Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-01-01
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

For throat distemper, CRATE fine q
small, green, wild turnip; or if dry,
giveEa heapi6g spoonful, mixed with
bran or oats. 1t is good for a cough
also. 4tt ~ ~
Anew drops of ammonia added to a
gallon of water and applied once a
week to all pots of flowers will do much
good and keep the pots and earth from
souring. ..s....,
SOME one who has experimental in
the matter says that handful of bran
scattered in each hill of potatoes when
planting will increase the yield one
third.
A DAIRYMAN says: Never keep a poor
cow the second year. No man can af-
ford to keep a cow that will not make
from 200 to go pounds of butter or its
equivalent every.year.
For potatoes and tomatoes take one
wheelborrOw load of earth where the
vine is to stand and fill in with half coal
ashes and half soil. The yield will be
nearly doubled thereby.
SOAK oats in tepid water before feed
ing them to horses. Old horses with
bad teeth can then inasticate the grain
Sufficiently and greedy young animals
will not swallow it whole. ~ fr
"A SOFT, firm, velvety skin is nearly
always found eRa good COW, and a
thick, hard hideson Il poor onesp A soft.
ffrm skin denotes rich milk, while a
soft, velvety skin indicates quantity of
milk s~~ -
FARMERS do. not, fail so much from
want of Knowledge as they do from
| want of action. If heir.>knowledge is
not applied to labor, prompted by ener-
gy and perseverance, it will accomplish
nothing. ~ @ = ,..-.
THE following rule in ploXing is rec
commended: 'tNeyer turn up over one
or two inches of unfertile subsoil in one
season; and, when so turned up, the
land should receive dressing of ma
nure.'' > -
THE yearly dairy product of New
York is III, 373,361 pounds Of butter
and SO, 725, 172 pounds of cheese. OF
annually STATISTIC pounds of butter,
and 95,9SS, 920 pounds of cheese.
OEEsof the plainest indications of I'M
successful farming is to see manure 60
ing to- waste, J or 1snei6ployed. When
TITS is seen there 10 no heed of looking
beyond the stables and yards TO find out
the 1endition Of the sfaIM or to judge of
the success ofits owner 49, ..
LII is al great mistake 70 Keep cattle
sH1bled 40 winter .and then urn them
|Grsin spring, exposing them to cold
stofms Of wind and rain Stock, yes-
pecfany dairy stock, md IN animals
I9iving milk, siloulA 10 sarefully pro-
tectsd ~ the sPring NaeSthe days and
nights are warm. eA
THE cheapest food in America is corn
bread properly made. 1t is also very
healthful and invigorating. 1t is the
main dependence of the very poor. 1t
requires but a trif1e over pound of it
per day to keep the human system in
health and vigor, and this pound costs
only about one cent. -.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Plougtma,a,
writing from WATERFOWL, Mass, states
that he has been very successful in cur
ing warts on the teats of cows by amply
bathing with water in which beans have
been boiled. Have any of our readers
had similar success in the use of this
simple remedy? & .-H Es
TWELVE quarts of milk day is quite
common IOr Merry coWS-tne SlnaHeSt
of British breeds-but several cases are
on record where they have given when
flush, during a period of several weeks,
as much as twenty-five quarts, of quail
ity, the London Lire Stock Jostyaat says,
"inferior only to that of the Jersey"
Mr.. ISAAC c. PIERCE, Rochester, N
Y, reports steady improvement in the
quality of apples from an orchard in
which he has kept hogs for several years.
He does not think crop rotation always
necessary; has raised garden corn on
the same plot for successive seasons, and
the past year the yield was at the rate Of
$50 bushels of ears per acre.