The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-02
HOUSE AND FARM.
Useful and Interesting Hints to Farmers.

The thiokening Of the skin about an in
jury on the hook or any other part is a
usual occurrence and could be prevented
by proper treatment of the injury at the
first. The thickened tissue cannot be re-
moved without danger of making it worse,
especially when it is near joint, and it is
better to leave it alone when lameness is
not caused by it. The only treatment ad-
visable is to apply iodine ointment to the
part.
A small quantity of mixture Of one dram
of tincture Of cantharides in pint of al
chol may be rubbed on to the skin once q
day to encourage the growth of name.
Give the horse teaspoonful of sulphur in
his feed every day for few days, and re-
peat ut an interval of a week.
In sowing grass and clover on grain tho
seed is better to DO sown after the grain is
drilled and then to run light harrow, with
sloping teeth, Or bush harrow across the
drills. This will spread the seed more
evenly and prevent it from coming up in
the drill rows, which is Objectionable.
A heavy cotton stack-cover weighing 10
ounces to the yard should need no dress
ing to make it waterproof. Water would
not penetrate cotton cloth of this weight in
"a hours of rain. If any dressing at all is
given to it We would choose crude petro-
leum, which is a preservatite and keeps the
cloth pliable:
If wihdgalls are recent and are not old
ones they may be treated by applying
strong solution of aluinn by means of
folded piece of cloth dipped in it and bound
upon the swelling. With this pressure
may be applied by means of pad7 bound on
the putfs with bandages, keeping them on
fvu0 hov Il of {Si.uk ,o11 in
crossing the time until they cai1 be born
continuously. If the puffs are made sore
by the pressure the pads should be remov-
ed for a time.
The culture Of osier willow is very simple.
The ground should be moist, but it need
not be overlooked. The banks of drains
through marshes are good places. For the
best results the ground should be plowed
and the cuttings planted in rows eight feet
apart each way. The kind to be planted is
the osier willow, Salir uimisalia, which is
shrub, and not tree. The cuttings, foot
long. are pushed nine inches in the soil,
and the soil trodden on each side to firm it
around the plant.
Diarrhea is likely to occur when COWS are
first turned out to grass, as the young grass
has this effect. It is not advisable to give
such common but mistaken remedies as
alum, oak bark, &C.. as these astringents
only make the trouble worse. The best
thing to give is linseed- oil, one pint. with
as much oil and as much ginger the third
day, and the next third day again reduce
the oil one half. Feed hay until the COW is
all right.
The Ayrshires are hardy, healthy
handsome race of cattle, and some of them
wonderful mixers. They have strong
characteristics, that softer, smoother
climate like ours has made but very little
impression on. The brown and white
which are their prevailing colors are rarely
or never mixed, SO as to be called roam,
as in the Jersey and Shorthorn breeds. The
COW, and in family where milk is freely
used, if she is healthy, she will very likely
prove well-spring of pleasure.
The best cure for collie is prevention,
which is easily effected if proper attention
is paid to the food, drink and use of the
mule or horse. Some of these cannot eat
green clover, whole corn or Indian meal
without its giving them the collie. I have
known horses die from single feed of
few quarts of corn. Hay passed through
straw-cutter and then wet up with meal,
shorts or bran, often gives collie; but if the
hay is fed dry without cutting it up fine, and
the grain and meal also dry, then wait an
hour or s. for digestion to set in before
watering the animal, collie rarely follows
A pint to quart Of oilmeal with the grain
or meel or bran ration, night and morning,
is IN excellent thing also to prevent collie
and aid digestion. Very cold water, if
drank in large quantity at time, fire.
quently brings on cclic, especially if the
Torso is rather warm or stands in very
cold place, or is exposed to rude wind
without or a draft within the stable. A
pound or two of epson salts dissolved in
water is one of the safest and best kinds of
medicine for horse colio.--[A IA. B. Allen.