Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-03
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.

HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
Notes for the Farmer.
A solution Of carbolic acid in 800 parts
of water has been found effective for scab.
A strong decoction Of tobacco is a good
wash, also.
A good remedy against the scale insect
is to use suds made of carbolic soap,
and brush the affected parts with it
thoroughly, leaving it dry thereon.
For throat distcmpeI, CRATE fine small
green wild turnip, or, ifd1y, 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 hand broom. It destroys
green flies and other pests.
A good wax for grating purposes and
for covering wounds in trees: Five parts
by weight, of rosln, two parts of beeswax,
two parts Of beef or mutton tallow or
enough to make the wax soft and easily
applied.
Don't forget your table corn. A patch
should be planted every ten or twelve
days until the beginning of July, 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.
Early lambs may be pushed forward by
giving them little cows milk. They
will soon learn to drink this from pan
The milk should be given warm from a
fresh cow, quarter of pint to meal.
Do not overfeeq any young animal; that
retards instead Of assisting growth.
A successful dairyman feeds 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 he can feed forty COWS
from land that formely gave HIM a pro-
duct sufficient tc feed only twenty. The
English farmers believe in "boning" the
grass land especially.
Charcoal, pulverized 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 its eff
cacy, if abundance of concurrent testi-
mony can be relied upon.
Large evergreens are very much out of
place on the sunny side of house, while
they form an appropriate screen and
windbreak along the cold and exposed
sides Of the building. Shade trees are
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 kill
ticks on sheep, throw in the barn-yard
few small thrifty, second growth fir
trees. The sheep will eat the leaves and
small twigs greedily: and often strip off
all the bark. The ticks will all leave
the sheep in a few days, the strong odor
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 would
be careful not to go with wet clothing
and wet feet, and if they would not over
eat when in that exhausted condition, and
battle daily, using much friction, they
would have little or no rhuematism.
Rolling the meadows with a heavy roll
Ter will level the surface by reducing the
hnmmocks, sinking stones and sticks or
roots, and compact the soil about the
roots, and so strengthen the grass A
light dressing, 100 pounds nitrate of
soda per acre, for instance, will encour-
age the growth and add largely to the
yield.
Collect some SCOT from a chimney or
stove where wood is used for fuel, put
into an old pitcher and pour hot water
upon it. When cool, use it to water your
plants every few days. The effect upon
plants is wonderful in producing rapid
growth Of thrifty shoots, with large, thick
leaves and great number of richlv-tinted
roses.
The practice Of washing sheep before
shearing, says an Eastern sheep-raiser, is
very disagreeable and is unnecessary.
Nothing is gained in the price of the
wool; in fact, the usual deduction made
by wool buyers for unwashed wool leaves
an advantage with the seller. The prac-
tice is dangerous to the health of both
men and sheep, and may we'll lie abol-
ished
New England has over $50 farmers
clubs, with $4,000 active members, and
library hooks to the number of $1,000.
and in the United States there are nearly
1900 agricultural societies with $4,000
volumes In their libraries, and with ac-
cess to $50 different agricultural publica-
tions, all exerting direct influence on
the intelligence and future prospects of
the tillers of the soil.
Says the Clearfeld Journal: "Several
weeks ago we published an item to the
effect that a lady had discovered that
teaspoonful Of coal oil to a gallon of
water was certain destroyer of plant
lice. Last week we gave it a trial on
some begonias and other tender plants,
and we are now ready to give our evi-
dence in support of the unknown Michi-
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 a watering-pot,
while she recommends a hand broom.
We would advise our readers to try it,
It has been proven that by the plant
ing IN drills larger yield of corn can be
produced than from hills In place of
hills three feet apart each way. make
drills three and a half feet apart, and
drop the seed every eighteen inches. In