The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-15
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
HINTS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF THE HUs-
BANDMAN.

] For windgalls use a padded bandage
with astringent lotions, applied two hours
day at first, adding two hours every da!
after, until it is kept on continually, is the
usual remedy. Rest from work is helpful
to cure.
GROWERS of fruit should bear in mino
that now is the time TO Look after thell
fruit If the trees are crowded the lmper
feet fruit should be pulled or knocked on tC
insure a crop Of sound, well-matured fruli
in August or September.
GARDESING is regularly and practically
taught in 20, 900 primary schools in France
Every school house has it's garden, and
teachers must not only be good gardeners,
but qualified to teach horticulture, or they
cannot pass examination.
LAND which without an application Of
| manure will give yield of fifteen bushels
of wheat per acre. will, by the addition OF
eighty pounds of nitrogen, in favorable
season give from thirty-fiye to forty bushels
of wheat, with a proportional increase OF
straw.
/ THE National Live Stock Journal says
A slop made of corn and oats, ground in
about equal parts, with a little oil meal
added, makes the best food for the sow while
sucking to increase the flow of milk and
this, with clover pasture and plenty of
soaked corn during the summer, will pro-
mote q rapid and healthy growth of the
pigs.
To make good harness polish take of
mutton suet two ounces beeswax, six
ounces; powdered sugar, six ounces lamp
black, one ounce; green or yellow soap, two
ounces, and water, one-half pint. Dissolve
the soap in the water, add the other solid in
gradients, mix well and add turpentine
Lay on with sponge and polish off with a
brush.
POTATOES suffer more from weeds than
any other crop One weed will take up
and evaporate good deal of moisture from
the soil and rob the crop Of what it greatly
needs. This loss of moisture is not often
thought of in considering the effects of
weeds, but it is very important. When too
late to be killed by cultivation, the weeds
should be hand-puled.
DILUTED carbolic acid is found to be a
complete eXterminator of the potato beetle
and other insects infesting crops, and it
should be used in preference TO Paris green.
But it is destructive to plant life unless it
is sufficiently diluted with water-one pint
Of carbolic acid TO 100 parts of water. This
impor tant fact should be borne in mind,
and, doing so, there is perhaps, no better
insect destroyer known.
An unieeling correspondent recommends
the cruel method of splitting the tongue of
COW that sucks herself Rather than
adopt the barbarous treatment we would
dry the COW and fatten and sell her for
beef We have published better remedies
than this, and herewith give another:
Make a bride with medium-sized wire for
bit, and fasten upon the head of your
selfsucking COW, and she will quit the
habit
PROF. HARRINGTON, in a summary of
the experiments begun in 1870 by the
Maine Agricultural College, to ascertain
which has the greatest value as food for
swine, cooked or uncooked meal, says: ave
have, by an experiment which has been
continued from three to four months of
each of the nine years since its beginning,
obtained evidence that all the money and
labor expended in cooking meal for swine
are more than thrown away"
The AGRICULTURIsT saws: ''NVhen hogs
are put up to fatten and fed on dry corn,
it is the practice to give them but little
water; but they require some. 1t would
not be possible for a hog to live for weeks
without water or other drink when feeding
on dry corn, although when fed on new
soft corn, very small quantity of water will
be sufficient, and possibly, if the corn is very
pensable."
CARROTS seem to have some peculiar eff
fects on the health of horses, rendering the
skin especially glossy and healthy looking.
For mich cows carrots are valuable for the
golden tinge and richness which they i'm
part to the butter. They are also more
for cows than turnips are. In
feeding carrots, care should be taken that
the pieces are not cut in such shape as to
choke the animal. Cut large carrots length
wise, not across.
A WRITER in the Ohio Farmer says at
is the belief of observing ones that the seeds
or spores ofmildew exist during the winter
and spring on the bark of buds and vines,
ready to vegetate anew when suitable
weather occurs in summer. As a possible
check to this | am about to wash most of
my vines, before the buds open, with car
boIic soapsuds. l think this will also tend
to lessen the mischievous work of the steel
beetle on the buds"
A CORRESPONDENT, speaking of crops,
says that farmers should have a diversity of
crops, so that if there is failure in one
there may be hit in another. The intelli-
gent farmer lays his plans as much as the
leader of military. He looks ahead to see
what will make him money, and he don't
put all his eggs under one hen, for she might
leave the nest and would be added Farm
ers should plan wisely and carry out the
plans to the best of their ability.
In the care and management of the dairy
cow the milking should be done with exact
as to time, and each COW MIXED
by the same person. and.in the same order,
from day to day, ifpossible. No change of
mixers or change of time of milking should
be allowed, except for the most urgent
reasons. Above all, never allow intemper-
ate-dispositiOned persons to milk. Very
slight causes often cause a shrinkage in
milk which can not be brought back.
A FRENCH veterinary surgeon says that
a simple method of preventing flies from an
noying horses consists in painting the inside
of the ears or any other part especially trou-
bled with few drops of empuramatic oil of
juniper. 1t is said that the odOr Of this sub
will keep at a distance from the parts anoin-
ted. If this treatment should accomplish
the alleged result, it will be a great blessing
to introduce into the sick room.
MUCH has been said about getting down
to hard-pan" in financial matters. The
farming of the country needs to get on this
basis as we'll, and this will not be until crops
ale grown with the destined understanding
that their growth has taken from the soil
something that must be replaced before we
con know whether the crop is profit or
loss. Selling crops year after year without
is quite as bad in farming as do
ing business on fiuctuating and deprecia-
ted currency is in money matters.
A CORRESPONDENT In the Country Gen /
tleman, who has been experimenting in corn
culture on a clay loom, has come to the con- !
clusion that a good sod turned under is /
equivalent to an increase of ten bushels of
corn to the acre, and that it is not wise to |
use manures the same season, but apply them I
the next season. He found that pot I
ash fertilizers did not do much good I
On clay looms but the result from the use of
bone dust, which contained much phospho- |
rio acid, the best results were obtained.