Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-05-20
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

ONION CULTURE.-The Germantown
Telegraph" says that in Connecticut
more profits are made from an acre Of on
ions than from any other garden crop rails
ed. In regard to onion culture 1t has been
noted that few crops like deep soil better
than onions; yet they do not like it loose,
and soil should lie some time after dig
ging, so as TO get compact. 1t is also
found that wood ashes is an excellent ma
nure, but there is nothing equal to a top
dressing of hen manure. Fresh stable
manure is one of the worst fertilizers, ma
king a rank growth of top with but small
bulbs comparatively. In gardens gener-
| ally no manure is put on the onion ground
the same season of planting; but piece
| of ground is selected which has been heav-
| lily manured for some other crop the sea-
son previous. Generally they go in after
potatoes or celery, where an extensive crop
is desired. In England enormous crops of
this vegetable are raised, sometimes as
high as thirty tons to the acre, which bring
even at the low prices in that country, ST.
900 per acre. Many of the bulbs are one
pound in weight, some more than that
The statement that ''in onion there is
strength" when applied to financial rrof-
1t like this, is no joke.
How I RAISE CORN FoDDER.-The
most profitable way find IS to prepare
good'piece of ground and pillow we'll, har-
rowing in short manure; if long, pillow it
under, if fertilizer is used, SOW it in the
drills. SOW mine in drills about or St
feet apart, opening burrows with one
horse pillow, and covering with the same.
l use about halfa bushel of white southern
corn to the acre. I can raise more fodder
by using this amount than when use two
bushels. l once sent to New York for
three bushels of sweet corn, and not one
grain in twenty ever came up. began to
cut it for my cows when it begins to tassel,
and have cut it from ten to twelve feet
high, and not one inch Of it was left. For
winter fodder l plant in the same way,
always narrowing the rows fiat in day or
two after 1 SOW the seed. Lately do not
house my COW fodder. 1 cut when green,
set in small stocks, and in two or three
weeks, when dry, 1 put three or four stocks
together, and tie tight. 1 leave it out all
winter, bringing it in as used. 1 always
lost more than half of it when I housed it.
Country Gentleman.
BRAN FOR Mich Cows.-We cont
suppose there is dalrymnn in the coun-
try but who knows the value of "bran' as
a food for mich cows AS long as we can
remember anything of cattle feeding it is
connected with the use of bran, and the
scalded messes given to cows for sometime
after calving; also, it's sprlnkling over
chopped pumpkins, turnips, potatoes. etc.
Bran was, indeed, always regarded as ex-
cellent and profitable food for cows in
milk Still there is force in the recon-
mendation of bran, which we find in an
English journal that if one desires erich
milk. give your cows every day, water
slightly sailed, in which bran has been
stirred at the rate of one quart to two GAL
Ions of water. You will ind that your
cows will give twenty-five per cent. more
milk Immediately under the effects of it,
and will become so accustomed to the diet
as to refuse to drink clear water, unless
very thirsty. ''-Erchange.
CRIBB1NG EORsES.-In regard to the
cribbing of horses, the "Western Rural''
has this to offer as the reason and remedy:
'sThe horse should be placed in stall where
the manager is lower than the knees, and the
lowest part of the hay-rack, as the wind
ow or air hole, is higher than the top of
his withers. The arrangement of the
muscles of the neck and Jaws is such that
he can only practice the cribbing when
these can be brought into exertion at a
certain leverage. Therefore remove all
the objects within the heights me ntioned,
as he cannot crib when stretching his neck
up or down. When young horses are con-
tinually licking their manger, which gen.
orally precedes the habit of crlbbing, the
above arrangement should be made forth
with, and some salt constantly kept be-
fore them, without being mixed among
their food; and the habit may thus in the
start be effectively prevented
l. BROWN BREAD OF GRAHAM FLOUR
Take one cup of milk; add hot water to
warm; thicken with sifted flour sufficient
to make a sponge; stand over night in a
warm place. In the morning add half
cup of milk. with hot water, one cup of
molasses, one cup of butter, one teaspoon
full of salt; mix with Graham flour with
spoon until all is smooth. Pour into.
bread pans half full; let stand in warm
place until the cans are almost full. Bake
for an hour in moderately hot oven; have
a steady fire.
USE OF SALT.-A certain portion of
salt is absolutely necessary to our stom-
achs, and digestion cannot be properly
carried on without it. When taken in the
food it supplies two substances-an acld
which helps to form the sour fluid of tie
stomach that digests food, and soda,
which is the bile principle, and which
must be added to the dissolved food be-
fore the nourishment can be extracted.
FELONs Beef marrow, bound on and
renewed twice day. is said to be the most
effectual agent for the cure of those pain
full visitants-felons.