The Magnolia gazette., 1880-07-30
FARM NOTES.


salts and one ounce ginger, which will
prevent milk fever. This is a disease
becoming more prevalent as cows are
led better
SMUT IN GRAIN. My experience is,
if you can keep the grain from mold
ing until the wheat comes up, you will
have no smut. If there comes a good
heavy rain fresh after sowing, SO as to
pack the ground and keep the air from
the grain, there will be no smut.-C M
iShodgrass, Jack county, Ter.
RICH turf cut into pieces four inches
square and turned upside down furnish
a first-rate medium for starting Lima
beans, squash, melon, and cucumber
seed. l put them in sunny place
during the day, and at night cover them
if it is at all cold. have gained fort
nights time by this plant J. S.,
Gloucester county, ~ j.
ONE of the essential things in growing
branching corn is to put one grain in a
hill and let all the branches grow. /
think the reason so many have failed in
its cultivation is because they plant
three or four grains in hill, as other
corn, and the consequence is it cannot
grow nor branch as it would with only
one grain.-G. Wolf, Montgomery
county, Pa.
JAMES MYERS, Elkhart, Ind, had
colt foaled last week which now stands
fifteen and one-half hands high. When
it is raised up its head reaches over the
dams back. 1t has to be fed by hand,
owing to its inability to stoop to the ma
ternal fount The dam is q common an
imal, about 10 years old. The colt has
attracted great deal of attention. The
body is well proportioned, with couple
Of exceptions.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Country
Gentleman has had most gratifying sue
cess in raising calves on mixture con-
sisting of so pounds of corn meal, 30
pounds Of middlings, 26 pounds to the
bushel, and pounds of sugar, well
mixed. OF this mixture pounds were
given daily to the two-1i pounds at
each meal, mixed with half bucket of
boiling water, and the bucket filled with
SKINNED milk. The calves were taken
from the COWS as soon as dropped.
CATTLE grazing at the outskirts OF
woods, among brushes and shrubbery,
and near old hedges are liable to be COW
cred with ticks Brushing the cattle
over once a week with mixture of one
part of kerosene and two parts of lard
oil will protect them from the attacks
of this vermin. When ticks are found
on cattle in considerable numbers, they
should not be removed by force, because
in that case the head will remain imbed-
ded in the hide of the animal, and, when
in large numbers, will be apt to cause
considerable irritation and inflammation
OF the skin. By applying a light coat
OF lard oil or little benzine, by means
OF brush, to the body of the ticks,
they generally withdraw their heads and
let go their hold on the hide.
How TO BUD A GRAPEVINE a
good shoot or cutting about three inches
long which has plump, well-developed
bud on it, and cut away lengthwise
nearly half the wood opposite the bud
and the entire length of the cutting, be-
ing careful not to remove the pith at the
woody base OF the bud. Then, with a
sharp knife cut the ends of the cutting
even and smooth, and as thus prepared
lay the bud on the stem of the vine
where it is to be budded and mark out
the exact size and conformation of the
cutting; cut out the wood so marked
and make the cutting fit close, especially
at the ends. A perfect fit is desirable.
When this is done, press the bud in
place, tie it firmly, and cover with wax
As soon as the bud has formed one leaf
cut away the vine beyond it.-Prairie
Farmer.
HAY FOR HoGs.-Few men nre aware
Of the fact that hay is very beneficial to
hogs, but it is true nevertheless. Hogs
need rough food as well as horses, cattle
or the human race. To prepare it YOU
should have cutting-box or hay-cutter,
and the greener the hay the better. Cut
the hay as short as oats, or shorter, and
mix with bran shorts or middlings, and
feed as other food. Hogs soon learn to
like it, and, If soaked in swill as other
slop food, it is highly relished by them.
In winter use for the hogs the same hay
you feed to your horses, and you will
find that, while it saves bran, shorts OF
other food, it puts on flesh as rapidly as