The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-09
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.


bark, consists in fastening q rope
around the tree and mailing strip of
tin four inches wide around the rope,
where they may be killed by applying
kerosene.
Mr.. SANBoRN, of New Hampshire,
thinks, after careful experiment, that
currying cattle prevents them from
fattening. If this is so with fat cattle,
what must be the effect upon COWS in
milk, whose bones are so much nearer
the surface?
The chief products of decaying veg
etable matter are carbonic acid gas,
carburetted hydrogen gas and sulphur
cited hydrogen gas. All these are
prejudicial to health; therefore be care
full to remove all decaying vegetable
matter from your dwellings.
TREATMENT FOR STIFLE LAMENEss
IN HoRsEs.-Take one or two table
spoonfuls of raw Il. e. before it is
boiled) linseed- oil and rub it over the
stife-joint thoroughly; then battle or
heat it in with hot shovel or iron; if
it does not get well in three or four days
repeat it.
CANKER-WORMs often change the
bearing year of whole orchards, great
ly to the owners benefit; they are cas-
lily destroyed with Paris green when
no longer wanted. Cultivation, manur-
ing and proper pruning will insure .
crop from many varieties of apples near
ly every year.
WRITERS often advocate change of
food for cows, because human beings
get tired of one kind of food. Our ex-
perience says Land and Home, is that
the only change cows like is from poor
to rich food. as from hay to corn-meal,
or fresh grass. Changes in any other
way always require several days to get
the COWS to eating freely.
A GERMAN gardener has found by
experience that black or green flies,
caterpillars, etc., are at once destroyed
by Swinging the plants affected by
them with water in which the stems of
the tomato plant have been well boiled.
The liquor is applied when cold, and
not only kills the insects, but leaves an
odor which prevents others from COM
ing.
GERMAN chemists claim to have
proven that change of the quality Of a
cows food does not change the quality
of her milk. This seems good philoso-
ply, as it would greatly hurt the calf
If the quality of the milk changed every
time the COW got hold of new kind of
food. Yet many of our best dairymen
say the amount of cream is greatly af-
fected by a change of food from poor to
rich.
HORN all is quite common among
cattle in the spring, and is indicated,
at first, by dry nose and loss of ap-
petite. A simple remedy. yet one
which is very often effective, is to
grasp the hide on the back firmly, aud,
by pulling it up, loosen it the whole
length of the backbone. Sometimes
there will be cracking, but no harm
will be done, and the animal will show |
signs of improvement surprisingly soon |
after the operation.
CURE FOR ROUP.-An agricultural |
writer says: Last fall had two cocks !
affected; the first one was almost |
choked to death when I found him a
hard, cheesy substance having formed
in the windpipe. I had saved the lives
of others by taking it out with the |
point of scissors. In this case took |
a piece of writing paper, made a fun
mel the size of child's finger, opened
the cocks beak and another person
blew a half teaspoonful of sulphur |
down his throat. We put him out, 1 |
supposed. to die, but he did not, and |
after the third dose he could crow as |
loudly as ever.
CARROT PLUM PUDDING.-Quarter
carrots, do not take the long ones, select |
the more tender short ones; CRATE fine
the same quantity of raw carrot; use a
quarter of pound of white pulverized
sugar, same of currants and of raisins;
CRATE in a third of nutmeg, and add
very little cloves; mix all these ingre-
dients well up together; if it be too |
stiff, add very little milk, but gener-
ally there is water enough in the carrots
to hold the mixture together; tie up in
q light cloth and boil for six hours. If
properly managed, this pudding makes
q very handsome appearance at table.
Eat with hard sauce.
If spermaceti is dropped on any gar
off all that can be removed without in
jury to the material; then lay brown
paper over the spot, or piece of blot
ting paper, and put warm iron on the
paper until the oil shows through. Con-
tinue to renew the paper and apply the
warm iron until the paper shows no
more oil. Oils, grease, wax. tar. vege-
table or animal juices, resinous matter.
such as pitch or tar, iron and ink spots,
are difficult to remove completely, but
ink and iron-mold the most so of all.
Whenever much writing is done in a
house, and children have free access to