The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-08-15

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Bless her COP help her my friends let us
pray.
Farm Notes.
Eighteen cubic feet of gravel or earth
before digging, make twenty seven cubic
feet when dug.
Salt, SCOT and lime, mixed with the
manure, make good fertilizer for
celery. =.
Some milkmen use strainer pals and
also cloth stretched over the can, thus
straiHing the milk twice. This double
straining of milk is to be recommended.
Cleanliness costs but little trouble, and
will add greatly to the value of your
dairy products, whether you sell your
milk by the can or manufacture it into
butter or cheeze.
Do not allow ashes of any kind to be
wasted. 1t will pay to haul leached
ashes several miles, when one has his
own team and a laborer at fair wages
Coal ashes, when spread around berry
bushes of any sort, or around grape-vines,
will aid materially in producing large
and fair fruit.
Feed your land before it gets poor.
Give it all the manure you can make
and haul, and it will enrich you. Starve
it by taking off crops continually ard re-
turning nothing and it will bankrupt
you. Feed the land literally and.it will
feed and clothe you.
A New York correspondent of the FL
mira Farmers Club says he raises one
hundred bushels of turnips per acre, in
the hill with corn. He does it by man.
uring the corn in the hill. When half
the load of manure is on the wagon he
scatters two tablespoonfuls of turnip
seed over it, and about the same quanti-
ty when the load is full.
The best preventive for worms in eel.
cry is to mix plenty of salt, SCOT and
lime with the manure that is to be en-
ployed in trenches. This should be
added to the manure some weeks before
it is used, during which time it should
be turned now and then. The mixture
above named also benefits the growth
of the celery, which will lift clean and
spotless compared with that grown in
the ordinary way.
Health Hints.
An ounce of cream tartar in q pint
of water drank at intervals is said to be
certain cure for small .pox.
Vigorous motion of the Jaws as il
masticating will stop bleeding at the
nose.
Tincture of benzoin is highly Landed
as simple and most effective dressing
for fresh wounds. Its application is
much more healing to a recent wound
than either water dressings or any form
of fat.
A thick cream of common whiting
and water is excellent for burns or
scalds.
To CURE A FELoN.-Prof. Hunter, of
Berlin, cures bone felon or whitlow by
first probing the swelling of the finger,
making small incision where the pain
appears greatest. The pain of the
operation may be lessened by the local
application of ether or inhalation of
chloroform, The after treatment is
equally simple. The small wound is
to be covered with lint and carbolic acid,
and bathed morning and evening in
tepid water. In few days it is per-
fectly healed.
REMEDY FOR EARAcHE. The Journal
Of Health gives the following: There
is scarcely any ache to which children
are subject so hard to bear and difficult
to cure as the earache. But there is a
remedy never known to fail. Take bit
of cotton, put upon it pinch of black
pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip in
sweet oil and insert into the ear. Put 9
flannel bandage over the head to keer
it warm. 1t will give immediate relief
Remedies for Insects,
phia, give detailed accounts of remedie
for some of the insects which prove
troublesome or destructive in gardens
and more particularly to cabbages, the
substance of which we condense: so
The greenish- black jumping beetle, {
tenth of an inch long, feeding on botf
cabbages and turnips while young, il
kept in check by dusting with sulphur
and plaster, or by applying slightly 1
solution of whale oil soap or tobacco
water. Sowing thickly and repeatedly
may secure crop, or by selecting diff
ferent localities. (2) The insect which
causes the club foot in cabbage may be
repelled by lime and wood ashes, but tc
change to fresh land is better. (3)Wirt
worms, cut worms and grub worms ma,
be killed by the slow process of digging
around the injured plant for them; bu
the best way is to give clean land, wei
cultivated and enriched, with frequen
waterings to stimulate growth, which
will tend to ensure against these under
ground enemies. az The green worm
are best cleared from cabbages by hand
picking. (5) Plant lice are driven OF
by whale,oil soap, sulphur, plaster, to
bacco water, etc., if applied early, so a
not to injure the taste of the cabbages
AS rule for guarding against insect
generally, make the ground rich, keel
it clean and smellow, cultivate often
and water freely"
Lightning travels nearly milliol
timaa faster than thunder Tha snaa,