The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-02-19
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Farm Notes.

given as rule: Multiply the length in
yards by the width in yards, and that by /.
half the altitude in yards, and divide
the product by fifteen. To find the num-
ber OF tons in circular stacks: Multiply
the square of the circumference in yards
by four times the altitude in yards, and
divide by 100. The quotient will be the
number of cubic yards in the stack.
Then divide by fifteen to get the num-
Der of tons.
An exchange says: The rhubarb plant
REQUIRES SO little labor in its cultivation,
and is at once so healthful and delicious,
that every garden should contain sup
! ply for home use. With the exception of
forking up in the spring, and working
in manure once every season, rhubarb
plants require little attention until they
have remained in the same spot five or
six years. At the end of this time they
should be divided and put in new soil.
A farmer experimental with the milk
of COW and found that it required tif-
teen pounds of milk in winter and
twenty-five and a half in summer to
make pound of butter. Feed, in sum-
mer, pasture only; in winter eight ears
of corn, soaked, and two quarts of bran,
fed dry twice a day. The same COW
gave nearly twenty-five per cent
more milk when MIXED three times
day.
Z. M. Washburne, in speaking of the
care of dairy cattle, says: In the best
dairies in North Holland there is but a
very small amount of grain fed to the
cows or young stock, and of all [ 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.
| IF ctnoR of hOnpc pan hp cppl1rpd
pack them in barrel with a quantity
of unleached ashes, and keep the whole
moist but not wet. After few months
break up the bones into fine powder.
This will possess every fertilizing quail
ity of the best bone dust.
For scabby legs in poultry take equal
parts of lard and kerosene oil, and
thicken with sulphur into q paste. This
should be rubbed upon the legs until
the scabby parts come off, when they
should be smeared with sweet oil.
Bone meal is one of the best fertilizers
for grapes. 1t should be applied as
early in the season as possible. About
a ton to the acre will make a valuable
dressing for two or three years.
To destroy pin worms in horses, give
an injection of salt and water two or
three days in succession, then admins
ter a ball consisting of half an ounce of
aloes and one drachm of calomel.
Keeping cattle on hay or straw alone
is little like living on bread, or pota-
toes, or meat alone, with nothing ex-
cept that one dish. Feed some roots US
well as hay or shorts.
Loss of appetite, thirst, diarrhpa, gen.
eral weakness and blueness of the comb
are the principal symptoms of chicken
cho lera.
Luck in farming is in selecting the
seed with care, draining the fields, keep
out the cattle, and having good fences.
After chickens arc amonth old cracked
corn and wheat screenings are better
for them than dough.
Household Hints.
A TABLE ORNAMENT. - Sew coarse
flannel around goblet with the stem
broken of, put this shape)y dome upon IA
. saucer of water, wet the flannel and
sprinkle over us much flax seed rs will
adhere TO it. The flannel will absorb
the water from the saucer, which should
!, often be replenished. In about
two weeks the flannel will be concealed
in a beautiful verdure, which will vie
with any table ornament.
TO WASH New FLANNEL.-Put new
flannel into clean cold water, and keep il
in for fortnight. changing the water
six or seven times; then wash it wei
, with clean warm water and soap to get
, out the oily matter. You will find the
, flannel viii never get hard or shrink
To CLEAN HAIR BRUSHES.-A dessert
f spoonful of hartshorn to a quart of cold
! water, in n washhand basin. Dip in
Q the hair brushes, and rub them unit
{ clean. Then rinse well with colo
s water; rub dry with a towel, and stand
! upright at an open window.
; COVERING FOR JARs.-A good water
4 proof paper for covering jars used il
: preserving, etc may be made by brush
q ing over the paper with boiled linseet
. oil and suspending it over a line unit
{ dry.
\ Potatoes Grown without Planting.
0 A French gentleman, L. Lachaume
r declares that he can produce proliferou'
!, potatoes at villa conclusion based or
e the following experience: Last sprin!
y he placed a moderate sized tuber on
e cellar shelf, and Systematically pincheC
r off the sprouts every week. On the Is
of September the rind burst, and few
days after four or five small potatoe
appeared. His explanation is that lh
caused this internal development O
q buds. Anybody can try this interesting
i experiment. Whether this singula
tendency can be turned to any practica
I account remains to be seen. The youn
a. tubers are developed at the expense G
the mother tuber, as is proved by tn
20 gradual disappearance and shrivelin
II of the tissues of the latter, but whe
separated they will grow independent
j. just as any whole seed potato or Sc
/ Ould do. 1t is just possible that see
d potatoes SO produced might have som
advantage over others produced in th
nj ordinary way, especially for forcin
re urposes. AS matter of physiologic;
is significance this case is paralleled b
the occasional production of interni
o. buds in trees, and which owing to thei
ne imperfect development, produce I'll
nd knots which are so commonly mi
ne with.
Dust for Lice Oh Cattle.
If A writer in the Farmers AdUocd
so says: Some ten or twelve years ago q
II agricultural writer observed his bull
,st be free from lice, but not so the rest
his cattle; and thinking over the matt
,st he came to the conclusion that the hah
mo- of paving the dirt over himself mu
vs have the effect Of keeping lice off ii
,c- bull, and he tried dry earth on the re
of the cattle with the best effect. Ev
to since reading the above l have us
asst nothing but dry earth, and have fl
of quently put it on cattle having lice, al
ew have found it perfectly efficacious, bo
of rs preventive and as a cure. If
winter find it needed and cannot get