Richland beacon., 1881-08-13
FARM IND HOME.
Farm R0kiuQs.

found by experience that six Cotswold
sheep will not consume more than the
feed Of one COW.
GUINEA FOwLs.-0uinea fowls will
keep all bugs and insects Of every de-
scription off garden vines. They will
not scratch like other fowls or harm the
most delicate plants.
POrATo WATER-It is said that an |
immediate and effective remedy for lice |
on cows and other cattle, also for ticks
on pigs, is to wash the affected parts
with potato water-water in which po-
tatOes have been boiled.
CrRRANT WORMS If feed is scattered
under the currant bushes and the hens
allowed to scratch and pick there they
will keep the ground loose and eat oil the
grubs that are in the soil. If this is done
there will be no trouble from the cur
rant worms that infest bushes where the
grass is allowed to grow.
SPREADING MANURE.-The advantages
os spreading manure from the wagon as
it is drawn out are saving Of labor and
more even distribution of the double
salts ammonia, potash, phosphates. etc.
in the soil by rain. 1t the manure Is
hcaped on the field and gets heavy
rain before spreading, the ground under
the heaps receives an undue share Of the
hest part of the manure, which not in
frequently renders these spots barren for
season or two.
CELERY.-After trying for number
If years almost in vain, says a farmer, to
raise good celery on ordinary dry garden
soil, finally borrowed the use Of little
patch of reclaimed swamp land-deep,
black muck, well drained but moist,
and for the past two seasons have grown
on it very fine celery with but little
labor. SO shall never again attempt to
grow this vegetable on common garden
soil without some cheap and easy meth
cd of irrigation.
CURING HAMs.-The National Lire
stock Journal asserts that hams have q
decidedly better flavor, and the meat re-
tains more natural color when nothing
hut plain salt is used in the curing. II
the work of sailing is carefully attended
To the hams, when cured with salt alone,
will be ready for smoking at from six
weeks to two months, according to the
size of the hams. Saltpetre has ten
dency to harden and redden the meat.
It undoubtedly hastens the curing pro-
cess, but it does SO at the expense Of the
flavor.
JAMES REpPATH planted ten acres in
corn which yielded him 600 bushels. He
owed taxes on the land for last year,
$40. He paid cents bushel for hav-
ing it placed in the market, making $lS.
He sold it for 25 cents a bushel, making
$3.50. Taking out the taxes and the ex-
pcnses of getting it to market, he had
remaining Sl12. Herman Hill house
planted the same number Of acres and
had the same yield. His tax was also
$40. He fed thirty hogs until they
weighed 300 pounds each, making 8, zoo
mounds. which he sold at cents pei
pound gross, bringing him for the lot
$500, and leaving in his crib several
bushels of corn. MOral-feed hogs
Indianapolis Sam.
To DOSE A PIa.-Prof. Mcbride give.
the following method OF administering
medicine to pig: To dose pig, which
you are sure to choke if you attempt t6
make him drink while squealing, halter
him as You would for execution, and tie
the rope end to stake. He will pull
back until the rope is tightly strained
When he has ceased his uprOar and he
gins to reflect, approach him, and be
tween the back part of his jaws insert
an old shoe from which you have cu
the toe leather. This he will at once
begin to suck and chew. Through il
pour the medicine, and he will swallow
any quantity you please.
SEED SOwN BY rHE WAYsIDE. II
Maine farmer has hit upon the following
ingenious plan of supplemcuting hi
corn crop. He says: "For two year
paas I have strewn little rutabsga see'
on my heap Of old manure before apply
ing for corn. Then, if from any caus
corn plant is missing, I allow turnil
to grow, almost invariably getting
good specimen. Last year, having
few loads OF manure left, they wer
spread for sugar beets. The beets di
not get q good stand, while many tn,
nips came up, which latter were spared
as they seemed to come up and growwit
unusual vigor. The growth continue
till harvest time, and such roots I neve
saw before, while the beets from tn
same plot were hardly middling. Som
Of the rutabagas. Skirvings, veighs
twenty pounds each"
HuyoARrAN HAY.-W j. Chamber