The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-03-07
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC
Around the Farm

Around the Farm.
III. CoRNAC recommends that. to de-
stroy the pea-beetle, the peas intended
Tor sowing be plunged, after being
sheiled, into boiling water, and imme-
diately withdrawn.
HE Journal agriculture Practioue
says that the worms which injure potted
plants may be got rid of by watering
the plants with water to which has been
| added tenth part of grated horse
chestnut. The worms must flee or die.
In preparing turkeys for market care
| should be exercised not to break or
bruise the tender skin of the young birds.
| we notice In our city markets many
| specimens disfgured by Commissions On
either side of the body, produced by
holding the turkeys tightly between the
knees, during the process of picking,
often causing depreciation in value of
from l to cents per pound compared
With those not similarly marked in ap-
pearance. -Germontoaon Telegraph.
| MIDwNTER, the proyerbially lazy sea-
son for the farmer, is so only to the lazy
farmer. The grand trouble with indus
trious people, no matter what their oc-
cupation, is that they always have too
much to do. Industrious farmers need
the hints of agricultural papers only as
they may lay before them the work which
had best be attended to. For the 9TH
ers, the best advice is, shake off your
lazlness and go to work. There are
hundreds of things to be attended to and
you know it If you don't, sell your
farm and hire yourself out to those who
do.-Rural NeaO Yorker.
| COLoRING cheese is often necessary to
insure fair price, for, while the improve
ment of the article is confined to its
color, the prejudice of the purchaser is
| thus conciliated. Pure annatto alone
should be used for this purpose, and a
good recipe for cutting it is the follow
ing: Take four pounds of best annatto,
| two pounds concentrated potash, five
ounces saltpeter, pound and half sal
{ oda, and five gallons boiling water
| Put ingredients in a tub and pour on the
| boiling water. IncIose annatto in a
| cloth, and as it dissolves squeeze it into
the liquid. Two ounces of this liquid
to 100 pounds Of curds and proportion
ately.-Moore's Rural. ~
CALVES or sleeps lights and livers,
which can always be obtained in the
market houses for a few cents apiece,
are valuable to feed poultry, for two
reasons. They are devoid of bones and
| they closely resemble insect diet. We
advise the cooking ef any sort of meat
| food always. These "harslets" Cor
those of swire) should be boiled, sea-
soned with salt and pepper, and fed, say
twice week, to fowls, where they can
be had handily. For laying hens, when
confined in winter, this change of food
from constant grain feeding is excellent
| Where confined to small runs or loose
cages, this meat, chopped up and mixed
three times a week with their soft food,
will help the younglngs wonderfully
Exchange.
For ordinary laterals, or side drains,
L rarely find that the quantity of water
to be conducted requires more than one
fourth of a square foot as a section OF
the gravel in the bottom of the drain, OF
six inches of width and sixth of depth.
[ have, in my experiments, found that q
gravel drain, formed of pebbles from the
size of kernel of wheat TO that of q
partridge's egg, six inches 10y siy inches,
will convey, in level ditch four feet in
| length, as much water as will flow
through a section of two-inch drain-tile
four feet in length, said pipe also to lie
on level bed This rule may serve as
a guide to the inexperienced. I have,
however, used of similar gravel in main
under-drains cross section of one foot
SIX inches each way. When shavingf
are convenient, I use them on the gravel
but, unless the soil returned on the
gravel is a very friable alluvial or muck
soil. no covering is required before the
earth is returned. In case the veins
break out of the bank higher than si1
inches above the ditch bottom, the depth
of gravel should be increased SO that il
will receive the lateral water directly in
the gravel instead of the soil OVERLAPPING
it. The reasons are obvious. Until
lately / have found more difficulty il
maintaining intact the discharge ends Of
main gravel under-drains than / have
where stones or tiles are used; but am
now able to make them equally as dur
able as with other material. Er-
| chance.