The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-08
FARM AND HOME.
FARM EOrEs.

FARM sOrEs.
Most of the diseases of cattle are
caused by wrong treatment much
iced at one time too little at another,
to- rich at ore time, too poor stsnother.
If cattle snd horses were fed, and water
ed, and used properly there would be
little disease.
Make a shallow basin in the ground
not far from the kitchen, and fill with
coal ashes Sc is it made, and on this
throw night Stops, wash water etc. An
immense amount of the very best of
fertilizers can be made in this way.
Pure air and mater are of even more
importance than exercise in the care OF
young animals. They are often huddled
together in houses altogether insult
Gent in size, and in which the stmos-
phere is almost constantly impure from
the product OF respiration.
To clear eisteTn water add two ounces
powdered alum and too ounces borsx to
a twenty-barrel cistern of rain wster
that is blsckened or oily, and in few
hours the sediment will settle and the
: water be clarified and fit for washing,
and even for cooking purposes.
If, after the wool has grown to some
considersbleIleugth, sheep or lambs be-
come annoyed with lice or ticks, wash
the lambs in a strong decoction of tobac-
co. Another way is to take s pair OF
bellows and inhale tobacco smoke; then
blow the smoke with a considerable
forceamong the ticks. This will prove
instant death to them.
The liquid yieldings of animals are
worth more-good authority say one
sixth more-pound. for pound, than the
solid excrements, and they are saved
with greater care by the best European
farmers and gardeners. All the leaks il
the stable are not in the roof; thos'
often in the floor are quite as objection
able and are the cause of great deal o
waste.
In preparing ground for squashes
put liberal amocnt of manure in eacl
hill and cover it-with two inches of soil
Then cover the whole with coal ashe
with which the whole is filled, snd III
boil on the manure covered. The see'
sre then planted in the ashes directl.
over the manure. At each hoeing, acat
ter a fresh supply of ashes around tn
plants, snd CUBS will never trouble til
plants.
Confinement and want of occups
ton are among the chief causes VIII,
fowls eaG feathers. The former is olte
inevitable in winter, hut the latter ca
be avoided by burying some of thei
grain food in sand and allowing them
hunt for it, which will afford ther
-pastime and healthy occupation. Civ
them some green food, fresh meat tw
OF three times a week, burnt bone
oyster shells, charcoal, clear water and
clean hennery, and if all this doesn'
cure them of the habit, wiring the
necks, for they are incurable.
:, esking of tanning with the fur OF
an English writer tells the Country this
ne has cats skin, plisble as kid, re
fIOm smell and the hair still clingin
firmly, which two years ago was dresse
according to his receipt, which be says
equally sac and unisiling in all sue
cases: Nail the fresh skin tightly an
smoothly against the door, keeping ii
SHINING side cut. Next, with broa
blsded blunt knife, then scrspe all loo:
pieces Of flesh aud fat, then rub in muc
chSlk and be not sparing of labor whe
the chalk begins to powder and fail q
take the skin down. fill it with fnel
ground alum, wrsp closely together ar
keep so for two or three days; at the Ell
OF that time unfold IL, shake out Ii
alum and the work is done.