Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05
FARM NOTES.

f Loss of appetite, thirst, diarrhea, gem
, eral weakness and cyanosis Of the comb
| are the principal symptoms of chicken
cholera.
For throat distemper, crate fine a small,
green, wild turnip; or if dry, give heap
ing spoonful, mixed with bran or oats. 1t
is good for cough also.
Some one who has experimental in the
matter says that handful of bran scat
tered in each hill Of potatoes between plant
ing will increase the yield one.third.
A dairyman says: Never keep poor
COW the second year. No man can afford
to keep a COW that will not make from 200
70 220 pounds of butter or IFS equivalent
every year.
For tomatoes aud potatoes take one
wheelbarrow load of earth where the vine
is to stand and fill IN with half coal ashes
and half sail. The yield will be nearly
doubled thereby.
A grave mistake is made by farmers
who think that stock must not be fed at
home after the first appearance OF grass.
Stock will show this false economy all
through the season.
The following rule in plowing is recon-
mended: Never turn up over one or two
inches Of unfertlle subsOil in one season;
and, when so turned up, the land should
receive dressing of manure.
A gill of raw (unboiled) linseed oil Civ
en- to a SOW, Just before and after farrow-
ing, will prevent the disposition to eat
her offspring. Perfect diet and isolation
are considerations which should not be
neglected.
In making flower beds never have
piled up above the level of the lawn. 1t
is the surest way Of killing plants by
drought. Keep the hege of the oed about
an inch below the surface of the sod, slop-
ing or elevating the bed slightly toward
the centre.
1t is great mistake to keep cattle
stabbed all winter and then turn them out
in the spring, exposing them to cold
storms of wind and rain. Stock, especial
ly dairy stock, and all animals giving
milk, should be carefully protected in the
spring until the days and nights are
warm.
1t is useless to say that good crops come
from luck. 1t is nos so. The secret is in
selecting the seed with care, draining the
fields, keeping out the cattle and having
sound fences. Thrift is what honest men
thrive by. RogueS have luck, if getting
along only is luck.
An old poultry raiser, who believes in
milk for fowls, says: at is meat and
drink both. Some of the finest chickens
| ever saw were raised upon the free use
of milk with their food. Hens lay as well
or better, when furnished with this than
upon any known article offered them. ."
Mr.. j. B. Lichty, at a recent meeting of
the Lancaster County Poultry Association
said that his only method of telling wheth-
er an egg would hatch or not was in the
clutch, as an Informed egg, as an ILL
formed egg will never hatch, and neither
will those dropped by birds while they are
on the roost.
A miller of Halliday, HIS, who lost
many hogs from cholera, has found that
dry bran slightly salted, is good remedy
for it. If the hogs refuse to cat it stdrye
them until they do. Another farmer
claims that ifhogs are given what salt they
need in a clean pasture twill have the de.
sired effect
The best time to trim evergreen hedges
or screens is in spring, before the new buds
put forth. The work is best done with u
pair of hedge shears. 1t should be done
every season and pretty closely where it Is
desired to have a neat and close hedge,
whether of hemock, Norway spruce OF ar.
Dor vita.
The English dairy farmers get immense
returns from their graas lands by free use
Of bone manure. One Cheshire farmer
says that by this he can feed forty cows
from land that formerly gave him product
sufficient TO feed only twenty. The Eng
ish farmers believe in "boning" the grass
and especially.
Large evergreens are very much out Of
place on the sunny side of a house, while
hey form an appropriate screen and wind
break along the cold and exposed sides OF
he building. Shade trees are often plant
I'd too near to our dwellings and so thick
y so as to make the house damp dark ard
,heerless.
kolling the meadows with heavy roll
n will level the surface by reducing tie
sinking stones and sticks or
'oots, and compact the soil about the
'oots, and so strengthen the grass. A
light dressing 100 pounds nitrate Of soda
Der acre, for instance, will encourage he
growth and add largely to the yield.
The Science of Health says: "If farmers
would avoid suddenly cooling the body
lfter great exertion, if they would be care
ul not to 90 with wet clothing and wet
eet and if they would not over-eat when
n that exhausted condition, and bathe
laily, using much friction, they would
lave little or no rheumatism.
1t is said that if chickens are allowed w
'un in the orchards the prospects for a
good crop are made better. The insects
ave more to do with weakening the trees
md emasculating the fruit than many
nave the least idea of. All OF these more
,r less inhabit the ground, and In all
stages are subjected to the searching eye
u the fowl.
A great mistake is made often in plant
ng corn early. Indian corn requires warm
ground and hot weather, and it will not
yrow until these conditions are present.
If planted previous to this time the kern
j is apt to rot, and if the corn does come
1p it is not fit for much Corn early plant
ID has gauntlet to run in the sum
ner drouth.
Do not give a tired horse very cold
water, as it often produces collie. Many
lllow water to stand for some time in
buckets. On the road, horses should be
yatered once i'll ten miles at least. The
tomach Of horse is so small, in compar-
son to his body, that large draughts in
lriously distend it; consequently, small
Quantities at regular intervals is the best
ule.
By simply soaking oats in tepid water
aving may be effected in their consump-
ion. By this method the rations for each
nimal may be reduced one-third. Horses
ghose teeth have seen their best days mas
icate the grain in its ordinary condition
nsuficiently, and younger animals, in
heir greed, often swallow much Of it
vhole. All this may be obviated by the
emedy suggested.
Those who are troubled with that ter
ible pest known as the cabbage worm
hight find relief in the following simple
emedy: "For every hundred OF cabbage
IKE quarter Of a pound of black pepper
nd put in a box large enough to ait out
ell. Go into the patch before the dew
off and pepper the cabbage. Two or
lree times will be sufficient. The worms
o through the leaves and die"
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