Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-07-13
FARM AND PRESIDE.

That little saltpeter worked into but
ter that becomes sour or rancid will rem
der it sweet and palatables
That pennyroyal distributed in places
frequented by reaches will drive them
away?
That wild mint will keep rats and mice
out of your house?
That lime sprinkled in freplaces during
summer months is healthful?
That Spanish brown, mixed with little
water, will make the hearth look pretty?
A pound costs ten cents and will last three
months; use a little at time.
That leaves of parsley eaten with lit
tie vinegar, will prevent a disagreeable
consequence of tainted breath by onions
That flowers and shrubs should be ex-
cluded from bed chamber2
That oil paintings hung over mantle
piece are liable to wrinkle with heat?
CORN FOR SITTING HENs.-It is claim
ed that corn is the most suitable food for
sitters. The requirements of sitter diff
or from those of other hens. Keeping
quiet and without much exercise, not much
Is required to sustain life. and their food
should be of such a nature as to digest
slowly. For this reason whole grain is
preferred, and corn is thought to be much
the best. soft food of any kind is soon
dlgested, and the hen becomes hungry and
either leaves the nest too frequently or be-
comes very poor. The advantage of corn
over other grain is that it is more oily and
not likely to stimulate the production of
eggs, and, being hard and compact, is d.
gested much slower than other grain.
CHICKEN CHoLERA.-The disease known
as cholera attacks young and old chickens.
1t carries off the weakly chickens and
those that are not properly fed. A safe
food for young chicks is fine corn-meaI
| and wheat middlings in equal quantities
made into thick dry paste with boiling
water and fed cold. To prevent cholera
| in older fowls, they should be kept clean
and provided with clean food and water.
A variety of food should be given and not
wholly corn. To cure the disease, give one
teaspoonful of saturated solution of hypo-
sulphite of soda three times day; give
no food, but plenty of water. and keep the
hen 1.-THE cock birds never take 1tl in
coop on some fresh. clean, dry. loose soil,
to keep her clean. A weeks treatment
will be sufficient and if it is taken in time
two days will do it.
Fourth the months of May and
June flour is most apt to ferment. If in
putting the hand into lot of -four it is
found that the middle portion is warmer
than the outside, it is time to turn it by
shovelling. Under no circumstances
should fresh warm -four be left in sacks,
for it will at once begin to ferment, es-
pecially if the flour be unbolted. Flour
made out of grain which is old is more
easily kept than that ground from new
grain; and so flour which has been pre-
served for one year rarely spoils afterward
by fermentation.
SCALEs.-Scale insects on trees and
shrubs can only he successfully treated
with lye and solutions of soap. If the
former is used, take pound of lye to a
gallon of water, applied when the trees are
dormant. Three-fourths of a pound of
common or whale oil soap in a gallon of
water will destroy the scale without iniur.
Ing che plant.
DRILLING BEANs.-A Canadian farmer
nf hos ~pLs oL,
in by seeed drill. BY leaving out the
tubes the drills have been run thirty
inches apart, which is just the right dis
lance for cultivating with scufler. AS
many beans can thus be put in a day
any other grain. which is great advan-
tage over the old svstem of hand PLANTING.
WHY WHEAT LoDGEs.-Wheat falls
down when the straw is heady and too
weak in the stem to hold itself up. If such
wheat is examined 1t is found to be yery
succulent and soft. This is caused by soil
too rich in nitrogen and too poor in lime
or silica and by excessive wet. Lime or
salt are very thin seeding, should always
be applied to very rich soil when wheat is
sown. The rank growth where manure
heaps have lain usually falls down.
" DECAYED APPLEs.-Farmers have Of
ten noticed that where green apples have
been left on the ground they rotted the
grass beneath them, apparently poisoned
by their contact. A dressing of lime or
ashes will correct this acidity and restore
the soil to fertility.
OATs.-Oats are better to be cut before
they are fully ripe. Wher left till ripe
the crop is very liable to be shed by a higI,
wind. The straw of oats is far better fod-
der than that of wheat or barley, especially
when early cut. Sometimes oat straw
properly harvested has nearly the feeding
value of hay.
TRICKS OF CALvEs.-CaIyes are lilo
all other young creatures. very fond of
mischief and the only way to prevent it il
to keep them out of it, with nothing about
them to suck or chew. Aalittle red pen-s
per rubbed upon anytime they NEEDLE
with will make it too hot for them
Sweet skinned milk is excellent food for
calves, but an ounce or so of oats or bran
day to begin with would be useful.