The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-26
miscellaneous.


Carrie, Wrightsotle. -Complexions that
freckle there Is no prevention for except
keen out of the winu and SUM-. 1t nothing
more nor less than tanning. Good pure soap
and soft water IS the best embrOcatlon for
the skin. We can not enllghten you as to
the making of a telephone. You can buy
one cheaper than you can make it, even If
YOU know how.
L. ". s. Bost, HeiLiy's Nils, n. Cit is
hard, to determine from your desert tion
whether your horse has the mango or farcy.
Apply to the sores an ointment made OF sui
phur t OF, lard 10 or, carboiic acid OF /:
mix. Mango Is the same as itch in the hu-
man animal, and requires same treatment.
For tarcy treatment see our last issue IN this
column.
SoLoaaon Harris, Concord, ". c., wishes
some OF our Texas readers to give informa-
tion about his brother, Josiah Harris, aged
seyenty-four. Post office address desired.
Mrs. u. 5. HaU.-To Kill cabbage lice,
omen the leaves carefully and sprinkle com
MOI, salt between them. Cabbage worms
NAV be destroyed by cutting corn stalks and
rlacing them in piles through the patch.
During thenight the larvae will find and crawl
within the stalks and are easily captured.
,Joha II. Ters-The trouble with your
horse lies in his kidneys. See treatment re-
commended to II. n. Hager in this column.
When YOU wash out the parts mentioned use
the best CASTLE soap clean thoroughly, out
never scratch off the accommodations, as there
is danger Of wounding the parts. Oil, if
used at all, should be very sparingly used
and wiped clean atterward, else the trouble
viii be aggravated whenever the horse Is
rode or driven in the dust. We have pub
Inl -.rov,1 tIp,aSa most a-n.iIant condition
powder for horses or cattle, and will give it
once more; take equal parts of sulphur,
roSin and saitpeter, pulverlze and nix and
add one fourth quantity of one of the above
ingredients of black anthony dose, Il table
spoonful once a day.
Z. ". Nc Grdu.-Blind staggers is pro-
duced from various causes, but most gener-
ally is the result OF some arrangement III the
digestive organs. Horses that have been
over fed are most subject to these cerebral
attacks. When produced from such cause.
prepare fluid extract Of black pepper, 4 OF
fluid extract of ginger, 6 or hyposulphite OF
soda. , or; water, / or. Give wine-glassfuI
every four hours. Epson salts in doses of i!
b., and bleeding from the neck in cases OF
mad staggers will relieve in most cases.
Rot. n. Hager, Triangle, v. C.-Ioul
mare has either inflammation of the kidneys
or bladder. This YOU can determine by
pressing hard over the loins if it is the kid
neys that are affected she will give way under
the pressure. To test for inflammation o
the bladder, press under the TANKS. GIVE
one quart of linseed oil as Il drench. appl,
cloths. wet in hot water, over the loins
cover with dry flannel and change often
Give fax se3d or slippery elm tea III drink
ing water, and once each day give about wv,
drachms of muriatic acid mixed in drinkin:
water; rest and good nursing will do the rest
The animal is not troubled with bots.
Roanoker.-Alfalfa and Lucerne are borl
one aud the same thing, with this difference
that the one has been naturallZed III Chill
where it is called Alfalfa, and from whenc
it was carried north to California. Lucern
has been cultivated in England for severa
centuries, and in France and the south O
Europe from a remote antiquity. Nirgl
speaks of it as a leading pasture and torag
plant In his p0etlcal essays on agriculture
known as tie Georges. The plant has "a
exceedingly hardy and robust constitution
as might be inferred from the fact that |
tiourishes alike in the south of Europe, il
ENGLAND, in Chill and Calitornia-countrie
h. ilt little in common as to elm lte, exec
that they are not subject to severe frost.
With all It's ability to stand drought anC
heat, and with its powerful tap root. which
Is capable Of penetrating calcarious am
sandy clays and loans, 1t Is surprising 1t ha
not been mere largely introduced and used a
a pasture and forage plant in the uplan'
cotton districts of the South. In region
where neither bluegrass, nor timothy, no
red clover make perennial pasturage on ac
count of the long, hot summers, alfalfa vii
be 10 md a precious resource as a plant
furnishing green forage, which may be Gu
from three to four times during the hot sea
son, and one plant of which will last for tel
OF twelve years.
Like red clover, when young alfalfa /
sensitive to frost, and should not be sow
until after the danger of spring frosts ART
over.