The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-11-06
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Helps.

feet OF the earth of the poultry-yard
with a spade every now and then, as it
will not only furnish the fowls with fresh
meat, in the shape Of worms, but give
them an opportunity to exercise them
selves at scratching. 1t also turns under
tho droppings, and makes the yard more
healthful.
CURE FoR CALLS. -Dissolve six drains
OF iodine in half a pint of alcohol, and
apply ii on the sore with a feather ns
coon as the collar is removed, ana when
at rect twice o ~day--morning and even
ing. The article should be in the stable
of every farmer, as it is an excellent OPP.
plication on horses where the skin is
broken by kicks or other accidents, and
is G sure cure for splints if used in a
proper manner.
During the dry weather farmers should
gather up the washings of the roads in
their vicinity, and the muck from low
places usually covered with water, and
dump it in the barnyard or hog pens
The alluvial washings brought from the
hills by the streams during freshets and
deposited in low places where the water
soon evaporates are rich in fertilizing
substance, and should be saved with
great care. A few loads obtained in this
way costs but little, and will greatly
help ont the dressing.
Farms are valuable only as labor
makes them so. Brains are worth more
than muscle on a farm, but both are ne
cessary. Cultivate the mind and you
strengthen the muscle by increasing it's
capabilities. Plan in the house; work in
thefeld; all hesitation or apparent doubt
weakens the influence of the boss with
the men SEQ that bitches are cleaned
out to their natural depth, md that
wa%tercourses arc all clear during the
dry weather of autumn. Underdrains
are preferable and less expensive than
open bitches, though the first cost is
greater. Old rails, poles, common
brush, answer a good purpose for sever.
al years, but are dearer than tile in the
long run.
The following preparation for destroy
ing bugs on squash and on cucumber
vines he's been successfully tried for
years; Dissolve a tablespoonful of salt
peter in a pailful of water; put one pint
OF this around each hill, shaping the
earth so that it will not spread much,
and the thing is done. Use more salt
peter, if you can afford it; it is good for
vegetables, but death to animal life.-
The bugs burrow in the earth at night,
and fail to rise in the morning. It is
also good to kill the grub in peach trees.
Only use twice as much-say a quart or
two to each tree. There was not a vel.
low or blistered leaf on twelve or fifteen
trees to which il was applied last season.
No danger of killing vegetables with it.
A concentrated solution applied to young
beans makes them grow wonderfully.
Value of Corn Fodder.
While the value Of corn fodder is
much moderated, it should be horne in
mind that its value will depend in q
great measure upon the time it is cut
and cured. If cut too early or too green,
the saccharine matter or Juice contained
therein is apt to turn sour and partake
more Of the nature Of vinegar than sugar,
and much of its nutritive qualities thus
be lost; and il cut too late, not only will
the blades crumble up aud be lost, but
the aaccharine matter contained in the
stalk itself be so changed to woody fiber
as to render it totally unfit as food for
stock. But when cut at the proper
time and properly cured it will not only
pay for harvesting the crop, but be
much better food for stock than the best
of straw and most of the hay used for
the purpose. Some persons, however,
etill hold to the opinion that corn fodder
is inferior i'll every respect to either tim
othy or clover hay, and so it is when
badly cured; but, as said before, when
cut at the right time and properly cured
and saved-especially if run through al
cutting-box and mixed with q little bran
or shorts its superiority to either, even
under like conditions, will not be denied.
In building your fodder rick so that
the fodder will be easy to get at and
handle in winter, select a piece of ground
most convenient to and just outside the
cattle yard, and after laying a founda.
ton of rails, some foot or so apart, the
whole length of your intended rick, lay
n course Of the fodder along through
the middle SO as to raise it the highest;
then, at right angles with and around
this, lay another course, tapping the
ends of the sheaves enough to keep the
middle the highest all the while, so pro-
ceeding until the desired height is
reached, Build your rick any length
you please, but not higher than the fod-
der can be conveniently reached, after
making due allowance for the settling.
On going to feed out to the cattle com
,mence at the end you left off, and you
end il an easy matter 10 handle the
Turing the frosts and shows Of
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