The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-01-30
SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME.
AGaICULruRAL NOTES.

Euglieh butter buyers reiGSe 10 nan.
die butter tubs fastened with wires.
Quite & number of horses have been
poisoned in Kansas by being fed raw
castor beans.
A writer in an exchange says: al
laid IN store OF sod cut IN pieces, for
my chicken house last winter, and found
it most valuable for the fowls. packed
il in one corner of the house. and 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, 485 423 bales in 1877. This is the
largest crop since that of 1859 90, the
greatest ever known.
The following is on the wing, which
If true, we shall have 10 tally one for
whisky: Some years ago / was toll
that mellowing drink of whisky or beer
given to q SOW that refuses to let her
pigs suck, would induce her to adopt
them kindly. A few DAYS since neigh-
ber who had worried all night with a
valuable SOW, applied for assistance, and
advice being much cheaper and easier
than work, / urged him till he admin
istered half pint of whisky. 1t worked
like a charm. She received her eight
little ones with the usual poIcine ex.
pressions of maternal satisfaction, and
has been kind mother ever since. Will
the readers of the Rural remember this
and keen on hand the said "half pint; "
but don't drink it yourself, it might
have the same effect on your poor SELL
Rural World.
One of the adjuncUs to the workshop
of every farm ought 10 be set OF tools
needed in mending harness, 20 that the
boys may, on rainy days, learn a new
trade, and save quite an expense. With
harness, q stitch in time, saves not nine,
but ninety nine more. The essentials are,
two avis, needles, waxed ends, and a
clamp to hold the pieces to be sewed
The last may be made out of q couple OF
barrel slaves fastened TO q block, and
frightened by a strap around the middle.
Some mending will have to ge to the
shop; but, in the course OF the year,
quite q 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 half pound boxes,
of great advantage in mending harness.
Half-inch rivets come into play oftenest,
though a few three-quarter inch ones
may be needed.
This very old mode, among tidy far
mers, to make their apple orchards look
10 abandoned, is coming into vogue
again, and discussions are being held as
to the propristy of it. The German
town Telegraph says: What we know
about the matter ourselves is, that we
do not think that it makes much diff
ference so far as the health and produce
tiveness of the trees are concerned,
whether they are white washed or not.
In other words, we do rot think it pays.
1t certainly has tendency to close the
pores of the trunks, as well as that it
has an unnatural appearance. So far as
it is declared that the white wash causes
the old bark to scale of and hiding
places of insects to be disturbed, and
:
how much better Tor every farmer hav-
ing an orchard, to scrspe the trees once g
year, or only every other year, and sol
low it with washing of whale oil soap
or carb0liC soap and water, applied with
a short broom This would be sure to
dislOdge the insec S, open the pores OF
the trees, and give them a natural ap-
pearance. This would do the work
effectually, and leave no room Tor 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 8
generation, were not white-washed, buI
-scraped and washed with soft SOAP"
We frequently come across remon
strances against keeping harness IL
stables, the reason given being that the
ammonia prevalent there rOts the leather
and soon destroys the harness. Now this
is beginning at the wrong end to remedy
an evil. We NAV talk and advise, "yeal
in and year out" about the matter, but
harness will be kept in the stable IL
spite Ofall Where else can the majority
of people who keep horses hang these
trappings? A rich man may have s
closet in which the harness may hans
safely from fear of ammonia and all othel
dangers; but the average horse owners
will have his peg behind the team, be
cause he can have no other way OF dis
posing of the harness. But tie trouble
would end if the production OF anmoniS
were prevented. Enter an ordinary
stable at any period, but especially il
the winter. when every Granny through
which tue wind can come In Is carefully
stopped, and what an offensive OdO
offeuds the nUsJrils and irritStes thu
eyes Is this Odor of Ammonia, strongly
alkaline and Irritant, injurious only u
the harness? What OF the horses, anC
the tender membranes OF the eye, The
throat and the nasal passage? Do you
think they are less sensitive than oak
tanned harness leather, well creased anC
preserved as 1t is? By no means. |
the prevalent odors Injuriously efec
the leather, you may be sure the eye
suffer, the throat and lungs are irritateC
and the nasal passages becomes iuRsmed
Then occurs the frequent moon-blind
ness, ophthalmis, weeping of the eyes
followed by Inflammation, white specks
then follow coughs, bronchitis, pneu
m mia, heaves, catxrra, nasal gleet; anc
b, xnd.by, when Ihe blood has become
poisoned by the Absorption OF diseaseC
mstter from iDfamed and suppursteC
membranes, farcy and glanders-dresdfu
and fatal to man or beast, too-result
And while we think of saving the har
ness and removing it to purer place
the beast which is worth dozen sets o
it, is left to rot from these pungen
gases without any help. Clean tn