Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-08-07
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN
Notes fo1. the Farmer.

HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
Notes for the Farmer.
Asolution Of carbolic acid in 800 pnrt
Of water has been found effective for scab
A strong detection Of tobacco is a gooC
wash, also. -
| A good remedy against the scale insec
is to use suds made of carbolic soap
and brush the affected parts with i
thoroughly, leaving it dry thereon.
| For throat distcmper, CRATE fine small
green wild turnlp, or, if dry, give heap
| ing spoonful, mixed with bran or oats
Never fails. Good for cough, also.
A Michigan lady says to kill insects
she uses one teaspoonful of kerosene to {
gallon of water and sprinkles it on the
plants with a hand broom. It destroys
green flies and other pests.
A good wax for grating purposes an6
tor covering wounds in trees: Five parts
10y weight, of rosln, two parts of beeswax
two parts of beef or mutton tallow O,
enough to make the wax soft and easily
applied.
/ Don't forget your table corn. A patch
should be planted every ten or t ielve
days until the beginning Of Jdly, and
then you can get it every day when the
first crop IS ready and continue to do So
until sharp frost intervenes in October.
A successful dalryman teeds his COWS
night and morning the year round, and
in each feed puts teaspoonful OF salt.
He considers this method of sailing COWS
preferable to the usual one Of giving ami
mails salt once or twice week, and thinks
his method adds largely to the amount Of
milk given.
The English dairy farmer gets immense
returns from their grass lands by free use
of bone manure. One Cheshire farmer
says that by this be can feed forty COWS
from land that formerly gave HIM pro-
duct sufficient tc feed only twenty. The
English farmers believe in ''boning" the
grass land especially.
Early lambs may be pushed forward by
giving them little cows milk. They
Ill soon learn to drink this from pan
The milk should be given warm from a
fresh COW, quarter of pint to a meal
Do not overfecd any young animal; that
retards instead of assisting growth.
Charcoal, pulver1zed and mixed with
water, is now highly recommended as
an ageht for relieving cattle suffering from
any arrangement OF the stomach, such as
bloat or hoYen, etc. This should be re.
membered. There is no doubt of it's eff
cacy, if abundance Of concurrent testl.
mony can lie relied upon.
Large evergreens are very much out OIL
place on the sunny side of a house, while
they form an appropriate screen anc
| windbreak along the cold and exposed
sides of the building. Shade trees art
| often planted too near to our dwellings
and too thickly, so as to make the house
| dark, damp and chcerless.
An agricultural exchange says, to xii
ticks on sheep, throw in the barn yard &
few small thrifty, second growth fl
trees. The sheep will eat the leaves anc
small twigs greedily. and often stri p OF
all the bark. The ticks will all leave
the sheep in few days, the strong odo1
| from the oil Of the fir driving them
| away.
The Science Of Health says: eff farm.
ers would avoid suddenly. cooling the
body after great exertion; if they .woulc
be careful not to go with wet clothing
and wet feet, and it ey would not over
eat when in that exhausted condition, anc
battle daily, using much friction, they
would have little or no rhuematism.
| Rolling the meadows with heavy rol
Ter will level the surface by reducing thu
hummocks, sinking stones and sticks o.
roots. and compact the soil about tn
roots, and so strengthen the grass. A
light dressing, 100 pounds nitrate o.
soda per acre, for instance, will encour
age the growth and add largely to thu
yield.
Collect some SCOT from chimney o.
stove where wood is used for fuel, pu
INTO an old pitcher and pour hot waite
| upon it. When cool, use it to water you
plants every few days. The effect upo1
plants is wonderful in producing pic
growth Of thrifty shoots, with large, THO
leaves and agreat num3er of richly tintec
The practice of washing sheep before
shcaring, says an Eastern sheep raiser, il
very disagreeable and is unnecessary
| Nothing is, gained in the price of tn
wool; in fact, the usual deduction mad,
by wool buyers for unwashed wool leave
an advantage 4 it'll the seller. The prac
tice is dangerous to the health of boil
men and sheep, and may we'll he abol
| ished.
It has been proven that by the plant
ing in drills a la: ger yield Of corn can b
produced than from hills. In place o
bills three feet apart each way, max,
drills three and half feet apart, ane
drop the seed every eighteen inches. I
the first case there are 4,840 hills, and il
the latter 8.40O to the acre. Two stalk.
may be gro" in each hill, or, if there
are three stalks, in the former case there
will be 1880 stalks and 1890 in the
! latter ;:with one good car to. each stalk
which is possible. there will be 14s
bushels IN the one case and 1853 in thu
other to the acre. f this is possible, ant
there is no doubt of it, why, then, should
it not be .attemptedY :, -.
Says the Clearfeld Journnz:, "'Scvera
weeks ago we published an item to thu
effect that d lady had discovered that :
teaspoonful Of coal 'oil to a gallon %
alter was a certain destroyer of plan
lice. Last week we gave it a. trial or
some begonias and other tender plants
and we are now ready to give our EVIL
| dence in support of the unknown MICH
gan lady's. theory. Upon examination
| of the plants some time after sprinkling
| every louise was found white and dead
as door-nail.' We used wateripg-pot
while she. recommends. a hand broom
We would advise our readers to trv it,
Hungarian Grass and Millet.
By proper management a second crol
may often be grown upon stubble, o.
upon a sod which is not to be kept in
grass the next year. A growing
| plant is needed for this purpose. One o1
the best, it not the best Of all, is Hungar
ian grass or millit, which are similar
plants in all respects. Either Of these
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