The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-01-23
HOUSE AND FARM.

siSSSS HtNO TANWs
l "A farmer must be something besides
iaborer. He must be a man of resources, and
rise BIZ his own energy to any emergency.
Pick up the odds and ends that are going
to waste around you. Hide-. horns, hoofs,
bones, wax moss and many other trifies have
q cash value.
This is from good and truthful old Ver-
mont: "A.sheep in the possession of Mr.. E.
II. Slayton. of South woodstock, VT, has a
perfect miniature mouth inside of its ear
teeth, tongue and all complete-which opens
and shuts as the sheep eats"
DON'T GRUNBLE-
fExchange.l
Do not grumbie at the low price of your
products. 1t don't help the matter a bit. just
20 to work and see If you cannot lessen the
cost of production SO as to leave you a mar
gin for profit, even at low prices.
CHANGE WORK
lExchanSel
II adjacent farmers will allo x their boys TO
exchange iabor-"chapge works." in farm
pariance-the result will be to create a spirit
of emulation that will make the boy love his
home and endeavor to excel in the work he
Is to perform.
FRUIT KILLED IN IOWA.
Prairie Farmer, IS
Prominent orchardists from various parts of
Iowa report that the cold weather has killed
the fruit buds on cherry, plum and peach
trees, and killed all the grape vines, except
the Concords. which are also bad y DANA ged
WOMEN AS FARM MANAGERS.
ISt Louis Globe Democrat
Women are beginning to be successful IS
farm managers. Why not? Because farm
work is the prerogative of the male sex
Now we have high ct for the woman
who, at the expense of hard hands and sun.
burned cheeks, goes into her fields and d.
rects the labors of her employees. We are
proud to record the fact that they are usually
successful. '.May their tribe increase
THE CARE OF HORSES FEET.
A farmer of experience says that the feet OF
q horse require more care than the body.
They need ten times as much, for In one
respect they are almost the entire horse.
All the grooming that can be done won't
avail anything If the horse is forced to stand
where his feet will be filthy. In this case
the feet will become uisordered, and the legs
will get badly out OF fix, and with bad feet
and bad legs there is hot mu.h else Of the
horse fit for anything.
SIMPLE hoD of run
PERSIA
ICor. Chicago Inter Ocean Is
noticed a request for the cure of dyspep-
sia, saw the cures the week following, and
no drugs wanted, but l saw each one had
drugs In their many recipes. l was dys
peptic for years. The following is pre-
scription of an old doctor that cured me /:
teaspoonfui OF table salt In a tumoier OF pure
water every morning Tor SIX weeks. look
1t for three weeks, and am as well as any one
ought to be
TO PREVENT HAIR FROM FALLING OUT.
lChicago inter-ocean' o-I
Some time ago correspondent asked Tor
recipe to prevent the halr from iaiiins out.
The question was answered at the time. Dut
the following Is an answer suggested oy an
eminent physician: Keep the pores OF the
skin open by frequent bathing an" nanse
OF underciothlnS. batue tue heao Win ciean'
soft water, and stimulate the scalp Win
moderately stiff brush morning and evening
The head should De occasionally cieanseu
with a weak solution OF slycerine soap in
dilute spirits of wine, with care to remove all
traces of soap from the hair. Use no POM
ades or oils Of any kind.
MISTAKES MAD BY FARMERS,
Farm Journal
Farmers are a queer sort Of folks As soon
as they hear that pork Is going down in mar
ket, into town they rush and try TO engage
theirs before it gets down any lower, and so
they help to make the market dulier by over
stocking IL. whereas, II they would stay
home, it would not be long before butchers
would be coming to them and bidding up the
price. This suits the butchers VINO heip TO
growl and run the price down. "hiie theS
expect TO douoie their money in'es.eo'
There is no reason why pork shou!d De SO 10"
in price, except the piucHy pressure haoe ny
the far ners themselves
HERDING SHEEP WITH CATTLE.
rairle Farmer,
lwouid IKE oKho" your opinion oi run
ming small herd oil cattle ana sheep 'oee'h'
er "a the same herd aiso what kind Oh sheep
Will pay the oesi on aSouthwestern hahsas
farm.
Answer '-sneep ana eattie are sometimes
herded together wheh the dro'e anu MOCK are
small In numbers anu 'he ca.t.e !ule,. We
DO not advise IL. Merihos Will nero IN larger
,ro,ds ana wari,,, ,.,,I n,o,o,,y NO, yor the
-, ,,,o,.,- a., ri ord ,,n,,or ., Esn, in
small focAs.
SMALL FRUITS
ISt. Louis Farmer, I6.I
As winter is the time for planning the
work for the coming year, it will not be
am!ss to call attention to the culture of small
fruits. The growth of small fruits as crop
is Of quite recent date. There are those liv-
ing who can remember well the time when
the cultivation of these fruits, except per-
haps, currants aud gooseberries, was scarcely
thought Of The fields, lanes and waste