Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-06-14
Practical Hints.

Practical Hints.
Fowls attacked seriously with the
roup are hardly worth saving.
But for extravaganza many married
couple might now be in possession Of a
valuable farm or comfortable mansion
in town, which have gone with life's fol
lies.
Mr.. E. R. Skinner, Turnbridge, VT.
says he cards and brushes his COWS
thoroughly every day, and that they
greatly enjoy and profit by their atten-
ton, and "call for it by unmistakable
signs"
For grinding cutlery and edge-tools,
the stone should be dipped in water to
prevent the heating Of the tools. Care
full cutters use oil for polishing instead
OF water when using grindstones Of
small dimaeter.
| The Western Christian ADVOCATE says
that "barbaric hate is communism. II
means man without hope-a creature
OF despair people without religion
world without God. That is com.
munism, and Communism is hate"
A correspondent of the american
Agricultural recommends persons who
have horses suffering from Inflammation
OF the joints or muscles to apply cold
water to the suspected parts; the seat
of the trouble will be found where the
moisture dries off quickest.
Look where you will on the farm
whether it is fruit gardens, grains, or
animals, we shall find. that whatever
reaches the highest fitness for it's des-
tined purpose is beautiful; and whatev-
err fails OF fitness is simply ugly
Welsh.
Cases frequently occur where a man
who is too lazy to farm, quits and be-
comes very successful preacher But
it never occurs where he is too indOlent
to preach that he ever becomes sue.
cessful farmer. That rule will not work
both ways.
Prof. Budd announces that he has
made arrangements for large impor-
tation of apple, cherry and plum cions
from Northern Europe, to arrive in time
for next years grating. He has few
varieties this year started on the College
farm.
Look, as you travel through the coun-
try, and see how many you can count
who have concluded that it is useless
to have farm in good condition, to
have good crops or good stock, when he
can just as we'll be buried at some one
else's expense.
Keep your stock constantly gaining
in flesh. Use the most unfailing vigi-
lance and diligence to secure this. The
moment they begin to go down-hill, dol
lars are running out of your pocket, ev-
en- though you don't feel, hear or see
them, and it costs much more to get
them up again than it does to keep them
up if properly attended to before they
begin to fail.
While the mechanic may suffer weeks
of enforced idleness from lack of en-
ployment, the thrifty and Industrious
farmer never need be idle for want of
a job. While the former is dependent
upon outside sources for even the means
of earning his bread and butter, the lat
ter has within his grasp and control the
means of producing his own food in
abundant supply.
Ploughing green crops into the ground,
to act as manure, was long practised
by the ancient Romans, and is done in
Italy and in many other countries
where the soil and climate are favorable.
This mode of fertilizing is specially suit
ed to warm countries where vegetation
is rapid and luxuriant. In the southern
countries of Europe the harvest is early,
and the crops removed in time sufficient
to allow the maturity OF the green
| plants the same season.
To drain depression in field where
clayey or hard-pan subsoil prevents
the sinking of rain water, and the lay of
the land is unfavorable for ordinary
methods of drainage, first dig hole as
for well, through the impervious STRAIT
UNI at the bottom hollow, fill it to the
brim with refuse stones, remove the ex-
cavated earth so as to allow the surface
water free access to the pit, and stand
ing water will never injure the grass or
grain crop in that part OF the field
Exchange.
In an old agricultural paper of forty
seven years ago, we learn that it is a
good plan to put piece Of chalk in the
pen with the young calves. They will
lick it and thus correct the acidity OF
their stomachs and assist digestion and
prevent dyspepsia, which often leads to
scours. There is no doubt but that this
is most excellent practice. Prepared
chalk is often prescribed by doctors as
remedy for heartburn, which is symp-
tom of dyspepsia, and for a diarrhea.
The crude chalk Carbonate of lime) is,
unquestionably, good preventive and
remedy for similar disorders in stock.
The prepared chalk is the crude with all
the gritty particles worked out.-Rurol
New Yorker
A writer in an Illinois journal, the
Lincoln Herald, says that the average
hog of the western country is kept in
an open field with partial shelter or none
at all; that there has been, during the
last two or three months, two rains a
week, and as many changes from warm
to cold and back again, accompanied
with high;wind and frost; that his food
exclusively of one kinds mostly
thrown on the ground, and that he eats
in the mud, drinks in the mud and
sleeps in the mud. In view of these
conditions it is no wonder at all that
the porcine constitution breaks down,
that health fails and that the papers
continue to contain frequent reports of
fatal rayages of the so called hog