The Osceola times., 1879-02-01
SOUTHERN Farm AND HOME.
Aa AaaaCuLruaAL NOTES.

Quite q number OF horses have been
poisoned In Kansas BY being fed raw
castor beans.
A writer in an exchange says: al
laid In Q store OF sod cut in pieces, for
my chicken house last winter, and found
It mos valuable for the fowls. | packed
1t In one corner OF the house, aud before
spring the poultry had pulled it all to
pieces"
There would seem to be no end to big
crops this year. In the north we have
the largest live stock and corn crops for
many years, and now comes along the
south with an enormous cotton crop,
amounting to 4,8ll, ,265 bales against
4,4S5. 423 bales Ia 1877. This Is the
largest crop since that Of 1859 so, the
greatest ever known.
The following is on the wing, which
II true, we shall have to tally one for
whisky; Some years ago | was toll
that a mellowing drink of whisky or beer
given to . SOW that refuses to let her
pigs suck. would induce her TO adopt
them kindly. A few days since neigh-
Dor who had worried all night with a
valuable SOW, applied for assistance, and
advics being much cheaper and easier
than work, urged him till he admin
istered half pint Of whisky. 1t worked
like q charm. She received her eight
little ones with the usual porcine ex.
pveszions OF maternal satisfaction, and
has been kind mother ever since. viii
the readers Of the Rural remember this
and keep on hand the said "hslf pint I"
but don't drink it yourself, it might
have the same effect on your poor SELF
Rural World.
One OF the adjuncts to the workshop
OF every farm ought TO be set Of tools
needed in mending harness, 40 that the
boys may, on rainy days, learn q new
trade, and save quite an expense. With
harness, astitch in time, saves not nine,
but ninety nine more. lhe essentials are,
two avis, needles, waxed ends, and q
clamp to h0ld the piece. TO be sewed.
The last may be made out OF a couple OF
barrel slaves fastened TO block, and
tightened by strap around the middle.
Some mending will have to 70 10 the
shop; but, in the course Of the year,
quite . sum can be saved by merely
sewing up the ripped and torn places in
the harness or padding. We have found
copper rivets, sold in hall pound boxes,
Of great advantage in mending harness.
Haif.inch rivets come into play oftenest,
though few three quarter inch ones
may be needed.
Thisvery old mode, among tidy far.
mere, to make their apple orchards look
nice, but which. for years has been next
to abandoned, Il coming into vogue
agsin, and discussions are being held AZ
TO the propristy OF it. The German.
town Telegraph says: What we know
about the matter ourselves is, that we
90 not think that it makes much diff
ference % far as the health and produc>
tiveness OF the trees are concerned,
whether they are white washed or not.
In other words, we do rot think it pays.
II certainly has a tendency to close the
pores OF the trunks, ss well as that it
has an unnatural appearance. So far AZ
IL is declared that the white wash causes
the old bark TO scale Of and hiding
places of insects to be disturbed, and
this Is about all that Is claimed for il ;
how much better Tor every farmer hav.
ing an orchard, to scrape the trees once a
year, or only every other year, and .ol
low is with washing of whale oil soap
or car bolic soap and water, applied with
z short broom This would be sure to
dislodge the insects, open the pores OF
the trees, and give them q natural ap-
pearance. This would do the work
effectually, and leave no room for doubt
or discussion. Whatever aid the white.
washing OF trees may be to their health
and productiveness, the best orchards we
ever saw, which bore full crops tor a
generation, were not white washed, but
scraped and washed with soft soap"
We frequently come across remon-
strances against keeping harness in
stables, the reason given being that the
ammonia prevalent there rots the leather
and soon destroys the harness. Now this
u beginning at the wrong end to remedy y
an evil We NAV talk and advise, year
in and year out" about the matter, but
harness will be KEEP. in the stable in
spite ofall. Where else can the majority
OF peoole who keep horses hang these
trapPings? A rich man may have q
Closet 10 which the harness may hanp
safely from fear OF ammonia and all Other
dangers; but the average horse owners
Will have his peg behind the team, be.
causs ne can have no other way OF dis
posing OF the harness. But tie trouble
won,u end il the production OF ammonia
we.c prevented. Enter an ordinary
stable at any period, but especially IN
'ne winter. when every Granny through
wh'ca tue wind Can come in is carefully
stopped, and what an offensive odor
o1eads the nUstrils and irritates the
eyes Is this odor of ammonia, strongly
aikAine and irritsnt, injurious only u
Tie harness? What OF the horses. and
'he tender membranes OF the eye, the
,hrois and the nasal passage? DO you
ldnk they are less sensitive than oak
lai'nei harness leather, we'll creased and
preserved "a 1t is? By no means. Il
Tue prevalent odors injuriousIy effect
the leather, you may be sure the ewes
suasr, the throat and lungs are irritated
u the nasai passages becomes infiamed.
Then occurs the irequent. moon-blind-
ness ophthalmia, weeping Of the eyes,
followed by Inflammation, white specks I;
shen follow coughs, bronchitis, pneu u
monla, heaves, catarrh, nasal gleet; and
by snd-by, when the blood has become
poi'oned BY the absorption OF diseased
matter iron irAamed and suppurated
membranes, farcy and glanders-dreadlul ul
ssd fatal TO man or beast, too result.
And while we think OF saving the har.
Mes and removing it to a purer place
the beast which Is worth dozen sets o
ait, Il lett to rot from these pungenl
gases without any help. Clean the
stsbles and the harness may hang il