corn meal. They are small when cows
are kept on straw, dead-ripe corn-stalks,
cate-cut hay, etc, especially when they
have been in milk a long time.
THERE is a tendency at this season To
feed too much grain and get the horses
too fat. This is done ut the expense OF
muscle, because an animal kept con.
stantly at work will not get "hog fat
the food going 70 furnish tissue and mus
Gle used up and destroyed. Not 80 with
an animal kept in a stall and given nc
exercise, except, perhaps, thst obtained
while being led to water. The amount
of grain fed should be reduced, and
plentiful supply of hay kept in the rack
at all times. When possible, the horser
should be given the free run of the var,
every day. If only given their libert,
occasionally, they are liable to run ant
Jump to excess. Many valuable animal
have been lost by rupture or a fall oh
tanned through. giving exercise to exuber