The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-08-03
Farm and Garden.

of the coloring of the fruit. The
superabundance of rail- causes al
new growth of the wood, and as
the fruit is deprived OF its proper
nourishment it rots.
A correspondent of an exchange
furnishes q recipe to cure poison
ing by poison oak. Take the III
ner or green bark of the elder
bush and fry it in lard, and with
it annoint the. irruption until it is
healed. Two or three applications
will generally cure it.
To induce sleep, don't use any
drugs. Rise, if you find yourself
wakeful, and chafe the body and
extremities, aud thus set mp an
even circulation of blood. Wake
fitness is caused often by a pres
sure of blood upon the brain. A
cold bath viii often induce sleep,
or a rapid walk in the cold air.
The Stockton, Gel, Independ-
ent claims that there is no need
of lockjaw from wounds in the
feet and other parts of the body
from rusty nails. Any bruise that
| is inAamed may be healed by sim
ply smoking it with burning wool
or woollen cloth. Twenty minutes
is sufficient to take the pain from
the worst case.
A. 3. Whitney, of Illinois, who
has an orchard of 100 acres, raises
crops among the trees until they
require the ground; then an occa-
sional ploughing and pastuung OF
sheep. He expended 1000 IN
one year in destroying canker-
worms, to which he gives no quar-
ter. His remedy is whale-oil soap,
six pounds to forty gallons water,
one gallon to d tree. His sheep
take care Of the codling-moth.
Flax succeeds admirably all over
the more temperate regions OF the
United States possessing a rich
soil. The main difficulty is the
expense of harvesting and prepar-
ing the crop when fine flax is to be
the result. This, machinery has
not yet been able to accomplish
Nevertheless, fax, for its seed is 4
paying crop in a rotation, ano
where mills are near for working
the straw into tow for coarse bag
ging the straw becomes an impOr
tant interger.
in warm weather the oil 10 pain
, soaks into wood at once, leaving
the lead merely dry and ready L
crumble off. To guard agains
, this difficulty, when one must PAIN
!, in very warm weather, go over TIL
surface with raw oil. Paint appli
ed to the exterior of buildings il
autumn or winter will endur
twice as long as when applied il
early summer or in hot weather
In the former it dries slowly, an,
: becomes hard like a glazed surface
not easily affected afterward by tn
weather, or worn of by the beatint
of storms. Furthermore, by paint
ing in cold weather, the annoyaIc
of small flies, which invariably col
! lect during the warm season o
!. fresh paint, is avoided.
a Mr.. Bowick, the English author
urges that where there is til
slightest reason for donbting til
n terminating powers of seed grail
v it should be tested before sowiu
/ much more generally than is ofte
g done. His directions are In tim
. for the fail crops, but behind tn
q spring seeding, for which, hove eve
i they may well be put on record fc
4 future use. They are rs follow.
r Draw one bundled grains promi'
e cuously, lay them in two pieces {
, thick flannel well saturated wit
i rain water, place it in a warm ten
g perature, keeping it always we
and III fifty or sixty hours you wi
n find it sproated. The gener;
D adoption of such handy metho
h would give u certainty to what
farmer was actually growing
Thus, ii he found the geIminativ
9 percentage law, he must add MOI
q seed to make up for the deficienc,
e Prof. Beal, of Michigan, say
l. "In our corntiel,ls are often lare
> numbers OF slender stalks bearin
IS no ears, or very small ones. Thes
/ stalks have tassols, and they sea
o ter pollen and are very apt to sea