Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-28
THE HOUSE AND FARM =.


Give them to the poor.
A MARES nest would be q valuabl,
! adjunct to stock farm.
ONE THOUSAND Iaths will cover sew
enty yards of surface, and eleven pound:
of nails will put them on.
VARIOUS plants affect milk. Horse
radish has tendency to prevent coag
ulation, and wood sorrel will hasten it
WITH all the pretensions of the COW
to sobriety she generally insists OF
having a horn or two before breakfast
EXPERIMENTS prove that there is NJ
feed for COWS SO we'll calculated to pro
duce gilt-edged butter as red clover il
bloom.
ONE-FIFTH more siding and flooring
is needed than the number of square
feet of surface to be covered, because
of the lap in the siding and matching
of the floor.
TURN1Ps are healthful for horses.
They should be cut in slices, or what is
better, pulped finely and mixed with a
little meal and salt. Rutabagas are bet
ter than white turnips.
Mr.. J. G.. EDWARDS, of England, re-
marks: any man who has seen q
turnip deems himself qualified to adj
wise the farmer. and though each man
sings to different tune the burden OF
the song is the same-that the farmer
is in fault and needs setting right"
PLANT tansy at the roots of your
plUm-trees, or hang branches Of the
plant on the limbs of the trees. and you
will not be annoyed with curculio. An
old AID successful fruit-grower fur
nishes the above, and says it is the most
successful curculio preventive he ever
tried.
A CONTEMPORARY thinks if farmers
would avoid suddenly cooling the body
after great eXertions, be careful not to
so with wet clothing and wet feet, not
to over-eat VIXEN in an exhausted con-
dition, and would battle daily, using
much friction, they would have little or
no rheumatism.
Group PREVENTIVE. First get @
piece OF chamois skin, make it like a
little bib, cut the neck, and sew on
tapes to tie it on; then melt together
some tallow and pine tar; rub some of
this in the chamois, and let the child
wear it all the time. Renew with the
tar occasionally.
e. NJ. WAsHBURNE, in speaking of the
care of dairy cattle, says: an the best
diaries of North Holland there is but a
very small amount of grain fed to the
cows or young stock. and of all I have
imported [ have never had one that
would eat grain without teaching, by
mixing with hay Or roots, or some root
they were accustomed to eat"
THE first year sleeps front teeth
are eight in number, and all of equal
size. The second year the two middle
shed out, and are replaced by two much
larger than the others. The third year
two very small teeth appear on either
side of the eighth. At the end of the
fourth year there are six large teeth.
The fifth year all the front teeth are
large. The sixth year all begin to
show signs of wear.
VERh11N.-The poultry house, if close
ly examined, may be found to swarm
with lice. A gray, mealy powders may
be seen on the roosts, in crevices, and
in the corners and joints of the lauild-
ing. Take common squirt can 2lled
with kerosene oil and inject the Oil into
every crevice in the house. Repeat
this PROCESS if it is found necessary,
and very soon the fowls will be free
from these insect pests.
CHILDREN's DIET.-The London
Medical Gazette says that children
should never be allowed to eat anything
between meals excepting dry bread.
If they cannot eat that they are not
hungry. Indulgent mothers ruin the
digestions of their children by allowing
them to eat dainties. An old writer
says: "a good digestion is to the
body what a good conscience is to the
mind-the great cause of happiness"
KEEP THE COOP CALvEs.-As the
COWS come in the best of the heifers
may be selected for raising. There can
be no better way to improve the stock
Of COWS chan to use a good bull and
keep the best calves, well feeding and
caring for them until matured. After
they become COWS selection can again
be made for breeding, and only the
best retained. In few years the value
of dairy csws may be doubled by this
careful practice of selection.
GRASS in the North is not made as
available as it might. An opinion pre-
walls that grass lands can not be kept il
permanently good condition. Yet there
are in many localities plots and tracts of
grass that are very old and show no
signs of failure. What has been done
once in this way can be done again. A
permanent pasture or meadow is inval-
liable. Why can not we try to make
and keep them? This is a subject
worthy the most careful study.
CHEAP INDELIBLE INK.-Braconnot
recommends the following: Twenty
parts of potassa are dissolved in boil
ing water, ten parts of fne-cut leather
chips and five parts of flowers of sui
phur are added, and the whole heated
in an iron kettle until i. is evaporated
to dryness. Then the heat is continued
until the mass becomes soft, care being
taken that it does not ignite. The pot
is now removed from the fire allowed
too cooDI water is added, the solution
strained and preserved in bottles. This
ink fowseasily from the pen.
A CHEAP DIsINFEcTANT AND DEo-
DoR1zER.-Dissolve drachm of nitrate
of 1ood -, n ,,n;Jf,,1 ooJ n J.o,b,o oe