The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
HOUSE AND FARM.


Harvest 10 Done.
tLottie Rose in Chicago Trihune.l
Well, the Harvest Is done-breathe freely
And haste, World, on thy way!
Frown, II We will, o lowering skies,
Our ships ride at anchor to-day
You may pass, OTime, for once beguiled!
We've won in q race with thee;
But the stake was bread for the wide, wide
world,
TIL other Harvests there be-,
Mulch newly planted trees.
Tive the poultry, shade.
Tomatoes are good for chicks.
Whitewash poultry houses often.
Eradicate weeds by hand picking.
Cucumbers OF slow growth are bitter.
Not work, but wages, says the tramp.
Think, read, and Mediate, then write.
Provide good pure water for live stock
Texas has 9,0O0, 600 acres OF cotton land.
Do not attempt to succeed oats with
wheat.
No two countries produce the same quail
ity Of wool.
Sprinkle air-slaked lime on turnips to
destroy the "turnip flea"
The temperature of a stable shonld be
650, and free from moisture.
The cash value of farms in the United
States is set a, s, :62, S03, sol.
One little town in Denmark sends 2 ,0OO,-
600 eggs TO London yearly.
Pigs and poultry are omnivorous; hence
they may become scavengers.
No farmer can afford to grow q ton of
hay per acre, though many do it.
If man be kicked by q COW may he not
be said to get free milk punch, Journal.
1t is reported that fish die from eating
potato beetles, because indigestible.
The fall cricket, called BY some August
cricket, was first heard on the 10Th ult.
A bushel of grain, after distilling or brew
ing, makes about 40 gallons Of slops.
A new treatment for chronic catarrh
consists Of injections Of cold water.
Some green crop should BE- grown now
for, cows for the month Of September.
A well-fatteled Berkshire or small York
shire has = very small percentage OF waste.
Drilling has produced 80 bushels of
wheat per acre I; try drill husbandry with
wheat.
-Salicylic acid cannot be safely used
rs tooth wash. 1t is injurious to the
teeth.
The principal varieties of wheat raised
in Minnesota are Fife, Red chat and Lost
Na.ion.
There is no egg of bird known which
is not good food, or which could not be eat
en- by hungry man.
1t is estimated that 5000, 600 eggs are
consumed every day in the United States.
New York alone consumes 1000, 900 dozen
annually.
A horticulturist OF IL years experience
says that he has been taken in nearly eve
ry time he has purchased new variety of
fruit"
New York Times.l
Central Kansas is the garden OF the
West.
New York Tribune
Kansas presents greater advantages than
any other Western State.
Ammonis, ! o.; borax, J o.; alcohol, 2
tablespoonfnls; pint soft water.
Reduce one ton of thistles to 30 pounds
of potash. Then sell your potash for cash.
Then take the cash and buy figs.
White English turnips may be sown now
and down to the middle Of August. They
may be grown after peas, early potatoes and
radishes.
Exchanged
The large-leaved plantain of the door
yard is said TO be sure remedy for the
toothache The leaves are CHOPPED finely,
packed closely in a bottle, and covered
with strong alcohol for a week. With this
tincture piece Of cotton or wool is saturat-
ed, and the latter is placed in the aching
cavity. The medicine is used internally in
minute doses.
Boston Traveller, ST.
Ia it not strange that intelligent farmers,
who labor from early morn to dewy eve"
week after week and year after year, 10
make paying crops, eIpending time, money,
muscle, and brains, to succeed in their call
ing, and knowing that there are 80 many
organized combinations working to the
detriment of farmers, will not move q
finger in their own defence?
lBoston Traveller, ST.
A farmer whose fields and grounds were
remarkably clear Of weeds, says that he
twice in q year made it rule to Gle an
every weed from the fence-cOrners and BY
places 80 "a to prevent any seeding. IL was
not such job as one would think man
with a scy,he would do it in day and
half" We make it rule to cut the weeds
in waste places and about our door yard,
two or three times during the season, rake
them up and put them into the pig-sty.
lExchange.l
Hen roosts and pigeon-boxes may be
cleared of vermin by q preparation Of sui
phur and carbon, technically known a.
sulphuret of carbon. A bottle contain
ing the solution will last several days, and
the cost is small. Put = OF. of the sui
phuret of carbon in q bottle open at the
mouth and hang it by string in the hen
house. At the end Of eight days the bottle
should be refilled.
Prairie Farmer, Iol
Mr.. VIM. Sanders, superintendent Of the
agricultural grounds at Washington, says
he has been experimenting a long time to
try to prevent blight, and whether or not
he has an infsllible remedy he is unable to
he only knows that for ten
years he has painted or washed apple and
pear trees once or twice year with lime
whitewssh strongly impregnated with sui |
phur, and such trees have thus far escaped
the blight, though it has appeared in the |
adjacent orchards.
Prairie Farmer, Io.l
The best trainer Of colts / ever knew
never allowed the whip or -pur to be used,
while the horses he trained never needed
he whip. Their spirits were unbroken by
severity, and they Obeyed the slightest i'm
pulse Of the voice or rein with the most an
mated promptitude. This horseman al |
ways claimed that it was with horses as
with children, ii accustomed to beating they
would not obey without it, but il managed
With untiring gentleness, united with con-
,istent and very equable 6rmnesa, the |
forever.
Prairie Farmer, lo.l
Raspberries may be successfully trans
planted in the autumn if the weather be
moist enough to ensure their roofing. At |
hing Of winter they should be mulched to
prevent heaving from freezing and thawing.
We should prefer spring planting when
srge quantities are 10 be set.
A writer to the Elmira Farmers' club /
ends the following cure for gals on the
'houlders of draught animals: Dissolve
liz drachms of iodine in half = pint Of
llcohol, and apply it on the sore with q
Gather a. soon a. the collar il removed,
md when At rest twice day, morning and
evening. The article should be in the sta
lie of every farmer, a. it ia An excellent ap-