The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-06
HONE. PARN AND GARDEN.

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AGAINST insects ths, crawl up TO the
bars. consists in fastening . rope
around the tree and mailing . strip OF
tin four inches wide around the rope.
where they may be killed by applying
kerosene.
Nix. SAsBoRx. oi New Hampshire.
,hinks, after careful experiment. that
currying cattle prevents them from
f~aitening. II this is 30 with fat cattle,
what must be the effect upon cows IN
milk. whose bones are 80 much nearer
the surface?
The chief products Of decsying veg
etable matter are carbonic acId gas.
carburetted hydrogen gas and sulphur
cited hydrogen gas. All these are
pr-iudicial To heaiih; therefore be care
ful 10 remove all decaying vegetable
matter from your dwellings
TREATMENT Yoa STIFLE LANESEss
IN HoIsE.-Take one or two table
spoonfuls Of raw g. q before II Is
boiled) linseed-oil and rub II over The
stiie-joint thoroughly; then battle or
heat il in with q bot shovel or iron; II
it does not get well in three or four days
repeat IT,
CASKER-woRMs often change the
bearing year of whole orchards, great
ly TO the owners benefit; they are cas-
ily destroyed with Paris green when
no longer wanted. Cultivation. manur-
ing and proper pruning will insure a
crop from many varieties Of apples hear
ly every year.
WRITERS often advocate q change OF
food for cows, because human beings
get tired Of kind of food. Our ex-
perience says Land and Home, is that
the only change cows like Is from poor
to rich food. as from hay To corn-nIeai,
or fresh grass. Changes in any other
way always require several days To get
the cows TO eating freely.
A GERMAN gardener has found by
experience that black or green flies,
caterpillars. etc, are at once destroyed
by Swinging the plants affected by
them with water in which the stems Ut
the tomato plant have been well boiled.
The liquor is applied when cold. and
not only kills the insects. but leaves an
Odor which prevents others from COM
ing.
GERMAN chemists claim 10 have
proven that a change Of the quality Of a
cows food does not change the quality
of her milk. This seems good philoso-
ply, as it would greatly hurt the calf
if the quality of the milk changed every
time the COW got hold Of a new kind of
food. Yet many Of our best dairymen
say the amount Of cream is greatly af-
fected by a change of food from poor To
rich.
Horn all is quite common among
cattle in the spring. and is indicated,
at first, by q dry nose and loss of APP
petite. A simple remedy. yet one
which is very often effective, is To
grasp the hide on the back firmly. and,
by pulling it up, loosen it the whole
length of the backbone. Sometimes
there will be a cracking. but no harm
will be done, and the animal will show
signs of improvement surprisingly soon
after the operation.
CURE FOR ROuP.-An agricultural
writer says: Last fall l had two cocks
affected; the first one was almost
choked to death when | found him. a
hard, cheesy substance having formed
in the windpipe. l had saved the lives
of others by taking it u with the
point Of a scissors. In this a l took
a piece of writing paper, made q fun
mel the size of n child's finger, opened
the cocks beak and another person
blew a half teaspoonful Of sulphur
down his throat. We put him out, l
supposed. to die, but he did not, and
after the third dose he could crow as
loudly as ever.
CARROT PLUM PUDDING.-Quarter
pound flour and AS much of suet. For
carrots, do not take the long ones, select
the more tender short ones; CRATE fine
the same quantity of raw carrot; use a
quarter of q pound of white pulverized
sugar, same of currants and of raisins;
CRATE in a third of a nutmeg, and add a
very little cloves: mix all these ingre-
dients well up together; if it he too
stiff, add a very little milk. but gener-
ally there is water enough in the carrots
to hold the mixture together; tie up in
a light cloth and boil for six hours. IL
properly managed, this pudding makes
a very handsome appearance at table.
Eat with a hard sauce.
II spermaceti is dropped on any gar
ment, or furniture, first carefully scrape
off all that CAP be removed without in
jury to the material; then lay brown
paper over the spot, or a piece Of blot
ting paper. and put a warm iron on the
paper until the oil shows through. Con-
tinue to renew the paper and apply the
warm iron until the paper shows no
more oil. Oils, crease, tar. vege-
table or animal juices. resiDous matter.
such as pitch or tar. iron and ink spots,
are difficult to remOve completely. but
ink and iron-mold the most so of all.
Whenever much writing is done in a
house. and children have free access TO
the writing desk. books. papers and the
carpet are most likely to bear the marks
of misrule, but the injury is not ire
parable.
In regard to the use of hen manure
and the health of poultry. ID. N. Kern,
in the Practical Farmer, gives his man
agement. which is well worth copying:
81 clean my poultry houses every
Saturday morning. In one house l
have eleven head. in another twenty
nine head and in the third house forty
eight head-in all, eighty head. and the
droppings from them weigh forty-four
pounds every week. During the months
of July, August and September. l had
100 head. As soon as l have my poul.
try houses cleaned, l take the manure
and spread it over my wheat field. or
on a poor spot in my meadow, and you
can take my word that a man with one
eye a see where / put it. To put ma
nure in a box or barrel and keep it one
year before it is put to a crop, l think
is a wrong way. What would you
think of a man who had 800 ready to
put out at interest, but would keep it a
year before he put it out? My opinion
is. the sooner you give your hen ma
nure to the needy soil, the sooner you
get the profit from it. Not long ago l
visited a certain man and to nv aston
ishment l saw about two tons of hen
manure lying in his large poultry house.
No wonder the chicken cholera comes
around"
n--~.so Cl~>As.- LIZ.