The Red Cloud chief., 1880-11-04
Agricultural Hints.

SUCCESS in butter-making depends
largely upon the ingredients used.
Formerly all Of these, excepting only
the salt. were obtained direct from the
COW; but this course has long since
fallen into desuetudc: 1t was found
necessary TO waste a great deal of time
and labor IN taking the butter where
the cow left it. and making it tit for the
table. 1t is pleasing to know that the
death of all the COWS in the land could
have no appreciable effect upon the
butter market.
A quick and effectual method to
destroy weeds is to put up a sign-board
bearing the legend keep off these
premises" Every boy in the village
will feel in duty bound to spend all his
spare hours in tramping about said
premises. They can't help it.
To keep hens free from vermin.
furnish each one with a fine-tooth comb.
Let the rooster use his own comb. IL
he wont, let him suffer the consequences.
1t is hens we are talking about, not
ROSTERS.
A number of Green County (Pa.)
farmers are trying the experiment of
raising tobacco. One hundred and
fifty thousand plants are now growing
and fiourshing in that county, about
TWENTY-FIVE acres of it in the vicinity of
Waynesburg. 1t is hard to see what so
much tobacco is raised for, seeing that
cabbage leaves and brown paper have
entirely driven it from the markets of
the world.
An English seed firm Of high stand
ing suggests a remedy for the turnip
fly; but we shall not give it. The turnip
fly was in good health at last advices.
Now. if somebody of high standing
would suggest a remedy for the turnip,
it would be q different matter.
1t is a good plan, says the German
town Telegraph, to plant celery between
alternate rows of corn. Our Psnnsyl.
vania contemporary perhaps has atend-
er-foOted horse. A good plan, brother;
a good plan.
The Connecticut farmers pay one
million dollars annually for the mainte-
nance of fences. They should take adj
vantage of the political crisis and let
them out at so much per day to gentle
men looking about for a place to COST.
There's millions in it, bucOlic fellow
countrymen!
An amateur farmer places himself on
record as opposed to "soiling." He
refers to his hands. probably.
Trenches are better on q farmers
land than on his strong box.
Farmers should keep as much land as
possible in tillage, till age prevents
their labors.
1t is q poor rule hat won't work both
ways. Growers of tobacco should be
encouraged to think that ere long a de-
mand may spring up for the weed by
the paper-bag and wrapping-paper man
ufacturers-
An old farmer writes to us that he
has come to the conviction that the top
dressing of lawns cost less on his lands
than it does on his wife.
Too little attention is paid to the
drainage of meadow lands and too much
to the drainage of the pocket The
latter is entirely overdone.
A child is . grain naughty unless he
is Graded. Therefore cradle your
grain. 4
Now pull down your harvest.
Orchardists are warned against put
ting printers ink on their apple trees
The canker worms are much like many
a human worm of the dust. They have
a hatred of printers ink. Take care of
your canker worms. and the canker
worms will take care of your apples.
There's nothing mean about a canker
worm.-Boston Transcript.