The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-04
HOUSEHOLD AND FARM.
Notes..

Keep goslings and young ducks away from
the ponds until they are tledged.
Wheat chaf, wet, and mixed with bran and
q little salt makes good feed for sheep.
White clover is better for sheep than the red,
a. il is shorter and makes better grazing.
A wash OF carbolic soapsuds occasionally
will prevent the annoyance of insects to cattle.
The value to agriculture ofsalt as a fertilizer,
it would appear, is becoming widely recog-
nized, Judging from the steadily increasing dc.
mand.
Guinea fowls will keep all bugs and insects
of every description off garden vines. They
will not scratch like other fowls or harm the
most delicate plants
A neglected, poorly.ied, stinted lamb never
RECEIVERS. however, well.fed afterward, 30 as to
make as good and as large q sheep rs It would
had It had proper care early Feed the ewes
80 that they can supply the lambs with plenty
ofmilk.
The best place for turnips lisa spot on which
brush has recently been burned The soil Is
fresh, cool and moist and the ashes aid not
only as fertilizer for the very elements that
turnips require, but it keeps away the fly. Do
not sow In a dry time.
Clover is heterogeneous and also potash
plant, clover hay containing more OF these ele-
men,s than the best English hay, although the
former will net sell for near as much rs the
latter, consequently clover hay should never be
sold off the farm
Rancid butter may be recovered and sweet
cped by Washing and kneading 1t well first in
new milk, and atterward in cold spring water
butyric acid, on which the rancldlty depends
being freely soluble in new milk. The above
recipe has been found to answer perfectly.
Strawberry plants cannot be multiplied
from the seed, as there IS nothing certain about
it. Acres might be sowed with the seed, and
not q berry be obtained worth cutivatng, but
IN good rich soil plant will put out runners
so that fifty good thrifty plants may be obtain
ed the first season after planting, and twenty.
five hundred the second year.
A writer III the Fruit Recorder clrcumvents
the ravagng currant worm by allowing no
sprouts to grow. He allows but three main
stems to a bush, and rubs off all root sprouts
when about six inches long. The worms begin
with the new growth first; hence, he says, no
sprOuts. no worms The fruit also is far finer
on plants thus treated the common red Dutch
being nearly as large as the Cherry currant,
and better bearer.
People who have been buying honey of late
have had their faith in the integrity of little
busy bees sadly shaken. The combs were very
white and nice to look at, but somehow the
contents didn't taste as they should, and occa
sonally rather dsagreeable symptoms follow
ed the eating. The natural conclusion was
that the bees were trying to palm off an IN
terlor article on theirtrusting customers. This
suspicion did the bees great injustice. 1t Is
not they who have been imposing on their
customers, but big factories furnished with
elaborate machinery and directed by snrewd,
INSCRIPTIONS men. In the last number Of the
Popular Science MOnthiy Prof Wiley exposes
the netarous imposition on the bees IN man
ner that will make any ordinary stomach that
has lately INDUCED in honey or even syrup,
turn pale. II seems that there are no less than
twenty immense glucose manufactures either
already built or else IN course OF building, and
that glucose is not only used in nine-tenths of
the cheap candies made in the United States
but also that it threatens to drive the legitl-
mate industry OF the bees out of the field Glu-
cose can be put up as honey and sold at one
half the cost of the genuine article, and yet
leave an enormous profit to the manufacturer.
No wonder therefore, that there is a scramble
as TO who shall get the biggest mandatory
first, and make the biggest fortune in the
shortest possible time. This artificial honey
is, unlike artificial butter, sold in the market
as the genuine article, to the great injury OF
the reputation of the bees, as has been SAID.
The bees may be able to stand this insiduous
attack on their good name, but whether those
who buy their produce can likewise survive
the attack on their internal economy is much
more doubtful, and one that vitality concerns
the state. Sulphuric acid, lime and copper,
says Prof Wiley, find their way into glucose,
and these things are not conducive to long
lite and good health. At all events, 1t is no
more than fair that the people who buy honey
should know whether they are buying glu.
cose, as an freshman would say. The legisla-
ture should compel the marking Of all such
artificial products, so that no one need be in
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