The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-29
FARM NOTES.

pennyroyal herb tea. Drive this weak
steep thoroughly over the roo,ts and
the poultry. and it will cleanse them
from lice. Several varieties of flies an
nov and suck blood from horses and
! other animals. Pennyroyal steep will
drive them away if the animal is washed
with it.
Moss IN Pastures successful
Hatfield farmer tells the Ne'r England
! HON Cstedd that he restored 10 useful
| ness pasture which had been complete
" overrun by moss, by the application
of mariate of potash Mt the rate of 800
pounds 10 the acre. The field had not
been plowed for twenty-five years, and
the moss showed that it was pretty well
run out. But after the potash was APP
! Piled not trace OF moss remained, md
! clover and various nice grasses took its
! place without reseeding.
SETTING STRAWBERRY PLANTS. A
correspondent of the Germantown
/ TIE graph says that the main failure in
raising Strawberries is in setting poor
plants. Old plants are good for nothing;
! new plants from an old he'd are not
worth setting We should set plants
! that nre grown from those that have
never fruited. When plant produces
"A crop of fruit that fruit exhausts tho
I energies of the plant TO a certain extent,
and It's young plants will not have the
consti ution and vinor of those from
plants that give all their energies TO the
young plants.
PIG-Ku ling HoGs.-Bertly Wilder
writes TO the R,ral NelU Yorker that
there is nothing on earth that will make
man feel so much like indulging in
profanity as on going TO his hog
where he has an eXtra-nice hog from
! which he expects to raise some extra
nice pigs, TO find that the SOW has had
pigs and killed them all Now that man
might have raised his pigs if he had
thought in time. The man who loses
/ his pigs in this way has kept his SOW
shut up all winter OF summer in pen
with tight floor where she could not
root the ground and the beast has a
very natural hankering after something
! fresh. If n man wishes success with his
! pigs land all men do he should let the
/ SOW run out on the ground, if it is only
a yard sixteen feet square, where she
can root and get worms and roots, and
she will not kill her pigs.
Coop FEEDERs.-C Careful investiga-
ton has established the certainty that
1,000pound steer needs eighteen
: pounds OF good hay per day merely for
! his support If he improves any he
must have more. A steer. therefore,
which has n tanned TO that weight but
has no appetite for any more food or
! power OF assimilation If he does eat
more, is Improbable to the owner. He
is daily consuming valuable food with no
/ increase. If steer will demand and
assiniilate six pounds more per day, the
one-fourth OF his food goes TO the profit
of the owner. And so on in proportion
to the amount he prohtably consumes
and converts into meat fat, muscles,
etc, the more profitable is such stock.
And this is what stockmen mean when
! they call certain stock good feeders.
| And this is one of the questions breed
ers and feeders must look to.
THE CoMPosr HEAp.-The lfrsSn-
/ chuSettS PiOugtmd1, among other
things, talks suggestively about the
compost heap, saying that it is a good
plan to h I'VE one for the benefit of the
farm. The compost heap NAV be made
of roadscrapings, the scourings of
bitches, the cleanings Of ponds, clip
pings from banks and hedge-rows,
scrapihgs and sweepings of farm-yards,
! garden refuse, house refuse, and, in
deed, all sorts of rubbish may be added
to compost heap. Even weeds will
decay, and then help to swell the ma
terial for enriching the land The heap
should occasionally I've covered over
with layer of lime, and layer OF salt
now and then is also a good addition.
These materials are beneficial in them
selves. and keep weeds from seeding on
the top of the heap. The compost
should be turned over from time to
time, and, when well mixed, the land
may be dressed with it either Ill spring
or autumn.
HEAVIER HoRsEs.-There must I've
great profit in rearing large, powerful,
enduring horses. Good and safe men
have been making large importations OF
! Normans and Clydes the past year. In
fact, the demand for these classes of
horses has been so great and persistent
for importation that the scarcity of the
! quality demanded has materially adj
vanced their prices. But the more our
farmers have become acquainted with
the character, merits and domestic
/ habits of these noble horses, the more
enthusiastic they have become in their
favor. Dollars and cents have con-
verified some who could be reached by
no other arguments. They find it costs
no more to raise q good horse than
poor one; and by the time half-blood
Norman or Clyde is A or 5 years
old, he can never ask enough for them
so as TO be allowed to keep them.
Large, strong horses are in demand at
high prices, and ever will be. In these
breeds every horse raised is a good one;
but in raising fast horses scarcely one
in hundred is succcss.--Des MoineS
Register.