The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-15
Farm and Garden.

Glvcerine is said to be one of
the best lubricants for machinery,
especially when exposed to the
air and changes of temperature.
Interrogate your soil experiment
tally, and thus learn what is most
needed in the form of fertilizers
to produce thereon remunerative
crops.
An exchange says that the addi-
ton of slaked lime to rotten ma
nure while in the dung-heap is
altogether Objectionable, because
lime possesses the power of again
liberating the combined and fixed
ammonia, az the powerful and pun
gent odor, which is by this means
evolved, makes sufficiently evident
to the observer.
Milk is condensed by steam heat
in vacuum pans, so that there shall
be no danger OF burning. When
condensed to one fourth its origi-
nal bulk it is taken from the pans
Tin some cases mixed with refined
sugar and in others not) and is
sealed up in cans for preservation
and sale. Farmers living at dis
lance from good market for milk
may find it profitable to engage in
producing this article.
To keep nails from rusting, heat
quantity quite warm on shovel,
and throw them, while hot, into a
vessel of coarse oil or other melted
grease. The nails should not be so
hot that the grease will be made to
smoke freely. Cut nails prepared
in this manner are improved in all
respects. They are rendered much
tougher, and they will outlast any
kind of wood, even though buried
in the ground; while unprepared
nails are completely destroyedby
rust in a very short time.
The Poultry World says: Gas
soon as we discover any symptoms
of gapes among our chickens, we
know that there are worms-very
small red worhs--in their wind
pipes, and we give them camphur
in their drinking vessels, enough
to make quite a taste of the cam
phor. Then, if any get the disease
quite badly before we discover it,
we force pill of gum camphor
down the throat about the size of
a very small pea, and the fumes of
that dose will kill the worms. No
kind of worms can live in camphor;
hence, camphor must be powerful
verinifnge."
An excellent way to make new
swarms of bees is to put the old
queen in the new hive, with three
or four frames of comb; but those
not much accustomed TO the hand
ling of bees will prefer not to look
after the queen, as it requires an
experienced eye to find her soon,
and they had better proceed to fill
up the new hive with frames of
comb, with the adhering young
bees, and leave the queen to lay
new brood in the old hive. i has
been the general rule to pursue
the latter plan, giving the new hive
from five to ten frames of comb,
taking not more than two frames
from one hive.
This article appears in the South
ern Hnsbandman: To destroy the
bugs on squash and cucumber vines
dissolve tablespoonful of saltpe-
tire IN in a gallon of water, put
pint of this around each hill, SO
shaping the earth that it will not
spread much, and then the thing
is done. Apply after sunset. The
more saltpetre the better, If yon
can afford it, It is good for vege-
table but death TO animal life.
The bugs all burrow in the earth
at night and fail to rise the next
morning. 1t is also good to kill !
grub in peach trees--only use twice |
as much, say u quart to each tree. !
There vas not a yellow or blistered !
leaf on twelve or fifteen trees to
which it was applied last season. |
No danger of killing any vegetable
with it. A concentrated solution
applied to beans makes them grow !
wonderfully.
Nothing adds so much to the
beauty of a farm rs neat, tidy sur
Farmers are too much
occupied about their ploughing, |