The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-08-26
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes.
Don't go straight from the COW stabl
into the milk-room.
Ground black pepper sprinkled on
growing cabbages when the dew is on,
will, it is said, free them from worms.
From $50 to 10 degrees is given as the
right temperature for scalding hogs, the
former for small and the latter for large
ones. Add few handfiis of ashes, and
frequently air the hogs while scaldihg.
When cows teats are sore from any
cause they should be washed clean with
warm water, and at once moistened with
glycerine. Two or three applications
will cure the worst case. For caked bag
apply lard, as hot as can be handled,
with rag or british, and thoroughly rub
in by hand.
Farmers who know the value of COM
post, and know how to make it, increase
their manure pile. In this way hundreds
OF loads are made annually, the mate
rial being gathered on the premises,
such as forest leaves, cornstalks (includ-
ing the roots), weeds, vines, loan from
| fence corners, muck from ponds and
bitches, occasional sprink ing of lime
through the mass, layers of barnyard
manure, and thus build up oblong
| squares and let them remain over win.
ter.
One of the most extensive fruit grow
ers, who resides near Lockport, N. Y,
has been very successful in clearing Lis
orchard of the canker worm by use of
paris green. He mounts cask on a
wagon, and to the cask is attached a
force pump with which is connected a
short hose, with fine, sprinkling nozzle
at the end of it, and thus armed, and
the cask filled with mixture of paris
green and water, he drives into the or.
chard, and in short time sprinkles a
large number of trees.
The observations of Mr.. Albert Flan-
ders, of Cambria, in his orchard. this
season, are decidedly in favor of making
pastures of them. The fruit in an or
chard near the farm buildings in which
his hogs have run during the season is
much less injured by the codling moth
than the fruit of another orchard on his
farm to which the hogs have not had
access. By. some fruit growers sheep
are believed to be quite as efficient as
swine IN destroying the Larvae of the
moth.--Lockport Journal.
There seems to be use for ANYTHING.
II we can only find out what it is. 1t
has been discovered that even coffee
grounds are good for something. They
are recommended as a valuable manure
ior garden plants. A San Francisco
lady recently received some plants from
Mexico, with the direction to fertilize
them with waste coffee and coffee
grounds. The experiment was so sue
cessful that she tried the same treatment
on roses, and the effect was q healthy
and vigorous growth, and colored. bet |
ter and more abundant flowers.
An exchange says: Many farmers are
testing the practice of cultivating
wheat. We hear of frequent expert
ments in this direction, and these have |
generally turned out satisfactorily. Cul- |
tlVatlng or hoeing is easily done by
drilling the wheat in siXteen-inch rows. |
by stopping every alternate spout. 1t is |
not difficult to construct a simple culti- |
Vator that will work the spaces between |
the drills. There are two different |
wheat hoes in the market that do the |
work effectively. Wheat that is sown |
broadcast cannot be cultivated. This |
TACT, and the better condition of drilled |
wheat, should be sufficient inducement |
to use the drill, if the great saving of |
seed and the lessening of labor are not, |
Household Hints.
Glass should be washed in cold water.
Wnlcn gives 1t brighter and cleaner |
look than when cleansed with warm
water.
When anything is accidentally made
too salt it can be counteracted by adding
q teaspoonful Of vinegar and teaspoon
full of sugar.
Jelly molds should be creased with
cold butter. When you wish to remove
the jelly or pudding plunge the mold into
hot water, remove quickly, and the con-
tents Will come out in perfect form and |
without any trouble.
When canaries pluck feathers and eat
them, p ace little fine gravel or small |
pebbles in their cages; also occasionally
place rusty nail or tack in their drink
ing water. Small pebbles are absolutely
essential to life and health in Gagged birds
OF all kinds. and during the molting
season the bit of iron in their drinking
water is also equally essential.
To wash red table linen use tepid
water, with a little powdered borax
(borax sets the color); wash tie linen
separately AID quickly, using very little
soap, rinse in tepid water containing
little boiled starch; hang to dry in the
shade: iron w hen almost dru