Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-04-19
USEFUL TO FARMERS.


GUINEA HENS KILL INsEcTs.-Not a
chicken is to be found on Landreth'l
great seed farms. All the tenants are
forbidden the privilege of possessing Q
hen. But guineas in large numbers are
allowed access to all the fields, and are
considered the best insectiverous fowl
known. Then. too, they are not destruc'
tive to the growing crops.
LEADING AGRICULTURAL Products -
The six leading agricultural productions
OF the United States, according to the
census report of 1880. were in the follow.
ing order: Corn, wheat, hay, cotton,
oats and potatoes. The value Of the first
was $500, ,000. 900. of wheat $500. 900, 900,
hay $3.50, ,000. 900. cotton $242 ,000. 900, oats
$3.50, 900, 600, and potatoes $73, ,000, 900.
CHICKEN CHoLERA.-Dr. Rome sug.
gests this treatment for prevention and
cure: Prevention is best effected by Civ
ing plenty of exercise, clean. dry place
to roost, and free access to lime. II at.
tackled, give five grains powdered chalk,
five grains powdered rhubarb, and five
grains cayenne pepper; or, one grain
powdered ipecac; administer every five
hourstill relieved.
AGAINST CLIPPING HORSES. The bad
effectupon the digestive organs of the
unnatural. if not cruel, system of clip
ping horses, is thus noted by the Breed
er's Gazette: "a newly clipped horse
will eat everything in reach, thus over
taxing his stomach, while the removal oi
a warm odter covering-which over the
abdomen is rarely artificially replaced
produces chilled, colicky condition that
sometimes end in chronic arrangement
of the entire intestinal canal" ~
FooD FOR FowLS.-Cooked vegetables
of all kinds, but more especially boiled
potatoes, turnips and carrots, are found
to be economical food for fowls, and con-
duce TO their health. These should be
mashed with thoroughly scalded corn or
oat meal, and occasionally with shorts or
wheat middling for laying hens.
For THE CABBAGE WoRM.-Mr. P. T.
Quinn, the noted market gardner near
Newark. N. j., who has tried fifteen diff.
ferent mixtures or decoctions for the
cabbage worm, prefers 20 parts of gyp-
sum, or 4 quicklime and l OF carbolic
acid, sprinkled thinly over the leaves
when wet with dew or rain, repeating
the application as often as necessary,
which may be a number Of times.
SPRoUTING SEED CoRN.-A, correspond
ent of the American Cultivator sprouts
his seed corn thoroughly before planting,
letting the sprouts get an inch long be.
fore putting in the ground; then be
planted carefully, and his corn is up and
growing in three days. He drops hiA
Lima beams into melted lard, warm, and
finds this precaution prevents rot.
TARRED CoRN.-A correspondent sug
gests that il corn, before planting, be
soaked in tarred water and then rolled in
plaster, it will prevent the crows and
blackbirds from pulling it up, and also
prevent it from rotting in case of long
wet spell follows its being placed in the
ground. Though not new, o repetition
of the suggestion is timely. ~ "a,
PRoDUor OF TwENTY.NINE HESs.--Mr
Gerry Valentine, Hammonton, N. j., for
| wafded the following figures regarding
his poultry experience for the year end.
ing November /, to the Amei lean Insti.
tute Farmers Club: II have twenty.
nine hens which have laid 8, 1854 eggs, and
if my arithmetic is right, they averaged
twenty.four cents dozen, making $87. 2e
for eggs. Add $40 for chickens and you
have 117.5S. The cost of keeping am
not so sure of, as the count has not been
kept so exact. but it was about $55. The
hens are a mixture of several breeds, but
none pure. The White Leghorn and
Brama predominate. The feed has been
corn and wheat screenings. with some
bog cheese and wheat middlings, pound.
ed oyster shells, etc."
KEEP YOUR HORSES WELL SHoD.-Tht
shoeing of horses is too often neglected
in summer time, under the impression
that then it is less necessary. Perhap.
this is true, but it usually happens tina
work is more pressing in summer time
and if a team cannot do full work ther,
is o greater value of time lost by tn,
driver and those working with the team
Whoever pays the high wages, as al
farmers must about these days, should
see to it that his teams are we'll fed, ant
fully fitted o do good days work.
PRICE OF CORN IN PAST YEARs.--Fron
the Agricultural Department at Wash
ington we find that the average price o
corn in the entire United States fo
eleven years, from 1871 to 1881 inclusive
appear to be about forty-three cents pc
bushel. The highest annual average wa
sixty.four cents in 1874, while the loves
was thirty-one cents in 1875 The aggre
gate value has increased in ten years fron
$435, 900, 900 to $759, 200, 900, though tn
last crop was the smallest for the pas
seven years.