The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-07
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

One of the best preventives of hog
cholera is good care, and that includes
good shelter, good feeding and good
watering.
"A farmer of experience in wool
growing says that there is more money
in growing wool at even twenty cents a
pound than in loaning money at ten per
cent. interest.
TO Prepare a New Iron Kettle for
Use.-Fill it with clean potato parings !;
boil them for an hour or more, then
wash the kettle with hot water, wipe it
dry and rub with little lard; repeat the
rubbing for half dozen times after using
In this way you will prevent rust and all
the annoyances liable to occur in the use
of new kettle.
-Scurvy leg in poultry is disease
caused by gathering of infnitesimal
parasites, which come imperceptibly at
first in the crevices between the edges of
the leg scales and which rapidly increase,
piling up on themselves and forming APP
parently grayish white warts or rough
lunches, There are millions of them in
one bunch. Kerosene oil will destroy
blOlil ctllo lCl1ONC Vic DlhC1CS.
The scales which drop off from iron
when being worked at FORCES, iron trim
mings, filings or other ferruginous ma
terial, if worked into the soil about fruit
trees, or the more minute particles spread
thinly on the lawn, mixed with the earth
of flower beds or in pots, are extremely
valuable. They are especially valuable
to the peach tree, and, in fact, supply
necessary ingredients to the soil For
colored flowers they heighten the bloom;
they are also found to be beneficial to
the pear tree when worked in round
their roots.
Says farmer: Looking into the
depths of that silo | could not repress a
solemn feeling for the buried fodder
corn; the hole was SO deep and echoed
our voices so holloway. If that be the
place to keep fodder, then brewers
grain and distillery slops are all right,
when chemically balanced to the nour-
ishing points, and all our farm-yard and
barn-door poetry might as well be cut to
three-eighths of an inch and buried,
weighted with stone, in cellar. This
corn cheese, however, must be kept for
home consumption, as it can't well be
transported to market. Perhaps it will
come out sweet this year. There must
be saving over hay in the item of fire
insurance, for the silo is safe if the build
ing overhead is burned down.
The most effectual way to break a
horse of pulling at halter is to tie it by
the tail The crupper should be made
strong with a ring sewed on the strap
on top of the hips, which strap leads to
the crupper. In this ring fasten the end
of a rope which should be conducted to-
the head through one of the line rings
and through the bit. When in the stable
crupper should be buckled around the
tail and the tie rope attached to it by a
ring sewed on it and then passed
through ring fastened to sircingle
round the body and fastened through a
ring in the halter. A horse thus fasten-
ed will not pull more than once and can
not get loose. A horse in the habit of
pulling at the head will break any halter;
but when fastened by the tail, as de-
scribed as above, q small rope will suffice
to hold it.-Rurdl NeUS.
Pumpkins, adapted to culinary pur-'
poses, can be preserved, not only all
winter, but up to the following summer,
which is, perhaps, longer than may, be
desired. But for winter a pumpkin pie
is not excelled for deliciousness by any
any other, If the cook knows how to
make them, as every one should. Some
people use it also as sauce, and it is a
good sauce, if properly prepared. When
we were in the habit of preserving the
pumpkin we selected the Yankee
Squash" as it was called, but other
good kinds will, no doubt, answer as
well. These we placed on scaholding,
put up in the cellar, allowing them to
lie side by side, but only in a single lay
er. We used them as needed through
the winter, and found that from a dozen
to dozen and half were ample to SUPP
ply the family as long as we cared for
them. On two occasions we kept one or,
two over to discover how long they.
would keep; and we found them in good
condition in August, but that was about
the end of their time. - Canada Farmer. I