The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-14

LICE OK SToCK.-A number of letters
ask for remedies for lousy stock. Ner-
min of some kind very frequently mteSt
domestic animals; they are mostly Of the
louise tvpe-small parasitic animals that
must be removed 10y the application OF
some iusecticide 4 number of substan-
ces have been used to greater or less ex-
tent, OF which few are mentioned be
low: One pound of tobacco and SIX
ounces of bOrax boiled IN two quarts Of
water. to which soft soap is added TO
make a thick paste, has proved a vgmn
salve. 4 mixture of carbolio acid and
soft soap IN the proportion Of one totom
makes compound easy to apply and
very effectuaL Shortly after the parts
TO which the soap mixture has been APP
piled should be washed with pure water
and non-drying oil rubbed on. OIL Of
turpeutine. and lard oil, equal parts, with
n little carbolic acid, Is perhaps themOst
convenient mixture 10 make, and effect
ual III It's application. Animals that are
affected with vermin need better care and
higher feeding in order to overcome the
drain that these parasites make upon the
system.
Cutting AND GRINDING FoD0ER.-
While some -go SO far as to claim that
it pays to grind straw to q nepowder,
others affirm that for beef cattle II does
not pay even to cut any fodder Cattle
are fully provided lay nature with means
for masticating their ordinary food, and
we need not be surprised to find that both
ordinary experience and careful expert
meuts agree in showing that little if any
thing Is gained my cutting In fact it
appears from some experiments that
1
not so thoroughly chewed and impreg-
mated with saliva, portion even passing
at once into the second stomach. Cut
ting alone can do but little good. even
with old hard stalked fodder, without
the softening produced 10y cooking. for
it cannot open the fodder 10 digestive
action, nor save much labor of mastica-
ton. BY far the greater part Of this IS
expended on chewing the cud and 1t is
best that the animal should perform this
entirely natural operation for itself.
PRoFrTABLE FARMING. Among the
influences contributing largely to render
farming profitable in the Middle and
Western States, besides that of cheap
transit by railroad, perhaps the most I'M
portant are the rapid multiplication Of
grist mills, grain elevators, butter fac
tories, cheese factories, canning factories,
cider mills and similar industrial works
OF these the grain elevator may be said
to have originated in the West And
though these establishments are often
spoken of as centralizmg in the great
cities, they really exist at every import
ant village or town along the lines Of the
railways in the grain growing States At
these elevators the farmers from the
whole surrounding country obtain good
cash prices for their grain. and this is
the influence that renders the ascendency
of the grain interest In the West per
manont. The operation of grist mills,
cider mills, butter factories, cheese fac
tories and canning factories is very SINH
lar III rendering profitable dairy farming,
the production of fresh vegetables and
fruits, orchard farming, etc. The in
fiuence of this is seen In the magnitude
of the dairy interest in consequence of
the large number of butter and cheese
factories in successful operation in the
States. The canning interest flourishes
at the present time over n wide extent OF
country in the New England, Middle and
Western States. These are the agencies
that chiefly contribute TO increase the
agricultural wealth Of the North and
West.
SECRET OF LARGE CROPs N ENGLAND.
One of the strong points in English
farming was emphasized as follows by
Professor Roberts, of Cornell University:
Herein" he saws. a am satisfied.
lies the secret of England's success in
raising larger crops. IT would take
away the breath of a prairie farmer to
hear even an EnRlishman's enumeration
of tho ferar11Iir,rr tla IL, bo
'twitchings,' the harrowings. the cross
harrowings. the rollings and crossings
that heavy clay field Is subjected to be-
fore it is considered ready for wheat.
What is all this for? Simply to unlock
the full store-house of Nature That il
IS full has been proven time and again
BY actual analysis il is found that an
average OF soil contains. in the first Sly
inches, plant food enough for from fftv
to 80 frll crops of grain. | do NOT DO
sire to discourage the purchase and ,,sa
of fertilizers, but what [ do Drotas+
against Is, purchasing on time conn,e,-
clal manures at $40 per ton. which orc
really worth only SO, to enrich cIo5Jy
fields already fairly rich in pIant-tooJ
locked up, it is true, but there non u. !,
less, only waiting a little iudicions1 o o--o
Plcatlon OF brain and muscle to set Il
free. Ii these hastily jotted facts .,d
impressions are the means of ind,,a CIV
my tellow-farmers to remove some 81 a., :
useless trees and fences, or to oivo t tI,o
fields an additional cross-harroyv;'u, 'n is
two before casting in the seed and asiSs; %
the Lord to bless the labor Of ' t1in!s
hands, my object will have been ne 81,