The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-08-07
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN
Notes for the Farmer,

S1CNA HID NAu OCllCl k)CSlS.
A good WAX for grating purposes and
Tor covering wounds in trees: Five parts
by weight, of rosln, two parts of bccswax,
two parts of beef or mutton tallow OF
enough to make the wax soft and easily
applied.
Don't forget your table corn. A patel,
should be planted every ten or tAclve
days until the beginning of july, and
then you can get it every day when the
first crop IS ready and continue to do 50
until sharp frost intervenes in October.
A successful dalryman tccds his COWS
night and morning the year round, and
in each feed puts IL tcaspoonful of salt.
lie 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 he can feed forty COWS
from land that formerly gave HIM pro-
duct sufficient tc feed only twenty. The
English farmers believe in "boniny" the
grass land especially.
Early lambs may be pushed forward by
giving them little cows milk. They
will soon learn to drink this from il pan
The milk should be given warm from Il
fresh COW, quarter Of pint to meal
DO not overfecd any young animal; that
rctards instead of assisting growth.
Charcoal, pulverlzed and mixed with
water, is now highly recommended as
an agent for relieving cattle suffering from
any arrangement OF the stomach, such as
bloat or hoyen, etc. This should be re,
mcmbcred. There is no doubt of its eff
cacy, if abundance Of concurrent testi
mony can be relied upon.
Large cvcrgreens are very much out Of
| place on the sunny side of house, while
they form an appropriate screen and
windbrcak along the cold and exposed
sides Of the building. Shade trees arc
often planted too near to our dwellings
and too thickly, so as to make the house
dark, damp and cherries.
An agricultural exchange says, to kill
! ticks on sheep, throw in the barn-yard a
few small thrifty, second growth ii,
trees. The sheep will eat the leaves anG
small twigs grccdily. and often strip of
all the bark. The ticks will all leave
the sheep in a few days, the strong odo,
| from the oil of the fir driving them
| away.
The Science Of Health says: IF farm.
crs would avoid suddenly cooling the
body after great exertion if they woul6
! be careful not to go with wet clothing
and wet feet, and if they would not over
cat when in that exhausted condition, anG
battle daily, using much friction, the,
would have little or no rhuematism.
Rolling the meadows with heavy rol
Ter will level the surface by reducing the
hummocks, sinking stones and sticks OF
roots, and compact the soil about tl<
roots, and so strengthen the grass. A
light dressing, 100 pounds nitrate Of
soda per acre, for instance, will cncour
age the growth and add largely to tho
yield.
! Collect some SCOT from chimney o.
stove where wood is used for fuel, pu
into an old pitcher and pour hot watel
upon it. When cool, use it to water YOU
plants every few days. The effect upor
plants is wonderful in producing IL rapi6
growth OF thrifty shoots, with large, thick
leaves and a great number of richly tintec
roses.
The practice of washing sheep before
shearing, says an Eastern sheep raiser, j:
very disagreeablc and is unnecessary
Nothing is gained in the price of thu
wool; in fact, the usual deduction made
| by wool buyers for unwashcd wool leave!
an advantage with the seller. The prac
ticc is dangerous to the health of boil
men and sheep, and may we'll lie abol
ished.
1t has been proven that by the plant
ing in drills a lager yield of corn can bt
produced than from hills. In place o.
hills three feet apart each way, make
drills three and a half feet apart, and
drop the seed every eighteen inches. III
the first case there are 1910 hills, and in
the latter 8.4O0 to the acre. Two stalks
may be grown in each hill, or, if there
are three stalks, in the former case there
will be 1880 stalks and $1,000 in the
latter; with ono good car to each stalk
which is possible, there will be 14J
bushels III the one case and 1913 i'm the
o1'AoA ~ ''o "c.e' - Wills ID l'oSSlDlc, anu
there is no doubt of it, why, then, should
it not be attempted?
Says the Clcarticld Journal: 'Scvcra]
weeks ago we published an item to the
effect that a lady had discovered that a
teaspoonful Of coal oil to gallon OF
water was certain destroyer of plant
lice. Last week we gave it trial on
some begonias and other tender plants,
and VIC are now ready to give our evil
dcnce in support of the unknown Mich.
gan lady's theory. Upon examination
of the plants some time after sprinkline.
every louise was found white and dead
as door-nail.' We used watering pot
while she recommends hand-broom
We would advise our readers to try it,
HuuVcrinn (yra9s nnd M;l1n<