The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

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keeps away the lice"
For wind-galls, use a padded band
age, with astringent lotions, applied two
hours day at first, adding two hours
every day after until it is kept on
continually, is the usual remedy. Rest
from work is helpful to a cure.
A GERMAN publication says carbolic
acid and water will drive ants away from
any grounds-100 parts of water to one
of carbolic acid. Mix in a tub and stir
repeatedly for "a hours, taking off the
scum that rises to the top.
DEPTH TO Sow WHEAT A great
deal has been said first and last as to the
depth at which to sow wheat, remarks
the Prairie Farmer Experiments have
shown that upon ordinarily compact and
moist soil, wheat terminates most
promptly and produces the strongest
plant when sown at depth not exceed
ing one inch; from thence ito six inches
it came more and more feebly.
IT is a great mistake TO allow black
berries and raspberries to grow up tall
and spindling, and then in the fall or
next spring have to cut off one-half to
two-thirds of the wood and cane to make
stock to bear fruit. Watch the new
growth, and when it gets two to three
feet high lowing to stockiness of plant
if they be small, two feet, and large,
three feeD nip off the tip end of the new
growth with the fingers, or with-a knife
or shears. Michigan Farmer.
TENDENCY OF THE HIGH BREEDING
OF FOwLS.-So things are coming to
this pass, says writer in the London
Gardeners Chronicle, that we are likely
soon to have in England beautiful birds,
''too good to be eaten" kept like race
horses, not for their utility, but to gain
priZes-while our markets will be sup
piled with birds of no breed at all. For
if, as | suspect, exhibitions tend to pro-
duce pampered, tender birds whose eggs
and chickens can not be depended on in
a bad winter like our last, those who
rear fowls for market will gradually
cease to buy their eggs, and will content
themselves with harder, commoner
birds; and the fine birds, of superior
size and excellence, which were to have
been introduced into every farm-yard
and cottage-garden when exhibitions
had drawn attention to them, will but
! find their way to our tables.
LINE FOR POULTRY.-There are a
hundred ways proposed to obtain lime
for egg shells, bones, etc, for our hens.
Some of these are of the most curious
kind. One would suppose that lime
was one of the rare substances in this
world. Burnt oyster or clam shells,
burnt bones, even egg shells themselves,
are recommended. Teaching hen to
eat her own eggs is best done by throw
inc the shells to her. How many folks
in the country have oyster or clam
| shells? Then again, gravel-hen's
teeth-is not as often supplied as it
ought to be. A late writer actually rec
ommends pound bits of glass, or queens
ware as being better than gravel. How
strange to see people going so far out OF
| the line of common sensei Now, both
of these very difficult things to accom-
plish for the health of our feathered
| bipeds are easily done by making NOR
| tar of small gravel and lime, in the man.
ner of stone masOns, and when the NOR
tar becomes hard, breaking it up small
with an AK. Keep this little piece of
NECESSITY" always before the hens
and burn all egg shells, and the moral
and physical character of the hens and
| their husbands will be in the ascendant.
Country Gentleman.
LANE HORSES. Although the horse
| is one of the most powerful, ambitious
and sensible of all our domestic animals,
yet, in certain sense, it is far from be-
! ing hardy one. In this respect the
horse is not equal to the rough-and-tum-
BILE usage which the mule or even the
OK can bear without exhibiting marked
signs of the severe discipline to which it
has been subjected The horse is very
| delicate animal, and if bounced upon in
| a passion while encumbered with the
harness, and possibly with a load too
| heavy for easy movement, the chances
are that efforts to escape punishment
will result in such an over-tensiOn OF the
muscles as to produce lameness. Rough,
| cruel men are not fit to take care of an
animal having the spirit, tenderness and
susceptibility pertaining to the horse.
| Were such men less frequently trusted
with the management of stable stock,
there would be fewer limping and COM
paratively worthless horses on our pub
lie thoroughfares. The greatest care, it
| is true, can not prevent accidents to
horses, but with proper attention the
hating ones would constitute the eXcep-
| ton, and not the rule, as is now too Of
ten the case.
IMPROVING THE PIG.-The National
Lire Stock Journal inquiries if in the i'm
provement of the breeds of hogs we have
not carried the tendency to lay on fat
too far? 1t is admitted that many a
show cow, or sheep, or hog, is too fat to
be most profitable, either for the butcher
or the consumer. There is limit to the
profitable production of fat. Is it not
true that the disposition to lay on the
| fat is in excess of what is really desira-
| BILE in the case of several somewhat high
| " priced breeds? The proportion of
| lean meat has been reduced to mini
mum, except in the hams and shoulders,
and greatly decreased in these. For
"home use'' do any of us prefer such
pigs? If any have doubts on this point,
| let them examine the carcass of well
fattened hog, or look at sides of bacon,
or even at a ham or shoulder. Topper
| tunity offer, let comparison be made
1 of the carcasses of model well bred pigs,
always kept in high condition, and those
of common or grade pigs, which have
| had more length of body, perhaps lit
| tie more length of leg, and which have
! fed during part of their lives on good
grass or clover as almost their sole food,
and which have never been without a
fair amount of daily exercise. tits quite
possible the decision may be, that while
the one set would give the greatest profit
when sold on the market, the other