The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-18
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Notes.

boiled apples and meal are excellent
food for fattening hogs.
Boil a pot full of potatoes daily for the
growing chickens. Mash hem and mix
with sour milk, put in troughs and let
the chicks eat when they want to. 1t
will make them grow and keep them
healthy:
When poultry is kept in a yard, it is
best to dig up a small corner occasion
ally to let them hunt for worms and
beetles, and then SOW it in oats and corn
and lettuce. They always want a dust
ing place, a box of ashes with sulphur
intermixed.
Oxalis, begonias and other dubious
rooted plants while at rest must be kept
in a warm, dIy place, in the soil they
grow in, and not watered until growth
commences, when they should be potted
in fresh soil, and as soon as vigorous
growth begins.
Excessive drinking of water by farm
animals is said to increase the consump-
ton OF fat in the body. Too watery
fodder and too much drink are therefore
to be avoided, especia ly in f%attening, if
we wish TO attain the most rapid and
abundant formation of flesh and fat.
Professor Riley says that kerosene or
oil of any kind is sure death TO insects
in all stages, and the only substance
with which we may hope to destroy the
eggs. Oils will not mix directly with
water, but will mix with milk, fresh or
sour, and then may be diluted to any
desired extent.
Ii plants are properly watered and en-
riched so rs to be healthy and strong,
they will not be infested to any great ex-
tent with vermin. The best way 10 get
rid of them is to brush them off into a
dish of water with II soft, dry brush; a
small paint brush is the best for this
purpose. The above remedy is the best
and the least trouble, and, if taken in
season, effectual.
Errors in butter mNking are u%nclean-
illness, too much acid in cream, casino or
buttermilk in n decomposed state, too
much friction in churning and working
the butter, bad salt and too much of it,
foul milking stables, impure water odors
from various sources known ard un-
known; these are errors vital in their
consequences, and not gel orally thought
if as any Importance.
The Gardeners Magazine, speaking of
table cabbage, objects to all yellow and
white-hearted sorts entirely, savoys in
cluded, as not good enough for a good
table. "You will soon discover, if you
observe" it says, THAT the ~yellowish
and very pale green sorts are compar-
atively worthless, while the dark green
sorts are full of flavor and substance,
the very perfection of what a cabbage
should be-"
The Poultry Journal says: THE ex-
perience of the best turkey breeders
goes to showthat the best results are OBJ
tanned by feeding literally all through
the season, and not leaving it until a
couple of weeks before killing to do the
tattening. One feed daily, and that in
the evening, is sufficient during this
season OF the year; the birds soon look
for it then and come home regularly at
feeding time, and always roost near the
barn and out-buildings.
The oxalis is a very useful winter
house plant, being especially desirable
for hanging baskets, both leaves and
blossoms being on long. slender, droop-
ing stems. The bulbs are small, easily
grown, and produce an abundance of
flowers. The leaves in form are not un-
like clover leaves. Three to five bulbs
are required in a pot, and the soil should
be sandy. The blossoms are pink and
yellow, and there is also a variety called
vericolor, which is white with a yellow
eye, the petals being crimson on the out
side,