The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-20
FARM AND HOME.
AGRICTLTTRaL NnTEs

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A lady who speaks from experience
says, that probably nine children cut of
ten who die Of Group might be saved by
the timely application of roast onions,
mashed, laid upon a folded napkin, and
goose oil, sweet oil, or even lard poured
on and applied as warm as can be borne
comfortably, 10 the throat and upper
part of the chest, and 70 the feet and
| hands,.
Fresh manure produces bat little effect
when applied to crops, but when it is
well rotted, it then contains much valu>
able soluble matter, absorbable by plants.
In fresh manure, the most important
constituent of its soluble portion is
potash, and contains but small portions
of ammonia and phosphoriC acid. Rot
ten manure, on the contrary, yields to
the solvent action of water large amounts
OF nitrogen aud phosphoiic acid. -
American CultivatOr.
The Lewistown Gazette, published in
Fulton county, H., contains the follow
ing: Every paper in the United States
ought occasionally 70 keep the fact
before its readers that burnt corn is a
certain and speedy cure for hog cholera.
The best way is to make a pile of corn
on the cobs, efectually scorch it, and
then give the affected hogs free access to
it. This remedy was discovered by E.
E. Locke, Esq, at the time his distillery
was burnt in this county, together with
large lot of store corn, which was so
much injured as to be unfit for use, and
was hauled out and greedily eaten by
the hogs, several OF which were dying
daily. Alter the second day not a single
hog was lost, and the disease entirely
disappeared the remedy has been tried
in number of cases since, and never
failed.
Cleanliness is next to godliness,"
the old law says; and because some
horses, after days work in the field or
on the farm, and turned out to seek q
resting place in the pasture, it is no
reason why they should no. be kept
clean. Cleanliness adds 10 health, and
they, one and all, ought to be thoroughly
cleaned daily, no ter whether they
sre turned out or in. Rubbing with the
currycomb or brush circuIates the blood
and makes 3 healthy preparation and
no horse will carry fine coat without
II. The farmer viii see the necessity of
having his horse washed and curried
every morning before breakfast when I
tell him It will increase the spirit of the
animal and fit him for his days work;
and when he is brought home at night
wet through and covered with mud, and
generally filthy after hard days work,
in bad weather, the man who does not
see that horse cleaned of and made COM
Portable, is not fiji TO belong TO the society
for the prevention Of cruelty to animals.
-! American Stock Journal.
An cid friend writes us: "There is a
great deal OF nonsense talked and writ
ten about apple trees requiring cultivs>
ted ground. The reason why the trees
do not do 90 well when the ground is in
grass, Is because it is not grazed and
kept short IS il is in England, where all
the orchards, or at least ninety-nine cut
Of hundred, are kept in grass, and never
under any circumstances, plowed. But
the grass IS grszed with sheep and calves
and never moved, and it is well known
to be wrong to grow Whist is not returned
to The soil in some shape. Americans do
not understand the difference between
the fine Old permanent sod which is
never plowed and the timothy and clover
temporary grass here. When the swa1d
is grazed in England, there is nothing to
prevent sun and air from benefting the
roots, and the sheep lie a great deal
under the trees and leave droppings ard
urine Rural New Yorker.