The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-15
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


Onions should be sown as early as the
ground can be worked.
Bone meal is one of the best fertilizers
for grapes. 1t should be applied as
early in the season as possible.
Stagnant and impure water which
COWS drink while at pasturage is one of
the most prominent causes Of bad odor
in milk.
Experiments prove that there is no
feed for cows so well calculated to pro-
duce gilt-edged butter an red clover in
bloom.
Damaged corn is exceedingly injuri-
Gus as food for horses, because it brings
on inflammation of the bowels and
skin diseases.
Vegetables to exhibit at fairs must be
sown early, and should be grown as
large as possible. Size, not quality,
draws the premiums.
To destroy pin worms in horses give
an injection of salt and water two or
three days in succession, then admins
ter a bail consisting OF half an ounce of
aloes and one drachm of calomel.
AS a matter of experience il is found
that the mixture of cut straw and root
pulp, should stand for at least twenty
four hours before being fed, after which
it becomes heated of itself, and the
cattle eat it with great relish. There is
nothing better for young and growing
stock.
A good way to keep hens free from
lice while sitting is to put two or three
tobacco leaves in their nests, which will
drive out the vermin if infested with
them. Another good plan is to sprinkle
sulphur literally through their feathers
or in their nests.
The red spider may be banished from
plants by the simple process of cutting
off the injected leaf. A leaf once at
tackled soon decays and falls off; but
then the animals remove to another.
BY carefully pursuing this amputation
plants will become remarkably healthy.
A good way to get rid of rats is to put
pounded potash in their holes, The
potash gets into their coats and irritates
their skin, and the rats desert the place.
To prevent their dying in their holes
and becoming offensive, poison them by
mixing halt a pound of carbonate of
barytes with a quarter of a pound of
lard. 1t produces great thirst, the rats
leave their holes to drink and are unable
to return. rTfr
The access OF air is essential to the
fertility of the soil, and TO the healthy
growth of most of our cultivated crops.
The insertion of drains not only makes
room for the air to enter by removing
the water, but actually compels the air
to penetrate into the under parts of the
sell, and renews it at every fall Of rain.
Open sucn outlets for the water below,
and us this water sinks and trickles
away, it will suck the air after it, and
draw it into the pores of the soil where,
ever itself has been.
Household Hints,
In cooking cabbage change the water
when the cabbage is halt boiled, and ii
will emit q plea5anter odor.
BE careful to keep your cellar aired il
you wish milk and butter free from bad
tastes, Air in the morning.
Blowing out a candle: There is a COR
rect way to do everything. If this be
done in an upward direction the wick
will not smolder away, and the next
time it is wantedit will be in good con-
dition. IN f.'l
Musty books may be made sweet by
applying oil Of lavender mixed with nj
cohol. If this application is made to
new books they will never become
musty or moldy.
To brighten q copper boiler use a
coarse cloth; have Il pail of very hot
water; soap the cloth n little; sprinkle
on plenty of pulvorized borax and rub
the boiler we'll rinse OF with hot water
and dry with a soft cloth. The boiler
can be frightened in this way as quickly
as with acid.
Fish is exceedingly insipid if suficient
salt is not mixed with the water in
which tits boiled; about four ounce to
one gallon Of water is enough for small
hsh in general; an additional ounce, or
even more, will not be too much for
Goldfish, HOLSTERS, etc, and salmon re-
quires eight ounces. To render the
boiled fish firm add little saltpeter to
the salt; luarterof an ounce is sufficient
for one gallon,