The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-09
FROM THE COUNTRY AT LARGE,

L iOI tNi'l litl9 ll'th NANNHolNS v It'llio'
Wheat is knee high in most any Indiana
field.
Wood ashes fed to swine removes tape
worms.
German milet hay is good forage for
horses,
Patrons of Husbandry are numerous in
Texas.
Remove the sprouts from apple trees
forthwith.
Swallows are skimming and fishes are
swimming.
Nitrate of soda is good fertilizer for
buckwheat.
A wagon road is to be built across Hori-
con marsh Wis
Feed pigs well if you would make pork
raising profitable.
Fail not to plant fruit and ornamental
trees at this time.
Ground squirrels are unusually plenty in
the forests around Indianapolis.
As a corn-growing State Tennessee ranks
sixth, while in 1910 it stood first.
The man who loves gardening and will
stick to it is the man who will succeed.
Farmers turned out their young stock
and sheep earlier this season than usual.
1t is said that little kerosene mixed with
starch will give linen a nice gloss. Who has
tried it?
To clean stair rods use wooden cloth wet
with water and dipped in sifted coal ashes;
afterwards rub with dry cloth.
To whiten Panama hat scrub with bo-
raX water and bleach in the sun. Sponge
the hat several times with the water.
Hay sprinkled with little chloride of
| lime and left for an hour in a closed room
will remove the smell of new paint.
If the hide of every dog in Virginia could
be sold for 50 the State debt could be wiped
out as soon as the dogs could be tlayed.
Prof. Sargent, of Harvard College, has a
piece of catalpa wood that had stood under
ground seventy-fve years, and is still firm
and hard.
Stair carpets should always have three or
| four thicknesSes Of paper put under them,
at or over the edge of every stair, which is
the part where they first wear out
After hams are smoked and beef dried
they may be packed away in a barrel be-
tween alternate layers Of salt. IT'S said
they keep through the summer splendidly.
Lie NdllOllCS IdNS DtuSib StNCll lIlOu-
sand acres of land in Mecklenburg County,
Va, on which they are going to establish an
industrial farm for educating freedmen.
This is better than shipping them to Ii
IBERIA to Starye
A thick -four bag that will hold twenty
five pounds of flour is excellent to put hams
away in for the summer, Wrap the hams
| first in brown paper, several thicknesses;
tie the bag tightly and hang up. No flies
will disturb the hams.
A farmer in New York State the past year
cut from two acres six tons of clover hay,
then plowed and soWed ruta baga turnips
and raised eight hundred bushels regarded
as equal to eight tons of hay, making a
product equal to fourteen tons of hay from
two acres in one season.
An Ulster County, N. Y, farmer has re-
Gently discovered that potatoes may be kept
from three to five years by burying them in
the earth from three to six feet. He says
they are as good the third year as when first
put in the ground and thinks they could
be saved five years without difficulty,
To wash soiled carpets especially where
grease has been spilled, spread smoothly on
a porch floor, and with q stiff broom and
plenty of boiling water; pour on and scrub
without mercy; treat both sides alike and
hang on a fence to dry changing frequently
to prevent drying out Of shape. Be sure to
use no soap.
The Alta California states that there ap-
pears to be an understanding among bank
ers that the new dollars are not to be re-
caived on deposit, but will be taken only by
special contract the same as subsidiary sill
yer is now taken. There seems to be an ef-
fort to break the market for subsidiary coin.
The striped bug that devours young
melon and cucumber vines can be cirCum-
ven ed by sprinking the vines with so
luton of whale oil, soap and water. But
Major Frea's remedy is to SOW radish seed
in each hill at the time of planting. The
bug will prefer the radish to the melon or
cucumber plant and not disturb the latter.
The harvesting of winter wheat will be-
gin in Southern Illinois in about three
weeks 1t is already headed out, and the
quantity and quality are excellent. The
fruit prospects are also very good. The
peaches are already as large as hickorynuts,
and the trees are well loaded. Cherries will
be ripe by the middle of May.
Petroleum was utilized as early as 1906.
Nat Carey, peddler, was the first person
to do so. He gathered it by floating fan
mel cloths on Oil Creek, Pa, and when they
became saturated VIII lne OIL ilOatlllS on
the surface he saved it by wringing out the
cloths The oil thus collected lie sold as
liniment, under the name Of Seneca Oil,
and it became famous.
Reliable agricultural reports estimate the
total acreage Of wheat now sown through
out the Northwest as thirty per cent higher
than in any preceding year, and the pros
pect is that, should the next four weeks
bring favorable weather for planting at
least twenty per cent, more corn and pota-
toes will be planted this season than ever
before. Under these conditions we shall have
an extraordinary surplus of breadstutls to
: send abroad.
1t needs but about seventy days of reason
ably good weather to make a crop of hay or
grass for soilng purposes from the seed of
milet. 1t can follow crop of clover the
same season. the right time to SOW 1t being
, after the clover is harvested. About three
pecks of seed to an acre is required. 1t
thrives in most Soils and is not affected by
drought if in well manured ground. 1t is
possible to raise crop Of clover, another of
, nillet, and another OF ruta bagas from The
same land in one season. Dairymen with a
large flock of cows and te~ acres may fnd a
, hint worth taking in the above.