The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Farm Notes.
-Harper's BdEdr.

Hen mixed with swamp
muck, loan or road. dust, makes a good
fertilizer.
There is contained in the corn cobs
raised in the United States from lis to
100 million pounds of carbonate of pot
ash, which is the third most valuable
article required in agriculture.
Saturating ashes with kerosene and
applying a handful in a hill, will keep
the striped bugs from cucumbers. 1t
is not the bugs that recommend the
recipe, but the people who have tried
them.
Two plots, six feet by four, of rich,
sandy soil (tf watered when needed)
will supply a family of four with crisp,
tender radishes from the first of June
until the middle of October. Radishes
are worse than worthless unless they are
fresh and tender.
Green crops for manuring should not
be plowed deeper than four inches; if
they are turned under more than this
they will not receive enough of solar
heat and atmospheric air to insure rapid
decay, and when covered too deep their
full beneficial effect cannot he realized
till the next blowing, when they are
brought nearer the surface.
A writer in the Ohio Farmer recon.
mendsthe followingremedy for foot rot:
Here is a cure | never knew to fail.
Take carbolic acid and pour it on a
piece of copper-an old-fashioned penny
will do-let stand until the acid ceases
to act on it. BE sure not to apply till
the acid ceases to eat the copper. Keep
the copper in all the time. Clean the
hoof and apply with a swab. One or
two applications will be sufficient.
Backing the outside OF horses hoofs
to make them shine and show well, is
an injurious practice, for if done, as is
usual, with a mixture of grease n
lampblack, as soon as the horse is
brought out on the road, dust begins to
adhere to the hoofs, which are naturally
porous, and thus stops the circulation
of air in them, causing disease. The
best treatment of the hoof is to keep it
clean, and leave it to show its own
natural color.
Professor Bergstrand, of the Royal
Agricultural academy, of Sweden,
published a most laudatory report on
the virtues of sundower-seed cake as
food for cattle. He states that it pre-
sentj a remarkable constancy of COM
position rarely il ever met with in
other cakes, as met with in commerce.
1t contains thirteen to sixteen per cent,
of fat, and thirty-five or thirty-six per
cent. of protein substances, and has,
therefore, a nutritive value far above
that of most ordinary feeding stuffs; be-
sides which it has a most agreeable
taste, and is altogether free from bitter
or any injurious matters.
Health Hints.
MISUNDERSTANDING pounded fine
in the raw state are excellent as a poul.
tice to allay Inflammation of the skin.
They are said to be specially adapted
for this purpose in case of e~rysipelas.
CURE FOR TooTHACHE.-It is said @
certain cure for this most agonizing o.
pains is TO mix powdered alum and sail
in equal quantities; then wet a piece o.
cotton batting sufficient to make the
powder adhere, and apply it to the hol
low tooth.
CUTANEoUs ERUPTIoNS.-The follow,
ing mixture is very useful in all cuta
neous eruptions: %Ipecacuanha wine
four drains; flowers of sulphur, tive
drains; tincture OF cardamons, on,
ounce Mix. One teaspoonful TO +,
taken three times a day, in n wineglas
OF water.
METHOD OF AsCERTAINING THE STAT
OF THE LUNGs.-Persons DESTROYS of as
certaining the true state of their lungs
are directed to draw in as much breatl
as they conveniently can; they are the
to count as far as they are able, in
slow and audible voice, without draw
ing in more breath. The number Q
seconds they can continue %countin.
must be carefully observed in consump
ton the time does not exceed ten, an,
and is frequently less than six seconds
in pleurisy and pneumonia it range
from nine to four seconds. When tn
lungs are / in a sound condition, the tim
will range rs high as from twenty t
thirty-fvc seconds.