The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-01-19
AMONG the FARMERS.
Around the Farm.

The tubers Of Jerusalem artichoke
are very much improved after taking
up by being laid for a time on I'M
Stacked lime.-EngIish Gardener.
Six pounds of white lead added to
one gallon of tar varnish, and ap.
piled as paint, will prevent damp
coming Though wals.-Amcrican
| Cultivator.
Last fall a few loads of manure
were spread upon a meadow, and
this spriug the entire field was p|ow-
ed and planted with corn. A heavy
coat of manure was spread on the
plowed surface. The dry weather
prevented the rotting of this manure,
and the crop received very little
benefit from it. On the spots where
the manure was spread last fall the
corn WAS much better.-Moure's RI
raj.
Harness shonld never be kept in
the stable where manure is constant
~ generating large quantities of am
monia. This ammonia is rapidly
absorbed By the leather, and the eff
feet upon the leather is about,:the
same as would result from satnrating
it with strong lye. In u word, am
monia rotS leather, and hence keep
ing harness in tho stable is sure to
result in its damage, more or less
Exchange.
Mr.. Chapman relies on the plenti-
full USE of swamp muck over the roots
as a preventative Of the borer III
peach tees, and he accidentally prov.
ed the curious retligerating quality
Of muck i'll holding frost aud retard-
ing the bloom in the spring when
dumped BY the horse load in the fall
about the base of his trees. | hear
that one of your strawberry growers
has great faith in growing tausy
around peach trees to keep borers
away. That would naturally pro-
vent attacks on the root with pIow
and spade, and implies Il rcstful and
conservative rather than AL expert
mental cultivation. II Cor. Hartford
Conraut.
We often wonder why farmers in
this country do rot use the cart more
it is far more handy for loading and
dumping manure, soil, roots, ETC.,
than \ wagon, being more easy to
load, and especially to unload. A
cant can be quickly loaded aud dump
ed, and only requires one good horse
to draw it. In England carts are
in constant use, being very popular
in the harvest-fc|d. We are glad to
see that dipping wagons are employed |
on many Of our farms. This loading |
manure from a barn yard, and haul
ing it by wagon few hundred yards,
to be unloaded forkful by forkful, is a
waste of time and labor, Of both man
and beast Rural World.
The signs Of a good working OK
are; long head, broad and level be.
tween the eyes, and the eyes full,
keen and pleasant; forward legs
straight; toes straight forward hoofs
broad not peaked; and the distance
short between The ankle and the
knee ; these properties enable an OK
to travel on hard roads; if the ani-
NAL turns his toes out, the strain
comes on the inside claw, and when
travelling on ha'd ground he will get
anne at the joint between the hoofs
md the hair. Full breast; straight
oack; round ribs, projecting ont as
vide as the hip bones; these are the
signs Of strength and good constitu-
ion. The best colors are brown,
lark-red and brindle. At 4 years
If age the steer becomes an OK, and,
'aving completed his 9Th o, 9th year, |
re should be fatteued for the butcher.
-MoOrs Rural.