The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-03-02
AMONG the FARMERS.

New York has 2ii $50 farms, con-
tanning 25.659,2C6 acres. about two
Thirds of which is reported as imprO
we'd land.
Use card on the COWS and oxen at
least twice week. Remove al af
herring fifth every morning, and keep
the feet clean.
An experienced farmer who has fed
articlokes to hogs for upwards of te"
years, declares that they are perfect
preventive Of hog cholera.
A farmer in Appanoose County.
Iowa. has 1000 head Of stock cattle
that he has fed only three times this
winter; they having been on pasture
all the time, and in good condition.
Farmers of the Pacific Coast begin
to complain of insect depredations.
and dining the past season potato rot
was quite a serions drawback in some
parts of Washington Territory.
A wonderfully strange prejudice ex
lists against cattle without horns.-
The absurd and contemptnous name
"muley" sticks to them, although they
NAV belong TO breed as old and as
high bred rs the short horns.
Insects must be looked after now.
The c1nster of eggs Of the Tent Cater
pillar may easily be seen against the
sky in Il dull day; they are to be
looked for as q ring. about three
fonrths of an inch wide, near the ends
Of the twigs. Cutting and hnrning
one Of these destroys about 5000 ca
terpil|ars.
Some farmers in Waldo countg, Me.
are trying the Miller system Of feed
ING stock in winter, which consists of
corn meal alone. disnsing hay entire
". One farmer in Unity has fed a
COW for twenty days npon three quarts
Of meal daily, and the animal thrives.
r. is said that COW can he wintrred
by this system for s12. prairie Far
mer.
The annual report of the Illinois de-
partment Of agriculture places the hog
product of that State for 1877 at the
following figures; Number of hogs as
scssed in May last, 2.96I 1866: per cent
of hogs assessed. and marketed II {:
hogs marketed. 2,ll5.904 average
gross weight. 2G2 ponnds: total gross
weight, 536 9.o7l pounds; value of
hog product, $22 739, s5l.
Harness should never be kept in the
stable where manure is constantly
generating large quantities Of ammo
MIA. This ammonia ia rapidly absor-
bed by the leather. and the effect up
on the leather is about the same as
would result from saturating it with
strong lye. In a word, ammonia rots
leather, and hence keeping harness in
the stable is sure to result in it's dam
age, more or less.
The Country Gentleman urges upon
farmers and manufacturers to make
small cheeses, of from ten to twenty
pounds each. believing that these
would command 2 cents pound more
on an average, than the usual sixty
ponnd cheese. The advice is Doubt
less good for buyer and seller. And
old dealer said he could always sell
small. nice cheese better than large
one, even if the quality was not so
good.
The following prescription handed
MS by Mr.. f. Picket, of Buckley, Ill.,,
and gwen him bp physician, he in
forms US he has found good in that
class of diseases usually denominated
hog cholera II is as fellows: Black
anthony, 9 oz; Gronpd ginger 4 OF;
Flour sulphur 2 "; Pulrerizpd nitre2
"; Sulphate of iron 4 oz. Dose, one
Tablespoonful for a well grown hog
twice day.
As a preventive, the same dose is to ,
be used say four times a year, one
dose a day for a week. The doses, of
course, to be graduated according to
the age Of the hog.-Prarie Farmer.
However much Short-horns may be
under cloud in America, English I
would seem to be at a c
premium. The North British Agri-
rultnrist says: We have reason to
believe that the Earl of Dunmore has
lately been offered 10000 guineas for
lis handsome two.year-old daughter
celebrated "Dnchess g." and
18th Duke of Geneva" The heifer is
nearly eight months gone 10 calf to
he beautiful young Oxford Duchess
'ull now in service at Dunmore, and
he only condition accompanying the !
bove extraordinary offer (made by a
vell-known English breeder) is, that a
he animal should produce live e
eifer-calf. Fl
Chambers in horses is one of the fl
worst diseases to which the horse is
INFECT, and it is readily transmissa.
lie to man, in whom it is almost in
a1iably fatal. 1t is engendered by
IMPURE air, hard work and low diet. .
'revention-The nasal discharge may
the disease to a sound
orse which is afterward placed in
he stall formerly occupied by the I
iseased one. The discarge adheres !
D the manger and other parts of the :.
'ood work of the stall. The cleaning Il
f the manager and other parts of the =,
tall may be affected by scrubbing l
lem with boiling water, with strong
'lution Of potash and soda, and with
solution of chloride of lime, using
lovelful of it to a pailful of water.
How to Bleed q Horse. -