Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-10-17
Farm and Home.

prosperity, where poor stock would
send him into the bankrupt courts.
Hogs can be grown so quick and
rapidly increased that there is scarce
time for hog cholera. Good hogs are
now produced in eight months.
We have learned by experience that
early-gathered winter apples keep
the best. AS soon as fruit has at
tanned it's full size we advise that it
be picked.
A great number of weeds are now
maturing seeds, and every weed
about fence-rows, in fields, or about
barns, and in hooks and corners,
should be cut now and burned.
Teach the boys to love the farm,
but do not prove hard task masters.
Do not make their farm life one Of
drudgery and toll, il you would have
their thoughts in after life turn low
ingly to their old homes and happy
young lives.
The wheels of a wagon loaded with
hay passing over match, carelessly
dropped on the floor OF Shaker
barn, started fire that spread so
swiftly that the help had hardly time
to escape with their lives. Moral: A
barn floor is costly Matchbox.
How do you know a good farmer?
1t is by a well-ordered farm. we'll
chosen stock, comfortable buildings,
a neat and thrifty garden, a we'll
rounded roadway, gates well hung,
fences in good repair, shade trees
and ornamental shrubbery well-ar-
ranged, buildings painted without
and whitewashed within, tools and
implements painted and protected,
and all the family cheerful.
Ventilation Of the hen houses is an
important thing to be observed by
fowl growers at all seasons Of the
year, and especially in the months
when the birds are limited to indoor
confinement. Foul air in the houses
will generate disease rapidly. Roup
is thus caused, and sickness will
surely crop out among the flock If
they do not get fresh air, and plenty
of it, at any time of the year.
WORMS IN HOGS, SHEEP AND CATTLE.
The simplest remedy for worms in
cattle, sheep and hogs IS turpentine
mixed with little feed or given in
linseed oil or Cruel; two ounces for a
cow or OK, and one-fourth or less for
smaller animals, according to size.
Clater gives the following to adult
bovines: Linseed oil, one pint; tur-
pentine, two ounces; infusion OF
quassia, one-half pint. The symp-
toms OF the worm being present are:
General weakness and inaction, fall
ing Off of flesh, capricious appetite
and appearing "hide- bound. -Scien-
titfc Farmer.
A nice stock of young plants OF
gooseberries and currants may be
secured from sprouts Of this years
growth. Cut in lengths Of about six
inches and set in soil deeply dug and
pulverized. Along line tightly
stretched dibble them four inches
apart, allowing the topmost eye only
to show above the surface. Place the
rows, say, eighteen inches apart,
tread the soil firmly, and after plant
ing mulch slightly with manure,
Should the frost raise them during
winter, they may readily be pushed
down in early spring while the ground
is soft. Plants so grown are far bet
ter than those procured by dividing
old diseased clumps.
Bliss Calendar gives word In sea-
son to farmers who have stock to fat
ten: '@This Is the fattening time Of
the year. Beeves, pigs and poultry
take on flesh well at other seasons
but this month and next, especially
before the very cold weather Of De-
cember comes, they fatten rapidly
All stock should be put in good order
for winter. Soft corn, nubbins, grown
grain. green pumpkins, and such
fruits as are liable to decay, ought Il
be fed out to the cattle to get then
in good condition before cold wealth
er comes on. Beeves should have
full feeds OF scalded corn-meal. ant
oil-cake on cornstalks or chopped
hay. Sheep should have their allow
ance Of grain increased. especial.
those that are fattening, though 81
long as pasturage is fair they shoulc
be kept upon it. Swine must hav'
the small potatoes, boiled and mixet
with meal; all their food ought to b.
cooked. Oil-meal is excellent ant
economical feed used with othel
things: so Is beef or even pork scraps
Mix finely powdered charcoal and 1
little wood ashes occasionally will
the food of hogs, especially IL they d.
not come to the soil; their growtl
and fattening are much promotes
by it,"
Bigness and Greatness.
Bigness is not the highest type Q