Richland beacon., 1881-07-16
FARM IND HOME.

Esers Ratings.
CHARREp CoRN.-Charred corn. fed
in limited quantities, is excellent for
laying hens.
BOILED PorAroEs.- potatoes
are said to be q cure for diarrhes IN cat
tie. Feed warm and give Is much as
the cattle will eat.
CURRANr WoRMa-Break OIL the
young sprouts or suckers that start from
We roots of currant bushes and there
will seldom be any trouble from the cur
rant worm.
L1NsEEp MEAL FOR PIas.-Suffolk
and Berkshire pigs may be probably
fed, to be sold at nine or ten months,
upon clover, corn meal, linseed meal, or
corn and oat meal. Half q pound Of
lipseed meal per day on the average, to
6-months-old pigs, would be sufficient
SowING WHEAr.-Recent experiments
in England show that thin sowing Of
wheat in drills is more productive than
thick sowing. BY special culture on
small plots, single grain to the hill has
given o yield of 100 to 162 bushels TO
the acre, according to the Experiment
Record.
ToMAroEs.-H You would have full
crop of good tomatoes, water the young
plants twice each week with rich liquid
manure. Nip off many Of the new shoots
and tie the heavy stems up 20 q to ex-
pose the fruit to the sun. Mulch thick
ly around the main stem and thin out
where the fruit grows too closely.
To TELL THE AGE or A HoRsE.-The
following is the method Of an Alabama
gentleman "After the horse is 6 years
old wrinkle comes in the eyelid at the
upper corner Of the lower lid, and every
year thereafter no has one well-de-
fined wrinkle for each year of his age
over 8. If, for instance, a horse has
three wrinkles, he is IL; il four, 13.
Add the number of wrinkles to nine and
you will always get at the age.'
BRITTLE HOoFs.-Among the causes
which produce brittle hoofs in horses
and cattle the National Ltvc Stock
Journal mentions the frequent standing
in rotting dung heaps or in pools of de-
composing liquid manure. In the dung
heap there is not only the moisture and
steam soaking and softening the hoof,
but there is abundance of ammonia gas.
which is especially calculated to soften,
dissolve and destroy the horn. Stand
ing in such decomposing organic matter
10 still more injurious when the animal is
confined to o box OF stall, for here the
injurious effect Of inactivity is added to
the other conditions.
TIE CuBRANT CATERPILLAR. = The
gooseberry and currant caterpillars are
great pests to American fruit growers.
The following recipe for dealing with
these pests is given by q County Down
subscriber to the Garden, and which he
states he had used there thirty years
and never failed with it until 1879, when
the daily rain washed the salt of tho
leaves before it had time to dry or act
on the young caterpillars: Mix one
pound of common salt with eight gallons
of cold water; but be careful not to ex-
coed that quantity. About the second
week in May or Is soon Is perforated
leaves are observed choose dry day and
syringe the bushes with this mixture.
Repeat the Swinging in q week or ten
days should more perforated leaves ap-
pear. This mixture, though destructive
to young caterpillars, will not kill old
ones these must be hand picked. -
Farmers Advocate.
MELON CULruRz.-An Ohio farmer
says: "During the winter and spring
gather together all the fine manure I
can, such Is hog manure with the cobs
raked out, hon manure, barnyard scrap
ings. etc. After the melons are planted
load this mixture on the wagon, and
If not wet enough I throw . lew pals Of
water on it, drive into the field and
straddle one row, and with another hand
take two rows, one on ono side Of the
wagon, and put small shovelful q this
mixture on each hill By soaking the
seed before planting over night it will
he necessary then to examine . few hills
in course Of five days. to see If they are
making their way through the inch Of
dirt that was first covered on seed II 20,
then the manure should be showed to
one side with the back Of rake. After
the melons are beginning TO get the
third leaf I take . mixture of two-thirds
of Stacked lime, one-third plaster, and
dose each hill with about half q spoon
full. getting the greater part on the dirt
around the plants. With this method /
get 1000 good salable melons Per acre,
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